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Editor’s Letter (June 2012): Sarah Fulford on the reasons to love Toronto
Last winter, on a week-long escape to Florida, I noticed something surprising: TD and Royal Bank signs along the highway near...
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Q&A: Daniel Debow, the tech innovator who hit the jackpot—twice
Rypple purports to bring the performance review into the social media age. Employees can receive recognition on a Facebook-style...
City News
Find out how far you’ll have to schlep to watch the Pan Am Games in Toronto
Since council freaked out over the rising price tag of the 2015 Pan Am Games—because mega sporting events usually come in under...
City News
A report recommends three safe-injection sites in Toronto, but the province doesn’t agree
Researchers from St. Michael’s Hospital and the University of Toronto took four years to produce a hefty report on safe...
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QUOTED: U of T president David Naylor explains why Toronto is just like Woody Allen
—University of Toronto president David Naylor, telling residents to give the self-deprecation a rest and start talking loudly...
City News
Why Roger Martin believes the corporate world needs to be overhauled—starting with excessive CEO compensation
The head of Toronto’s most prestigious business school has a seditious idea, and it might save us from financial catastrophe...
Food & Drink
Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for March 19 to 25
Monday, March 19 Tuesday, March 20 Wednesday, March 21 Thursday, March 22 Friday, March 23 Saturday, March 24 Sunday, March 25
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Dear Urban Diplomat: Can I ask my boyfriend to stop competing in the same academic competitions as me?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My boyfriend and I are University of Toronto students, and we apply for the same awards. He’s won out over...
City News
Five things we learned about RIM’s boardroom strategy from Roger Martin’s Globe and Mail interview
Roger Martin holds a lot of titles: Research In Motion board member, dean of business at the University of Toronto , Toronto Life...
City News
Current Obsession: the Malcolmson Collection of historical photographs gets its first hometown public exhibition
Most of the time, the more than 200 rare photographs owned by husband-and-wife collectors Harry and Ann Malcolmson are kept out of...
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Rob Ford’s beloved Sheppard subway wastes more of experts’ time
For all the debate around public transportation of late, the city has little more to show for it than a pile of feasibility...
City News
Editor’s Letter (January 2012): how immigration and repatriation are making Toronto a more interesting city
Cities are often affected by political events outside their borders. In the mid-20th century, North American cities profited...
City News
Jesse Brown: how big wireless companies, the banks, and even the actors’ union are keeping our mobile bills the highest in the world
Getting gouged by cellphone providers is such a routine part of life in Canada that it barely seems worth complaining about. Yet...
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Memoir: How a 59-year-old neuroscientist and university professor fell prey to opiates—again
My family and I moved to the Netherlands from Toronto in the summer of 2010. I’d been a psychology professor at the University...
City News
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...
City News
Destination Munkistan: A look at Peter Munk’s new Adriatic playground for the super-rich
The latest project of the gold magnate Peter Munk is a seaside resort and tax haven for fellow billionaires in the post-Soviet...
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SPOTTED: Juliette Binoche taking a walk through U of T
Juliette Binoche was spotted earlier today strolling through U of T campus. Shinan Govani tweeted : “Juliette Binoche! Noted...
City News
Urban guru Richard Florida joins the chorus of voices warning that the London riots could happen in Toronto
We were somewhat skeptical when the Toronto Star’ s Christopher Hume made the argument two weeks ago that Toronto could see...
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Toronto’s downtown universities want to keep pedestrian space open to people and closed to cars
Ryerson University students agitated for the closure of Gould Street for years, but it took the front wall at 335 Yonge Street to...
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How the G20—with its burning cars, broken storefronts, violent beatings and mass arrests—ruined Bill Blair’s popularity
On June 26, 2010, Bill Blair was in the middle of the most complicated week of his career. The G20 summit had transformed the...
City News
How to treat the scourge of modern medicine—bad bedside manner
When I was pregnant and working as a foreign correspondent in Beijing, my obstetrician suggested an amniocentesis test for...
Real Estate News
House of the Week: $1.6 million for an Annex condo with a one-of-a-kind view
ADDRESS : Unit 2002, 1 Bedford Rd . NEIGHBOURHOOD : The Annex AGENT : Vicky Tal and Meir Gluzberg, Harvey Kalles Real Estate...
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In the ’60s, Marshall McLuhan was Toronto’s most famous intellectual; now, the world has finally caught up with him
In the ’60s, McLuhan was hobnobbing with celebrities, advising politicians and forever changing how we think about mass media. A...
City News
Satire-loving Torontonians (who aren’t into the whole Internet thing) rejoice: The Onion’s print edition has arrived
The Onion is coming to Toronto —for real. The satirical news organization will be teaming up with the Toronto Star to bring its...
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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
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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
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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
Deep Dives
The 50 Most Influential Torontonians of 2024
Our annual ranking of the people whose courage, smarts and clout are changing the world as we know it
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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