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The Beer Store
Food & Drink
Six of America’s biggest beer trends, and where to find them in Toronto right now
The scoop from Denver's Great American Beer Festival
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A 14-year-old document sheds light on The Beer Store’s baffling beer monopoly
—The amount of extra money the LCBO could make each year if it were to compete more aggressively with The Beer Store, according...
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Ed Clark’s threat to The Beer Store: “If you really think this thing is valueless, then give it up...”
— Ed Clark , former TD Bank chair and head of premier Kathleen Wynne' s advisory panel on government assets, speaking to...
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A frustrated craft brewer: “There’s fear-mongering and nonsense commercials”
— Indie Alehouse owner Jason Fisher in an interview with Canada.com , presumably referencing the controversial "Ontario Beer...
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Good news for The Beer Store, for once
We’re not certain that the “all press is good press” maxim currently applies to The Beer Store. Ontario's only major beer...
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QUOTED: the VP of Mac’s Convenience on The Beer Store’s “unseemly” new ad campaign
— Tom Moher, vice president of Mac’s, speaking about this piece of artfully directed pro- Beer Store propaganda, a screenshot...
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VIDEO: New factual ad depicts horrifying alternate universe where you can buy beer in convenience stores
Yesterday, Ontario Beer Facts —presumably an independently operated special interested group with no corporate tethering...
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VIDEO: The Beer Store’s new PSA-style commercial warns about the dangers of corner-store booze sales
With pro-privatization sentiment at an all-time high in Ontario, The Beer Store may be feeling a bit threatened. That could...
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This Toronto guy started a petition to bring more Canadian beer to Jays games
It’s easy to vilify The Beer Store. It’s big, rich and ugly, and then there’s the whole government-sanctioned-foreign-cartel...
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The foreign brewers who own The Beer Store may be price-gouging Ontario bar and restaurant owners
his would be strange, but not necessarily fishy, if the markups were consistent across beer brands, but they’re not. With few...
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UPDATED: Beer will cost more if sold outside The Beer Store, says The Beer Store
The Beer Store wants you to know that allowing alcohol sales in corner stores would basically be the worst idea in the world. At...
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Beer in Corner Stores: one day, two conflicting polls, zero legitimate takeaways
People in Ontario really want to buy booze at corner stores. Or they really don’t. It all depends on which poll you...
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The Beer Store is giving four stores a boutique makeover
The Ontario beer chain owned by Labatt, Molson and Sleeman’s is completely revamping four GTA locations—College and...
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Introducing: Indie Alehouse, the Junction’s long-awaited new brewpub
Outside the Indie Alehouse, a new 4,000-square-foot brewpub in the Junction, there’s a banner from the local BIA that crows...
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Introducing: This End Up, Dundas West’s new sandwich shop and cocktail bar
This End Up is the latest in a series of new Dundas West eateries to colonize the once Portuguese-dominated strip. Co-owners Karen...
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Tired of the Beer Store’s conveyor belt? Queen’s Park is reexamining its liquor laws (but don’t get your hopes up yet)
When stringent regulations (almost) prevent a small brewery from working with a charity for homeless kids, well maybe it’s a...
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Best Bars: A brief history of hooch in Toronto, from 1837 to the present day
By Denise Balkissoon, Ariel Brewster, Andrew D'Cruz, Matthew Hague, Malcolm Johnston, Emily Landau, Jason McBride, Alexandra...
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Miraculously, microbrewery regulations ease up slightly
While craft beer fans are still lamenting the takeover of the old Duggan’s space by Molson Coors subsidiary Six Pints Specialty...
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Introducing: The Beer Boutique, something just a little bit different from the Beer Store
With the rise of craft breweries, Ontario drinkers have been clamouring for access to a wider variety of brews. The Beer Boutique...
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Summer Camp Guide
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
Wines of the World
Food & Drink
Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
Toronto Life’s
Best Restaurants
From cabernet and merlot to icewine and chardonnay, these wines are primed to pair and delight
Big Stories
Deep Dives
The Monster Cottages vs. the Resistance: Inside the ruthless battle for the future of Muskoka
From Gravenhurst to Port Cockburn, the uber rich and powerful are buying up shoreline for private island compounds and sprawling mega-resorts, radically changing the face of Muskoka and infuriating environmentalists, locals and long-time cottagers
Deep Dives
Dead Reckoning: The executor of their estate was supposed to divide it among their friends and family. Instead, he bankrupted it
When Sami and June Suomalainen died, it fell to the executor of their wills, a lawyer they hardly knew, to sell their million-dollar midtown home and split the proceeds among their inheritors. Seven years and six lawsuits later, the beneficiaries haven’t seen a cent
Deep Dives
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2026
This year’s list includes a 150-square-foot omakase counter, a Parisian brasserie in the Annex, Korean comfort food, Filipino karaoke and a Summerhill seafood spot that’s reinventing the raw bar
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Hoop Dreams: Inside the making of the Toronto Tempo, the city’s newly assembled WNBA team
After years of false starts, months of nail-biting negotiations between the league and the players’ union, and an 11th-hour scramble to build a roster, Toronto finally has its own major-league women’s basketball team. Now it just has to live up to the hype
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Live From New York: Inside the slay-or-be-slayed world of Studio 8H with
SNL
rookie Veronika Slowikowska
Slowikowska is the first Canadian to join the cast of
Saturday Night Live
in more than 25 years. She’s also this season’s breakout star. Now all she has to do is keep crushing it
Deep Dives
Better Call Deepak: Meet drug lord Ryan Wedding’s self-styled cocaine lawyer
The man who represented the infamous drug lord is unapologetically flashy—he has a Lamborghini and two Maseratis and wears $1,200 Louboutins. But did he become an accomplice to his client’s crimes? Deepak Paradkar says he was just doing his job. The FBI says he crossed a line
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The Redemption Tour: The Blue Jays are back. Can they finish what they started?
We’re not over it, but they are. Six months after that devastating defeat, the Jays take the field once more, bent more than ever on winning the World Series. Dispatches from the dugout
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My Life as a True Crime Spectacle: My father’s crimes fractured our family. Then came the press
My dad was the infamous Rolex Killer. The news of his crimes nearly broke me. And ever since, my family has been hounded by reporters, podcasters and true crime fanatics—a whole new circle of hell
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Robby on the Line: Out and about with Robby Hoffman, comedy’s equal opportunity assassin
Larry David is the indisputable king of brutal honesty. But if anyone comes close, it’s Robby Hoffman, the suddenly everywhere comic from whom no group is safe
Deep Dives
Notes on an Academic Scandal: Why did TMU demote a leading advocate of DEI?
Pamela Sugiman, a former arts dean at Toronto Metropolitan University, was a key player in the school’s push for diversity, equity and inclusion. When the backlash against DEI arrived, she was demoted. The school says it was a coincidence. She disagrees
Deep Dives
City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?
Scenes from the rent-for-life revolution
Deep Dives
This generation was pummelled by Covid high school. Now the job market wants to replace them with AI
It’s hard out here for a 20-something
Deep Dives
The High Price of Hope: Inside Toronto’s white-hot fertility market
Desperate wannabe parents are betting their life savings on unproven treatments and false promises
Deep Dives
Man vs. Machine: ChatGPT caused him to spiral into delusion. Now he’s suing OpenAI
Last spring, a chatbot convinced Allan Brooks that he had discovered a revolutionary mathematical theory. He says it nearly destroyed him
Deep Dives
Smart City: 20 mind-blowing Toronto inventions that are changing the world
Homegrown innovations that will transform lives for the better
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293 Days Without My Son: I gave up everything to rescue my kidnapped child from my abusive husband
When Valentino was abducted, I knew three things: he’d been taken by his father, he was somewhere in India and I would not rest until I found him
Deep Dives
The Violent Life of a Tow Truck Driver: How an unremarkable profession turned Toronto into a war zone
The towing industry has been hijacked by criminals and kingpins who fleece customers, beat up dissenters and shoot their enemies. Inside the brutal turf war for the city’s wrecks
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