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Leafs fans are peeved that Phil Kessel just won back-to-back Stanley Cups—on Toronto’s dime
The Maple Leafs have paid Kessel $2.4 million to win two Cups for the Pittsburgh Penguins
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Q&A: MLSE boss Tim Leiweke on expensive Leafs tickets, his new Yorkville pad and Canadian winters
As the new president and CEO of MLSE, you’re about to become the city’s primary object of adoration or derision, depending on...
City News
Five things we learned about cocky new MLSE boss Tim Leiweke and his plans to overhaul Toronto’s sports teams
MLSE’ s new president and CEO Tim Leiweke is an accomplished sports exec who lives at the Ritz-Carlton and can out-ego Brian...
City News
Reason to Love Toronto: because Maple Leaf Gardens’ return to glory is about more than just hockey
After the Maple Leafs pulled up stakes for the Air Canada Centre in 1999, the Grand Old Lady of Carlton Street sat vacant for 10...
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City News
How the Vancouver Canucks and the Ottawa Senators could cripple the CBC
We’d bet no one—not even these guys —is watching the Stanley Cup playoffs more closely than CBC execs. Already contending...
City News
Special highway lane restrictions could cause Pan Am–demonium in 2015
We expected playing host to the second-largest multi-sport extravaganza in the world would create a few headaches, but this is...
City News
Toronto Maple Leafs GM Brian Burke returns to his youth movement
The Toronto Maple Leafs’ front office has had a busy few weeks. No, they didn’t empty the bank for coveted free agent centre...
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City News
Doug Gilmour will be one of this year’s Hall of Fame inductees; cue calls of bias from the rest of the country, self-loathing from Toronto Maple Leafs fans
Ladies and gentlemen, we give you Doug Gilmour — Stanley Cup champion (with the Calgary Flames, not the boys in blue and...
City News
G20 Aftermath: one of the largest mass arrests in Canadian history nets only a handful of charges
This Sunday marks the first anniversary of the G20 summit in Toronto, and instead of a celebratory kettle of local citizens—you...
City News
Apparently the Mastercard Centre for Hockey Excellence is a financial sinkhole
Hockey seems to be the topic of the day. First, the Vancouver Canucks get thumped by the Boston Bruins in game six of the Stanley...
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Culture
Top Chef Canada recap, episode 9: the prez
For any viewers who found the Milestones sponsorship in episode seven of Top Chef Canada unbearable, it's probably a good thing...
City News
RIP: Toronto Maple Leafs’ playoff chances (2010-2011)
Hey, it was a great while it lasted. Yesterday evening, the Toronto Maple Leafs’ late-season bid for playoff glory officially...
City News
Alberta man looks to buy the Maple Leafs—for $1,000
Darren Thompson , of Leduc, Alberta, wants to buy the Toronto Maple Leafs . It may seem like high treason for an Albertan to own...
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With the playoff race all but over for the Leafs, it’s time to get behind a real contender
The Toronto Maple Leafs pulled a pair of big victories out of their hat in their last two tilts: on Saturday night they shocked...
City News
How does Ford Nation stack up to other nations—Leafs, Colbert and Bieber?
City News
Dear Toronto Maple Leafs, nobody likes you. Here are four examples
It takes a special kind of sports team to have a bad week even when there aren’t games on the schedule. Well, it just so happens...
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City News
Tribute bonanza: Wayne Gretzky celebrates his 50th birthday
The Great One hit the big five-oh today, and news media across the country are rolling out their tributes to the kid from...
City News
Reaction Roundup: the hockey world pays tribute to former Leafs coach Pat Burns
After succumbing to cancer more than a week ago, Pat Burns , the legendary hockey coach of over 1,000 games and of the...
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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
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
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
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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