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Reasons to Love Toronto 2014
City News
Reasons to Love Toronto 2014: our sixth annual reminder of why we love it here
Election years have a way of reminding us what we love about our city. Whatever you think of our punchline of a mayor, there’s...
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Culture
Reasons to Love Toronto 2014: #8. Because Claire Danes Is Just Another Toronto Stroller Pusher
We thought it was a mirage last fall when we saw Claire Danes and Hugh Dancy having dinner at Woodlot, basking in a beatific...
City News
Reasons to Love Toronto 2014: #20. Because a Living Room Charity is Changing the Way We Raise Our Kids
Gwen Broda, a North York nurse who had three kids close together, and a few of her friends hatched a plan this year to help new...
City News
Reasons to Love Toronto 2014: #16. Because the Walleye, Pike and Bass Are Back
If you go down to the boardwalk at the foot of Spadina on a sunny day and peer over the edge, you’ll see something that seemed...
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Culture
Reasons to Love Toronto 2014: #3. Because the City Puts On A Nightly Light Show
Over the past few years, as a forest of condos and commercial towers grew in the core, the nighttime skyline began to shimmer and...
City News
Reasons to Love Toronto 2014: #26. Because Brian Orser Finally Won Gold
Brian Orser didn’t win gold when he was a skater—he’s a two-time Olympic silver medallist—but as a coach, he’s...
Food & Drink
Reasons to Love Toronto 2014: #9. Because a Three-Block Stretch of Dundas West is Jammed with New Businesses
Four years ago, Dundas west of Gladstone to Brock was still described as “up and coming.” Now, it’s a full-fledged hipster...
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City News
Reasons to Love Toronto 2014: #4. Because We’re Mad for Ping-Pong
Like the humble ukulele, Ping-Pong was once seen as kitschy and slightly embarrassing to play but has since been embraced by young...
City News
Reasons to Love Toronto 2014: #24. Because He’s Good For One Thing: A Laugh
Culture
Reasons to Love Toronto 2014: #15. Because We Make Room For Artists
It’s ironic that Trinity Bellwoods, the city’s artsiest neighbourhood, is too expensive to accommodate artists themselves: on...
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Style
Reasons to Love Toronto 2014: #2. Because We Tattoo Our Toronto-Love
When Anthony Bennett, last year’s number one overall NBA draft pick, tweeted a picture of his tattoo—the CN Tower surrounded...
Food & Drink
Reasons to Love Toronto 2014: #22. Because Boutique Wine is at Farmers’ Markets
For all the noise around transit expansion and cancelled gas plants in the past year, Queen’s Park did us one solid: they...
Style
Reasons to Love Toronto 2014: #14. Because Coco Rocha Isn’t a Poser
The 25-year-old Toronto-born Coco Rocha has starred in dozens of campaigns for labels like Hermès, Chanel and Dior, and could...
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Reasons to Love Toronto 2014: #25. Because Queen West is Blooming
In this provenance-obsessed city, we swarm to farmers’ markets to discuss soil conditions with the people who grow our organic...
City News
Reasons to Love Toronto 2014: #18. Because Carol Wilding Had the Guts to Call Ford Out
For the last few years, Torontonians have been reluctant guests at a raucous Rob Ford house party, standing idly by in the corner...
Style
Reasons to Love Toronto 2014: #27. Because the Department Store Wars Just Got Interesting
A pair of lavish newcomers are challenging Holt Renfrew for luxury department store supremacy. Last summer, Hudson’s Bay...
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Food & Drink
Reasons to Love Toronto 2014: #11. Because Our Cheesemakers Are World Champs
Last September, when Margaret Peters of Lancaster, Ontario, was called to the stage to collect the top prize at the Global Cheese...
City News
Reasons to Love Toronto 2014: #21. Because the TFC Has a Secret Weapon
TFC’s inaugural season in 2007 was the rowdiest ticket in town. Crimson scarf sales skyrocketed, and fan clubs with elaborate...
Food & Drink
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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City News
Reasons to Love Toronto 2014: #7. Because We’re a Beacon for Gay Refugees
Toronto’s reputation for gay-friendliness has made the city a destination for LGBT refugees fleeing harassment, jail and even...
Culture
Reasons to Love Toronto 2014: #12. Because Guillaume Found Heather
Guillaume Côté and Heather Ogden so fully embody the romance of ballet that they may well have hatched from a life-size Fabergé...
City News
Reasons to Love Toronto 2014: #19. Because Katie Taylor Carries the Bank Vault’s Keys
In the realm of Canadian corporate boards, there are directorships and there are Directorships. While it’s undeniably gratifying...
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Real Estate News
Reasons to Love Toronto 2014: #13. Because Yonge and Bloor Is Getting a Radical Makeover
For as long as most of us can remember , the southeast corner of Yonge and Bloor was the site of a pus-yellow eyesore housing a...
Culture
Reasons to Love Toronto 2014: #23. Because We Raise Musical Prodigies
Coco Ma (left), 13, Leaside, piano Last fall, she was one of only 12 students chosen to study with piano phenom Lang Lang in...
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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
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
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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
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
Food & Drink
“We have over 100 cases of American wine trapped at the LCBO”: Toronto’s Grape Witches on what it’s like to run a bottle shop during a trade war
It’s not as simple as taking sides when you’re a small business
Food & Drink
Six Toronto restaurants serving up all-Canadian menus
With a trade war upon us, our city’s chefs are taking a stand