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There’s going to be a marijuana scavenger hunt in High Park, apparently
A marijuana scavenger hunt in one of Toronto's biggest and busiest parks sounds like (and may very well be) a terrible idea, but a...
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Toronto’s African Fashion Week returns this August
Fans of African-inspired trends this season (think: statement chokers, bold prints and colourful headpieces) may be interested in...
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Why can’t Yorkville keep its trees alive?
Of all neighbourhoods in Toronto, one would think Yorkville would have the means to keep a few sidewalk trees fed and happy, but...
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TDSB is spending $700,000 to fix a security breach it created all by itself
In the bitterly ironic world of Toronto District School Board politics, even a newspaper investigation into wasteful spending...
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Preview: a politically charged fashion exhibit from the Design Exchange and Jeanne Beker
Come September, visitors to the Design Exchange will be able to check out Politics of Fashion, an exhibit featuring 200 of...
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SLIDESHOW: Yorkville and Church Street dress up for WorldPride
The WorldPride parade is on Sunday, and seemingly no business or institution near the marching route wants to be seen as aloof...
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Ten couples, ten stories: portraits from a WorldPride mass wedding
To celebrate WorldPride , over one hundred LGBTQ couples gathered at the fairytale-like Casa Loma on Thursday to tie the knot in a...
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SLIDESHOW: The
Toronto Star
gives a century’s worth of photos to Toronto Public Library
During a press event this morning, Toronto Public Library announced that the Toronto Star has donated its entire archive of...
City News
Even pandas couldn’t help the Toronto Zoo last winter
—Total attendance at the Toronto Zoo during the first four months of 2014, according to a new report . That's a loss of 9,049...
City News
Sad condom news: Toronto’s city-branded prophylactics won’t be handed out at Pride events
Toronto Public Health's WorldPride –themed condoms are things of beauty. Unfortunately, according to the Star , there's one...
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Island ferry riders will be able to buy tickets online, just in time for fall
No city project is too small to blow its deadline, and nobody knows that better than the people in charge of the effort to...
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The “Hidden Cash Toronto” guy is actually two guys
So, it turns out that Hidden Cash Toronto , is not, in fact, guerrilla marketing for a soft drink or something. The Twitter-based...
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The Sam the Record Man sign may finally have a new home
Sam the Record Man 's famous neon sign may finally be returning to the downtown Yonge area. After more than five years of trying...
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Jilly’s is officially closing next month, and there will be drink specials
Exciting alcohol news, everybody: before shutting down permanently so that a developer can have its way with its building, Jilly's...
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Toronto’s city-branded condoms are here, and they’re amazing
Ahead of this month's WorldPride celebrations, Toronto Public Health is making good on its promise to release a batch of...
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Behold: the Toronto Police Service press release of the decade
Let this be a lesson to all library-goers: keep your phallic vegetables to yourself. Here's a mugshot of the alleged perp, from...
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One of Toronto’s two potential cat cafés is having a preview pop-up in the Annex
Some people will be enclosing 10 cats in a room this weekend, and you're invited to check it out. Pet Me Meow, one of the two...
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Survey says: most Canadians think selling sex should be legal
—Percentage of respondents to a Department of Justice online survey who answered "no" when asked whether selling sexual services...
City News
“Hidden Cash” is now happening in Toronto
About a week and a half ago, an anonymous person in San Francisco started tweeting clues to the locations of hidden envelopes of...
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A men’s rights group tried and failed at stealthily holding a concert on the Toronto Islands
Men's rights groups have become internet pariahs , thanks in large part to their unfailingly tone-deaf approach to redressing what...
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Yorkville residents say a heritage coach house will “destroy” their neighbourhood
In the annals of Toronto NIMBYism, this one is destined to become a classic. In a clever inversion of the usual script (wherein...
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A judge settled a dog-poop dispute between two Forest Hill couples in the most sarcastic way possible
Only in Forest Hill could a dispute over dog poop escalate into a lawsuit. Fortunately for all of us, Justice E.M. Morgan , who...
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Six buildings worth seeing at Doors Open Toronto 2014
Doors Open Toronto is back on May 24 and 25, and this year's edition of the annual festival of socially acceptable snooping is...
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It’s too risky to tell Torontonians about all the dangerous stuff moving through Toronto by rail, say rail carriers
One of the things the Star excels at is calling out companies and public agencies that use "security" as a catch-all excuse for...
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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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Deep Dives
Sex worker and
Anora
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Food & Drink
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
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
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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
Food & Drink
This Toronto Italian restaurant is launching a pasta tasting menu made with all-Canadian ingredients
It’s Amano Trattoria’s elbows-up moment
City News
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
Food & Drink
“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