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Fifteen host gift ideas we love
A Toronto-themed candle, a marble butter keeper and more fun finds for party season
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Food & Drink
Holiday Wine Guide: The LCBO’s best champagne and sparkling wine
Nine bottles to pop this NYE
Food & Drink
Holiday Wine Guide: The LCBO’s best whites
Perfect for your holiday feasts, from festive seafood to hearty roast beasts
Food & Drink
Holiday Wine Guide: The LCBO’s best reds
Whether for pairing or giving, these reds are ripe for holiday living
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What to Wear to Christmas Parties: tuxedo blazers, skater skirts and more top trends for the holiday season
The holiday season brings with it a certain set of headaches: wacky relatives coming to stay, panicked shopping trips, and the...
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Christmas Gift Ideas: a week-long pop-up shop on Ossington that’s stacked with designer labels
Around this time of year, holiday shoppers start flocking to craft fairs—and to their hipster equivalents, pop-up shops. Today...
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Toronto Christmas Gift Ideas 2013: our list of presents for the food lovers
Everything a home cook could possibly want See all the gifts »
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Toronto Christmas Gift Ideas 2013: our list of presents for outdoor enthusiasts
Rugged and sporty gifts for the athletically inclined See all the gifts »
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Toronto Christmas Gift Ideas 2013: our list of presents for discerning kids
Gifts for small people with big taste See all the gifts »
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Toronto Christmas Gift Ideas 2013: our list of presents for culture junkies
The year’s best offerings for people who are really into the arts See all the gifts »
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Toronto Christmas Gift Ideas 2013: our list of presents for jet-setters
Gifts for world travellers (or anyone who just likes nice luggage) See all the gifts »
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Toronto Christmas Gift Ideas 2013: our list of presents for under $50
These 41 gifts are covetable, fun and well-designed. They’re also inexpensive. Here, a list of great gifts for under $50. See...
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Toronto Christmas Gift Ideas 2013: our list of presents from $50 to $200
We scoured the city to find a slew of mid-range gifts for everyone on your list. Here, more than three dozen of our...
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Toronto Christmas Gift Ideas 2013: our list of presents for over $200
Santa’s not the only one with a generous soul—most of us have had the occasional urge to splash out on a top-of-the-line...
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Toronto Christmas Gift Ideas 2013: our top 100 presents for everybody on your list
Our annual list of holiday gift ideas includes presents for kids, foodies, outdoors enthusiasts and more. Here, a roundup of 100...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2012: a Fred Perry cycling shirt designed by a Tour de France champ
With taxis, streetcar tracks, cars and rogue pedestrians to contend with, biking in Toronto can feel like a high-stakes road...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2012: a playful illustration of Toronto in all its glory
Presents for the home can be tricky—you don’t want the recipient to feel obligated to display a gift that’s not to their...
City News
Primer: how to choose between Toronto’s big holiday shows
It’s time to suspend your cynicism and surrender to one of the city’s big, gooey, hurt-your-teeth-sweet holiday...
Style
GALLERY: 15 Toronto shops with festive Christmas windows
Although December means shopping lists, crowded malls and frenzied buying sprees (our holiday gift guide can help), it’s worth...
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Style
Street Style: 18 looks at the holiday shoppers at Holt Renfrew
The crush in Toronto’s malls and retail strips before Christmas means that many shoppers are tempted to wear the eminently...
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The Find: festive party clothes to wear to holiday bashes
December is usually a swirling mess of office parties, open houses, cocktails with friends and family dinners. While we can’t...
Style
The best Black Friday deals in Toronto and where to find them
With American Thanksgiving nearly here, it's time to brace for rampant, riot-like shopping. Yes, November 23 is Black Friday, the...
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Real Estate News
Cottage of the Week: $3,500 a week for a lakeside lodge with themed bedrooms
ADDRESS: Esson Lake, about five kilometres from Wilberforce, Ontario NEIGHBOURHOOD: Haliburton Highlands AGENT: Available through...
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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
Deep Dives
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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Food & Drink
“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
Food & Drink
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
Food & Drink
“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
Food & Drink
The US tariffs are coming for your espresso martini
With Kahlúa no longer available at the LCBO, Toronto bartenders are getting creative