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Q&A with Lisa Ray, the new host of Top Chef Canada, on the joys and perils of eating for a living
Yesterday we told you that actress and former model Lisa Ray had been pegged to replace Thea Andrews as host of Top Chef Canada...
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Culture
Blythe Wilson is leaving Toronto to star in a Broadway production of Mary Poppins
Blythe Wilson will be saying farewell to the Princess of Wales Theatre. Wilson, who portrays Mrs. Banks in the stage production of...
Culture
Recipe to Riches Reviewed: Episode 5, The Smart Cookie
Last things first: at the end of this week’s episode (the sweet and savoury snacks challenge), the producers flashed a...
Food & Drink
QUOTED: Jamie Oliver declares last night’s meal at Buca the best he’s had all year
The once Naked Chef was in town last night for a speaking engagement at Roy Thomson Hall to promote Jamie Oliver's Food...
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Food & Drink
Top Toronto chefs recognized in 2011’s Nine of Dine at the Gourmet Food and Wine Expo
This weekend, the Metro Toronto Convention Centre will host the Gourmet Food and Wine Expo, four days celebrating everything...
The Pick: Lang Lang’s youthful fireworks with the Toronto Symphony
The 29-year-old Chinese pianist Lang Lang has an unimpeachable image. He’s got perfectly sculpted spiky hair, lots of carefully...
The Weekender: The Santa Claus Parade, Idina Menzel and six other items on our to-do list
1. THE SANTA CLAUS PARADE This is the one Sunday in the whole year when otherwise adamant proponents of sleeping-in rise with the...
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Culture
Lisa Ray named new host for season two of Top Chef Canada
Top Chef Canada returns for a second season this spring, and a new Torontonian has been pegged to host the show: actress and model...
Food & Drink
Taste testing the new Tim Hortons espresso drinks with Bulldog Coffee’s Stuart Ross
Monday marked the arrival of the new line of Tim Hortons “premium espresso”–based drinks we told you about a couple weeks...
Today in Toronto: The Addams Family and Children’s Republic
The Addams Family What began as a satirical New Yorker cartoon in 1938 made it to Broadway last year, with mixed results. In the...
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Food & Drink
Is Rob Ford on the (hot) sauce? One crafty entrepreneur thinks so
Our mayor’s sometimes-fiery antics have earned him immortality in culinary form: bottles of Rob Ford hot sauce were spotted at...
Food & Drink
J. P. Challet to open Le Matin, a new French boulangerie on Queen East
Queen Street East has been steadily attracting culinary entrepreneurs for the last decade or so, but with prime spaces available...
Culture
Three Toronto writers take home Governor General’s awards (two, somehow, for “bird” books)
The Canada Council for the Arts announced this year’s Governor General’s Literary Award winners today, marking the awards’...
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Today in Toronto: Lykke Li
Lykke Li Maybe it’s just a hangover from the most recent ABBA revival, or maybe it’s because “The Sign” by Ace of Base is...
Food & Drink
Less than two weeks until Bobby Flay touches down for the second annual Chef’s Challenge cancer fundraiser
Bobby Flay, the Iron Chef star famous for his devotion to the grill, will be heading north this November to host the second annual...
Style
Introducing: Gaspard, a new Queen West haunt for haute women who want to feel like a Parisienne
The place: With a prized spot opposite Trinity Bellwoods Park, a huge storefront window to let the sun in and an impeccably edited...
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City News
Ryan Gosling proves that caring about municipal politics is sexy
Under the category “memes that won’t die” are Ryan Gosling macros, which up until now have tackled feminist issues and the...
Today in Toronto: Carlos Fuentes and more
Carlos Fuentes Fuentes has spent his entire career exploring, through fiction and essays, the construction of Mexican...
City News
Gallery: We picked eight notables who could make a difference this Movember
November has unofficially become Movember, which means that brothers, sons, fathers, husbands and lovers have taken to growing...
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Food & Drink
Colonel Sanders: chicken magnate, farm boy and now author
Deep in the Kentucky Fried Chicken archives (yes, KFC has archives), a staffer has made a startling discovery: a “food...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Hush, Gabby’s new, upscale sibling on King West
Todd Sherman , owner of the new King Street restaurant Hush , is no stranger to the food business. With many years at the...
Style
Winston, a locally developed smart phone app, plans to change the way Torontonians (and hopefully New Yorkers) hire cars
A small Toronto-based team of entrepreneurs is planning to go global with Winston, a new smart phone app that aims to transform...
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Food & Drink
A first-person stumble through Toronto’s second Dishcrawl
Back in September, we told you about Dishcrawl, the San Franciso–born pub crawl for foodies that was set to make its first...
Food & Drink
GALLERY: All the chefs and dishes from last night’s Gold Medal Plates gala
Toronto’s annual Gold Medal Plates gala took place last night at Metro Toronto Convention Center. Celebrated in nine cities...
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Wines of the World
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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
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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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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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