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Food & Drink
In Absinthia: where to sip the strong stuff in Toronto
The legendary wormwood liquor of green fairies, severed ears and global bans is in the midst of a revival. Here, three excellent...
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City News
Moms on Top: the rise of power wives, house husbands and the new single-income family
Now that more women are high powered and high earning, their husbands are choosing to quit work and raise the kids. An inside look...
Style
Model Citizens: 22 stylish Torontonians demonstrate how to wear the season’s top trends
Some of the city’s savviest sartorialists interpret the trends you’ll see everywhere this spring, from double-breasted suits...
Food & Drink
Trend We Love/Hate: the anti-local movement
In this age of conspicuous local consumption, a handful of chefs are racking up the food miles. We’d protest, but our mouths are...
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Food & Drink
Trend We Love: tableside ceremony
Chefs are perfecting their tableside manner and bringing a bit of ceremony back to dinner. We heartily approve.
Food & Drink
Trend We Hate: hay
Despite its wholesome pastoral associations, hay, with its eau de barnyard flavour and unpleasant chew, is probably better suited...
Food & Drink
Trend We Love/Hate: Toronto’s inflated comfort food economy
We at Toronto Life are avid consumers of upgraded comfort food—but we’re beginning to notice that the prices are climbing in...
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Food & Drink
Trend We Hate: the proliferation of “Hogtown”
“Hogtown” has become the go-to restaurant moniker for these pork-mad times. Will the city never live down its despised...
Style
Street Style Trend Report: manipulated florals at Toronto Fashion Week
Cheery florals return in some form every spring, and judging from the runway fans at Toronto Fashion Week, this season’s...
Style
Street Style Trend Report: bright pink and red at Toronto Fashion Week
At Holt Renfrew’ s Toronto Fashion Week kick-off bash on Monday night, we figured the abundance of bright pink outfits was a nod...
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Style
Street Style Trend Report: extra-long coats at Toronto Fashion Week
The weather during Toronto Fashion Week is never warm—it falls in late October and mid-March, after all—but this latest...
Style
Runway Trend Report: geometric prints at Toronto Fashion Week
Plaid and animal prints might have dominated the fall 2013 runways in New York, Milan and Paris, but so far, Toronto Fashion Week...
Style
Street Style Trend Report: big, bold necklaces at Toronto Fashion Week
The editors, bloggers and hangers-on attending the pre-Toronto Fashion Week runway shows at the Andrew Richards Design loft last...
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Style
Street Style Trend Report: black and white at Toronto Fashion Week
What’s black and white and printed all over? A good chunk of the outfits at the pre-Toronto Fashion Week event The Shows. The...
Food & Drink
Seven food trends at 2013’s Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices Association show
Each year, we head over to the annual Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices Association show to get a look at the big new food...
Food & Drink
Glas is launching a vegetarian tasting menu
Leslieville’s Glas Wine Bar is getting in on the tasting menu trend that’s been sweeping Toronto restaurants. Yours Truly led...
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Food & Drink
Year in Review: 2012’s biggest food trends, from the shadow return of fusion to the reign of ramen
Taste moves in waves: one year tall food is on every menu in town, and the next year, it’s a half-forgotten...
Food & Drink
GALLERY: Canoe Wild, a showcase of Société-Orignal’s weird and wonderful ingredients
Great food starts with great ingredients, and for the past year, many of the more unusual ones have reached Toronto kitchens by...
Style
Street Style Trend Report: rainbow hair at Toronto Fashion Week
On the first night of Toronto Fashion Week, Kimberley Newport-Mimran hired pink-haired model Charlotte Free to open the Pink...
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Shopping
The Look: Toronto’s stylish set becomes caped crusaders when the weather gets chilly
For that transitional time between unbearable heat and unbearable cold, the city’s trendsetters are taking style cues from fairy...
Food & Drink
Turns out, frozen yogurt and burritos were Toronto’s biggest restaurant trends in 2011
Last week, the NPD Group released a report full of interesting revelations about this hungry city’s eating habits and the...
Shopping
The Find: obnoxiously colourful footwear that even Justin Bieber would love
Toronto Fashion Week made it clear that vibrant colours are back in rotation this spring—it’s already a widely embraced trend...
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Food & Drink
Where to Eat Now 2012
The sprawling dining scene in Toronto is more diverse and promising than ever. This year, a handful of 20-something chefs who...
Food & Drink
Where to Eat Now 2012: Vote on the 10 trends in dining that we love and hate
We picked out ten trends that helped define dining in Toronto in 2012, and pronounced whether we loved them, hated them or had a...
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’s Best Restaurants returns for its 10th-anniversary edition on June 8
General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks
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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
Deep Dives
Street Fight: Inside the battle raging over Toronto multiplexes
If this city stands any chance of solving the housing crisis, it will need buildings with multiple units in residential neighbourhoods—a move that has many residents saying, “Anywhere but here!”
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