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Toronto’s fanciest late-night junk food classics
Hangovers never tasted so good
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Weekend food read: the New York Times exposé on the extraordinary science of junk food
The fascinating cover story of this week’s New York Times Magazine provides a insider look at the disturbing and deeply...
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Hostess declares bankruptcy: could this be the end of the Twinkie in America?
It’s been said that even a nuclear holocaust couldn’t kill a Twinkie, but it turns out unions are another matter. Hostess, the...
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Raising the Bar: nine house-made chocolate bars, the ultimate fancified junk food
Chefs are taking artisanal junk food to a whole new level of twee with decadent house-made chocolate bars. See all nine bars »
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VIDEO: Pizza Hut Middle East debuts pizza with cheeseburger crust (no, really)
We thought Pizza Hut was pushing the bounds of postmodernist pizza innovation with its Cheesy Bites pie. We were wrong. The lucky...
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Where to Get Good Stuff Cheap 2012: bar snacks that are as lip-smacking as they are cheap
By Andrew D’Cruz, Matthew Hague, Rachel Heinrichs, Emily Landau, David Lawrason, Jason McBride, Mark Pupo, Peter Saltsman and...
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’Wich Craft: how the city’s ice cream sandwiches stack up
Ice cream sandwiches have become the city’s chicest sugar rush, proving there’s no junk food too humble for the gourmet...
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MPP Rosario Marchese floats private member’s bill destined to make Doug Ford very, very angry
Only days after the City of Toronto voted not to further restrict the sale of sugary pop through vending machines on city...
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Sick Kids dumps Burger King from food court, but Pizza Pizza and Subway remain
A minor victory for anti–junk food forces came last week as the creepy despot of the beef kingdom, Burger King , served its last...
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Study: Junk food contributes to dumbening in children
It’s no shocker that eating junk food can cause obesity, especially in children. But a new British study shows that it can also...
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New York Times’s Mark Bittman comes to Canada, is baffled by milk in a bag
New York Times writer and all-round foodie hotshot Mark Bittman came to Canada to sell his book last week, and the good folks at...
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The List: 10 things model Stacey McKenzie can’t live without
Ten things Stacey McKenzie, Toronto’s kookiest fashion model and runway coach, can’t live without Gold bangles I grew up in...
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Canadians would rather drive than have sex, credit cards, junk food or TV
Canada is not as eco-friendly—or as sexy, fun or fit—as previously thought. A new study conducted by the WWF (the World...
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Junk food and cocaine pretty much the same thing: study
Science is perfecting the art of proving the patently obvious. A new study published in Nature Neuroscience recounts how lab rats...
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The Toronto diet: inside Stanley Bernstein’s weight-loss empire
Stanley Bernstein has helped 450,000 patients lose a ton of fat by putting them on a merciless 850-calories-per-day diet and...
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Milk in bags: that’s so Canadian
Today’s viral hit is a YouTube video made by Sheryl Ng, a York University student who explains the concept of drinking milk from...
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Red wine chocolate bars, the smallest citrus on Earth, parents penalized for not giving their child junk food
• While cutting a sandwich horizontally seems fundamentally wrong, a panel of experts including chefs, foodies and even a...
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Chocolate inhalers, the science of wine pairing, debunking swine flu food claims
• A new inhaler that allows users to taste chocolate without chewing or eating has struck a chord with consumers, having sold...
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Curry may hold cancer cure, how to read nutrition labels, Michael Smith dislikes Morocco
• The Globe and Mail offers tips on navigating the often-confusing world of nutrition labels. The common sense suggestions...
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The Simpsons eat right in Britain, the best brown-bag lunches, mini kiwis hit the Brick Works
• In a bid to persuade Britons to eat healthier, the U.K's Department of Health is sponsoring episodes of The Simpsons , to the...
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Busting the bubbly, how not to be a “label whore,” suing Seinfeld
• It’s been a bad year for champagne: global sales fell by 19 per cent in the first half of this year. As a consequence of the...
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Fast-food copycat, street meat problems, Nelson Mandela’s eating habits
• A Long Island man claims to have cracked KFC' s notoriously well-guarded fried chicken recipe. In fact, Ron Douglas —who...
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Seal meat on the rise, New Yorkers in the Junction, marriage linked to obesity
• Seal meat is the hot entrée at Montreal restaurants a month after the Governor General Michaëlle Jean horrified vegans by...
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New Toronto street food launches, Stephen Colbert goes foodie
• Health Canada is considering allowing junk food producers to add nutrients to their products. We’re suspicious that the...
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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
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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
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
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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
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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