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Q&A: Eileen de Villa, Toronto’s medical officer of health, on dealing with Doug Ford’s cuts
Measles is back, anti-vaxxers are on the march, but she’s still optimistic
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Toronto Public Health takes a stand against Jenny McCarthy
Toronto’s public health department is all riled up over The View's decision to hire former Playmate and anti-vaccination...
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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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City hall budget warfare, round two: blanket freeze edition
Last year’s painful budget deliberations may still feel fresh, but it’s already time to start examining the 2013...
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Food & Drink
Totally Recalled: still more dried basil (including some from Kensington Market shops)
The products: unbranded basil from Toronto Cash and Carry (100 g) at 1405 Gerald St., House of Spice (50 g, 100 g, 200 g) at 190...
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A preview of the Toronto Carretilla Initiative, Luminato’s roving cooking-meets-participatory-art project
The Toronto Carretilla Initiative is a free contemporary participatory art project that brings together for the first time the...
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A report recommends three safe-injection sites in Toronto, but the province doesn’t agree
Researchers from St. Michael’s Hospital and the University of Toronto took four years to produce a hefty report on safe...
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Totally Recalled: ground beef that’s contaminated with salmonella (not the E. coli of yestermonth)
The product: Intercity Packers Ltd. Beef Burger Meat Mix 80/20 The UPC: 90066172180172 Lot code: 046 Establishment number: 503 The...
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One way to get farm-fresh eggs: become your neighbourhood’s egg kingpin
Alysa Golden knew what kind of eggs she was looking for—cruelty- and hormone-free—but she wasn’t having much luck finding...
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Totally Recalled: Another day, another E. coli warning
The products: Ground Beef—Fresh (9.07 kg package) and Country Fried Style Breaded Beef Steak Chopped and Formed (3.90 kg...
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Totally Recalled: more potentially contaminated burgers, this time sold, ahem, as Best Value
The product: Best Value–brand 10 Beef Burgers and 20 Beef Burgers The UPCs: 0 71212 88103 8 and 0 71212 88104 5, respectively...
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Doug Holyday has no problem with service cuts—except for services he likes
Apparently, fiscally conservative councillor Doug Holyday doesn’t quite get the concept of a double standard. He’s all for...
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Next year could see the return of chickens to Toronto’s backyards after a 29-year hiatus
An end to Toronto’s backyard chicken prohibition could be in sight, depending on the contents of a city staff report expected...
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Philip Preville: Why the city should start killing raccoons (kindly, of course)
Raccoons are everywhere, and at all times of the day. They’re a menace to private property and public health. It’s time we...
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Denzil Minnan-Wong now serving as bean counter–in–chief and lead gravy hunter for the Rob Ford administration
Thanks to a freedom of information query put forward by Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong, who requested “the 25 highest mileage...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Hardys, the second southern barbecue joint to grace St. Clair West
Back in May, we reported on an upcoming barbecue joint, Hardys: A Hogtown Brasserie (its name a riff on Toronto’s pig-farming...
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Rob Ford learns to say yes to gravy by saying no to bedbugs (and yes, for now, to nurses)
Toronto’s on-again, off-again relationship with public health nurses is now back on again, as the city’s budget committee...
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Four workers at Ki, the Bay Street sushi standby, come down with the mumps
Ki , best known as the go-to sushi joint for suits in the Financial District, became famous this weekend for something only...
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Rob Ford says no to (free!) nurses, once again turning down (free!) provincial dollars for health
A pattern appears to be forming when it comes to Rob Ford and public health resources: first, the province offers the city...
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Cracking down: authorities trace ungraded eggs that showed up in six Scarborough food shops
Over the weekend, the Star reported that at least six Scarborough food stores, along with a few in York Region, have been charged...
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Ontario commits $5 million to war on bedbugs
We’re sure it has nothing to do with it being an election year in which Toronto’s vote- and bedbug-rich ridings will be a...
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Rob Ford introduces his first budget. Here are the highlights and lowlights
As we’ve already mentioned , Rob Ford introduced his budget at a morning press conference. There will be arguments aplenty over...
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Books, bedbugs and cops all line up for more money from his Fordship
The Toronto Public Library board meetings are not typically hot events. Except for last night, when the room was packed to...
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Passing the bok bok bok: Etobicoke restaurant accidentally serves chicken head
This is one of those stories that wouldn't have made the news at Dundas and Spadina, but because it happened to a visitor from...
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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
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
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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“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
Deep Dives
Brave New Year: The ultimate try-anything-once bucket list for 2025
For inspiration on wonderful, wild and even some slightly reckless experiences to enjoy in the year ahead
Deep Dives
The stars of the PWHL’s Toronto Sceptres on finally having a league of their own
After kicking off a new chapter for hockey with the PWHL, Natalie Spooner, Sarah Nurse and Blayre Turnbull are blazing a trail for women in sports
Deep Dives
The 50 Most Influential Torontonians of 2024
Our annual ranking of the people whose courage, smarts and clout are changing the world as we know it
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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
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These Ontario-made booze collaborations are coming to a restaurant near you
Toronto bars and restaurants are partnering with their favourite distillers, winemakers and brewers to produce custom-made drinks. Here, nine crushable new concoctions
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“We have over 100 cases of American wine trapped at the LCBO”: Toronto’s Grape Witches on what it’s like to run a bottle shop during a trade war
It’s not as simple as taking sides when you’re a small business