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Reasons to Love Toronto Now: because we can rent chickens
The bucolic Stoddart Family Farm in Kawartha Lakes raises hens destined for city living. They’ve partnered with Rent the...
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Reasons to Love Toronto 2014: #28. Because a Mobile Veg Stand Delivers Fresh Yuca to the Inner Suburbs
This spring, a former Wheel-Trans bus retrofitted with produce shelves began appearing in the parking lots of Lawrence...
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Today in heartbreaking nutritional stats: a 2,200-calorie submarine sandwich
Thanks to various nutrition-minded Toronto journalists, it's become difficult to pretend that a simple bowl of pork-belly ramen is...
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VIDEO: New factual ad depicts horrifying alternate universe where you can buy beer in convenience stores
Yesterday, Ontario Beer Facts —presumably an independently operated special interested group with no corporate tethering...
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Toronto could get a cat café (but possibly without food, and only six cats)
Toronto's cat-loving community can (cautiously) rejoice. A woman named Jen Morozowich, who works in marketing but fosters cats in...
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For tomorrow only, you can pour 7-Eleven slushies into any receptacle you desire (well, almost any)
Cups are the worst! Sure, they facilitate drinking in an ordinary, unhampered manner, but otherwise they’re a total...
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See inside the Gladstone Hotel’s food-themed room designed by Bob Blumer
Food Network Canada host (and self-professed “gastronaut”) Bob Blumer has designed the ultimate foodie hideaway for the...
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Here’s what was on the menu at the King Edward Hotel in 1905
Steak au poivre with mushrooms, asparagus and potatoes at the King Edward Hotel ’s Consort Bar will run you $36 before tip and...
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Popular Yorkville bistro Sorrel’s building caught fire this morning
Here’s a sad update for midtowners who’ve been puzzling over the clouds of black smoke currently hovering above Yorkville. The...
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A new trademark makes it illegal to sell fake Cronuts™
Cronut inventor Dominique Ansel has finally earned the legal right to stop shifty imposters from profiting off the notoriety of...
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Richtree at the Eaton Centre is officially a labour-law violator
Here’s a tale of potentially shady restaurant employers getting their comeuppance. The Star reports that on January...
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Sriracha sauce will be back on supermarket shelves by late January
The heat-seeking public can relax—at least for now. A spokesman from Huy Fong Foods, the company that produces Sriracha, told...
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Those organic groceries you’re splurging on? They could be covered in pesticides
Bad news for anyone who thinks eating organic means they’re not ingesting weedkillers and other potentially toxic...
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UPDATE: Where to get free grocery-store gift cards for those who lost food during the ice storm
Here’s some news you can use if you were without power for several days and the inside of your fridge looks like an abandoned...
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The Politics of Cheese: you may pay more for delivery pizza in 2014
Unbeknownst to most Canadians, there’s been a quiet war brewing in this country over the price of pizza cheese. On one...
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Re-Introducing: Loblaws on St. Clair West, which now has a sushi bar, a dedicated cupcake wall and a dry-aged beef locker
Name: Loblaws Contact Info: 396 St. Clair Ave. W., loblaws.ca, @loblawsON Neighbourhood: Casa Loma Owner: Loblaws Companies...
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ALERT: The international Sriracha supply has been put on hold for 30 days
Sriracha producer Huy Fong Foods just can’t get a break. The embattled company, already under orders from an L.A. county court...
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Superb news for 2014: groceries will probably cost less
Next year may be a thrifty one for Canadian shoppers. The 2014 Food Price Index, an annual report from a team of economic...
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Crack burgers, meltdown sandwiches and other menu items inspired by the mayor
The silver lining, perhaps, to Toronto’s seedy mayoral scandal: the outpouring of inventive—or at least amusing—creative...
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Quoted: a Time magazine editor on why female chefs don’t qualify as gods of food
— Time section editor Howard Chua-Eoan on why no female chefs made the magazine’s controversial list of the world’s key...
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UPDATED: The FDA says your spices may be laced with salmonella and mouse poo
Some troubling news for pretty much anyone who eats food: according to a recent report from the American Food and Drug...
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Attention cheese lovers: the top three cheese-related perks of the EU, Canada free trade deal
Canada’s free trade agreement with the EU means big things for cheese. The historic deal, finalized just this morning, doubles...
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The best cheese on the planet is made here in Ontario
It’s been a killer autumn for cheese lovers. Earlier this week, news broke of a tentative deal with the EU that could see...
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30,000 tonnes of European cheese could be coming to Canada
After years of negotiation, Canada appears to be just days away from signing a new trade deal with the European Union that is...
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Canada Day Bar Cart: Summer sips
Make the most of this momentous occasion with these easy sippers, including wines, brews, spirits and low-alcohol bevs
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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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Sex worker and
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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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An all-Canadian wine festival is coming to Fort York
Elbows Up aims to make it easier (and cheaper) to buy Canadian-made bottles
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This Toronto Italian restaurant is launching a pasta tasting menu made with all-Canadian ingredients
It’s Amano Trattoria’s elbows-up moment
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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
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“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