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Canada’s most valuable brands include a lot of banks and two telecom rivals
Consulting firm Brand Finance Canada released its list of Canada’s top 50 brands earlier this week, and we’d bet the...
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50 Most Influential 2012: a ranking of Toronto’s top tycoons, backroom operators and supersize egos
The people driving the agenda for the city are more likely to come from outside local government than inside. This was the year...
City News
Canada’s banking boom has a downside: “shenanigans” from the big banks
Canada’s biggest banks are basking in good news lately: profits are up, as are payouts to shareholders, and (unlike their...
Real Estate News
What bubble? RBC says Toronto condo’s market won’t crash
The city’s condo boom may be keeping both Finance Minister Jim Flaherty and Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney up at night, but...
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Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 1, because boom times are back
Toronto is the rare city experiencing a construction frenzy (185 high-rises, to New York’s 80), a hiring spree (in the last...
City News
Three banks—and one surprise—on the list of Canada’s 10 best brands
Every two years, consulting firm Interbrand puts out a “Best Canadian Brands” list and the 2012 list of winners has a lot of...
City News
Editor’s Letter (June 2012): Sarah Fulford on the reasons to love Toronto
Last winter, on a week-long escape to Florida, I noticed something surprising: TD and Royal Bank signs along the highway near...
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Banks will probably stop dropping crazy amounts of cash on blockbuster deals
At a conference this week, Royal Bank of Canada CEO Gordon Nixon explained that banks are simply no longer able to spend absurd...
City News
Insurance brokers vs. banks: insurers call foul on RBC and BMO
Canada’s biggest banks seem to be the subject of a strange amount of scandal of late. This month alone, a massive lawsuit was...
City News
Former BMO adviser passed along wads of cash to a lawyer convicted of insider trading
Looks like Royal Bank isn’t the only major financial institution with a shady employee or two. A BMO Nesbitt Burns financial...
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Ex-Royal Bank advisers admit to forging client signatures—for 10 years
More shady shenanigans in connection with the Royal Bank of Canada: the Toronto Star reports that two Toronto-based investment...
City News
Tony Keller: why the obvious fix for the country’s collective pension problem is being ignored
Last fall, the Royal Bank of Canada—with $27 billion in annual revenue, $752 billion in assets and 74,000 employees, the biggest...
City News
Royal Bank plays off a major lawsuit like it’s no big deal
The way the Royal Bank of Canada is acting, you’d think the seriously massive lawsuit brought against it by a U.S. regulator is...
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High (finance) drama between Royal Bank and a U.S. regulator
A lawsuit filed yesterday against Royal Bank of Canada could make for major scandal: a U.S. regulator is accusing Canada’s...
Real Estate News
Ludicrously low rates are going up, signalling an end to the mortgage wars (maybe)
The rock-bottom mortgage rates that have characterized Canadian real estate of late are going up, which could help ease...
City News
The Loaded List: we catalogue the astronomical salaries of Toronto’s ruling class
It’s not particularly polite to ask rich people what they earn. But tact is overrated, and we wanted to know, so we asked...
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How Kent Monkman—a half-Cree illustrator from Winnipeg—sexed up the exploitation of First Nations people and conquered Toronto’s art world
Pink high heels. Heartthrob pink. These are dream shoes, shoes to break your heart. Shoes that are up to no good, shoes to dance...
City News
A collection of Toronto’s top cricket talent announced: cue corpo-political schmoozefest
Amid all the Bollywood hoopla leading up to Saturday’s International Indian Film Academy Awards , another celebration of another...
City News
Why the proposed “merger” between the TMX and the London Stock Exchange is bad news for Bay Street
One morning in late January, 1998, the Bank of Montreal CEO Matthew Barrett and Royal Bank chief John Cleghorn paid a visit to the...
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50 Reasons to Love Toronto: Nos. 45-46, RBC’s compassion and 3-D movies
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Apparently being a millionaire isn’t all it’s cracked up to be—wait, what?
The Deloitte Center for Financial Services recently released a report predicting that the number of millionaires in Canada is...
Real Estate News
Looking on the bright side: recession means GTA homes are more affordable
Some good news from the Royal Bank today: the ranks of Toronto’s house-poor may decline slightly, as homes in the GTA have...
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House prices have become the steroids of the Canadian economy
Two financial reports that came out this week confirm what everyone pretty much already knew: houses in Canada are...
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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
Big Stories
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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Food & Drink
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