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The New York Times finally reviews Shang
Add one more to the stack of tepid reviews of Susur Lee's Lower East Side fusion restaurant. In today's New York Times, critic...
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Mr. Sub drug bust, Starbucks downsizes, Pizza Pizza goes west
• Carb-loading may not be the only indulgence attracting Mr. Sub customers after dark. Police uncovered a marijuana stash worth...
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So Long. Farewell. Auf wiedersehen. Goodbye.
This is my last post for Spectator, as I am moving onward and upward, or backward and downward, depending on your point of...
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Magazine maven Bonnie Fuller poised to market her toughest brand yet: Herself
The gap between Canada Day and the star-spangled Fourth is a good time to reflect on the differences, similarities and absurdities...
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Received wisdom not yet in place for the Internet
Lately, I spent some time talking to a guy whose job it is to advise another guy (one with more money) exactly what the future...
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Pot calls kettle black in ongoing feud between print and Web journalists
The July-August issue of The Atlantic includes a piece by lead features scribbler Mark Bowden ( Black Hawk Down ) on the recent...
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How Mark Steyn got Canada on the cover of the New York Times
Whenever our home and native land gets a mention in the mighty New York Times , we feel that concomitant frisson of...
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Margaret Wente “reports” on the misery of latte lovers
Writing a regular column for a major newspaper is unbelievably hard work. And far be it from me to gainsay the efforts of someone...
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The newsworthiest breast in Canada
At this time last week, l’affaire Bernier was taking wing and sending a Canadian news story flying around the world: “Over the...
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Might Thomson Reuters try to buy The New York Times?
As noted yesterday by my august colleague Philip Preville, the Globe and Mail has, in its infinite wisdom, eliminated one of the...
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Media commentary can still surprise
Media commentary—whether it’s Gawker, Michael Wolf, Noam Chomsky or little old indispensable me—has a tendency toward (how...
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Yanks trump Canucks on bloggish hockey coverage
OK, this isn’t exactly earth-shattering news, but if you care at all about hockey in the frozen north, it’s a bit of a head...
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Signs of the times
For some years now, on a wall beside the back entrance to Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children (what used to be the emergency...
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New York’s newspaper war shifts its battleground from Manhattan to Myanmar
In keeping a weather eye on the ongoing newspaper war over New York, today’s front pages of the Wall Street Journal and the New...
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Requiem for a newspaper: The Wall Street Journal falls into the Murdoch trap
Flipping the Rolodex of descriptors this morning, I pause at P for “plus ça change” and W for “waddya think was going to...
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Newspaper war update: The New York Times cannot be bought
Not surprisingly, Arthur Sulzberger is already up on his hind legs denying that the New York Times is for sale. Mike Bloomberg...
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Times 2, Journal 1: Murdoch takes a page from Conrad Black’s “The Art of Newspaper War”
Newsweek ’s latest has a mammoth take out on New York’s newspaper war. Titled “Murdoch, Ink,” the dek on the article...
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Is Martin Newland’s freshly launched paper The Guardian or Pravda? They report, you decide
Martin Newland, Ken Whyte’s former deputy honcho at the National Post and head honcho at The Daily Telegraph during the reign of...
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Hillary Clinton: one part Susan B. Anthony, one part Carly Simon and one part Joe McCarthy
In the aftermath of what was, by just about anybody’s estimation, a rout of Barack Obama in Wednesday night’s primary...
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Dispatches from the surreal calamity of last night’s Democratic leadership debate
Last night, in a massive Philadelphia museum devoted to the American Constitution, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama hammered away...
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The Rezko affair resurfaces after testimony about Obama and Auchi
You may remember that, five weeks ago, I wondered out loud why one of Rupert Murdoch’s lead investigative reporters, The Times...
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Wall Street Journal’s parody paranoia proves that truth is stranger (and funnier) than fiction
Here’s a reason to get up this morning. A who’s who of New York satire—including Richard Belzer, Andy Borowitz, Tony...
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NYC newspaper war now playing out in the Post, Observer and Vanity Fair
Over at the Department of Double Standards we find Vanity Fair media columnist Michael Wolff writing one of those...
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Can Rupert Murdoch steal the thunder of Microhoo?
Whatever you might imagine Conrad Black is up to today—washing floors, dishes or laundry, mowing a lawn or teaching a fellow...
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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
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Sex worker and
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consultant Andrea Werhun’s journey from strip clubs to Hollywood
Andrea Werhun’s dream was to be a writer, but there was a lot more money in sex work. She told herself she’d quit soon, then spent years working as a stripper. In 2022, Sean Baker hired her as a consultant on his Oscar-sweeping film. Now she’s stepping into her own spotlight
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Game Over: Inside fallen Toronto Raptor Jontay Porter’s sports betting scandal
As the pivotal member of a notorious betting ring, Porter was playing for another team. The story of a cheater, his bookmakers and the wager that brought them all down
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Megan Savard for the Defence: Meet the lawyer representing a player at the centre of the Hockey Canada trial
She’s fierce, shrewd and relentless. And she doesn’t just want to win—she wants to dismantle the prison system altogether
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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An all-Canadian wine festival is coming to Fort York
Elbows Up aims to make it easier (and cheaper) to buy Canadian-made bottles
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This Toronto Italian restaurant is launching a pasta tasting menu made with all-Canadian ingredients
It’s Amano Trattoria’s elbows-up moment
City News
A high-tech greenhouse in King City is sticking it to Trump’s tariffs
How to reduce our reliance on American farmers? Rely on robot ones instead
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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