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Ryan Gosling hates McDonald’s and asks the company to “stop clowning around”
An undercover video was released in November that documented the cruelty hens face at Sparboe Egg Farms, who, until recently, were...
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Food & Drink
Tim Hortons to bring espresso to the 99 per cent
Tim Hortons, that Canadian bastion of par-baked doughnuts and extreme folksiness , announced yesterday that it will soon be making...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Urban Eatery, the Eaton Centre’s new, disconcertingly Danish food court
The food court experience is a notoriously horrible one. The ambiance is nonexistent, the options are limited to the typical...
Food & Drink
Want to know how much salt and fat there is in your food? Tough luck, thanks to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency
While Canadians decide who they want leading the country, the bureaucracy in Ottawa is largely spinning its wheels until the next...
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Food & Drink
American chain Five Guys wades into Toronto’s burger wars
Subway may have just surpassed McDonald’s as the world’s largest food chain, but that doesn’t mean the burger craze is...
Food & Drink
McDonald’s to give away free buttermilk biscuit sandwiches tomorrow and Thursday
If you’ve still got the stomach to handle fast food after our last post , then this one’s for you. On February 9 and...
City News
“You should have left when you had a chance”: a first-person account of being detained at Queen and Spadina
A couple hours into our detainment at Queen and Spadina on Sunday, soaked and shivering, her press accreditation around her...
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City News
Toronto G20 photo gallery: the eerie aftermath
Before hundreds of bystanders were corralled into a human blockade at Queen and Spadina under torrential rain, the downtown core...
City News
Slide show: Toronto’s anti-G20 riot
What started as a peaceful protest at Queen's Park, with about 10,000 participants, became a riot as a small group of violent...
Food & Drink
Three things we learned about locavore road trips from the Globe
Canada’s highways can be hell for road-tripping locavores—all those thousands of kilometres of pavement, with nary a locally...
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Food & Drink
BNN legitimizes McDonald’s–Tim Hortons coffee war in excruciatingly long taste test
We knew the country’s post-Olympic patriotism would settle down, but not like this. The Business News Network spent nearly 20...
Food & Drink
McDonald’s gives away coffee in promotion that has nothing to do with Timmie’s Roll Up the Rim
It’s that time of year again, when coffee aficionados ditch their independent coffee shops, and the streets are strewn with Tim...
Food & Drink
This Olympics, McDonald’s claims the word “burger,” forcing native pavilion to rewrite its menu
Olympic attendees stopping in at the Four Host First Nations pavilion in Vancouver this weekend should look for “sliders” or...
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Food & Drink
The world’s most outrageous foods, why winter tomatoes are hateful, calorie labels might actually be effective
• A new study at Stanford University confirms that in-restaurant calorie counts change eating behaviour. In New York, where the...
Food & Drink
Toronto restaurateur charged with serving up McDonald’s-related scam
Fourteen years after calling him a “real-life Santa Claus” for his work feeding the homeless, the Toronto Sun is reporting...
Food & Drink
Fifty tidbits about Nigella Lawson, predicting the food trends of 2010, Anthony Bourdain as a teenager
• Food Network Humour has published a series of photos of famous cooking show hosts in their salad days. Our favourites are...
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Stealing mushrooms, McDonald’s feeding Olympians, how to deal with wine snobs
• Ever since a worldwide shortage of mushrooms caused prices to soar in 2006, the forests of France have been plagued with gangs...
Food & Drink
Coolio gets a cooking show (yes, that Coolio), Rachael Ray bests Martha Stewart, recession ruins champagne sales
• Mid-’90s rapper Coolio has traded in rhymes for recipes. The Ghetto Gourmet now has an on-line cooking show and a new book...
Food & Drink
Five ethically dubious foods, taste-testing Toronto’s burger joints, presidentially pardoned turkeys end up at Disney World
• After the explosion in popularity of this video showing a still-live deep-fried carp being eaten, the Guardian compiled a list...
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Ruth Reichl praises Toronto, government-subsidized chocolate milk, the great seafood shim-sham
• The defunct Gourmet magazine was thinking of putting out a Toronto-themed issue, former editor Ruth Reichl says, following the...
Food & Drink
Iceland loses its McDonald’s, This Is Why You’re Fat gets book deal, Top Chef spinoff coming to Bravo
• Icelanders looking for a fast-food fix will have to look somewhere other than McDonald’s. Bloomberg News reports that...
Style
Sunny Fong’s Vawk collection opens fashion week at the AGO
A smattering of the city's socialites, fashion editors and Project Runway contestants (is it just us, or has the PR crew taken...
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Food & Drink
One person’s junk food is another’s treasure
More and more, we’re feeling that the Internet holds the solution to every problem known to man—well, every inconsequential...
Food & Drink
The world’s top eight food cities, McDonald’s moves into the Louvre, how to carve the perfect turkey
• In a clash of cultures, McDonald’s plans to open a restaurant and a McCafé at the Louvre next month. One curmudgeonly art...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
Wines of the World
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Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
Toronto Life’s
Best Restaurants
From cabernet and merlot to icewine and chardonnay, these wines are primed to pair and delight
Big Stories
Deep Dives
Dead Reckoning: The executor of their estate was supposed to divide it among their friends and family. Instead, he bankrupted it
When Sami and June Suomalainen died, it fell to the executor of their wills, a lawyer they hardly knew, to sell their million-dollar midtown home and split the proceeds among their inheritors. Seven years and six lawsuits later, the beneficiaries haven’t seen a cent
Deep Dives
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2026
This year’s list includes a 150-square-foot omakase counter, a Parisian brasserie in the Annex, Korean comfort food, Filipino karaoke and a Summerhill seafood spot that’s reinventing the raw bar
Deep Dives
Hoop Dreams: Inside the making of the Toronto Tempo, the city’s newly assembled WNBA team
After years of false starts, months of nail-biting negotiations between the league and the players’ union, and an 11th-hour scramble to build a roster, Toronto finally has its own major-league women’s basketball team. Now it just has to live up to the hype
Deep Dives
Live From New York: Inside the slay-or-be-slayed world of Studio 8H with
SNL
rookie Veronika Slowikowska
Slowikowska is the first Canadian to join the cast of
Saturday Night Live
in more than 25 years. She’s also this season’s breakout star. Now all she has to do is keep crushing it
Deep Dives
Better Call Deepak: Meet drug lord Ryan Wedding’s self-styled cocaine lawyer
The man who represented the infamous drug lord is unapologetically flashy—he has a Lamborghini and two Maseratis and wears $1,200 Louboutins. But did he become an accomplice to his client’s crimes? Deepak Paradkar says he was just doing his job. The FBI says he crossed a line
Deep Dives
The Redemption Tour: The Blue Jays are back. Can they finish what they started?
We’re not over it, but they are. Six months after that devastating defeat, the Jays take the field once more, bent more than ever on winning the World Series. Dispatches from the dugout
Deep Dives
My Life as a True Crime Spectacle: My father’s crimes fractured our family. Then came the press
My dad was the infamous Rolex Killer. The news of his crimes nearly broke me. And ever since, my family has been hounded by reporters, podcasters and true crime fanatics—a whole new circle of hell
Deep Dives
Robby on the Line: Out and about with Robby Hoffman, comedy’s equal opportunity assassin
Larry David is the indisputable king of brutal honesty. But if anyone comes close, it’s Robby Hoffman, the suddenly everywhere comic from whom no group is safe
Deep Dives
Notes on an Academic Scandal: Why did TMU demote a leading advocate of DEI?
Pamela Sugiman, a former arts dean at Toronto Metropolitan University, was a key player in the school’s push for diversity, equity and inclusion. When the backlash against DEI arrived, she was demoted. The school says it was a coincidence. She disagrees
Deep Dives
City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?
Scenes from the rent-for-life revolution
Deep Dives
This generation was pummelled by Covid high school. Now the job market wants to replace them with AI
It’s hard out here for a 20-something
Deep Dives
The High Price of Hope: Inside Toronto’s white-hot fertility market
Desperate wannabe parents are betting their life savings on unproven treatments and false promises
Deep Dives
Man vs. Machine: ChatGPT caused him to spiral into delusion. Now he’s suing OpenAI
Last spring, a chatbot convinced Allan Brooks that he had discovered a revolutionary mathematical theory. He says it nearly destroyed him
Deep Dives
Smart City: 20 mind-blowing Toronto inventions that are changing the world
Homegrown innovations that will transform lives for the better
Deep Dives
293 Days Without My Son: I gave up everything to rescue my kidnapped child from my abusive husband
When Valentino was abducted, I knew three things: he’d been taken by his father, he was somewhere in India and I would not rest until I found him
Deep Dives
The Violent Life of a Tow Truck Driver: How an unremarkable profession turned Toronto into a war zone
The towing industry has been hijacked by criminals and kingpins who fleece customers, beat up dissenters and shoot their enemies. Inside the brutal turf war for the city’s wrecks
Deep Dives
Street Fight: Inside the battle raging over Toronto multiplexes
If this city stands any chance of solving the housing crisis, it will need buildings with multiple units in residential neighbourhoods—a move that has many residents saying, “Anywhere but here!”
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