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Jones Soda gets in on the Canadiana trend with its intense new poutine-flavoured pop
Jones Soda, the Vancouver company known for its wacky flavours, is bringing a poutine-flavoured drink to Canada. The beverage is...
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Shopping
The Find: Jennifer Lawrence’s Canadian-made talisman necklace
Everyone wants piece of Jennifer Lawrence (even it’s just her sweaty sports bra ). No wonder Pyrrha ’ s Vancouver-based...
Style
Used House of Vintage on Queen West merges with t-shirt store Bang-On
Used House of Vintage, the only Toronto location of a hip, Vancouver-based vintage retailer, has merged with Bang-On , a custom...
Style
Zellers is keeping one Toronto store open
In January 2011, trendy low-cost giant Target took over 220 leases from not-so-trendy low-cost giant Zellers, and ever since, the...
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Food & Drink
Introducing: Kingyo Toronto, the Cabbagetown outpost of Vancouver’s celebrated izakaya
Kingyo is the latest Japanese restaurant to make the move from Vancouver to Toronto, following the success of Guu, Guu...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Ramen Raijin, the new Toronto outpost of a Vancouver ramen pioneer
In the city’s ongoing ramen revolution, the two most recent players are both long-standing Vancouver favourites: Santouka, which...
City News
What Toronto Needs Now: Richard Florida offers a manifesto for a new model of leadership
The city’s great period of growth won’t continue if we don’t enlist the best and brightest minds from Bay Street, the...
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Food & Drink
Chef swap: Jesse Grasso replaces Brandon Olsen as chef at The Black Hoof
In a note posted on The Black Hoof’ s blog, owner Jen Agg announced today that chef Brandon Olsen (who took over from Colin...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Hapa Izakaya, the Little Italy outpost of Vancouver’s popular Japanese pub
Toronto’s gone gaga over all things boisterous and Japanese of late, so it’s no surprise that news of the impending arrival of...
Food & Drink
Maclean’s anoints The Grove Canada’s best new restaurant
Maclean’s is getting into the restaurant ranking game: as a prelude to its first special edition covering the best restaurants...
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Culture
Top Chef Canada champ Dale MacKay shutters his Vancouver restaurants
The notoriously competitive Vancouver restaurant scene has swallowed up Ensemble and Ensemble Tap, the two restaurants launched by...
Food & Drink
Hapa Izakaya to open in time for TIFF
A note has been posted on the doors at 602 College Street informing passersby that the official opening date for Hapa Izakaya, the...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Red Fish, a new West Coast–inspired seafood restaurant on College
Ever since brunch favourite Mitzi’s on College closed late February, Little Portugal residents have been crossing their fingers...
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Real Estate News
Real Estate Cheat Sheet: condo sales are down (but one section of the market is thriving)
In the debate over whether Toronto’s condo market is headed for a collapse, expert opinions range from gloomy to chipper. The...
City News
CBC wins the domestic rights for 2014 and 2016 Olympic Games, saving Canadians from having to watch NBC
After much uncertainty and several failed bids, CBC has wrangled the TV, radio and Internet rights for the 2014 Winter Games in...
Food & Drink
These are the top 10 most-Yelped restaurants in Toronto
Since 2004, Yelp, that great leveller of food criticism, has been empowering ordinary diners and frustrating professional critics...
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City News
Richard Florida thinks Ottawa (along with five other Canadian cities) is more creative than Toronto
In honour of its tenth anniversary, urbanist and adopted Torontonian Richard Florida is releasing a new edition of The Rise of the...
City News
Stephen Marche: the case for a downtown gambling palace at Ontario Place
A Toronto casino is inevitable. Will it be an ugly box built where nobody can see it, or a glorious five-star island of fun?...
City News
Toronto’s traffic is allegedly improving—it’s not even the worst in Canada anymore
We guess we ought to pipe down about how closing Queen and Spadina is causing a carmageddon—Toronto’s rush hour gridlock is...
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Food & Drink
Hapa the latest Vancouver izakaya to migrate eastward
Yet more evidence that 2012 truly is the year of the Vancouver Japanese import: Hapa Izakaya announced yesterday that it will open...
Food & Drink
Celeb chef Anthony Sedlak dies at 29
Anthony Sedlak, the Vancouver chef best known as the host of The Main on Food Network Canada, has died at the age of 29 of a...
Real Estate News
Real Estate Cheat Sheet: Toronto sales are down, prices are up and what it all means
Toronto’s housing market has been as hot as this week’s weather, but new data from the Greater Toronto Realtors Association...
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City News
Toronto is the world’s eighth most livable city (if you don’t count Vancouver)
As the news cycle slows for the summer, reporters are leaning heavily on a pair of old standbys: polls and lists (a close cousin...
City News
Will Canadians be stuck watching NBC during future Olympics?
Canadian broadcasters have teamed up to try and buy domestic media rights to the 2014 and 2016 Olympics, but apparently they still...
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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
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
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“We felt disconnected from the outdoors before”: What St. Lawrence Market North vendors think of their new home
And what locally made and grown goods they’re selling
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