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Ho-Lee-Chow, ubiquitous purveyor of pseudo-Chinese food, closes its many doors
Ho-Lee-Chow —that omnipresent bastion of quick, North Americanized Chinese food—is going out of business after 20...
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Joe Pantalone maintains his tough—and lonely—stand against merlot
Being a city councillor is a tough job—just ask deputy mayor Joe Pantalone . Fresh from killing Ossington’s buzz, he now finds...
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Gourmet magazine has balled its last melon
Gourmet is no more. The food world is mourning the loss of the magazine, which has been a cornerstone of North American culinary...
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Airport food guide, Tim Hortons’ big move, Tyra Banks eats from trucks
• Harried travellers are often at the mercy of the overpriced, under-flavoured food on offer in most airports. Well, Michael...
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Moms encourage kids to eat McDonald’s, the caveman diet, a Canadian-themed bar grows in Brooklyn
• Manhattan was besieged by a group of McMoms last week—a team of pro- McDonald’s matriarchs who were handpicked by...
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Top foodie Twitter feeds, Vegemite 2.0, answering an eternal barbecue question
• Barbecue season may be coming to a close, but frustration over uneven wiener-to-bun packaging knows no temporal bounds. The...
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Michael Smith’s tweeting imposter, coffee does not keep drivers alert, Mexican truffles come to T.O.
• Canadian chef Michael Smith, one of the Food Network’s biggest stars, was recently appalled to find that a fake Michael...
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Victim of his own success: Zane Caplansky is out of smoked meat
Zane Caplansky, owner and operator of Caplansky’s Delicatessen , confirms on his blog that he will not be serving his famous...
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Airlines get into cocktail making, tattooing food, foodies vs. “foodiots”
• In an effort to improve the labelling of food, the American Food and Drug Administration is considering allowing fruits and...
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Dinner with Sarah Palin, fresh Ontario strawberries in autumn, the most carnivorous countries on earth
• An Alabama woman, who was apparently in search of good conversation about hockey and creationism, won an eBay auction for...
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Bacon-flavoured beer, the fattest city in America, the 50 best spots to eat the 50 best foods
• On a recent foray to Huntington, West Virginia (recently bestowed with the dubious distinction of being America’s fattest...
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New nosh at the ACC, urine is the secret to top tomatoes, chicken trade war turns foul
• The Air Canada Centre may become a mecca for hot-dog connoisseurs in Toronto, with a newly unveiled concession stand that...
Culture
Patrick Swayze passes away during TIFF and the awkwardness of getting celebrity death reactions
Every time a famous person passes away, news organizations call up a bunch of celebrities to get reactions, usually consisting...
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Busting the bubbly, how not to be a “label whore,” suing Seinfeld
• It’s been a bad year for champagne: global sales fell by 19 per cent in the first half of this year. As a consequence of the...
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Toronto’s new poutine truck, 10 dazzling super-foods, the ethics of pain-free animals
• Gourmet poutine is set to become Toronto’s newest street grub. Smoke’s Poutinerie , which spices up traditional poutine...
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The marshmallow craze, the baffling DIY wine critic, the case for doggy bags
• “Bouquet of Nerds candy” good; “notes of Bazooka Joe gum” bad. So says the populist, DIY wine critic Gary Vaynerchuk...
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Suck it, recession: Homegrown vampire flick gets picked up by Alliance
Our Canadian ego is swelling after news that the first TIFF film to sell its distribution rights is homegrown. Capri Vision Inc.'s...
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Freegans in Toronto dumpsters, NYC takes on fat, monkey brains top the squeamish list
• New York City is going visceral in its battle to keep citizens lean. A new ad campaign is being launched this month that hopes...
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Truffles to close, the KFC “float-thru,” 64,373 kilometres of Twinkie wrapper
• Truffles, one of Toronto’s most revered fine-dining institutions, will serve its last meal on September 5. Four Seasons...
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Robot chefs, 10 best American restaurants, Whole Foods boycott
• Chinese restaurant chain I Robot is being picketed by chefs who say their robot counterparts—which each do the job of five...
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Restaurant closures roundup: now is the summer of our discontent
Steel for some heartbreakers. Since our last roundup of restaurant closures, three of Toronto’s hoariest dining institutions are...
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Harper eats seal, celiacs can’t get a break, home butchery on the rise
• Prime Minister Harper and some of his cabinet cronies dined on seal meat yesterday in Iqaluit. The seal industry was hit with...
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Graydon Carter’s terrifying lunch, fruit fly infestation, DIY pizza ovens
Cure all: the story of Niagara prosciutto maker Mario Pingue appears in the Star (Photo by stu_spivack)• Every Ontario gourmand...
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Beer sales down, thief swipes grease, Frank Bruni passes fork to new critic
• A man was arrested in Britain after allegedly stealing 8,200 gallons of vegetable oil from restaurants all over the city of...
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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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The $4-Million Girlfriend Experience: The thief, the cam girl and their whirlwind fraudulent romance
Stephanie Sahler was a cam girl. Ralph Puglisi was a man willing to pay anything for her doting attention. It was the perfect arrangement—until she realized that every penny he sent her was stolen
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Dr. Ozempic: Inside the medical discovery that revolutionized weight loss
I was just a baby scientist when I discovered the hormone that made Ozempic possible. I had no idea how life-changing—and world-changing—that breakthrough would be
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A behind-the-curtain look at the insatiable political ambitions of Doug Ford
Is Ontario’s pugnacious premier charting a course for Ottawa? He definitely isn’t
not
considering a run for prime minister. A long, hard look at the populist’s playbook
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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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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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The Magic Lab: How chemist and computer scientist Alán Aspuru-Guzik brought self-driving laboratories from Harvard to Toronto
Aspuru-Guzik and his multinational team of mad scientists are combining chemistry, robotics and AI to fight climate change, streamline organ transplants and supercharge the scientific method. How did their lab end up at the University of Toronto? In a word: Trump
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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