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Food & Drink
Elevate fall feasts with unexpected maple-focused recipes
From cocktails to entrées and desserts, this naturally sweet ingredient adds the perfect touch
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Food & Drink
Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for April 9 to 15
Monday, April 9 Tuesday, April 10 Wednesday, April 11 Thursday, April 12 Friday, April 13 Saturday, April 14 Sunday, April 15
Food & Drink
Must-Try: Bannock’s pickerel taco, the city’s most elaborate steamed bun
From the description on the menu, Bannock’s pickerel taco (which stretches the definition of the term taco) sounds like the work...
Food & Drink
Another reason to celebrate the warm winter: maple syrup is flowing early this year
One of the warmest winters in recent memory is apparently making for an early maple syrup season—and some delightfully bad puns...
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GALLERY: Our 10 edible picks from this year’s Toronto Christmas Market (mulled wine very much included)
You don’t have to be a wide-eyed, rosy-cheeked tot to enjoy the second annual Toronto Christmas Market at the Distillery...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Stasis Local Foods, the new Roncesvalles emporium for all things pickled and jarred (and preferably local)
Up at the northern tip of Roncesvalles, just south of Dundas, sits the neighbourhood’s newest gourmet food shop, Stasis Local...
Culture
Recipe to Riches Reviewed: Episode 5, The Smart Cookie
Last things first: at the end of this week’s episode (the sweet and savoury snacks challenge), the producers flashed a...
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City News
Presidential hopeful Rick Perry tricked by the Globe and Mail, cites fake Occupy Toronto protester
A clueless Occupy Toronto protester was easy prey for Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry, who cited the dunce last Friday...
Food & Drink
Two U.S. senators propose calling in the feds over fake maple syrup
Champagne must come from its eponymous region in France, Parmigiano-Reggiano from specific areas in Emilia-Romagna (ok, and...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Bannock, Oliver and Bonacini’s new café and restaurant at The Bay’s flagship store
It’s no secret that Hudson’s Bay Co. has undergone some big changes in recent years. The retailer’s revitalization project...
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Ex marks the spot: eight culinary innovations at this year’s Canadian National Exhibition (including deep-fried cola)
In the days of yore, people flocked to the Canadian National Exhibition to see the year’s prize cows, pigs and horses. It’s...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: Don Quixote, Canadian Music Week and six other events on our to-do list
1. THE MIDDLE PLACE Based on interviews with workers and residents at one of the city’s many youth shelters, this moving piece...
Culture
30 Rock comes to Toronto: what they got right, what they got wrong
Last night’s jaunt to Toronto by 30 Rock ’s Jack Donaghy ( Alec Baldwin ) and Avery Jessop ( Elizabeth Banks ) continued the...
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Sweet Relief: Anne Yarymowich’s maple-apple-caramel concoction
Anne Yarymowich’s maple-apple-caramel concoction takes the cake “At Frank, when we send a dish out from the kitchen, I want it...
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Holiday Gift Guide: 13 edible present ideas
We prefer to pass the holiday season by eating our way through it and forcing loved ones to do the same. So we’ve come up with...
Culture
The swag series: George Stroumboulopoulos’s celeb guests take ketchup chips and Clamato back to the U.S.
What it is: Guests of Strombo’ s new show, George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight, get their pick of some sweet swag in the Made in...
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Journo swag: “alternative media” at G20 robbed of maple syrup and swim time in Lake Harper
We can speculate about what journalists in the Allstream Media Centre are doing: complaining about being ripped off for free...
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A photographic tour of one of Toronto’s best brunch menus
A mere six months after opening, the brunch at the Hoof Café has become the city's most coveted (witness the lineups snaking out...
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Is poutine Canada’s national food? Two arguments for, two against
When legendary U.S. journalist and food writer Calvin Trillin finally got around to trying poutine last year, he deemed it...
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MPP accuses Torontonians of not knowing who Bambi is
If the whole Toronto-as-its-own-province thing sounded like a bad idea last month, its current champion (not Mel Lastman , that's...
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“Tapping” jokes inevitable as city allows environmentalists to make syrup from inner-city maples
The city has officially backed down from its stance on tapping inner-city trees for sap. A few weeks ago, we reported that the...
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Private School Guide
The Private and Independent School Directory Spring 2025
Big Stories
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
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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
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
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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
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?
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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
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
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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
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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
Food & Drink
The US tariffs are coming for your espresso martini
With Kahlúa no longer available at the LCBO, Toronto bartenders are getting creative