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Slide show: Toronto’s anti-G20 riot
What started as a peaceful protest at Queen's Park, with about 10,000 participants, became a riot as a small group of violent...
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City News
All hell breaks loose during G20 protest at Queen and Spadina; TTC finally has reason for late streetcars
News is trickling in via Twitter and TV that a flare set off at Spadina and Queen West has shut down traffic, including all TTC...
City News
50 Reasons to Love Toronto
While the Great Recession battered other cities, Toronto has emerged triumphant—Bay Street is bullish, our real estate market is...
Food & Drink
Just Opened: Parts and Labour, Parkdale’s new bar-club-restaurant-art gallery-wine bar
For many residents of Parkdale, the opening of Parts and Labour at the Roncy end of Queen West means one of two things: here’s a...
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Sydney’s to relocate after Queen West fire
An apartment fire on Queen Street West at Manning at the end of May caused about $600,000 in damage, affecting four shops in the...
Food & Drink
Torito’s former chef sets up roast chicken restaurant in Igor Kenk’s old bike shack
One has to wonder how Igor Kenk would feel knowing his old Queen West cycle clinic is about to be replaced by something even...
Shopping
Slippery sole: bathing shoes stylish enough for the sidewalk
Robber, one of our favourite little Queen West boutiques, has just received a limited supply of these super cute bathing shoes...
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City News
Never there: the adventures of our errant councillors
It might seem that our city councillors would get into less trouble if they'd just stop showing up at work. At least then they...
Food & Drink
Just Opened: La Palette, Queen West edition
The new outpost of La Palette on Queen West has much in common with the Kensington Market original: a nearly identically sized...
Food & Drink
The scoop on the Drake Hotel’s new ice cream shop
Heavenly hot days—like today, in fact—are great days to be a Torontonian, if only because we have some of the best ice cream...
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City News
Will Munro, 1975-2010
Will Munro , the Toronto-based artist who helped redefine what “queer” meant in Toronto, passed away on Friday morning of...
Style
Four shops on Queen West damaged by fire
A fire on Queen Street West at Manning last night caused $600,000 in damage, left three people homeless and damaged four shops...
City News
The List: Brendan Canning’s favourite things
Broken Social Scene’s long-awaited fourth album is out, and their annual Island concert is this month. Here, 10 things the...
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Food & Drink
Local Kitchen to expand eastward with Bar Salumi, an “aperitif bar”
Fabio Bondi and Michael Sangregorio , the guys behind the Parkdale hot spot Local Kitchen and Wine Bar , are slowly taking over...
City News
Hipsters cheer, cruisers jeer: G20 protest area moved from Trinity Bellwoods to Queen’s Park
Ironic picnics and post-brunch strolls will continue without disruption as cops issue a press release today about moving the...
Food & Drink
Former governor general now shilling olive oil
Who knew Adrienne Clarkson is a farmer? The former governor general and her husband, John Ralston Saul, produce olive oil on their...
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Culture
Toronto’s east vs. west debate fuelled by iPad-toting Star reporter
For those who believe the hype, the iPad is capable of doing just about anything. Well, it can’t make phone calls, but...
Food & Drink
The Rebirth of Booze
At the hottest restaurants, cocktails are as sophisticated as the food. Bartenders are playing with liquid nitrogen, concocting...
City News
Toronto’s Art Battle takes a page from the reality TV playbook
In an attempt to fill the reality arts entertainment void left by Canadian Idol, Toronto’s Art Battle pits would-be Picassos...
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Food & Drink
Just Opened: Atlantic, where Nathan Isberg goes from Coca to crickets
There are two things that chef Nathan Isberg kept in mind when opening his new restaurant: he wanted to do it without investors...
Culture
Kardinal Offishall doesn’t hate Drake, he just doesn’t want to talk about him
Kardinal Offishall, once Toronto’s ambassador to the world of hip hop with his 2001 single "BaKardi Slang," wherein he...
Food & Drink
Next target in city’s war on fun: West Queen West
There was the moratorium on new restaurants on Ossington, the end of community pizza nights at Christie Pits and the brouhaha over...
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Food & Drink
More details about La Palette’s new Queen West location
As we reported last week, Kensington Market’s La Palette is opening a new location on Queen West. After a chat with owner Shamez...
Food & Drink
Three restaurant expansions offer some optimism for Toronto’s restaurant industry
After two years of restaurant death watches, it seems like 2010 is going to be a time of cautious expansion in Toronto's...
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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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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?
Deep Dives
Almost
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
Deep Dives
“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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Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: Amelia’s Market, a Geary Avenue grocer selling local goods and light lunches
Like lovely cheese plates paired with glasses of Ontario-made wine
Food & Drink
“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
Food & Drink
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