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Holiday Gift Guide
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The best holiday gifts that give back
Including vintage-inspired wine glasses, slouchy socks and a cozy fleece jacket
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The best holiday gifts for diehard foodies
Including a supersized tin of maraschino cherries, a matcha maker and the year’s hottest cookies
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The best holiday gifts for tech heads
Including the world’s smallest record player, stylish portable speakers, and cameras in film, digital and video
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The best holiday gifts for kids
Including a Marvel best-friend necklace, a Hijabi plushie and an ear-wiggling, always-giggling Furby
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The best holiday gifts for design gurus
Including a desktop water fountain, an inflatable chair and quilt art
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The best holiday gifts for fun and games
Including a plush trash panda puppet, whimsical ball caps and the latest
Legend of Zelda
adventure
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The best holiday gifts for fashion lovers
Including a statement tuque, a duffle bag for doodlers, a Versace onesie (for the baby who has everything) and sneakers for Swifties
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The best holiday gifts for home decor enthusiasts
Including a designer juicer, a granny-chic accent chair, a teeny tiny record player and a shoe-cleaning hedgehog
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The best gifts for culture aficionados
Including a ball cap for
Law and Order
diehards, a book by Keanu Reeves and the world’s smallest vinyl player
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The Ultimate Holiday Gift Guide
The year’s best gift options, from bargain steals to the splurgiest splurges
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The best holiday gifts for culture vultures
Including three CanCon memoirs, a T-shirt for the nudist in your life and a
Barbie
-inspired psychedelic hoodie
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The best holiday gifts for decor hounds
Including a spicy cookie jar, a statement-making toaster and a backyard office pod
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The best holiday gifts for fun lovers
Including Margaritaville crocs, Taylor Swift’s phone case and a leather daddy porcelain jar
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The best holiday gifts for fashion plates
Including a statement headband, a stylish maternity bralette and an absurdly impractical puffer coat
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The best holiday gifts for design obsessives
Including a retro toaster, the ultimate camping chair and a designer ceramic banana bowl
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The best holiday gifts for techies
Including a ’90s-inspired Discman, a next-level instant camera and an ultra-light e-bike
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The best holiday gifts for cool kids
Including tiny loungewear, the next generation of Barbie merch and a ride-on vintage Mercedes
From the archives
Old
Toronto Life
gift guide ideas that didn’t stand the test of time
Ghosts of gift guides past
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Holiday Gift Guide 2012: a creepy candle for Christmas non-purists
A skull can add an impressive air to any room (just ask med school instructors, Hamlet directors and Dutch still life painters...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2012: an outrageously high-end hookah
We doubt many people have ever dreamed of a owning a luxury shisha pipe. However, if you’re scrambling for a gift for the...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2012: a shiny red pasta machine for Mario Batali wannabes
A pasta maker will give your favourite foodie the chance to airily declare, “I stopped buying pasta because homemade tastes so...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2012: a pocket-size iPad keyboard that’s sure to make gadget junkies drool
If the shoulder-to-shoulder crowds at local Apple stores are any indication, lots of iPads will be under the Christmas tree this...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2012: monster friends for human kids
From her home in Dartmouth, N.S., Blythe Church sews these handmade monsters, which she says live in the back of closets and...
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The Dish Holiday Gift Guide: 12 last-minute finds for food lovers
Buying gifts for foodies gives you an excuse to actually purchase some of the fancy ingredients and beautiful tools you’ve spent...
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Deep Dives
Inside the rise and fall of the Vaulter Bandit, the 21st century’s most notorious bank robber
To fellow tourists he met around the world, Jeffery Shuman was a semi-retired developer with a bright smile, an even tan and a fat wallet. In truth, he was a legendary bank robber on the run from the Toronto police and the US Marshals
Deep Dives
Anchor Man: Fox News host John Roberts on Trump, the trade war and the American psyche
If Fox News seems an unlikely landing spot for a guy who got his start pumping out Platinum Blonde on MuchMusic, you probably haven’t heard his thoughts about joining the notorious network, the Canada–US relationship and what he misses most about Toronto
Deep Dives
Trump’s Loss, Toronto’s Gain: Meet the artists, professors, scientists and other luminaries ditching the US and moving north
They’re coming from Big Law, the Ivy League, arts institutes and beyond, brimming with smarts and energy and united by a common cause: avoiding the carnage of Donald Trump. True tales from the brain gain
Deep Dives
Dancing Queens: Patrons, staff and performers share their wildest memories of Crews and Tangos, Toronto’s most storied drag bar
Crews and Tangos has been enforcing the rules of the Village for more than 30 years: wear what you want, kiss who you want, but don’t forget to tip the drag queens. With a condo development looming, we asked around for tales from the iconic spot
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The Joy of Sex with Strangers: A Toronto hotwife’s adventures in ethical non-monogamy
Three months ago, I was a suburban mom in a monogamous relationship. Now I’m sleeping with people I meet online—with my husband’s blessing—and we’ve never been happier. Don’t judge us until you’ve read our story
Deep Dives
The Scandal, the Firing and the Fallout: Anatomy of a Bay Street fiasco at RBC
Nadine Ahn was a high-ranking executive at the bank. Ken Mason, her subordinate, was rapidly promoted. Then someone claimed to see them canoodling at the Royal York, tipped off HR and triggered an inquisition
Deep Dives
Edward the Conqueror: The unlikely ascent of Canada’s telecom king
Edward Rogers was dismissed as a meddling nepo baby—until he muscled out his siblings, acquired his competitors, cornered the telecom market and became the dominant force in Canadian sports
Deep Dives
Lady Parts: Inside Meredith MacNeill and Jennifer Whalen’s new show,
Small Achievable Goals
The
Baroness von Sketch Show
alumnae have elevated joking about women’s issues to an art. Their new show takes aim at menopause. How funny is that?
Deep Dives
Murder in the Blue Mountains: The story behind the killing of Ashley Schwalm
Ashley and James Schwalm had what seemed like a fairy tale life—two wonderful children, fulfilling careers and a gorgeous home close to the private ski club where they’d fallen in love. Then Ashley’s remains turned up in a burned-out car at the bottom of a ditch, and all signs pointed to her husband
Deep Dives
Dark Horse: Inside the fall of Eric Lamaze, Canada’s most famous equestrian
For years, Lamaze was the world’s top-ranked show jumper, living an enviable life filled with fancy cars, international travel and adoring fans—the kind of life a person might do anything to protect
Deep Dives
Dividing Line: How the Bloor Street bike lane turned the city into a battlefield
A few kilometres along Bloor has become Toronto’s most contested strip of concrete, igniting fights over congestion, safety and the future of downtown
Deep Dives
The Chosen One: At just 23, Scottie Barnes is the new face of the Raptors—and the team’s best chance of salvation
Barnes is shouldering the weight of an impatient, basketball-mad city, a hit-and-miss team, and his own colossal ambitions. Does he look worried?
Deep Dives
Almost
Famous: Inside the Beaches’ rise to rock stardom
A viral earworm about a breakup turned the Beaches into Toronto’s hottest export. Now, the panty-throwing, stage-diving, all-girl rock band is seducing fans around the world
Deep Dives
“I was nearly beaten to death by my partner. The case was dismissed because it took too long to get to trial”
How an overburdened justice system is failing survivors of intimate partner violence
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“We felt disconnected from the outdoors before”: What St. Lawrence Market North vendors think of their new home
And what locally made and grown goods they’re selling
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Sort-of Secret: Amelia’s Market, a Geary Avenue grocer selling local goods and light lunches
Like lovely cheese plates paired with glasses of Ontario-made wine
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“There’s more attention now on shopping close to home”: How Broadfork Produce is connecting Toronto’s top chefs with Ontario farmers
And the west-end supplier is opening to the public soon
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The US tariffs are coming for your espresso martini
With Kahlúa no longer available at the LCBO, Toronto bartenders are getting creative