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Heel thyself in the season’s hottest new booties
This season’s statement heels are literally that: austere black booties that let their mirrored, metallic, sculptural platforms do the talking
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Street Style: NBA wives shop for designer gear at Hudson’s Bay
See swanky looks from people like
Real Housewives of Potomac
star Charisse Jordan
Style
A look at Kendall and Kylie’s new kollaboration with Topshop
The party-appropriate looks hit shelves December 7
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Home Outfitters is out, Hudson’s Bay Home is in
According to Retail Insider , HBC has decided to turn all Home Outfitters locations into Hudson's Bay Home, merging the...
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Say Yes To The Dress
is coming to Canada (but it won’t be filmed at Kleinfeld)
With all the buzz surrounding Kleinfeld' s grand opening at the Bay earlier this year, it seemed like only a matter of time before...
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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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Save the date: Kleinfeld Bridal to open in Hudson’s Bay on May 1st
Toronto’s dress-deprived brides-to-be can rejoice: according to Retail Insider, New York wedding gown giant Kleinfeld Bridal...
City News
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...
Style
Brika—a curated, Toronto-based version of Etsy—opens a pop-up at Hudson’s Bay
Even the most ardent advocate of handmade goods sometimes gets overwhelmed by the dizzying realm of Etsy. Enter Brika...
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Shopping
The Find: sneakers for showing off your Canadian pride
With the Canadian tuxedo now earning serious style cred, it was only a matter of time before some appropriately patriotic shoes...
Shopping
Teeming crowds and designer discounts at Toronto’s newest and biggest outlet mall
Toronto Premium Outlets, the gleaming new outlet mall in Halton Hills, has the same global brands, low-slung architecture and...
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Hudson’s Bay opens the largest women’s shoe store in Canada at its Queen Street flagship
HBC president Bonnie Brooks has brought a couture boutique, a new logo and several buzzy partnerships to Hudson’s Bay since...
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Is Hudson’s Bay nearing a deal to bring Uniqlo to Canada?
Hudson’s Bay CEO Richard Baker dropped a cagey hint this week that Japanese fast-fashion retailer Uniqlo could be coming to the...
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Shop Talk: new stores and shopping websites from March 2013
Opened After two years and more than a little controversy, the trendy mass-market giant finally arrived in Canada. Now open:...
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Kleinfeld Bridal is opening in downtown Toronto in 2014
Brides-to-be yearning to shop at Kleinfeld, the wedding emporium featured in TLC’s Say Yes To The Dress, will no longer have to...
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Food & Drink
The Drake is opening a new restaurant downtown
Shortly after announcing that Ted Corrado had taken over as corporate executive chef, The Drake has revealed that it will be...
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GALLERY: 15 Toronto shops with festive Christmas windows
Although December means shopping lists, crowded malls and frenzied buying sprees (our holiday gift guide can help), it’s worth...
City News
50 Most Influential 2012: a ranking of Toronto’s top tycoons, backroom operators and supersize egos
The people driving the agenda for the city are more likely to come from outside local government than inside. This was the year...
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Shopping
A roundup of socialite Jenna Bitove’s most eye-popping fashion statements
If you’ve mingled with high society lately, you’ve noticed Jenna Bitove. It’s hard not to. With Kardashian curves, dresses...
City News
Hudson’s Bay Company’s U.S.-based owners are taking the company public
After months of rumours, the American owners of Hudson's Bay Company have officially announced that they're going public with...
Shopping
Best of Fall 2012: we ask trendsetters to pick their fall must-haves
(Images: flats courtesy of The Room; snood courtesy of Louis Vuitton)
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The Find: the smoking slipper, upgraded into a sexy black pump
The luxe smoking slipper is this year’s biggest women’s shoe trend. We’ve seen them in animal print, Playboy -esque velvet...
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Topshop opens its massive shop-in-shop in The Bay flagship on Queen
Yesterday, Topshop cut the ribbon on its grand new home at The Bay’ s flagship at Yonge and Queen, a 19,000-square-foot...
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Private School Guide
The Private and Independent School Directory Spring 2025
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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
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
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
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