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“These companies are targeting our kids”: The chair of the TDSB on its decision to sue TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat for $4.5 billion
Rachel Chernos Lin says addictive social media platforms are driving anxiety, depression and violence in the student body—and she thinks the companies behind them should pay the price
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“Couples hire me to recreate TikTok trends”: Meet a full-time wedding content creator
Vanessa Buonaguro quit her job as a civil engineer to make wedding videos inspired by social media. She charges upward of $1,500 and is being hired by couples around the world
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: How do I make my friend stop humblebragging on social media?
"My best friend is insufferable online."
City News
Did Rob Ford get his foremost online impersonator banned from Twitter?
Anyone who follows Toronto politics on Twitter has run across @TOMayorFrod , an often funny, often weirdly sincere Rob Ford parody...
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UPDATED: After being transferred to women’s prison, Avery Edison’s immigration hearing says she can go home
Yesterday morning, we reported on the immigration situation of Avery Edison , a British transgender comedian who tweeted her way...
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Ontario’s lawyers launch a PR campaign to show that they’re human
The Ontario Bar Association launched a slick ad campaign today aimed at shaking the prevailing image of lawyers as greedy...
Food & Drink
See what happens Ryan Gosling and Tim Hortons become one
Canada’s top acting brand, meet Canada’s top coffee brand. In a recent Tribute.ca interview, Ryan Gosling, who’s apparently...
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We launch our new commenting system—now comments are easier to make and conversations are better
Late last week, we launched Disqus, a discussion platform for our blog posts that will make it even easier for you to weigh in...
City News
The Maple Leafs are valuable and inefficient and have diehard fans, according to Forbes
Despite the ongoing, soul-crushing NHL lockout, Forbes magazine still published its annual look at the business of hockey this...
City News
VIDEOS: our favourite Toronto-made commercials from this year’s Cannes Lions awards
The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity is an annual pat on the back for the advertising and PR...
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Find out which city councillors are Facebook and Twitter junkies
In the spirit of both June and council report cards, Campaign School, a project from the Academy of the Impossible, evaluated city...
City News
Q&A: Daniel Debow, the tech innovator who hit the jackpot—twice
Rypple purports to bring the performance review into the social media age. Employees can receive recognition on a Facebook-style...
Food & Drink
Pop-Up Madness: A look behind Toronto’s pop-ups, dinner series and roving restaurants
Rogue chefs are making some of the city’s most creative food in restaurants that are here today, gone tomorrow On a...
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Secrets of the Secret Pickle Supper Club revealed in new documentary
The Secret Pickle Supper Club is now a lot less, well, secret, thanks to a new mini-documentary. The two-year-old club got started...
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Celebrity Watch: Margaret Atwood is officially everywhere, from Twitter to Rob Ford: The Opera and more
The recent release of Payback , a new feature documentary based on Margaret Atwood’s book of the same name, confirms it
Food & Drink
The Toronto Street Food Project seeks to cut some city hall red tape
The last year or so has seen a relative flourishing in Toronto’s once-moribund street food scene. But the barrier to entry for...
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Boy band + Twitter endorsement = teen girl pilgrimages to Lou Dawg’s for poutine and brownies
Marketers of cheese curds and gravy take note: the way to a young woman’s heart (and stomach) appears to be through her Twitter...
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Nicholas Hune-Brown: How to die on Facebook
When you’re dead, your Facebook page becomes a permanent digital gravestone, and your family and friends (and quite possibly...
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The Q&A: Why the director of the Munk School of Global Affairs Janice Gross Stein won’t be our friend on Facebook
One of the essays in your new book argues that privacy has become an endangered species. Can you explain? Threats to our privacy...
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How Deadmau5—a.k.a. DJ Joel Zimmerman—came to make $100,000 a show and have four million Facebook fans
A steady August downpour drenched Chicago’s Grant Park on the final night of the Lollapalooza music festival. The rain and the...
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My Digital Sabbath: how one writer learned to stop checking Facebook and love life offline
I can’t say specifically which fabulous new technology made me decide I needed a break from all fabulous new technologies. For...
Food & Drink
Mini Food Truck Eats today to feature El Gastrónomo Vagabundo and Francisco Alejandri of Agave y Aguacate
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NDP leader Jack Layton passes away at 61
We’re deeply saddened to learn that federal NDP leader Jack Layton lost his second battle with cancer this morning, according to...
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Can Dalton McGuinty’s bland-and-boring image withstand the increase in Internet attack campaigns?
Premier Dalton McGuinty has a personal image (as opposed to a political image) that’s about as likely to inflame passion as...
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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
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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
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?
Deep Dives
Almost
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
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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
Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: Amelia’s Market, a Geary Avenue grocer selling local goods and light lunches
Like lovely cheese plates paired with glasses of Ontario-made wine
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