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Style
What to wear on Valentine’s Day: three stylish outfits for women
On Valentine’s Day restaurants that are normally packed with plaid and jeans are suddenly full of suits and cocktail...
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Food & Drink
10 most romantic Toronto restaurants—good for everything from popping the question to illicit affairs
Whether you’re hoping to impress a new flame or celebrate with a long-time lover, the right restaurant can be the difference...
Shopping
Valentine’s Day Gift Ideas for Him: 6 gift ideas for guys, from light-hearted to titillating
Buying a Valentine’s Day present is hard. The gift needs to not only appeal to your guy, but also match the tone of your...
Shopping
Valentine’s Day Gift Ideas for Her: 6 gift ideas, from low-key to unabashedly romantic
Each year around February 14, the streets seem to be full of confused-looking men clutching bouquets of red roses or La Senza...
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Food & Drink
The Toronto Underground Market launches Sips and Nibbles, a Valentine’s Day–themed spinoff
The Toronto Underground Market can be a slightly shaggy affair. Participants tend to be outfitted for the weather at the...
Food & Drink
Council decides Woodlot can have its (tiny) patio, but Campagnolo and others have more work to do
The Valentine’s Day meeting of the Toronto and East York Community Council has come and gone, but the patio massacre we were...
Food & Drink
Forgot to make a Valentine’s Day reservation? Here are 10 restaurants that still have space
Hoping to take your sweetheart to Splendido, Scarpetta or Auberge du Pommier for Valentine’s Day? Well sorry, it’s too...
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Food & Drink
Councillors say there’s hope for patios at Campagnolo, Woodlot and more
Last week, we pointed out that city staff had recommended that patio permit applications for Campagnolo and Woodlot (among others)...
Food & Drink
War on fun update: patio applications for Campagnolo, Woodlot and more up for Valentine’s Day rejection
Summer—a.k.a. patio season—is still months away, but that isn’t stopping the Toronto and East York Community Council from...
Food & Drink
Q&A with Susur Lee: the chef discusses Lee Lounge’s new dishes, lower prices and new flavours
On Monday night, we found ourselves at the highly anticipated Valentine's Day opening of Lee Lounge , the new restaurant from...
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City News
Bautista and the Blue Jays postpone their multi-million-dollar date
The Toronto Blue Jays and Jose Bautista had a romantic Valentine’s Day date perfectly planned. They’d fly to Arizona to escape...
City News
Ford brothers send flowers to all the women on Toronto city council
Hey, it’s Valentine’s Day: in a move that shows that rivals can still be kind even in a nasty political atmosphere, mayor Rob...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: Heart, Nature Unleashed and six other can’t-miss events
1. HEART Remember when rock star sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson sent John McCain’s campaign a cease-and-desist letter after he...
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Food & Drink
What really happened at Mildred’s Temple Kitchen on Valentine’s Day
So exactly what (or who) went down over the Valentine’s Day weekend at Mildred’s Temple Kitchen after last week’s media...
Style
Toronto Star takes on skimpy underwear
We interrupt Valentine's Day gift hunters with this important announcement: the thong is over. Or at least that's what the Star is...
Shopping
Super Shopper: the ultimate aphrodisiacs for V Day
In the latest installment of Super Shopper, Alanna Davey tracks down the ultimate lace dress, raspberry-rose truffles and other...
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Food & Drink
Bathroom sex at Mildred’s: the gift that keeps on giving (to the media)
Forget the Olympics—this week, Canada is known as the country that lets patrons get it on in restaurant washrooms. News of the...
Food & Drink
Let’s tryst again: Mildred’s Temple Kitchen encouraging sex in its washrooms
Hoping to spice things up for Valentine’s Day, or perhaps to attract a different breed of customer (the Larry Craig – George...
Food & Drink
Where to eat during Winterlicious round two
As we reported yesterday, Winterlicious is being extended (by two weeks, from February 16 to 28) for the first time. This...
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Food & Drink
Sexy Valentine’s menu, the end of business lunch etiquette, burgers become recession-proof
Valentine’s Day is usually a godsend for florists, chocolatiers and restaurants across the city. But not this year. [ Globe and...
Food & Drink
Winterlicious extended for two weeks
Yes, that's right. The City of Toronto has decided to extend the festival by 14 days; it was originally scheduled to end...
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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
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Deep Dives
The $4-Million Girlfriend Experience: The thief, the cam girl and their whirlwind fraudulent romance
Stephanie Sahler was a cam girl. Ralph Puglisi was a man willing to pay anything for her doting attention. It was the perfect arrangement—until she realized that every penny he sent her was stolen
Deep Dives
Dr. Ozempic: Inside the medical discovery that revolutionized weight loss
I was just a baby scientist when I discovered the hormone that made Ozempic possible. I had no idea how life-changing—and world-changing—that breakthrough would be
Deep Dives
A behind-the-curtain look at the insatiable political ambitions of Doug Ford
Is Ontario’s pugnacious premier charting a course for Ottawa? He definitely isn’t
not
considering a run for prime minister. A long, hard look at the populist’s playbook
Deep Dives
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
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
The Magic Lab: How chemist and computer scientist Alán Aspuru-Guzik brought self-driving laboratories from Harvard to Toronto
Aspuru-Guzik and his multinational team of mad scientists are combining chemistry, robotics and AI to fight climate change, streamline organ transplants and supercharge the scientific method. How did their lab end up at the University of Toronto? In a word: Trump
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