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The Look: the soft luxury of the velvet blazer is back in style
Possibly the universe’s most enduring and versatile fabric, velvet is back (again) and solving all our wardrobe...
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Style
Street Style: 18 looks at the holiday shoppers at Holt Renfrew
The crush in Toronto’s malls and retail strips before Christmas means that many shoppers are tempted to wear the eminently...
Shopping
Holiday Gift Ideas: 22 fashionable finds for the clothes-horses on your list
As much as we appreciate a pair of sensible socks, the best gifts are never strictly practical. That’s why we scoured local...
Real Estate News
Introducing: Four Seasons Hotel Toronto, the haute brand’s new flagship
Less than a week ago, Toronto hotelier Issy Sharp cut the ribbon on the new Four Seasons Hotel Toronto, a 55-storey tower at Bay...
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The price tag on Canada’s most expensive condo appears to have dropped
The Cumberland apartment, a 10,000-square-foot, high-modernist condo at 130 Bloor Street West, has netted a lot of attention since...
Real Estate News
Introducing: Toronto’s new Shangri-La Hotel
The Shangri-La Hotel at University and Adelaide opened its doors on Friday, ready just in time for TIFF (well, nearly in...
Real Estate News
Muammar Gaddafi’s son stops paying the condo fees on his Toronto penthouse
The condo board of the building at Spadina and Lake Shore where Saadi Gaddafi owns a penthouse has placed a lien against his...
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City News
Real estate advice: the latest tips on buying, selling, staging and design from local experts
City News
QUOTED: Doug Ford loudly defends the mayor’s right to drive an Escalade
— Doug Ford, lashing out at Canada’s largest daily paper for criticizing the Cadillac Escalade he and brother Randy gave Rob...
City News
Uber, the luxury car-hailing app, may be breaking city bylaws
When Uber, a smartphone app that allows users to hail black sedans and SUVs, arrived in Toronto, many locals, used to...
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Real Estate News
A few wealthy Torontonians will soon be able to live in a bridge in the sky
Given the ubiquity of condo construction in Toronto, a new development is generally nothing to gawk at. That is, unless it...
City News
Reason to Love Toronto: because our most priceless art is free
Toronto’s new luxury hotels have elicited a lot of praise—they’ve given the city new restaurants, bars and ballrooms, and at...
City News
Toronto has another new car app—and this one summons regular-fare taxis
Toronto has yet another new smart phone app to help stranded urbanites find a ride. Tap’n Ride, the brainchild of Rosedale...
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The Moment: at the opening of his Toronto tower, the Donald was his spectacular self
Speakers at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Trump Tower at the intersection of Bay and Adelaide tossed around the word...
City News
Q&A: Paul Godfrey, chair of the OLG, is on a mission to bring a Las Vegas–style casino to Toronto
You were a popular politician, brought the Blue Jays to town, resuscitated the National Post and cleaned up the OLG. Does the...
City News
Is the Four Seasons being stingy when it comes to severance pay?
The storied Four Seasons Hotel in Yorkville is going condo, but not without a snag or two: several laid-off banquet servers are...
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Luxury condo wars: how the Trump Tower, the Four Seasons and the rest are doing so far
Sure, their high-profile restaurants and over-the-top ribbon cuttings have netted the Ritz-Carlton, Trump Tower, Shangri-La and...
Real Estate News
Despite Donald Trump’s efforts, his Toronto tower is off to a “weak start”
The Wall Street Journal says Toronto’s high-profile Trump International Hotel and Tower has had a “weak start.” According to...
Style
GALLERY: Donald Trump, Rob Ford and more VIPs at the opening of the Trump Tower
The new Trump International Hotel and Tower is over the top—naturally, so was the opening. Rob and Doug Ford (along with Rob's...
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The Thing: a solid brolly for even the wettest of days
Trying to combat the rain —or the cold half-snow that passes for April rain—with a flimsy corner store umbrella is a futile...
Real Estate News
The Four Seasons has closed and will become—you guessed it—a condo tower
Luxury-loving Torontonians should brace themselves for a spring of deprivation: for the next four months, the city will be without...
Shopping
The Thing: the classic British Aga cooker boldly goes digital
Good food comes at a price. For dedicated kitchen design geeks, that price is $18,000, which is what it costs to own Aga’s...
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Forbes asks how Toronto can sustain four new luxury hotels
The folks at Forbes were curious as to how Toronto will sustain four new luxury hotel towers at a time when hotel development is...
City News
Jonathan Kay responds to Gawker’s taunts over his Toronto Life feature “Almost Rich”
When you argue that a household income of $196,000 is “positively middle class,” as Jonathan Kay did in an essay from Toronto...
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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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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
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