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Saks Fifth Avenue
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Momofuku’s pop-up at Pusateri’s in the Saks Food Hall
Including chicken katsu sandwiches, beef tartare and bing
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Shopping
Downtown Toronto’s best holiday window displays, ranked
Ranked from "Fa-la-la-la fine" to "Ho, ho, holy moly"
Style
Eight awesome umbrellas to properly protect you from all these spring showers
Stay dry out there
Shopping
The ten best Toronto store openings of 2016
Mega-retailers made their mark and local labels launched flagships for the first time
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Food & Drink
Inside Pusateri’s swanky new 25,000-square-foot food hall in Saks
It has a champagne bar, of course
Food & Drink
What’s on the menu at Leña, O&B’s new Argentine restaurant in Saks Fifth Avenue
Chef Anthony Walsh is behind the all-day menus
Style
Street Style: Sherway Gardens
What 17 west-enders wore to the mall this weekend
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Shopping
Store Guide: Saks Fifth Avenue, Toronto’s swishest new shopping destination
See inside the Eaton Centre's new 25,000-square-foot department store
Food & Drink
Introducing: O&B’s Beaumont Kitchen at Saks Fifth Avenue in Sherway Gardens
The Pickle Barrel just got itself some healthy competition
Shopping
What’s new in Toronto shopping this week
Nordstrom Rack in Yorkville, Saks Fifth Avenue at the Eaton Centre, and more of the week's best new stores and coolest pop-ups
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Style
HBC took out a very large mortgage on its Saks Fifth Avenue Manhattan flagship
—The value, in American dollars, of the 20-year mortgage taken out by Hudson's Bay Company on its Saks Fifth Avenue flagship in...
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HBC’s CEO explains why Target botched its Canadian launch—and why Saks will do better
In hindsight, maybe Target should have hired Richard Baker to oversee its foray into the Canadian marketplace. In an interview for...
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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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Style
Saks Fifth Avenue will be even more upscale when it comes to Canada
Like it or not, Toronto is becoming a haven for international luxury labels: Yorkdale just announced five new brands, including...
Shopping
Holt Renfrew is (finally) going to let us buy designer clothing online
The looming influx of American luxury retailers like Nordstrom and Saks Fifth Avenue is encouraging Canadian fashion fixture Holt...
Style
Saks is taking over the Sears plot at Sherway Gardens
Saks Fifth Avenue is continuing its Toronto invasion with another outlet slated to take over Sears 's plot at the increasingly...
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In a shocker move, the Bay sells its Queen and Yonge flagship to bring Saks downtown
Bloor Street shoppers who were pumped for Saks Fifth Avenue to re-vamp The Bay's tired Yorkville space will have to put up with...
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Saks is getting a billion-dollar makeover—just in time for its Toronto debut
Saks Fifth Avenue, a soon-to-be major player in Toronto’s flourishing department-store scene, is about to get a facelift—to...
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Saks Fifth Avenue is going to replace (and transform) The Bay at Yonge and Bloor
Watch out, Holts : another luxury department store is staking its claim on the Mink Mile. Saks Fifth Avenue —which was recently...
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Shop Talk: new stores and shopping websites from July 2013
In this edition of our monthly shopping roundup: Ferragamo’ s luxe new Yorkdale boutique, a revolving pop-up on Ossington and...
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HBC buys Saks Fifth Avenue with plans to bring the upscale chain to Canada
After weeks of negotiations and rumours of competing bids, Hudson’s Bay Company has finalized a $2.9-billion deal to buy and its...
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Hudson’s Bay Company is looking at buying Saks Fifth Avenue
In three months, HBC has promoted luxury guru Bonnie Brooks, opened Canada’s largest women’s shoe store, hinted it wants to...
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The Wedding Album: Saira & Ian’s musical affair at the Berkeley Field House
Saira & Ian | June 11, 2011 | The Berkeley Field House View their wedding album » Saira Zia, 31, and Ian Fosbery, 30, had a...
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Battle of the department store windows: wherein Lady Gaga makes Christmas about Lady Gaga
There’s so much to love about the holidays in a city: the aroma of freshly prepared seasonal drinks to get us going in the...
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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
Buy Canadian
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