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Shopping on-line this holiday season? CB2 is now shipping to Canada
Crate and Barrel's hipper, more modern spin-off, CB2, is in the middle of opening its first Toronto store on the beleaguered Queen...
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Style
Introducing: Oliver Spencer, Queen West’s new menswear boutique
The place: British tailor turned menswear impresario Oliver Spencer has opened his first Canadian outpost (his third shop; the...
Style
Introducing: Jacob and Sebastian, where bathtime is for adults
The place: As the giant tub in the centre of the store and the glass ducks floating around the perimeter would suggest, bath...
Food & Drink
La Palette shuttering its Kensington location this weekend
When Shamez Amlani muses about this coming Sunday, it’s not without a little sentimentality. Three days from now, the restaurant...
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Culture
The National Gallery art-share program: one less reason to go to Ottawa
We've all got one less reason to go to Ottawa, thanks to a new art-sharing program that will display items from the National...
Style
Introducing: the Lomography shop, where digital cameras are so 2009
The place: Formerly the cluttered Red Indian Deco, 536 Queen Street West is now home to Lomography’s only Canadian store. First...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Drake BBQ, a simplified Southern meat-a-thon on Queen West
Just in time for the cold weather, the Drake Hotel has opened a barbecue pop-up shop in its old Scoops and Tees space. “In...
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Shopping
Sales roundup: trunk show at Holts, no tax at Due West, 20 per cent off Blu Dot and more
FASHION AND BEAUTY DUE WEST The Queen West purveyor of denim and outerwear doesn't often mark down its Canada Goose...
Today in Toronto: Hard Times, El Anatsui, Allyson Mitchell
Hard Times Puppetmongers David and Ann Powell put aside their usual family fare for this show about the shadow side of the...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Bar Salumi, an aperitif bar by the owners of Local Kitchen
Inside Queen West’s new Bar Salumi —under hanging Berkshire prosciutto, garlands of hot peppers and a wild boar’s...
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Culture
The Being Erica BS detector: Season 3, Episode 1
CBC’s hugely popular Being Erica premiered its third season Tuesday night. The good news: 1) With Lost out of the picture, BE...
Style
Introducing: Dr. Martens opens store on Queen West
The place: The 1990s are back, big time. Biggie blasts on Chum FM, Sperrys and Red Wings are cool again, plaid dominates the...
Shopping
The List: 10 things model Stacey McKenzie can’t live without
Ten things Stacey McKenzie, Toronto’s kookiest fashion model and runway coach, can’t live without Gold bangles I grew up in...
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Culture
Hipsters unite at DJ Chilly Gonzales’s Ivory Tower screening
It was like a thousand stars in the hipster sky aligned when DJ Chilly Gonzales premiered his film Ivory Tower (a tale of sibling...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: the Queen West art crawl, a cupcake bake-off and six other things to do
1. TORONTO URBAN FILM FESTIVAL TUFF isn’t as glam as TIFF, but in terms of attendees, it’s unsurpassed. For its 10-day...
Food & Drink
Toronto’s 13 new cafés: board games, Bohème and a resurrected waffle house
These days, the arrival of a new indie café on Queen West or in Leslieville is about as novel as a Gap opening in a mall, which...
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Food & Drink
War on fun: New zoning bylaw prohibits restaurants and bars located south of Bloor from having back patios
Think the one-year ban on bars and restaurants on Ossington was strict? This week, a new zoning bylaw quietly went into effect; it...
Culture
Dogtown? Toronto’s street meat glorified in new play
We understand showcasing Toronto's harmonious diversity and quirky culture through the eyes of its merchants—last May's The Tale...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Mangez, Parkdale’s new house of grilled cheese
When young entrepreneurs Paul Stavro-Beauchamp and Mike Scrimshaw set up newly opened Mangez (as in French for “eat!”), the...
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City News
Risk Assessment: a neighbourhood-by-neighbourhood guide to the safest places to buy real estate in Toronto
No neighbourhood will react the same way to a burst bubble. We talked to market watchers, economists, mortgage brokers and...
City News
“You should have left when you had a chance”: a first-person account of being detained at Queen and Spadina
A couple hours into our detainment at Queen and Spadina on Sunday, soaked and shivering, her press accreditation around her...
City News
Toronto G20 photo gallery: the eerie aftermath
Before hundreds of bystanders were corralled into a human blockade at Queen and Spadina under torrential rain, the downtown core...
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Food & Drink
Pride: a complete list of bars serving until 4 a.m.
Of all the fun associated with Pride—the parade, the wild outfits, the half-naked people littering the streets—call us...
City News
Toronto G20 photo gallery: a surreal Sunday
Yesterday, protests throughout the city remained peaceful. Security officials, however, were taking no chances, breaking up groups...
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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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As luxury buyers become increasingly focused on wellness, privacy, and long-term livability, a new generation of custom homes is emerging – one defined less by excess and more by thoughtful design
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This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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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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