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Year in Review: the 15 best street-style looks of 2012
Every two weeks, we go to a different neighbourhood, seeking Toronto’s best-dressed denizens and examining the diverse style...
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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...
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...
Style
GALLERY: Yorkdale reveals its flashy new expansion
Yorkdale Shopping Centre’s swanky 145,000-square-foot expansion opens today, marking the next phase in the North Toronto...
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Shopping
SPOTTED: Yorkdale’s “fashion truck” selling clothes at Front and Bay
Yorkdale Shopping Centre’s massive expansion will open on Friday, and it’s celebrating by parking a “fashion truck”...
Shopping
The Look: modern brogues are smart, sturdy and not at all stodgy
This season, everyone’s favourite (boring) office shoe is the height of cool. But instead of staid black and brown, they’re...
Style
Our 12 favourite looks from Toronto Fashion Week spring/summer 2013
After several days of rogue runway shows and a full week of collections at Toronto Fashion Week proper, the city’s fashion...
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Holt Renfrew enters the off-price fray with hr2
Holt Renfrew isn’t taking the American retail invasion lightly. The luxury retailer has announced plans to open an off-price...
Style
Toronto Fashion Week: Holt Renfrew kicks things off by opening its show up to international designers
Toronto Fashion Week runs from October 22 to 26, in a large—and stylishly appointed—tent at David Pecaut Square . W e’re...
Shopping
The Look: black and white is stunning, timeless and this season’s biggest trend
The rigorously simple colour scheme that Coco Chanel built her career on takes some work, and an intrepid embrace of graphic...
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City News
Fashion’s Night Out turns out some big parties (on a night of big parties)
Not only did last night feature a multitude of TIFF parties (plus Toronto Life’ s Most Stylish party at the Shangri-La), it was...
Style
The entire list of Fashion’s Night Out parties and shopping events
Tonight is Toronto’s first Fashion’s Night Out, and we’re expecting plenty of open-door parties, sales and designer...
Culture
TIFF 2012 Insider’s Guide: top 10 red carpet looks and where to find them
TIFF is low-key and casual, much more in line with the beach party scene of Cannes than the ball gown pretension of Venice or...
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Shopping
Best of the City 2012: the summer’s breeziest footwear
Holt Renfrew 50 Bloor St. W., 416-922-2333 Now that you own a pair of the summer’s canary-yellow skinny jeans, you need a pair...
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More details about the free Fashion’s Night Out parties on September 6
Fashion’s Night Out, a night-time shopping party that takes over New York every year, is coming to Toronto on September 6, and...
Shopping
Gallery: over 30 designer collaborations created in honour of Holt Renfrew’s 175th anniversary
Holt Renfrew turns 175 this September, and instead of a birthday cake (so ho-hum), the retailer is celebrating with a whole bunch...
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Culture
CONFIRMED: French goddess Marion Cotillard will be at TIFF 2012
When Marion Cotillard attended the film festival in 2010, she ruled the red carpet, shopped at Holt Renfrew and partied at the...
Style
Nordstrom is rumoured to be coming to Canada
As Canadian retailers brace (and Canadian shoppers squeal) for the arrival of Target, another American department store is quietly...
City News
Party Pages: The Worthy 30, where people weren’t afraid to run their mouths about pretty young things
The National Post’ s Worthy 30 list came out in late June, but the celebration for the eligible bachelors and bachelorettes took...
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Yorkdale Mall announces its expansion is almost complete, proves it is not the Yorkdale Mall of yesterday
Yorkdale made a big announcement today, sharing the news that its planned 145,000-square-foot expansion will be completed by...
Shopping
Vain Glory: a his-and-hers medicine cabinet stocked with everything you need
A his-and-hers medicine cabinet loaded for the kind of people who need more than Ivory and Crest to get through life
Real Estate News
The tallest condo in the country could be coming to Bloor Street
Property firm Morguard is pushing to build Canada’s tallest condo building on top of the Holt Renfrew at Bloor and Yonge, and...
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Maryam Keyhani unveils her incredibly striking fall/winter accessories
You may remember Maryam Keyhani from Stylebook’s Toronto’s Most Stylish feature, but on top of being a smart dresser, she’s...
Shopping
The Thing: this spring fashion is all about colour, colour, colour
It’s loud and fearless and showy. We like it 2012 is shaping up to be a preposterously fun year. Spring showed up early. Bryan...
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Canada Day Bar Cart: Summer sips
Make the most of this momentous occasion with these easy sippers, including wines, brews, spirits and low-alcohol bevs
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Food & Drink
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2025
This year’s list includes a Korean Ecuadorian diner, a supper club that showcases regional Chinese dishes tweaked with seasonal Canadian ingredients and a Parkdale chaat house that makes a mean Pakistani Sloppy Joe. It’s official: fusion is in
Big Stories
Deep Dives
Sex worker and
Anora
consultant Andrea Werhun’s journey from strip clubs to Hollywood
Andrea Werhun’s dream was to be a writer, but there was a lot more money in sex work. She told herself she’d quit soon, then spent years working as a stripper. In 2022, Sean Baker hired her as a consultant on his Oscar-sweeping film. Now she’s stepping into her own spotlight
Deep Dives
Game Over: Inside fallen Toronto Raptor Jontay Porter’s sports betting scandal
As the pivotal member of a notorious betting ring, Porter was playing for another team. The story of a cheater, his bookmakers and the wager that brought them all down
Deep Dives
Megan Savard for the Defence: Meet the lawyer representing a player at the centre of the Hockey Canada trial
She’s fierce, shrewd and relentless. And she doesn’t just want to win—she wants to dismantle the prison system altogether
Food & Drink
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2025
This year’s list includes a Korean Ecuadorian diner, a supper club that showcases regional Chinese dishes tweaked with seasonal Canadian ingredients and a Parkdale chaat house that makes a mean Pakistani Sloppy Joe. It’s official: fusion is in
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
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Food & Drink
An all-Canadian wine festival is coming to Fort York
Elbows Up aims to make it easier (and cheaper) to buy Canadian-made bottles
Food & Drink
This Toronto Italian restaurant is launching a pasta tasting menu made with all-Canadian ingredients
It’s Amano Trattoria’s elbows-up moment
City News
A high-tech greenhouse in King City is sticking it to Trump’s tariffs
How to reduce our reliance on American farmers? Rely on robot ones instead
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