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The man who bought Toronto Life for a dollar and turned it into a multimillion-dollar media empire
Without a plan, he built a city magazine that has endured for half a century
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Culture
Two of Toronto’s favourite book festivals, Word on the Street and the International Festival of Authors, are teaming up
Two of Toronto's biggest festivals for book lovers, Word on the Street and the International Festival of Authors, are being joined...
City News
How Toronto Star editor Michael Cooke brought the stodgy newspaper back to life
Michael Cooke, the Toronto Star’ s tabloid-minded editor, is on a mission to expose the corruption and crookedness of the...
City News
Best of Fall 2012: After years of playing the reclusive literary genius, Alice Munro is back with a new collection of stories
The 81-year-old Alice Munro has been publishing short stories for nearly half a century, and she keeps getting better, sharpening...
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City News
The A.V. Club Toronto is shutting down
Torontoist is reporting that the Toronto-centric edition of the A.V. Club, the Onion’ s arts and culture publication, will shut...
City News
Jesse Brown: Why the latest multi-purpose e-readers are great for everything but reading books
The smell of an old book. The heft of a thick novel. The sensation of turning the last page of a ripping yarn with a freshly...
City News
Did the Kardashians steal the idea for their magazine from a Toronto company?
After Fashionista broke the story that the Kardashians were receiving pitches for their potential magazine from Toronto-based...
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City News
Why three prominent Chinese-Canadian writers launched a $10-million plagiarism suit against Ling Zhang
A tale of death threats, tarnished reputations and literary jealousy The streets near Scarborough’s Confederation Park curve and...
Culture
The Flying Dragon Bookshop bites the dust
It’s no secret that the last few years haven’t been kind to the local ink-and-paper publishing industry. We’ve said goodbye...
City News
School librarians are an endangered species outside of Toronto—but should we care?
The number of librarians across Ontario is on the decline. According to a new study by People for Education , 80 per cent of the...
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City News
In his first novel, The Free World, David Bezmozgis finds beauty in a layover from hell
David Bezmozgis’s debut, the 2004 collection Natasha and Other Stories , was an unlikely success, given its targeted subject:...
City News
What are the chances that Toronto’s newspapers will go all digital?
News came out on Friday that the Montreal daily La Presse has a plan to embrace the Internet era with gusto: according to reports...
Shopping
The Thing: a gorgeous book that begs to be judged by its cover
Authentic, old-fashioned, bespoke, handcrafted—these are the buzzwords on which the book industry is staking its future...
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Culture
Harlequin wants to patent “the kiss”—whatever that means
Harlequin Enterprises, part of Torstar Corp., dominates the romance fiction market, publishing inspired titles such as Mail Order...
City News
With two new products, can Rupert Murdoch and Amazon save news from the Internet?
We’re well past the dark years of 2008-09 when it seemed like newspapers and magazines were an endangered species, but the...
City News
A passage to India: how Shilpi Somaya Gowda’s Secret Daughter became an unlikely best-seller
Secret Daughter , a debut novel by an untested author, went supernova after just four days on the shelves at Costco t’s amazing...
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Culture
New Ondaatje novel confirmed for this summer, billed as “most thrilling and moving” ever
Publisher McClelland and Stewart has confirmed what the Canadian literati were already buzzing about: Michael Ondaatje ’s new...
Culture
Chapters-Indigo versus Canadian publishers: a battle looms over the fate of CanLit
The publishing industry in this country has long maintained a precarious equilibrium thanks to a bewildering but effective set of...
City News
Munsch’s monsters: getting to know the real Robert Munsch
Now that Canada’s most famous children’s author has confessed to being a booze- and coke-addicted obsessive-compulsive with...
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Culture
The Being Erica BS Detector: Season 3, Episode 12
So there we were, basking in the afterglow of Ma and Pa Strange belting out Buffy Saint Marie on karaoke (we knew we were in for a...
City News
Is Canada’s high-low culture war a figment of John Doyle’s imagination?
For the second day in a row, the Globe and Mail 's television columnist, John Doyle, is boldly claiming there is a culture war...
Culture
Public denied award-winning book by territorial East Coast publisher
She's been a Giller winner for all of 36 hours, but already Johanna Skibsrud is at the centre of a controversy that has all of...
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Culture
Johanna Skibsrud wins Giller Prize, jaws drop
It was to the sound of numerous jaws hitting the floor that author Johanna Skibsrud was awarded the Scotiabank Giller Prize last...
Culture
Power to the people! Readers decide setting and title of new Robert Munsch book
In today's interactive crowd-sourced world, it would seem that nothing is sacred, not even something as wholesome as a children's...
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Food & Drink
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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Deep Dives
Sex worker and
Anora
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Food & Drink
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
Deep Dives
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
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Food & Drink
An all-Canadian wine festival is coming to Fort York
Elbows Up aims to make it easier (and cheaper) to buy Canadian-made bottles
Food & Drink
This Toronto Italian restaurant is launching a pasta tasting menu made with all-Canadian ingredients
It’s Amano Trattoria’s elbows-up moment
City News
A high-tech greenhouse in King City is sticking it to Trump’s tariffs
How to reduce our reliance on American farmers? Rely on robot ones instead
Food & Drink
“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