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Culture
A new Toronto video game pays tribute to the escaped High Park capybaras
It also includes shout-outs to Honest Ed's, the El Mocambo and Fran's Restaurant
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Real Estate News
Condo of the Week: $850,000 for a two-level unit in the Boiler Factory Lofts on Queen Street East
Address: 189 Queen Street East, Unit 2 Neighbourhood: Moss Park Agent: Erica Reddy, Royal LePage Signature Realty, Brokerage...
Real Estate News
Condo Showdown: five industrial lofts for less than $1 million
The number of so-called “hard lofts” in Toronto has ballooned since the early 2000s as developers wised up to the moneymaking...
Food & Drink
Coming Soon to Queen East: The Pink Grapefruit, a health-focused grab-and-go café
Formerly the site of a medical marijuana compassion club, 106 Queen Street East will soon be home to The Pink Grapefruit, a new...
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Food & Drink
Riverside’s Toucan Taco Bar closes—but expect a new restaurant there soon
Could Riverside’s Toucan Taco Bar, at 686 Queen Street East, be the canary in the coal mine of Toronto’s taco craze? Richard...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Bonne Journée, a new French bakery on Queen East with a Tunisian twist
For those visiting Bonne Journée, Tunisian ex-pat Hitchem Charfi’ s new French bakery on Queen Street East, it helps to know...
Food & Drink
New Reviews: Museum Tavern, Moo Milk Bar and Riverside Public House
An old-timey bar, fancified fried chicken and haute milk and cookies Museum Tavern ½ 208 Bloor St. W., 416-920-0110 Walking into...
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Real Estate News
Condomonium: $785,000 for a two-level unit with a private rooftop patio in the Beach
ADDRESS: 1842 Queen Street East, Unit 304 NEIGHBOURHOOD: The Beach AGENT: Kerri-Ann Brownlee, Bosley Real Estate PRICE: $785,000...
Food & Drink
Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for July 9 to 15
Monday, July 9 Tuesday, July 10 Wednesday, July 11 Thursday, July 12 Friday, July 13 Saturday, July 14 Sunday, July 15 Farmers’...
Food & Drink
Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for July 2 to July 8
Monday, July 2 Tuesday, July 3 Wednesday, July 4 Thursday, July 5 Friday, July 6 Saturday, July 7 Sunday, July 8 Farmers’...
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Food & Drink
Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for June 25 to July 1
Monday, June 25 Tuesday, June 26 Wednesday, June 27 Thursday, June 28 Friday, June 29 Saturday, June 30 Sunday, July 1 Farmers’...
Food & Drink
Introducing: The East Ender, Leslieville’s new spot for “stepped-up” comfort food
The landlord of 1212 Queen Street East wasn’t the only one to lose out when the owners of Tomi-Kro packed up and left; the...
Food & Drink
The Real Jerk’s new location will be a five-minute stroll from the old location
Sure, it totally sucks that The Real Jerk was booted out of its spot at 709 Queen Street East after 24 years in business. But a...
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Food & Drink
The Real Jerk’s days in its Queen Street shop are numbered (22, to be precise)
It looks like the Real Jerk’ s long, drawn-out tenancy saga is about to come to an end—the last chance to grab a roti at the...
Real Estate News
Condomonium: $3.2 million for a Queen Street East penthouse loft with its very own (very private) courtyard
ADDRESS: 43 Britain Street, Unit 200 NEIGHBOURHOOD: Moss Park AGENT: Carl Langschmidt, Royal LePage PRICE: $3,200,000 THE PLACE:...
Food & Drink
Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for April 30 to May 6
Monday, April 30 Tuesday, May 1 Wednesday, May 2 Thursday, May 3 Friday, May 4 Saturday, May 5 Sunday, May 6
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Food & Drink
Le Rossignol “moves in” with sister restaurant Le Canard Mort
Yesterday, a Chowhound thread alerted us that French eatery Le Rossignol is in real-estate limbo after a year-and-a-half in its...
Food & Drink
Real Jerk landlord seeks to overturn injunction, calls judge’s decision “astonishing”
In what’s turning into the Toronto restaurant story that just won’t die, Bill Mandelbaum, the new owner of the Queen Street...
Food & Drink
The Real Jerk wins the right to stay put (Injunction: 1; Eviction: 0)
The eviction saga that cast Real Jerk owners Ed and Lily Pottinger as Davids against Bill Mandelbaum ’ s Goliath is over (for...
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Food & Drink
Nota Bene team to open new restaurant at Queen and Church
Yesterday evening, Shinan Govani broke the news that the team behind Nota Bene Yannick Bigourdan, Franco Prevedello and chef David...
Food & Drink
The Real Jerk, Riverside’s cult favourite Jamaican restaurant, gets an eviction notice
The iconic smiling sun that’s shone down on the corner of Queen Street East and Broadview Avenue for the last 22 years is about...
Food & Drink
J. P. Challet to open Le Matin, a new French boulangerie on Queen East
Queen Street East has been steadily attracting culinary entrepreneurs for the last decade or so, but with prime spaces available...
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Real Estate News
Condomonium: $800,000 for a three-storey penthouse in the Beach
ADDRESS: 2012 Queen St. E., Suite 305 NEIGHBOURHOOD: The Beach AGENT: MaryAnne Runnalls, Chestnut Park Real Estate PRICE: $795,000...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Ruby Eats, Lynn Crawford and Cherie Stinson’s new gourmet food shop
March 2010 saw the opening of Ruby Watchco , a new Riverside venture by Restaurant Makeover duo chef Lynn Crawford and designer...
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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
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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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This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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A testament to time presiding over one of Uxbridge's most storied streetscapes, this magnificently preserved circa 1880 residence commands its prominent corner lot with the quiet confidence of a true architectural landmark
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A commanding architectural statement in prestigious Stonegate–Queensway, this newly completed custom residence by Bali Homes Group presents a refined interpretation of contemporary luxury living
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Guelph is having a moment
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