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Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #24, Galen Weston
Weston has redefined grocery shopping for the 21st century
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The 50 Most Influential People in Toronto: who really runs this city?
You know you live in interesting times when the chief of police is the most powerful person in town. What propelled Chief Blair to...
City News
Loblaw is buying Shoppers Drug Mart for $12.4 billion
Loblaw Companies announced this morning that it’s buying Shoppers Drug Mart, a high-stakes move that should help it compete with...
City News
Shoppers Drug Mart writes an awesome, dystopic response to a customer email
Shoppers Drug Mart showed this week that, like Samsung Canada and Morton’s Steakhouse, it knows how to have some fun with its...
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Culture
Current Obsession: Drake’s new Toronto-tastic video for “Started From the Bottom”
Drake was a busy guy last night. While he was attending the Grammy’s—where he picked up the Best Rap Album award for Take Care...
City News
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...
City News
A look back at the Brazilian Ball, the annual black-tie extravaganza that taught Toronto to party
During its heyday, the Brazilian Ball was where you’d find drunken CEOs and socialites in a conga line with nearly naked...
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QUOTED: Toronto retailer slams businesses (like Metro and Shoppers) that still charge for plastic bags
—Christy McMullen, manager of Summerhill Market in Rosedale, on why her store stopped charging for plastic bags when the...
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Vain Glory: a his-and-hers medicine cabinet stocked with everything you need
A his-and-hers medicine cabinet loaded for the kind of people who need more than Ivory and Crest to get through life
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...
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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...
Style
Loblaw vs. Shoppers Drug Mart: the grocer is opening more pharmacies
Back in February, Shoppers Drug Mart announced that it would expand its food offerings. Now, in an attempt to shake Shoppers'...
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The Shoppers effect: more loyalty programs for Canadian retailers
Wallets around Toronto are about to get a lot more full—not of cash, sadly (save for a few HST cheques), but of reward cards, as...
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Shoppers Drug Mart slowly turning into the urban Walmart
Shoppers Drug Mart, the ubiquitous drugstore that sells everything from frozen vegetables to cosmetics (oh, medicine, too), is...
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Shoppers Drug Mart: the new general store
Shoppers outposts are suddenly everywhere, fulfilling our late-night need for milk, organic chocolate and self-bronzer. In our...
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Shoppers Drug Mart will open at Queen and John
Last week, Urban Planet closed the doors on its massive store at 262 Queen Street West (the same building that once housed...
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Culture
In lieu of Megan Fox, a rock star shows up at Cheval
Megan Fox’ s expected arrival at Cheval last night was kept on the down low, as eTalk was the only other reporting team at the...
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Just Opened: Murale launches its first Toronto location at the Shops at Don Mills
Score another one for the Shops at Don Mills. The city’s first Murale store, Shoppers Drug Mart Corporation’s answer to...
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The Private and Independent School Directory Spring 2025
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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,
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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
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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?
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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
“There’s more attention now on shopping close to home”: How Broadfork Produce is connecting Toronto’s top chefs with Ontario farmers
And the west-end supplier is opening to the public soon
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