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Toronto Life Magazine July 2015
City News
How blind soccer works at the Parapan Am Games
Five-a-side soccer at the Parapan Am Games is very much like soccer anywhere else: it's fun, it's fast and the Brazilians always...
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City News
How Parapan Am wheelchair rugby player Zak Madell girds for battle
Wheelchair rugby, better known as murderball, is a Canadian invention: the full-contact sport for quadriplegic athletes first...
Style
The Passion Project: an extreme Rosedale reno inspired by an out-of-control art collection
Cheryl Atkinson and Don Schmitt were running out of wall space; they’d been collecting artwork for years, and their Trinity...
Food & Drink
Bespoke Bottles: intriguing and less expensive Niagara wines that can only be found in Toronto restaurants
Here’s a secret: many of Niagara’s top producers have a range of what they call licensee wines, which are made specifically to...
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City News
Jennifer Pan’s Revenge: The inside story of a golden child, the killers she hired, and the parents she wanted dead
Read this article in Mandarin Bich Ha and Huei Hann Pan were classic examples of the Canadian immigrant success story. Hann was...
City News
Memoir: I was addicted to starving myself
I grew up in an upper-middle-class Toronto neighbourhood, with a loving family and supportive friends. Despite my privileges, I...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: should I have to pay for my neighbour’s tree maintenance?
Dear Urban Diplomat, There’s a huge maple tree in the backyard next to mine. Its branches spread over my yard, where they get...
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Culture
Cringe Benefits: Nathan Fielder’s brand of gonzo comedy is surreal, squirm-inducing and surprisingly human
Nathan Fielder will do anything for a laugh. On his Comedy Central show, Nathan for You, whose third season debuts later this...
City News
Toronto’s biggest video stars: a who’s who of the new Internet fame factory
Eight years ago, an unsullied Justin Bieber posted his first YouTube video, kick-starting a global pandemic (Bieber Fever) and the...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: do I have to keep paying for my seat at a café?
Dear Urban Diplomat, At my local café, earbud-sporting caffeine junkies on laptops (of which I’m one) are as much a part of the...
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Style
Ten things Anthony Rose can’t live without
The unstoppable Toronto chef (of Rose and Sons, Big Crow and Fat Pasha fame) has a new restaurant opening this month on Queen...
City News
How Whitney McClintock, Pan Am Games water-skiier, pulls off one of the sport’s toughest tricks
Somewhat improbably, considering the fact that much of our surface water is frozen for a third of the year, southern Ontario is...
City News
Sex, Drugs and EDM: high times and overdoses in Toronto’s dance festival scene
The electronic dance music genre has spawned a $20-billion economy of giant festivals, thumping bass and designer drugs. The partygoers think they’re invincible. The overdoses tell another story
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Dear Urban Diplomat: how do I stop my neighbours from covering my street with posters?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I live in a neighbourhood with an active homeowners’ association that posts notices for every imaginable...
City News
Q&A: Joe Fresh founder Joe Mimran on the worst part of joining
Dragons’ Den
: the clothes
You left your baby, Joe Fresh, in March, and you’ll become a Dragon this fall. Why the switch? CBC asked me several times over...
Food & Drink
Sweet Scoops: 22 of the city’s top ice cream cones
These make us wanna scoop
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Real Estate News
The Chase: How four city-dwelling families found fuss-free condos in cottage country
Cottage country? More like condo country
Food & Drink
Street Wise: how spots like Hanmoto and Lucky Red are bringing the pleasures of Asian street food indoors
City News
The Cult of Jian: His life as an outcast, who’s standing by him, and why he’s sure he’ll walk
Jian Ghomeshi and I first met in February of 1999. I was in my early 20s, and I’d just been hired as an arts reporter at the...
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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
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
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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