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Food & Drink
Toronto’s five best cafés
The city’s top spots for lingering over a latte and laptop 1. Rooster coffee house This out-of-the-way spot overlooking...
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Food & Drink
The Canadian Pie Company is coming to Riverdale
Confused by that tantalizing “A Pie to Remember” sign on Queen Street East near Boulton? So were we. It's there, but doesn't...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Le Rossignol, a restaurant that might kick off Queen East’s French revolution
No need to Google it; we’ll just tell you: le rossignol is French for "nightingale." It’s the name of the new Gallic...
Food & Drink
Dangerous Dan’s gross new ads capitalize on pot, universal health care
Dangerous Dan’s , Queen Street East’s unmissable hamburger joint, has never been known for moderation. It’s no...
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Real Estate News
House of the Week: $1.7 million for an eight-bedroom home in the Beach’s loveliest pocket
ADDRESS: 271 Glen Manor Drive East NEIGHBOURHOOD: The Beach AGENTS: Sue Mills and Sarah O’Neill, Royal LePage Signature Realty...
Real Estate News
Guerrilla activists hack 85 Toronto billboards, replacing ads with art
Four months after Banksy's stop in Toronto, another group of guerrilla art activists has taken to the streets—only this...
Real Estate News
Home of the week: $819,000 for brewery loft in Corktown
ADDRESS: 90 Sumach St. , Apt. 403 NEIGHBOURHOOD: Regent Park AGENT: Marc Paillé, Bosley Real Estate PRICE: $819,000 THE PLACE:...
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Today in Toronto: Beaches International Jazz Festival, Ballet Simon, Honda Indy
Beaches International Jazz Festival: Queen Street East is inundated with performances, workshops and craft booths celebrating more...
Food & Drink
The Fixe Is In: James Chatto on Lynn Crawford’s new restaurant, Ruby Watchco
At Lynn Crawford’s new restaurant, customers eat whatever she feels like cooking that day. The concept is bold and bossy, but...
Food & Drink
Just Opened: Queen Margherita Pizza
Don’t even say the L word—“ Libretto ”—to John Chetti, co-owner of Queen Margherita Pizza, Toronto's latest wood-oven...
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City News
Health Canada’s weed is mostly shwag, critics warn
Last week’s police raid on Toronto’s Cannabis As Living Medicine (CALM), eastern Canada’s oldest medical cannabis club, had...
Food & Drink
Just Opened: What Are You Looking At, an east-end bar with a west-end vibe
Israel Sanchez and Stephan Poquet looked around Leslieville and saw a neighbourhood that has plenty of places to grab a drink, but...
Style
Pier 1 to close Yonge Street location
Pier 1 Imports at Yonge and Shuter will close its doors on March 11, with the teensy Beach store at 1986 Queen Street East left to...
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Food & Drink
Lynn Crawford to take over The Citizen? Rod Bowers won’t confirm or deny
Rumours are flying that Lynn Crawford, executive chef at New York’s Four Seasons, may be returning to Toronto this year. TasteTO...
Food & Drink
Black carrots are the latest craze, Madonna hates cheese, Prohibition feud heats up
• Feuding continues at Queen Street East bar Prohibiton. Ex-manager Joey McGuirk published a letter from his lawyer on...
Food & Drink
Just Opened: Steeped and Infused
“Do you follow astrology?” says Jennifer Best the minute she greets us at her new tea shop, Steeped and Infused. “Because...
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Food & Drink
Just Opened: Ceili Cottage
“We did this totally back-asswards,” says Patrick McMurray of Ceili Cottage , the Irish pub he opened in Leslieville, and the...
Shopping
A pretty summer purse that stands out from the crowd
This velvet purse ($189) hits several trends on the head: handmade embellishment, rich colour and a casual bohemian vibe that...
Food & Drink
RIP, recession-struck restaurants
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Starfish’s Shucker Paddy brings some more Irish to the east end
Leslieville must have the luck of the Irish. The east-end neighbourhood will be home to two new Irish pubs this spring: The Roy...
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’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
Just Listed
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For Sale: 171 Durant Ave
This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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For Sale: 50 First Avenue
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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For Sale: 7 Bentley Drive
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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For Sale: 75 Queen Street
Guelph is having a moment
Just Listed
For Sale: 112 Mildenhall Rd
A rare opportunity to own a custom-built masterpiece in the heart of Lawrence Park beautifully designed by Gray Smith and Arca Design for the most discerning buyer