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Fair Enough: skin-lightening is potentially hazardous, politically charged—and disturbingly popular
This past winter, a subway ad for Liberty Clinic sparked much controversy when it proclaimed, “Get brighter and lighter skin!”...
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Jan Wong: the appeal of racist Rob
It’s hard to find an ethnic group Mayor Rob Ford hasn’t denigrated. Let’s recap. So far, the slurs have included, but are...
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Jan Wong: Canada’s birthright citizenship policy makes us a nation of suckers
Pregnant women are travelling to Toronto from all over—China, Iran, India, Dubai, Jamaica—to have their babies on Canadian...
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Jan Wong: assisted suicide may be controversial, but my generation wants a say in how we die
If my generation gets its way (and we usually do), the agonizing assisted suicide debate will soon be over. We want a say in how...
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Jan Wong: Exotic pets should be illegal—for their sake and ours
Yasmin Nakhuda and her wandering IKEA monkey revealed an underground economy of exotic pets in desperate need of policing A few...
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Jan Wong: vicious turf wars at dog parks across Toronto have cost taxpayers a fortune
Once upon a time, happiness reigned in Ledbury Park, a 1.6-hectare expanse of green tucked into a residential area west of Avenue...
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Jan Wong: the simmering class war over basement apartments in Brampton
I once moved into an illegal basement apartment in Toronto for a newspaper series about working undercover as a maid. At $750 a...
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Memoir: Jan Wong’s search for the right antidepressant
Even with sedatives, I couldn’t sleep. I kept losing weight. I was crying every day. One night, I lost my temper with my son...
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Jan Wong: Why the LCBO—the antiquated, paternalistic monopoly that’s deliberately gouging us—has got to go
On a recent Sunday afternoon, I stopped by the LCBO’s flagship Summerhill store. A glorious 35,000 square feet of creamy Italian...
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Jan Wong: Why aren’t schools teaching kids about the pleasures and perils of sex?
The answer is simple: our curriculum is shamefully outdated, and the Liberals are too scared to fix it Adam and Eve nibble an...
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Editor’s Letter (February 2012): why Ontario schools should talk about homosexuality in the classroom
When I was in the sixth grade , a health instructor employed by the board of education was parachuted into my classroom to talk...
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Jan Wong: how the rise of horticultural training at Toronto schools is bad for students
While we’re busy teaching our kids to tend school gardens, they’re failing provincial tests in reading, writing and math. The...
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How academic pressure may have contributed to the spate of suicides at Queen’s University
Early one Saturday morning in March 2010, Eric Windeler and his wife, Sandra Hanington, arrived home after a spinning class at the...
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How to treat the scourge of modern medicine—bad bedside manner
When I was pregnant and working as a foreign correspondent in Beijing, my obstetrician suggested an amniocentesis test for...
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Is a Toronto woman’s right to testify in a niqab an unreasonable accomodation?
A case involving a Toronto woman’s right to testify in a niqab is now headed for the Supreme Court. Maybe it’s time to...
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Why educational apartheid is not the answer to curbing dropout rates for specific racial and ethnic groups
The tall black man was angry. “I want to propose 10 seconds of silence in memory of Brother Dudley Laws,” he said into the...
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Welcome to Toronto the Rude
We swear at each other from cars, bark at each other on the TTC and yell into our cellphones. How a supposedly livable city...
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Not Asian enough: Jan Wong on the phenomenon of “Tiger Mom” parenting
The furor over Tiger Mom parenting ignores one awkward fact: academic success doesn’t guarantee a sparkling future. Confessions...
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The woman behind the mayor: who is Renata Ford?
Renata Ford is the invisible wife. Most Torontonians caught their first glimpse of her on election night: a smiling, slender...
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Fight or Flight? Jan Wong meets two black Torontonians with different solutions to troubles in their communities
New books by two black Torontonians propose radically different solutions to troubles in their communities It’s a gorgeous...
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Monster jam: Jan Wong on the tear-down real estate trend in Lawrence Park
In my neighbourhood, century-old houses are being knocked down to make room for super-sized faux chateaux. Something is lost, and...
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What evil lurks: sexual assault is a serious problem at universities, and our schools are overlooking the solution
York University’s Vanier College welcome brochures contain helpful information for frosh week. They list clubs to join and an...
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Get off the Road: Toronto street festivals take the whole city hostage. Jan Wong says that it’s time we learn to say no
One of Toronto’s biggest, most aggravating problems is traffic. In a recent poll about the upcoming mayoral...
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All Mixed Up: Toronto is the mixed-marriage capital of Canada
How our city is proof that if a post-racial society is possible, it will begin in the bedroom his fall, my husband and I will mark...
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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
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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
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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
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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
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“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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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