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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...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: Toronto Jazz Festival, Top Gun! The Musical and six other items on our to-do list
1. TORONTO JAZZ FESTIVAL At the risk of sounding a little cliché, this annual music fest is definitely in the “something for...
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City News
Toronto’s housing forecast according to Garth Turner, the Dr. Doom of real estate
If the Toronto real estate market has nine lives, so, too, does its most famous prophet of doom, Garth Turner. Over a 40-year...
Culture
Top Chef Canada exit interview, episode 13: runner-up
This season, we’re chatting with each week’s eliminated chef after they get the boot (or, rather, after their boot-getting...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Kinton, a new Baldwin Village ramen bar from the people behind Guu
This summer, a number of new ramen restaurants—from Japan and Vancouver—are scheduled to invade the city’s arguably...
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Food & Drink
Yet another new izakaya on the way: Nejibee
Toronto will be positively awash in new non-sushi Japanese restaurants this year. First there was Don Don Izakaya, which opened up...
Food & Drink
The Black Hoof is Canada’s fourth best restaurant—according to Vacay.ca’s inaugural poll
Shrewdly piggy-backing on the S. Pellegrino list of the World’s 50 Best Restaurants (which comes out on Monday), new-ish travel...
Culture
Top Chef Canada exit interview, episode 7: casseroled
This season, we’ll be chatting with each week’s eliminated chef after they get the boot (or, rather, after their boot-getting...
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Real Estate News
One more reason Toronto’s condo market is crazier than Vancouver’s
The latest expletive-laced tirade from Toronto-based FML Listings goes beyond ranting over $1.6-million bungalows and tackles the...
Food & Drink
Two Vancouver ramen shops coming to Toronto this spring
A couple weeks back, we told you about Kingyo Izakaya, a Vancouver cult favourite that had plans to expand to Toronto later this...
Real Estate News
How buying a home could make you a slave (kind of)
Globe and Mail columnist Rob Carrick wrote another not-very-reassuring column about home ownership today (though he did refrain...
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City News
Toronto has more sugar daddies (a.k.a. creepy rich guys) than anywhere else in Canada
Toronto has the dubious honour of being the sugar daddy capital of Canada, according to a dating website that specializes in...
Food & Drink
Izakaya lovers rejoice: Vancouver’s Kingyo is coming to town
When Vancouver-based chain Guu touched down in Toronto in 2009, it set off a craze for izakaya food (i.e. Japanese pub grub) that...
Food & Drink
Quoted: A whole bunch of Vancouver food people on whether their city is on the cutting edge
— Brad Miller, chef and owner of Vancouver’s Red Wagon, responding to the question of whether Vancouver is on the cutting edge...
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Real Estate News
Toronto real estate is crazy—but at least it’s not $590,000-for-a-basement-suite crazy (like Vancouver)
Apparently, the Vancouver real estate market can out-crazy Toronto’s. The proof: a basement suite on an East Vancouver...
Food & Drink
Japanese chain Santouka Ramen to open in Toronto this summer
Though the ramen trend has been booming elsewhere for years, Toronto still has only a handful of joints serving up the...
Culture
Vancouver gets its own Real Housewives franchise—before Toronto
Dear Housewives of Toronto, What happened? It wasn’t long ago that a casting director was calling Sharon Mimran and allegedly...
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Food & Drink
Zagat’s 2012 survey picks Toronto’s best restos and settles that pesky average tipping question
Online restaurant review sites like Yelp and Urbanspoon may have cut into the crowd-sourced territory that Zagat once owned, but...
Food & Drink
In a fit of hot dog hubris, Vancouver resto launches $100 bratwurst
Vancouver restaurant DougieDog Hot Dogs put out a press release this morning (which got picked up by the Canadian Press)...
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Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
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Deep Dives
Charm Offensive: The cottage country mortgage broker who lost $101 million of his clients’ money
Sandy Sussman spent decades wooing the upper echelons of Toronto society, becoming their go-to investment guy. He took their money and made a huge bet on cottage country. When the market tanked, he lost it all. Then he did everything in his power to cover it up
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
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A commanding architectural statement in prestigious Stonegate–Queensway, this newly completed custom residence by Bali Homes Group presents a refined interpretation of contemporary luxury living