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Food & Drink
Poutine makes the list of “nine weirdest food festival dishes”
We thought that since poutine had established a foothold as far away as New York City that it was slowly shaking its status as a...
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Food & Drink
Joys of summer: hanging out with chef Tyler Florence at the Jays game
The summer may be over, but we couldn’t pass up an opportunity to watch a Jays game with chef Tyler Florence in the coveted 400...
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...
Culture
Canada overload at the TIFF official opening party
Remember the Canadian content of the opening ceremony of the Vancouver Olympics? That was nothing compared to the scene at the...
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Food & Drink
Best of the City 2010: 14 picks for the top food in Toronto
Korean feast Owl of Minerva 700 Bloor St. W., 416-538-3030 The trendy Asian cuisine of the moment is at its most authentic when...
City News
Huffington Post notes Canada’s existence, job numbers
In a post voiced somewhere between a zoo plaque for children and a swindling travel brochure, U.S. news site HuffPo tells its...
Food & Drink
Canada escapes the haters’ list of the world’s worst food
When it comes to gastronomical atrocities, it seems bangers and mash and sauerkraut are more poorly regarded than poutine and...
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Food & Drink
“Worst beverage in America” available at Tim Hortons
Just as Canadians were congratulating themselves on their nation-wide health consciousness for rejecting the allure of the Double...
Food & Drink
The (Long) Weekender: Smoke’s poutine-eating contest, Conan O’Brien’s show and six other things to do this May 24
1. HARBOURKIDS CIRCUS Rather than allowing the house to become a three-ring circus with everyone home for the long weekend, head...
Food & Drink
Is poutine Canada’s national food? Two arguments for, two against
When legendary U.S. journalist and food writer Calvin Trillin finally got around to trying poutine last year, he deemed it...
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Food & Drink
Poutine-eating contest at TFC game means Toronto might win something at TFC game
We remember how good we felt when Joe Carter knocked that winning home run out of the SkyDome and won us a back-to-back World...
Food & Drink
Seven standout food deals for Easter and Passover
Whether you celebrate the slaves’ escape from Egypt, the resurrection of Christ or the annual arrival of Cadbury eggs, these...
Food & Drink
Five food trends we have a love-hate relationship with
Every year, Toronto Life's April edition names the current food and restaurant trends we love, hate and those with which we have a...
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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...
Style
Americans win Olympic mittens by perpetuating Canadian stereotypes
Today’s Olympic Mitten Update comes in the form of an on-line contest in which readers submit what they know about Canada in an...
Food & Drink
An American’s guide to Canadian food: baffled Yanks panic over what nibbles to serve at their Olympic parties
With little more than a week until the 2010 winter games, Americans are apparently stressing out over what to serve at their...
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Canadian cuisine considered legitimate now that it’s appeared on ABC News
In the rare moments when Americans consider Canadians, do they still think of self-conscious, snowmobile-riding, backwoods-living...
Food & Drink
Ten worst dining trends, wine corrodes teeth, recession takes its toll on Halloween
• The recession has claimed yet another victim: Halloween candy. A new U.S. survey has found that the recession will mean less...
Food & Drink
Cuban festival turns Queen Street into Castro Street—sort of
This weekend, West Queen West goes Cubano with the second annual Havana Cultura Festival. There will be music, cigar rolling...
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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...
Culture
Queen Street poutine emporium becomes hub of drunken revellers, grease and Canadian talent
We hear that Poutini's has been a Canadian celeb hotspot of sorts since TIFF started. Carlo Rota , of Little Mosque on the Prairie...
Food & Drink
At 4 a.m., there is only one true TIFF star: poutine
Who is the biggest star draw this TIFF? The ladies and gays might be inclined to say George Clooney or Matt Damon , whereas the...
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Food & Drink
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...
Food & Drink
Corey Mintz’s review of Café du Lac sparks Twitter drama
It’s was a tad more intriguing than the typical Twitter fight when several fake Corey Mintz accounts were created this week...
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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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