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How this factory—Canada’s only candy cane producer—makes one million candy canes a day
See how the classic Christmas sweet is made, step by step
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How Deciem makes beauty products, from start to finish, in a downtown warehouse
See, step-by-step, how the umbrella beauty brand makes its latest cleansing balm Sanskrit Saponins
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How the TTC keeps tiny delays from turning into giant transit disasters
Inside the room where the TTC solves routine transit crises
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How Toronto’s flashiest tailor designs his over-the-top bespoke tuxedos
Inside the Corktown studio of J.S. Vann (a.k.a. "Sox")
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How Canada Goose, the king of all parka companies, makes one of its coats
A step-by-step look at the process, inside the brand's Toronto factory
City News
How a Toronto 3D printing studio makes lifelike miniatures of real people
About four years ago, just for the hell of it, Steve Cory, president of the three-dimensional printing company Objex...
City News
How the Bloor Viaduct’s Luminous Veil finally got itself illuminated
The "Luminous Veil," as the anti-suicide barrier on the Prince Edward Viaduct is known, has never been as shimmery as its name...
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How a brand-new TTC streetcar arrives in Toronto
The TTC's next-generation streetcars, of which there will eventually be 204, are still a head-turning rarity on Toronto's...
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How The Stop makes hundreds of restaurant-quality meals a day on the cheap
Running a restaurant is no easy task. Now imagine trying to do it with a staff composed entirely of volunteers, a menu that...
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How a salvage crew took Captain John’s on one last voyage
Wayne Elliott wanted to give Captain John’s a dignified death. In his 40-year career, the senior salvage master with Marine...
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How Redpath refines a shipload of raw sugar
Last year, dozens of ships delivered two million tonnes of cargo to the port of Toronto. Of that, more than half was raw sugar...
City News
How Ripley’s Aquarium keeps its sharks from eating anything they aren’t supposed to
Ripley’s Aquarium of Canada has a lot of mouths to feed: about 16,000 of them, swimming around in aquariums throughout the...
City News
How a construction crew demolished Regent Park’s last original apartment tower
Regent Park is in the process of being transformed from a social housing project into a mixed-income neighbourhood where...
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How the Rogers Centre turns a concrete floor into a field of dreams and fake grass
The artificial turf at the Rogers Centre has, oddly enough, been a source of some controversy over the past few years, because...
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How Ontario Spring Water Sake turns rice into booze by hand
While Greg Newton was studying microbiology in Japan, he spent a lot of his free time in small breweries, or sakaguras, in...
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How chocolatier David Chow makes his incredible, edible, over-the-top Easter eggs
For engineer-turned-pastry-chef David Chow , chocolate-making is the best of both worlds. “Chocolate is a very technical...
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How real estate stagers turn every sale condo into an Ikea-filled dream home
Trawl through enough real estate listings and you'll notice it: the interiors of a lot of different homes on the market all look...
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How Lush hand-makes one of its (almost) edible soaps
With their fragrant concoctions of lotions, scrubs and bath bombs, it's easy to sniff out Lush’s shops from a block away. At...
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How Borealia makes a French-Canadian bonfire classic without burning down their kitchen
The traditional method of making éclade, a dish from the southwestern coast of France that was introduced here by Samuel de...
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How Real Sports feeds thousands of ravenous fans a day
It's 4:15 p.m. on Saturday afternoon at Real Sports Bar, the stadium-sized beer hall and restaurant next door to the Air Canada...
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How Hudson’s Bay assembles its amazing, animated Christmas windows
Seven years ago, at its flagship store in Toronto's financial district, Hudson’s Bay debuted its Santa-themed Christmas windows...
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How do you turn raw cocoa beans into picture-perfect truffles?
David Castellan and Cynthia Leung, the husband-and-wife team behind Toronto chocolatier Soma, have been breathing new life into...
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How do you make a three-storey-tall sculpture out of clothes, for Nuit Blanche?
There were more than 120 art projects on display at this year’s Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, the ninth edition of the all-night art...
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How do you turn root vegetables into fake fish?
“I'm not an angry vegan,” says Michael Abramson, founder of YamChops, Canada's first and only "vegetarian butcher." In...
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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
Deep Dives
Brave New Year: The ultimate try-anything-once bucket list for 2025
For inspiration on wonderful, wild and even some slightly reckless experiences to enjoy in the year ahead
Deep Dives
The stars of the PWHL’s Toronto Sceptres on finally having a league of their own
After kicking off a new chapter for hockey with the PWHL, Natalie Spooner, Sarah Nurse and Blayre Turnbull are blazing a trail for women in sports
Deep Dives
The 50 Most Influential Torontonians of 2024
Our annual ranking of the people whose courage, smarts and clout are changing the world as we know it
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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
Food & Drink
The US tariffs are coming for your espresso martini
With Kahlúa no longer available at the LCBO, Toronto bartenders are getting creative
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These Ontario-made booze collaborations are coming to a restaurant near you
Toronto bars and restaurants are partnering with their favourite distillers, winemakers and brewers to produce custom-made drinks. Here, nine crushable new concoctions
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“We have over 100 cases of American wine trapped at the LCBO”: Toronto’s Grape Witches on what it’s like to run a bottle shop during a trade war
It’s not as simple as taking sides when you’re a small business