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Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Maven, chef Shauna Godfrey’s new restaurant with eastern European and Jewish roots
Including freshly baked challah buns, chicken schnitzel and a dill pickle martini
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Food & Drink
“Cream cheese is the bonding agent of our community”: How bagels brought two branches of a Toronto family together
The latest chapter in a food-focused family saga that goes back to pre–Second World War Poland
City News
When Jewish kids become more religious than their parents, a Toronto support group steps in
Back-to-school time means it's almost the holiday season for Torontonians in Canada’s largest Jewish community. Synagogues of...
Food & Drink
The Long Weekender: Public Enemy, Brazilian Day and six other events on our to-do list
1. ASHKENAZ FESTIVAL The Ashkenaz Festival is the largest international festival of Jewish music and culture in North America—so...
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Today in Toronto: Ashkenaz Festival
Ashkenaz Festival: The biennial celebration of traditional Jewish cultural staples lives on through the contemporary mediums of...
City News
Council conspiracy alert: are Rob Ford and his allies trying to shut out James Pasternak?
James Pasternak , a rookie councillor who started off as a sort-of Rob Ford supporter before joining the ranks of the mighty...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: Picasso, Bring It On and six other items on our to-do list
1. PICASSO: MASTERPIECES FROM THE MUSÉE NATIONAL PICASSO, PARIS Even if you know nothing about art, there’s a good chance...
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City News
Who Worships Where: an agnostic assessment of Toronto’s most formidable flocks
Religious attendance might be in free fall across the city, but over the years a handful of Toronto congregations have managed to...
Today in Toronto: Toronto Jewish Film Festival
Toronto Jewish Film Festival Canada’s premier Jewish film fest features this year The Three Lennys , a series highlighting the...
Culture
Just-announced Harold Green theatre lineup includes Eugene Levy and Mandy Patinkin
From Fiddler on the Roof to Purim pageants, there’s no denying that performance has a vital role to play in Jewish...
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The Weekender: Onegin, Canada Blooms and six other events on our to-do list
1. CANADA BLOOMS Walking through the grounds of this huge flower-focused festival is like bypassing the last weekend of winter and...
Today in Toronto: John Adams, Graphic Details and Trio Voce
American Berserk: The Solo Piano Music of John Adams If the COC’s take on Nixon in China hasn’t satisfied your appetite for...
Food & Drink
The 10 best pickled foods at Toronto restaurants
Pickled things—lovingly brined, jarred and served by the city’s star chefs—are the hottest grandmotherly food since cookies...
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The Weekender: December 3–5
1. ROSS PETTY’S BEAUTY AND THE BEAST The evil Barnum von Cowell (otherwise known as Ross Petty the other 11 months of the year)...
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New menu at Caplansky’s nods to vegetarians
The “leaning tower of Caplansky” has been selling like a pile of hotcakes. Or, rather, a pile of challah French toast stacked...
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Toronto’s Five Best Grilled Sandwiches
The best thing to hit the sandwich (since sliced bread) has to be the panino press. Here, the city’s top five...
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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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Private School Guide
The Private and Independent School Directory Spring 2025
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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
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
Almost
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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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
Food & Drink
“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
Food & Drink
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