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The Weekender: Sandra Shamas, Brothel #9 and six other can’t-miss events
1. SANDRA SHAMAS’ WIT’S END III: LOVE LIFE Comedy queen Sandra Shamas started making audiences laugh back in the ’80s—her...
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The Long Weekender: Divisadero—A Performance, the National Home Show and six-other can’t miss events
1. THE JUNO TOUR OF CANADIAN ART This collaboration between the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts...
City News
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...
City News
City hall to raise user fees: marriage, swimming and summer camp more pricey, but lawn bowling is now free
When he was running for mayor, and well before that, Rob Ford said repeatedly that city hall didn’t have a revenue problem, it...
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Today in Toronto: Bob Saget, Diotima Quartet, Disney Live and The Mill
Bob Saget He was saccharine-sweet as a widowed dad on Full House, the king of cheese as the host of America’s Funniest Home...
Shopping
Where to Get Good Stuff Cheap
The recession might be over. The dollar is flying high. But we’re still feeling conflicted about money. Spend conspicuously and...
Shopping
Good Stuff Cheap: the best deals for kids’ favourites
Your tyke’s room can work without cramping your style or extending your credit line. Here, a kid-approved collection of cheap...
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Good Stuff Cheap: Toronto’s five best vintage stores (no rummaging required)
For Luxury Labels Venture a few blocks north of Yorkville to Haute Classics for immaculate second-hand pieces sourced from very...
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Good Stuff Cheap: six designer sample sales that make lining up seem entirely sane
For Straight-from-SoHo Fashion Crowds huddled in Ossington’s doorways are a familiar sight, but nothing compares to the...
City News
Munsch’s monsters: getting to know the real Robert Munsch
Now that Canada’s most famous children’s author has confessed to being a booze- and coke-addicted obsessive-compulsive with...
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Canadian company making dolls that give birth
When is a child's doll too real? Back in the 1950s, Betsy Wetsy wet herself after drinking; in 2008, Baby Alive could do a number...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: Tim Burton exhibit, Christopher Hitchens vs. Tony Blair and six other items on our can’t-miss list
1. MUNK DEBATE: CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS VS. TONY BLAIR We live in a world where Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift sweep awards shows and...
Shopping
Super Shopper: our monthly roundup of the city’s best stuff
A must-have French press, double ties and the rest of the city's best stuff this month. View the slide show >>
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Culture
Power to the people! Readers decide setting and title of new Robert Munsch book
In today's interactive crowd-sourced world, it would seem that nothing is sacred, not even something as wholesome as a children's...
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Richard Florida declares Toronto best trick-or-treating city in Canada
Toronto’s cool factor has just grown exponentially. Urban theorist and imported know-it-all Richard Florida announced today...
Today in Toronto: The Dears, Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival, Fresh Blood
The Dears: After much band drama, this Montreal indie rock group has emerged with a fresh lineup. They premiered their...
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City News
Q&A with Nazila Fathi, Writer in Exile
Nazila Fathi covered politics from Iran for the New York Times for 15 years. But after the protests of 2009, when she realized her...
City News
Urban Diplomat: what to do when a cyclist is breaking the law with a toddler in tow
Dear Urban Diplomat, I was cycling behind a father with a toddler in a rear bike seat, and he was weaving in and out of...
Today in Toronto: Teletoon Most Awesome Summer Tour
Teletoon Most Awesome Summer Tour: Saturday morning cartoons get hands-on with a flurry of games and prizes, offering up one last...
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Introducing: Snakes and Lattes, the Annex’s clever new board games café
Not since the opening of Sam James have we seen so many re-tweets and wall postings about a new café. But it’s not the coffee...
City News
Wild Thing: the story behind the Brick Works
The bucolic eco-paradise between Rosedale and the DVP almost never was. How big money and one ambitious entrepreneur remade the...
Style
Hot Topic turns teenage angst into clothing
Most parents won't have heard of Hot Topic, that is, unless they went through a heavy-black-eyeliner phase in the late '90s. The...
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William Shatner wants you to know he swears in front of children
Maybe a bit bitter about being passed over for a stint as the new governor general, William Shatner is waging war on political...
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Best of the City 2010: Toronto’s top shopping
Men’s madras shirt Jonathan and Olivia 49 Ossington Ave., 416-849-5956 Madras is the hot new plaid, in light organic cotton and...
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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
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
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
Food & Drink
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