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George Smitherman coddles the car crowd, suggesting the city put bike lanes on hold
George Smitherman is a thoughtful lover when it comes to drivers—he likes to take things slow. According to the mayoral...
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Food & Drink
New York considering banning salt in restaurant kitchens—no, really
Big Brother is watching, and his name is Felix Ortiz. The New York lawmaker has introduced a bill that would forbid chefs from...
Food & Drink
The OSAP diet forces students to give up Starbucks tea
As part of a protest against the province’s student aid program, five Ontario undergraduate students are entering the annals of...
City News
With announcement of budget surplus, David Miller buffs up legacy, disappoints journalists
Speculation was running rampant this morning when David Miller called a press conference at city hall without giving so much as a...
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Food & Drink
The Daily Dish loses a word, but nothing else
Today, torontolife.com launches the two latest additions to our roster of blogs: The Informer, dealing with the news of the...
City News
Toronto Life launches news blog that is not a tribute to 1992 Snow single
Welcome to The Informer, the latest addition to torontolife.com’s roster of blogs. Our mission is to trudge through the...
Food & Drink
Chef survey lists the top 10 food trends of 2010
Health nuts and celiac sufferers, rejoice. A survey of chefs reveals that 2010 will be the year of simplicity, sustainability and...
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Food & Drink
Screaming match at city hall budget meeting: so this is why city council meetings aren’t catered
We’re filing this under “gift to the media,” right between Adam Giambrone and Mildred’s Temple Kitchen' s Valentine’s...
Food & Drink
Alice in Wonderland tea parties all the rage as Mad Hatters become the new Mad Men
Alice in Wonderland tea parties are the new Mad Men cocktail parties. Toronto's Four Seasons is throwing one such event this...
Food & Drink
As health problems pile up, Toronto creates a new urban food strategy
The board of health is proposing a new food strategy that hopes to provide families across the city with better access to...
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Food & Drink
Two more Whole Foods outlets are coming to Toronto
Organic über-market Whole Foods is continuing its march toward world domination by doubling its number of GTA stores. The Post...
Food & Drink
University of Toronto prof says buying local won’t save environment
More bad news for 100-mile dieters: a new study says that local-only eating is impractical and does little to help the...
Style
The woman who brought down Adam Giambrone wants to be a model
It was down to us and Canadian Grocer in terms of media outlets that hadn’t mentioned the Adam Giambrone sex scandal. But after...
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Food & Drink
Slow news day forces media to report on new ketchup packets
With little happening in food news last week (well, before the Mildred’s story broke), such media outlets as the Toronto Star...
Food & Drink
Bathroom sex at Mildred’s: the gift that keeps on giving (to the media)
Forget the Olympics—this week, Canada is known as the country that lets patrons get it on in restaurant washrooms. News of the...
Food & Drink
Mysterious Charlie Burger is blogging from East Africa
While the identity of Charlie Burger remains a mystery (most locals speculate that he’s a composite of T.O. restaurant...
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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
Booze may have led to the founding of civilization, ranking the world’s weight woes, the 10 most common fast food ingredients
• Breaking news: Big Macs are unnatural. TLC’s Fun Facts section presents a list of the top 10 ingredients in fast...
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Torontonian Gail Simmons in line to host her own show (and maybe Padma Lakshmi’s show, too)
Toronto-born food critic and long-standing Top Chef judge Gail Simmons is set to host her own Bravo spinoff— Top Chef: Just...
Food & Drink
Smitherman, Giambrone and Toronto’s other wannabe mayors, recast as food
The mayoral race is heating up—literally. The Globe and Mail recently concocted a dish in each mayoral candidate’s likeness:...
Food & Drink
Now unable to eat or drink, Roger Ebert remembers the joy of dining
Food news rarely comes by way of Roger Ebert, but the film critic recently wrote rather poignantly for the Chicago Sun Times about...
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Food & Drink
Coke-powered cellphones, nut-free airplanes, parsley’s great comeback, Beyoncé to live long
• As any student knows, Coke can provide enough energy to power one through an all-nighter. Nokia has figured this out, as...
Food & Drink
Grease fire at Korean Grill House seems more inevitable than tragic
A small fire broke out late Monday afternoon at the Korean Grill House, the restaurant at Queen West and McCaul where diners are...
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General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks
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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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