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The Blue Jays’ bench coach has phenomenal handwriting
Apparently, Toronto Blue Jays bench coach Don Wakamatsu spends a half-hour on game day writing out the starting lineup in Gothic...
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Watch a naked Jose Bautista swing his baseball bat (almost NSFW)
Don’t worry about Blue Jays slugger Jose Bautista getting ribbed in the clubhouse for his second-place finish at the home run...
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Dear Urban Diplomat: I’m staunchly against the wave at Toronto Blue Jays games
Dear Urban Diplomat, I hate it when people do the wave at Jays games. I’m a long-time ticket holder, and this year, a group of...
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Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 6, because the home team is high fashion
Our favourite batty blue bird suffered from a serious identity crisis in the last decade. The original understated logo was...
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Romantic and desperate woman posters Leslieville seeking soulmate
We live in the age of Craigslist Missed Connections, but that isn’t stopping one Toronto resident from landing her man the...
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The economy wins! The Toronto Blue Jays win!! Everybody wins!!!
Apparently, more bums in ballpark seats are a strong indicator of a growing economy. Canadian Business is reporting on a fun...
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Check out Victoria’s Secret’s sexually suggestive Toronto Blue Jays–branded loungewear
Have you ever thought, “hey, I’m at a Toronto Blue Jays game, I wonder if the cute boy sitting behind me knows how much I’m...
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The Rogers Centre is one of the ugliest stadiums in baseball (but certainly not the ugliest)
In an arbitrary but amusing list of Major League Baseball’s ugliest parks, the Blue Jays’ home stadium netted the number eight...
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Why the Blue Jays home opener—and season—is going to be different this year
Every year, spring brings with it the first Toronto Blue Jays game at the Rogers Centre. Most years—at least most years in the...
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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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Rogers and Bell buy MLSE (and now own every Canadian sports team, stadium and channel ever)
Less than two weeks after the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan announced it was taking its majority share of Maple Leaf Sports and...
City News
LOGO POLL: We grade the Toronto Blue Jays logos through the ages
Logos are like personalities, and the Toronto Blue Jays, in their short history, have had as many as Charlie Sheen...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2011: 30 fantastic presents for homebodies everywhere
For friends and family just moving into a new place or on the lookout for their next apartment, it’s nice to pick out gifts that...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2011: 90 of the best presents money can buy
The holiday season is rapidly approaching, and we’ve tackled the ever-difficult task of narrowing down a list of items that...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2011: 19 festive finds from $31 to $99
It’s the jolliest time of the year for some, and for many, mulled wine, cider or anything, really, are the social lubricants...
City News
Toronto Blue Jays unveil their new, totally awesome logo
The Toronto Blue Jays unveiled their freshly redesigned logo today at an absurdly over-the-top ceremony at the Rogers Centre that...
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The Loaded List: we catalogue the astronomical salaries of Toronto’s ruling class
It’s not particularly polite to ask rich people what they earn. But tact is overrated, and we wanted to know, so we asked...
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Weekend Reading List: Top stories from our sister sites, including how to achieve that rustic look and Neil Young’s new book
Every weekend we round up the highlights from the other websites in the St. Joseph Media family (that’s the company that owns...
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Reaction Roundup: An outpouring of love, respect and grief in the wake of Jack Layton’s death
The last time this blogger had the pleasure of speaking with Jack Layton was for an Informer post during the federal election. The...
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With the Brett Lawrie call-up, Blue Jays GM Alex Anthopoulos’s makeover is nearly complete
The current edition of the Toronto Blue Jays is a far cry from the team general manager Alex Anthopoulos inherited from...
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To cap off the week, a look at the five best and worst recent logo redesigns
After much anticipation the new incarnation of the Winnipeg Jets revealed its team logos last week, and, in case you were...
City News
Reaction Roundup: baseball scribes roundly praise Toronto Blue Jays GM Alex Anthopoulos for Colby Rasmus deal
Alex Anthopoulos has done it again. Or, at least, that appears to be the overwhelming consensus among baseball media after the...
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Roberto Alomar entered the Hall of Fame with a Jays cap on his head—but when will another Toronto Blue Jay crack Cooperstown?
Last weekend Robbie Alomar became the first-ever player to enter the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame as a Toronto Blue Jay...
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Will Blue Jays GM Alex Anthopoulos pull the trigger on a deal at baseball’s trade deadline?
With baseball’s trade deadline just around the corner , rumours are flying as to what kind of magic Blue Jays GM Alex...
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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
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Sex worker and
Anora
consultant Andrea Werhun’s journey from strip clubs to Hollywood
Andrea Werhun’s dream was to be a writer, but there was a lot more money in sex work. She told herself she’d quit soon, then spent years working as a stripper. In 2022, Sean Baker hired her as a consultant on his Oscar-sweeping film. Now she’s stepping into her own spotlight
Deep Dives
Game Over: Inside fallen Toronto Raptor Jontay Porter’s sports betting scandal
As the pivotal member of a notorious betting ring, Porter was playing for another team. The story of a cheater, his bookmakers and the wager that brought them all down
Deep Dives
Megan Savard for the Defence: Meet the lawyer representing a player at the centre of the Hockey Canada trial
She’s fierce, shrewd and relentless. And she doesn’t just want to win—she wants to dismantle the prison system altogether
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
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An all-Canadian wine festival is coming to Fort York
Elbows Up aims to make it easier (and cheaper) to buy Canadian-made bottles
Food & Drink
This Toronto Italian restaurant is launching a pasta tasting menu made with all-Canadian ingredients
It’s Amano Trattoria’s elbows-up moment
City News
A high-tech greenhouse in King City is sticking it to Trump’s tariffs
How to reduce our reliance on American farmers? Rely on robot ones instead
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