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Here are some animals we met at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair
The fair continues through this weekend
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Food & Drink
Five things to do in Toronto on the weekend of November 1–3
In this edition of The Weekender, the annual Royal Agricultural fair opens, the TIFF Bell Lightbox mounts an eerie David...
Food & Drink
Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for November 5 to 11
Monday November 5 Tuesday November 6 Wednesday November 7 Thursday November 8 Friday November 9 Saturday November 10 Sunday...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: Crystal Castles, The War of the Worlds and six other events on our to-do list
1. ROYAL AGRICULTURAL WINTER FAIR Canada’s biggest horse and agriculture show celebrates 90 years of bringing the country to the...
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City News
How a small group of farmers and wealthy weekenders made the Melancthon mega-quarry protest a cause célèbre
An unexpected casualty of Toronto’s building boom is the sleepy southern Ontario township of Melancthon, where an American hedge...
Food & Drink
Running a restaurant? With TouchBistro, there’s an app for that
A Toronto-based software developer is trying to make scrawled order tickets a thing of the past with TouchBistro, an iOS app that...
Food & Drink
GALLERY: at this month’s TBD dining series, Acadia’s Matt Blondin let loose
TBD is a monthly dining series that brings some of the city’s top chefs together with one of the foodie world’s current...
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The Weekender: Don Giovanni, Literary Death Match and six other events on our to-do list
1. LITERARY DEATH MATCH TORONTO In this singularly silly lit event, four authors ( Grace O’Connell, Carolyn Black, Rebecca...
Today in Toronto: Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, Gord Downie, Rendevous With Madness Film Festival
Royal Agricultural Winter Fair Gussied-up horses may be the main attraction, but there are plenty of other weird and wonderful...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: Royal Winter Fair, Day of the Dead Festival and six other events on our to-do list
1. CAPTURE THE FLAG The suit-filled streets of the financial district get a Newmindspace make-over during this huge game of...
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City News
Tony Clement had final say on where to put federal culture money
A while back, we mentioned that the Conservative government, either to stoke its base or simply avoid embarrassing photo-ops , had...
City News
Base instincts: Are the Tories playing to their core supporters in cutting off funding to Toronto Pride?
Who can forget last summer, when then–tourism minister Diane Ablonczy , surrounded by drag queens , handed nearly half a million...
Food & Drink
Meet the “Claudia Schiffer of cows,” Canada’s $1.2-million superbovine
Popular Mechanics has provided a thorough analysis of why Missy, a P.E.I.-bred supercow alternately known as the Claudia Schiffer...
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Sarah Palin invokes God while defending meat eating, Timothy’s World Coffee sold, the $1-million cow
• Sarah Palin takes aim at vegetarians in her highly anticipated memoir, Going Rogue . The moose-hunting former governor's...
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Five reasons to hit the Royal Winter Fair
The Royal Agricultural Winter Fair starts today, and since we can only spend so much time gawking at horses and Prince Charles, we...
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Best New Restaurants
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
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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