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Jersey Shore
Culture
Everything that went down at the
Jersey Shore Family Vacation
party at Pick 6ix last night
Guests were reassured that the cast hasn't lost their debaucherous side
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City News
Jersey Shore Meets the Lake Shore
Cabana Pool Bar, Charles Khabouth's Vegas-style oasis in the Port Lands, is a star-studded playground for the buxom, Botoxed and...
City News
Star’s latest police reporting reads like a script for a gangland crime flick
The Toronto Star’ s latest police scandal reporting sounds like something out of a Martin Scorsese movie: the paper reports that...
City News
Lake Shore dies off, to the delight of many and the surprise of few
When news broke a couple days ago that Toronto wouldn’t in fact be getting a homegrown answer to Jersey Shore, it was met with...
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City News
Gawker gotchas: a roundup of Toronto’s most embarrassing moments according to the gossip giant
Earlier this week, the Globe and Mail’ s “Caption Writing Person” set off an online frenzy with a series of epic one-liners...
City News
Men of action: Ennis Esmer and Kenny Hotz talk about the things they’ll do for a buck
The place: Dangerous Dan’s Diner on Queen East. The people: Wipeout Canada co-host Ennis Esmer and Triumph of the Will star...
Culture
Lake Shore’s list of enemies continues to grow
If you haven't seen the now notorious “sizzle reel” for crap Canadian Jersey Shore ripoff Lake Shore , act quickly, or you may...
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City News
Reaction roundup: what Snooki and the world are saying about Lake Shore
When the “sizzle reel” for Lake Shore , Toronto's despicable answer to Jersey Shore, went viral this week, American media...
City News
Cast of Toronto’s Lake Shore even more despicable than cast of Jersey Shore
Toronto Facebook news feeds were in a frenzy yesterday, not in response to anything of worth—like Movember or even Keenan Cahill...
City News
Regis dressed as Justin Bieber for Halloween, just like everyone else
Just as we suspected, dressing up as Justin Bieber was crazy popular this Halloween. Turns out, it's not just Gordon Pinsent who...
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Culture
War on fun: CRTC wants stations to stop showing Jersey Shore, The Office, Project Runway Canada
The CRTC has a problem with Jersey Shore— namely that it's being aired on MTV Canada, which is supposed to stick to original...
Culture
Lake Shore will be like “eight, under 30, UN leaders in a house together”
There is still no official air date or home for the trash-tacular Toronto Jersey Shore rip-off, Lake Shore . But in this week’s...
City News
Watch audition videos for Toronto’s Jersey Shore
Last night, Lake Shore , this city's answer to Jersey Shore , posted a "webisode" of the audition day on its Web site, and it's as...
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Culture
Lake Shore auditions over, T.O. Snooki TBD
Lake Shore , the Toronto version of Jersey Shore, MTV’s sociological experiment gone horribly wrong, wrapped up auditions this...
Culture
Party in the GTA: most memorable fashion moments at the MMVAs
Last night at the MuchMusic Video Awards, Justin Bieber and Hedley both scored three awards; Drake missed the cue for his...
Food & Drink
Circa nightclub is officially dead, please fist-pump elsewhere
Circa’s doors have been shut for a month, but today the Star is officially confirming that the John Street über-club has filed...
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Culture
Finally, more details about Toronto’s Jersey Shore
Since we initially wrote about a Toronto version of Jersey Shore coming to fruition, readers have offered fist-pumping enthusiasm...
Culture
Fist pump! Toronto gets its own version of Jersey Shore
Break out the bronzer, put on the Ed Hardy cap and practise those duck lips in the bathroom mirror, because Toronto is getting its...
City News
Casting the Rahim Jaffer made-for-TV movie
Remember watching that CTV flick about SARS ? Or that Toronto-filmed biopic about Celine Dion? Neither do we, so we figured this...
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City News
Doctors want to ban tanning beds, kids’ Jersey Shore dreams die
The province’s doctors want to take the “T” out of GTL for kids under 18 because—surprise, surprise—tanning beds can...
Style
Here’s The Situation: Jersey Shore comes to Toronto to find models for an upcoming photo shoot
Get those poufs and liquid tanners ready, because The Situation is in Hogtown, and he’s looking for some high-class...
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Best New Restaurants
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
Buy Canadian
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