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Beer geeks steel yourselves: Cask Days 2012 will be bigger than ever
Bar Volo, the Yonge Street den for beer geeks, seems perpetually restless. It was just voted the city’s best spot to grab a...
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Food & Drink
Keriwa Cafe moves to an all-tasting-menu concept
Last year, we named Keriwa Cafe, the new Parkdale spot from chef Aaron Joseph Bear Robe , to our list of the 10 best new...
Food & Drink
Grand Electric to get even grander with a second floor
Earlier this summer, Grand Electric opened a back patio, effectively doubling the space at the tiny Parkdale taco and bourbon bar...
Food & Drink
Best of the City 2012: Toronto’s top tacos, brunch, pampering service, pickling classes and more
Splendido 88 Harbord St., 416-929-7788 Even if a diner wheezed up to Splendido’s Harbord Street door in a beat-up...
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City News
The Argument: In Take This Waltz, Sarah Polley transforms Toronto into a brightly coloured urban fantasy
In the middle of directing Take This Waltz, recently released in theatres, Sarah Polley hit a snag. She desperately wanted to get...
Food & Drink
Must-Try: a dainty parfait with tear-jerkingly sour sea buckthorn berries at Chantecler
The bright orange berries of the sea buckthorn tree (a spiky shrub hearty enough to endure Canadian winters) are so tart, they...
City News
The Conversation: Bruce McDonald and Kelley Armstrong on spooky stories and making sequels
The place: Salvador Darling in Parkdale The people: film director Bruce McDonald and horror writer Kelley Armstrong The subject:...
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Food & Drink
The Month That Was: the Toronto restaurants and bars that opened and closed in April
• The Saint— after three long years of waiting, during which time most of Ossington rapidly gentrified, this neighbourhood...
Culture
Top Chef Canada recap, episode 4: something offal
Last night’s episode of Top Chef Canada seemed perfectly calibrated to appeal to the foodie audience, from the chef skills...
Food & Drink
The Month That Was: the Toronto restaurants and bars that opened and closed in March
It can be hard to keep pace with all the new restaurants and bars that open and close in Toronto—which is why every month, we...
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Food & Drink
Introducing: Chantecler, Parkdale’s new place for “progressive Canadian cuisine”
“We talked about opening an itty bitty restaurant forever” says Jacob Wharton-Shukster , co-owner of Parkdale’s latest...
Food & Drink
Introducing: The Hot ’n Dog, Parkdale’s coolest new lunch spot for the under-18 set
As hungry customers file into The Hot ’n Dog around noon, owner George Karpouzis greets regulars by name, inquiring after their...
Real Estate News
Condomonium: $1.5 million for a space in trendy Liberty Village’s Toy Factory Lofts
ADDRESS: 43 Hanna Avenue, Unit 311 NEIGHBOURHOOD: South Parkdale AGENT: Caroline Bokar, Forest Hill Real Estate Inc. PRICE:...
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Food & Drink
Ex–Black Hoofer Colin Tooke opens Grand Electric in Parkdale
Shortly after Jeremy Day shuttered his Parkdale wine and cheese bar Café Taste in October, rumours began to fly that someone...
Food & Drink
Taking a cue from developers, Parts and Labour goes to the OMB to plead their patio case
Two weeks ago, Jesse Girard and Richard Lambert, the pair behind Parkdale’s Parts and Labour, went before the Ontario Municipal...
Culture
TIFF Teaser: Take This Waltz, Sarah Polley’s first feature in five years
It's hard to believe that it’s been half a decade since Sarah Polley made her feature-length directorial debut with 2006’s...
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Food & Drink
Introducing: Keriwa Café, Queen West’s new outpost for Aboriginal cuisine
Back in April, we told you about an upcoming Aboriginal-focused restaurant on Queen West. Last Wednesday, Keriwa Café threw open...
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Best of the City 2011: Our picks for the coolest home decor and other goods
Patio chair Camera Axe Reclaimed wood furniture Vintage Curios Fresh-cut flowers Guilt-free makeup Soil for a veggie garden Kids'...
Food & Drink
Introducing: The Boreal Gelato Company, Parkdale’s new place for a scoop and a seat
The Boreal Gelato Company , Parkdale’s laid-back new scoop shop and café, is a breath of cold, fresh air after the slew of...
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New co-op grocery store coming to Parkdale later this year
The West End Food Co-op — the folks behind the popular Sorauren Farmers’ Market —have partnered up with the Parkdale...
City News
Yesterday’s arrest means Parkdale can breathe a little easier—but the treatment of the mentally ill remains an issue
After a disturbing series of assaults that targeted residents with mental illness—some of whom were elderly—in the city’s...
City News
The Fortress falls: Liberal ridings taken by Tories and NDP
After the dissolution of Canada’s 40th Parliament, the GTA was a Liberal playing field, Fortress Toronto the most secure of all...
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City News
Gerard Kennedy versus Peggy Nash in Parkdale-High Park: the huggiest grudge match ever
Like so many ridings in the 416, Parkdale-High Park is hosting a showdown between the Liberals and the NDP while the Tories and...
City News
One hundred and eighteen days: the harrowing tale of James Loney, a Toronto man kidnapped in Iraq
Of the many humiliations James Loney suffered during his terrifying captivity in Baghdad, the worst was his kidnappers’...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
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Toronto Life
’s Best Restaurants returns for its 10th-anniversary edition on June 8
General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks
Big Stories
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!”
Deep Dives
Young and Retired: Meet the super-savers quitting work decades before the average Canadian
In the age of doomspending, these ultra-driven Torontonians give up their weekends, work multiple jobs and never, ever eat out. The upside: they’ll retire long before the rest of us
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