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The Weekender: Don Giovanni, Literary Death Match and six other events on our to-do list
1. LITERARY DEATH MATCH TORONTO In this singularly silly lit event, four authors ( Grace O’Connell, Carolyn Black, Rebecca...
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Lake Shore dies off, to the delight of many and the surprise of few
When news broke a couple days ago that Toronto wouldn’t in fact be getting a homegrown answer to Jersey Shore, it was met with...
City News
Major daily newspapers offer totally predictable political endorsements for the provincial election
Toronto’s various daily newspapers have announced their endorsements for Ontario premier, and most of the recommendations are...
City News
Rogers Sportsnet scoops up venerable Globe sports columnist Stephen Brunt
Rogers Sportsnet announced Monday that Stephen Brunt, one of the most distinguished voices in Canadian sports, is joining the...
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The Conrad Black Book Club: A Matter of Principle, Chapter 1
When we found out that Conrad Black was releasing a book, we smacked our heads and thought, “Of COURSE!” Really, that Black...
City News
Doug Ford’s waterfront fantasy meets numbers and facts
The buzz-kills over at the Globe and Mail have thrown cold water all over Doug Ford’ s plans for the Port Lands. Chief among the...
City News
TTC ridership setting new records, despite all the griping from riders (and newspaper columnists)
Bouncing off of the latest Statistics Canada data, Matt Gurney writes in the National Post that the long travel times associated...
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Christie Blatchford is unimpressed with the media’s reaction to Layton’s death; frankly, we’re rather unimpressed with her reaction
Apparently, National Post columnist Christie Blatchford is ticked that Jack Layton’ s death has become a “thoroughly public...
City News
Reaction Roundup: An outpouring of love, respect and grief in the wake of Jack Layton’s death
The last time this blogger had the pleasure of speaking with Jack Layton was for an Informer post during the federal election. The...
City News
Convicted felon offers political advice to conviction-less NDP separatists and praise for blonde conservative commentators
Conrad Black may have spent the last few years of his life watching events in Canada from afar—and from behind bars—but that...
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City News
Reaction Roundup: Is this the beginning of the end for Rob Ford?
This week wasn’t a good one for Mayor Rob Ford . Between his brother Doug insulting Margaret Atwood (and then having Chapters...
City News
Reaction Roundup: baseball scribes roundly praise Toronto Blue Jays GM Alex Anthopoulos for Colby Rasmus deal
Alex Anthopoulos has done it again. Or, at least, that appears to be the overwhelming consensus among baseball media after the...
City News
Dwight Duncan blasts the media for being intellectually dishonest, right wing and Rupert Murdoch–like
“The intellectual dishonesty, particularly of the right wing in this country and the right-wing media, is that they don't tell...
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Hotpocalypse: Toronto media forget that whole “eight months of winter” thing and go nutty in the hot, hot heat
Okay, this is going to be one of the hottest days in a long time. We get it. Thirty-eight degrees is pretty damn spicy, and the...
City News
Five things we learned from the Post’s “Fire and EMS at war” piece
One of the proposals that’s been put forward to save the city money in these lean fiscal times is combining Toronto’s Fire...
City News
More core service reviews, more of the same message: the gravy is missing
Yet another core service review has come out today—this time relating to parks and the environment and leaked early to the...
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Reaction Roundup: Canada elects a Harper majority, the NDP surges and two parties are left in shambles
The fun thing about predictions is how often they’re wrong, and the scenario we outlined yesterday ( Michael Ignatieff playing...
City News
Endorsements: nobody’s sure if they matter, but the press keeps making them anyway
Over there on the left? That’s constitutional éminence grise Peter Russell , and judging from the video, it’s pretty clear he...
City News
Q&A with Ezra Levant, professional loudmouth and TV host on the spanking new Sun News Network
Do you find it ironic that you had to move from Calgary to Toronto to host a conservative-friendly TV news show? No, for the...
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2010 was great year for Toronto’s daily newspapers—relatively speaking
Maybe on-line media isn’t the death knell for newspapers after all. According to the latest survey from Newspaper Audience...
Real Estate News
Hate winter? The people who take care of Toronto’s 5,000 km of pipes agree
Here’s a surprisingly interesting story from the National Post about plumbing —no, seriously! Basically, the winter of...
City News
What are the chances that Toronto’s newspapers will go all digital?
News came out on Friday that the Montreal daily La Presse has a plan to embrace the Internet era with gusto: according to reports...
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Media outlets just can’t seem to agree on how to spell “Gadhafi” (“Gaddafi”? “Gaddafi”? “Qadhafi”?)
This is surely the least important aspect of what is happening in Libya, but every time there’s an Arabic name in the...
Real Estate News
Sign of the apocalypse #49,273: the Toronto Star, National Post and Spacing all agree on something—subways
We’re not going to go so far as to call it an “editorial consensus,” but with the debate over subways that Toronto’s been...
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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
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
Deep Dives
The 50 Most Influential Torontonians of 2024
Our annual ranking of the people whose courage, smarts and clout are changing the world as we know it
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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
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
Food & Drink
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