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Toronto Life
’s most-read Q&As of 2024
Including conversations with a cottage country guru, Toronto’s Swiftie army, the city’s traffic czar and the legendary Vince Carter
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Our top Q&As, memoirs, packages and restaurant openings
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Wait: Did Taylor Swift
really
visit a Toronto dive bar?
An investigative report
City News
The best moments from Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour in Toronto
Including next-level fan fashion, custom cocktails and friendship bracelets galore
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City News
“Luckily we didn’t have to remortgage our homes”: Meet the Swifties who attended the first night of the Eras Tour
Tickets have been secured, costumes have been DIYed and Taylor Swift is, at long last, in the building
City News
“I do a song-for-song rendition of the Eras Tour in drag”: Meet Tay BoBo, Toronto’s Taylor Swift impersonator
It’s Taylor Swift, drag queen version
City News
“People aren’t listening to that little voice that tells them to walk away”: A TPS fraud cop on the rise of Taylor Swift ticket scams
Thousands of people are clamouring for last-minute tickets to the Eras Tour, and many are getting scammed. Here, the head of the Toronto Police Service's new fraud unit breaks down how Swifties are being swindled
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“My world tour doesn’t feel complete without a Toronto show”: This Swiftie has spent over $5,200 on the Eras Tour
Expenses include: a pre-concert blowout, a DIY replica of Taylor Swift’s beaded bodysuit and two round trips to Europe
Food & Drink
Where Taylor Swift fans can eat in Toronto during the Eras Tour
Ten song-inspired bars, cafés and restaurants within walking distance of the Rogers Centre
Culture
What to see, do, read and hear in Toronto this November
A pop superstar comes to town, a new production of a classic ballet, a Haida artist’s latest series and more
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City News
The Eras Tour Effect: A dollar-by-dollar breakdown of Taylor Swift fervour in Toronto
Including $121,000 luxury-suite tickets and a $1,000 private performance by the city’s top Swift impersonator
City News
“I hope my students will exchange friendship bracelets”: This professor is bringing a Taylor Swift course to Queen’s law school
Mohamed Khimji breaks down how the superstar has transformed entertainment law, why even Swift’s haters should study her influence and what songs he’ll be playing in class
City News
“This doesn’t only affect Taylor Swift”: An AI and legal expert on the fight against deepfake pornography
Julie MacDonell breaks down the Toronto connection to the Swift deepfake saga, how the superstar could sue the images’ creators, and why new technologies are putting women and girls at risk
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Culture
“Swifties have been buying up everything”: Meet the Toronto designer who sourced Taylor Swift’s vintage Chiefs sweatshirt
Ellie Mae Waters talks about dressing the biggest celebrity in the world and fan theories that the now-famous sweater carried a secret message
Culture
Eighteen stunning celebrity photos by George Pimentel, Toronto’s resident Hollywood photographer
Over 30 years, he’s captured almost every imaginable A-lister—including Taylor Swift, Jennifer Aniston, Beyoncé, Adam Sandler and Sandra Bullock
Life
A 24-year-old woman gets revenge on a Tinder date who ghosted her
"He had become a devout Jehovah's Witness and couldn't talk to me because I had become 'too tempting'"
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Culture
Taylor Swift’s new single has a surprising Toronto connection
Is the track's Peaches sample a subtle jab at Katy Perry?
Culture
The 10 best Choir! Choir! Choir! videos
From Justin Bieber's "Sorry" to "Hallelujah" with Rufus Wainwright
Culture
A Taylor Swift dance party, a play with Rupert Everett and nine other things to do this week
What to do in Toronto during the week of March 21
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Two nights of Taylor Swift, a film fest for foodies and six other things to do this week
What to do in Toronto during the week of September 28
Culture
TIFF GIF: Taylor Swift barely moves; fans go wild
Taylor Swift put her shocked awards-show face to good use on the One Chance red carpet earlier this week. The songstress got a...
Culture
TIFF Party: Julia Roberts, Ewan McGregor and Taylor Swift pile into a photo booth at the August: Osage County shindig
If there were one TIFF party to trump all the others, it makes sense that Harvey Weinstein would be attached to it. The bash for...
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TIFF Red Carpet: Taylor Swift turns the premiere for One Chance into a zoo
Nobody can turn a premiere into a zoo quite like Taylor Swift . The graceful songstress floated down the red carpet at the...
Culture
Taylor Swift is coming to TIFF 2013
There may not be any red lipstick left in Toronto after Taylor Swift comes through for this year’s film fest. That’s...
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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
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