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GALLERY: The top 10 booths from the holiday One of a Kind Show
The One of a Kind Show gives Canadian artisans the chance to sell their lovingly crafted wares, and panicked holiday shoppers the...
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Check out version two of the Toronto Life Best Restaurants app
Last Thursday, Toronto Life released its new Best Restaurants app, which brings our reviews of Toronto’s top 400+ restaurants to...
Food & Drink
Introducing: the Toronto Life Best Restaurants app
The Dish is very pleased to announce the launch of Toronto Life’ s Best Restaurants app for the iPhone and iPad. Easy to use and...
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Toronto Zoo’s orangutans to get an iPad—and the chance to fingerpaint, 21st century–style
Apparently, Orangutan Outreach, an American conversation group spearheading the Apps for Apes program, is putting the Toronto...
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Reaction Roundup: can the PlayBook software upgrade keep RIM in the tablet game?
With the PlayBook’ s Hail Mary software upgrade now out the door, Research In Motion can only wait and hope it’s enough to...
Food & Drink
Digital pizza conjuring? There’s an app for that
It seems the once self-flagellating Domino’s Pizza is trying its darndest to put an end to home dough slinging with Pizza...
Food & Drink
Running a restaurant? With TouchBistro, there’s an app for that
A Toronto-based software developer is trying to make scrawled order tickets a thing of the past with TouchBistro, an iOS app that...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2011: 90 of the best presents money can buy
The holiday season is rapidly approaching, and we’ve tackled the ever-difficult task of narrowing down a list of items that...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2011: 18 yuletide treasures for the best darn gals ever
Pay no attention to what the advertisers tell you: there’s no gift “perfect for every woman in your life.” Still, we're...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2011: 21 execu-gifts for working girls and business bros
Any aspiring Tess McGills or Gordon Gekkos would be pleased to get any gift on our list for the Bay Street broker. There aren’t...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2011: 10 amazing tokens of affection for our favourite nerds
There was a time where an adult would be embarrassed to ask for a limited-edition Green Lantern statuette in its original box, but...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2011: 27 impressive mid-range presents from $100 to $499
Sometimes it is hard to stick to a limit, because sometimes the gifts over $100 really are the perfect presents. We’ve found a...
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The Argument: David Hockney’s iPad paintings show that a cool device can’t rescue bad art
David Hockney’s Fresh Flowers exhibition has been touring Europe in advance of its only Canadian stop, at the ROM’s Institute...
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The Thing: the idiot box is now bigger and badder than your average smart phone
Just because you can watch TV on your smart phone doesn’t mean you should Television studios spend fortunes shooting in high...
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My Digital Sabbath: how one writer learned to stop checking Facebook and love life offline
I can’t say specifically which fabulous new technology made me decide I needed a break from all fabulous new technologies. For...
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New York Times uses Canada as “giant guinea pig” to test-market its new pay wall
Lucky us. Canadians will be the first readers in the world to experience the New York Times ’s new (and much discussed) on-line...
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What are the chances that Toronto’s newspapers will go all digital?
News came out on Friday that the Montreal daily La Presse has a plan to embrace the Internet era with gusto: according to reports...
City News
iPad 2 launch: Are Kobo and RIM crying right now? They might want to
All of nerd-topia is on the Internet this afternoon (as opposed every other afternoon?), poring over the details of Apple’s iPad...
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iPads popping up in dining rooms across the USA
The era of high-tech kitchens is fading, but it seems as though gizmos are now colonizing the dining room. Stacked: Food Built...
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RIM drops out of top five phone makers, while India demands more access
2010 was not a banner year for Waterloo-based Research in Motion. The company struggled to compete with the iPhone and...
City News
Buffalo, importers tickled with loonie’s parity
For the fourth time in a decade, the Canadian dollar is above parity, and dollar watchers are saying this time it might stick for...
Culture
Apple promises to make iBookstore more Canadian
For once, Apple is bowing to our demands. The federal government yesterday approved the company’s iBookstore in Canada, but...
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Holiday gift idea: a speaker system that doubles as an iPad/iPhone dock
Bang and Olufsen's BeoSound 8 is the one of the few docks/speaker systems compatible with iPads, iPhones and iPods available in...
City News
The app kings: meet the army of tech genius millionaires who are turning Toronto into the new Silicon Valley
Why bother with a boring office job when you can share code at networking parties, design games for smartphones and sell your idea...
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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
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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
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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
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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
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?
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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?
Deep Dives
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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
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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