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Philip Preville: The case for making bike helmets mandatory
Driving without a seat belt is considered absurdly reckless. Why isn’t cycling without a helmet? Any cyclist who’s ever been...
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Queen’s Park takes a cue from Ottawa, demurs on fast-food calorie labels
We’ve mentioned from time to time the Canadian government’s curious efforts to keep us all eating plenty of salt. A weekend...
Food & Drink
Environmentalism vs. health throwdown: two Girl Scouts launch petition against cookies made with palm oil
This story has all the right ingredients for a made-for-TV movie: multinational food producers, the war on trans fats, a dash of...
City News
Cancer rates lower in Toronto than in the rest of Ontario: CCO
Cancer Care Ontario has released data suggesting that people in the GTA are dying of cancer at a rate less frequent than the...
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MPP Rosario Marchese floats private member’s bill destined to make Doug Ford very, very angry
Only days after the City of Toronto voted not to further restrict the sale of sugary pop through vending machines on city...
Food & Drink
Battle of the bulge: committee to debate ban on pop sales at city-owned facilities
Toronto’s Government Management Committee is going to debate whether or not to allow the sales of obesity-abetting pop on city...
Food & Drink
Study: Junk food contributes to dumbening in children
It’s no shocker that eating junk food can cause obesity, especially in children. But a new British study shows that it can also...
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Ottawa disbands salt task force, industry licks lips in anticipation
For years, it’s been evident that Canadians are consuming too much salt . In response to public pressure, and growing unease...
Food & Drink
The world’s 10 fattest countries: Canada is out, Palau is in
Despite the recent proliferation of poutine in this country, Canada has been left off the list of the fattest nations of 2010...
Food & Drink
Canadians are fat, even by rich-people standards
In the past few years, Toronto has been overrun by gourmet dining options of the fattening variety. Whether they're serving...
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Wait—street hockey is illegal in Toronto? No wonder our kids are fat
Spacing publisher Matthew Blackett was at Yonge and Dundas when Sidney Crosby scored the gold-medal goal for Canada back in...
Food & Drink
New opera scams kids into healthy eating
Terror related to the childhood obesity epidemic has infected almost all media— radio , TV, newspapers , the Internet —but...
Food & Drink
Junk food and cocaine pretty much the same thing: study
Science is perfecting the art of proving the patently obvious. A new study published in Nature Neuroscience recounts how lab rats...
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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...
Food & Drink
New fat attack ad ensures that we never drink pop again
Some governments are attacking obesity head-on, but none more than New York's. As we reported a few months ago, the Big Apple's...
Food & Drink
Wine for gamers, diet soda most popular among the overweight, Canadians drunker than a decade ago
• Mike James , the Canadian-born operator of 8-Bit Vintners, knows that Generation Y is more about Half Life than the good...
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Waiters’ secrets revealed, the thieving of oysters, Loblaws to move into Maple Leaf Gardens
• After years of delays, a Loblaws supermarket is set to occupy part of the space inside Maple Leaf Gardens. The grocery giant...
Food & Drink
Q&A: three minutes with Naked Chef Jamie Oliver
Jamie Oliver will send foodophiles into full swoon this Sunday, when he appears Roy Thomson Hall to speak about his new...
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Snow White copyright violated, British cheese outsells French cheese, Twitter starts selling wine
• In Australia, an ad campaign for Jamieson’s raspberry ale has re-imagined Snow White as a coquettish sexpot, and...
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Kobe beef dogs versus Shopsy’s, mac-and-cheese taste test, the science of successful wine labels
• A Kobe beef hot dog should be superior to the standard wiener, right? With high-end wieners recently making a splash in...
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Fast-food copycat, street meat problems, Nelson Mandela’s eating habits
• A Long Island man claims to have cracked KFC' s notoriously well-guarded fried chicken recipe. In fact, Ron Douglas —who...
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Seal meat on the rise, New Yorkers in the Junction, marriage linked to obesity
• Seal meat is the hot entrée at Montreal restaurants a month after the Governor General Michaëlle Jean horrified vegans by...
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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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
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
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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
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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
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“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