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Bright star: we chat with Stratford’s new Evita
Chilina Kennedy, Stratford’s new musical leading lady, kick-starts the season with Evita , the festival’s first rock opera he...
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Real Estate News
Hotcakes and bubbles: six real estate metaphors and what they mean for Toronto’s housing market
More and more real estate trend stories appear every day. Clearly, the market is as busy as it was before the...
Food & Drink
Restaurant owners taking tips from staff—and not in a good way
The restaurant industry in Ontario struggled more during the recession than most other industries. The one-two-three punch of the...
Food & Drink
Best New Restaurants 2010
This time last year, the future looked awfully grim. We braced for restaurant closures and recessionary menus, but 2009 was...
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City News
Here’s a list of people who make lots of money. That is all
Yesterday, the Star published on their site a list of provincial employees who make more than $100,000. And by list, we mean just...
Food & Drink
Toronto’s 14 new cafés: independent coffee shops continue citywide takeover
By our count, a whopping 22 new indie cafés opened in Toronto in 2009, but it looks like 2010 will be giving the java scene an...
City News
Sign of the apocalypse #4529: CEOs think taxes should be raised
According to a Report on Business survey, a majority of Canadian executives are in favour of raising taxes. “Almost three out of...
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Real Estate News
American newspapers to Toronto’s housing market: tsk, tsk, tsk
Price bubbles are like angry sitcom spouses: by the time one thinks to ask if something is wrong, it’s already too late. By that...
Real Estate News
The Star reminds Toronto that One Bloor Street East still exists
Walking by the giant fenced-off crater at Yonge and Bloor, it’s easy to forget that, once upon a market bubble, a huge...
City News
The Ryerson revolution: how the once dumpy polytechnic is redrawing downtown
Sheldon Levy, Ryerson’s fiercely ambitious president, persuaded students, politicians and Bay Street to bankroll his big...
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Culture
AGO to lay off 37 after receiving $7.5 million from government
The Art Gallery of Ontario has continued its trend of announcing and implementing layoffs at inopportune times this week. Around...
City News
Off the Rails
Cantankerous drivers, moribund managers and spineless politicians are all to blame for the crapification of the TTC. The case for...
City News
Richard Florida, an American in Canada, predicts talent will leave the U.S. for other countries
Richard Florida is soothsaying once more. The U of T professor told BusinessWeek that American ingenuity—which is often foreign...
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City News
Forbes’ list of world’s billionaires is unsurprisingly light on Canadians
Silence last year’s symphony of miniature violins—the billionaire bubble that shrank 30 per cent during the recession is...
Style
Ask the expert: a caterer’s dos and don’ts for the big day
Arpi Magyar became a culinary star in the kitchen at Splendido, and now his catering company, Couture Cuisine and Event...
Food & Drink
Fine food + fine art = the latest recession restaurant trend
Today’s New York Times puts Toronto at the forefront of an evolving trend in restaurants: “fine dining to go with fine art."...
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Food & Drink
Batifole sticks it to the credit card companies
Fed up with credit card companies' service charges, the venerable French restaurant Batifole is asking patrons to not use their...
Shopping
Where to get good stuff cheap
The recession may be over, but Toronto's love affair with frugality is just beginning. Even the most conspicuous of...
Food & Drink
Coke-powered cellphones, nut-free airplanes, parsley’s great comeback, Beyoncé to live long
• As any student knows, Coke can provide enough energy to power one through an all-nighter. Nokia has figured this out, as...
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Food & Drink
Coffee drinkers more likely to avoid diabetes, horsemeat consumption on the decline, a $9,150 toothpick
• The effects of the recession combined with years of negative publicity have resulted in a 12 per cent decrease in the amount...
Food & Drink
How the mighty have fallen: 24 more restaurant closures
Since our last report on restaurant closures in August, the wake of the worst economic storm in decades has forced scores of...
Food & Drink
Gordon Ramsay’s new face, the sudden deluge of boneless chicken wings, how garlic became more valuable than oil
• BrewDog, a Scottish brewery known for its highly alcoholic Tokyo beer (and for its barely alcoholic Nanny State beer, brewed...
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Style
The Bay department stores might house Topshop boutiques
It's been a good year for The Bay: the once-beleaguered department chain has lured buzzy brands, including some, like Juicy...
Food & Drink
Paula Deen hit by flying ham, Moscow’s favourite vodka comes to Canada, cooking up Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood
• The ever-upbeat Paula Deen was unaware that she was in a game of catch when someone tossed a ham in her...
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’s Best Restaurants returns for its 10th-anniversary edition on June 8
General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks
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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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For Sale: 92 Arjay Crescent
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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For Sale: 171 Durant Ave
This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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For Sale: 50 First Avenue
A testament to time presiding over one of Uxbridge's most storied streetscapes, this magnificently preserved circa 1880 residence commands its prominent corner lot with the quiet confidence of a true architectural landmark
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For Sale: 7 Bentley Drive
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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