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Queen West men’s store Ruins is closing, but another clothing shop is moving in
Ruins, the kinda-laidback, kinda-edgy lifestyle boutique on Queen West at Shaw, is closing its doors this Sunday after nearly two...
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Food & Drink
Casing Prince Edward County: five fabulous, under-the-radar wines
(Illustration of Lawrason: Jack Dylan)
Style
Introducing: Soop Soop, a Toronto-based online vintage shop
Toronto is home to many great vintage boutiques, but sometimes the smell of musty, dewy old clothes can make on-site shopping a...
Food & Drink
David Lawrason’s Weekly Wine Pick: a Niagara red from the region’s best vintage to celebrate Canada Day
Trius 2010 Red $21.95 | Niagara Peninsula | If you want to celebrate Canada Day with a homegrown wine, this Ontario red is the...
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The following shops are open until midnight tonight, should you want to shop and drink at the same time
Plaid magazine has teamed with the new app Found Riches to throw the late-night shopping event West End Riches, in which...
Style
Great Spaces: a filmmaker turns a former car repair shop into a killer bachelor pad
Robert Pilichowski’s family emigrated from Gdansk, Poland, in 1980, when he was eight years old. They settled in what was then...
Shopping
The List: 10 things former CIBC insider and doomsday author Jeff Rubin can’t live without
1| My ride It’s a 12-year-old Audi A6 Turbo. I like driving, and I’ve always had a thing for European sport sedans. When they...
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Food & Drink
Move Over, Malbec: David Lawrason picks nine lesser-known Argentine wines
Argentine malbec, with its huge flavour, lush texture and low price, was the official soother of the recession. At $8, Fuzion’s...
Shopping
Select independent Toronto retailers band together for The Bazaar (not a reality TV show, but a market)
You’d think that competing local businesses would hate to help each other out, but Yorkville’s Rac Boutique is hosting The...
Style
The Telegraph says Toronto is “a vintage heaven” and the destination for buying salvaged clothing
The Telegraph’ s Stephanie Plentl came to Toronto recently and fell in love with the city’s healthy stock of vintage...
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Introducing: Chosen, a brand new vintage boutique with a cosmic changing room (and a great selection)
The place: Chosen, the latest shop in what seems like a mass opening of new vintage stores, has opened up above menswear boutique...
The Weekender: Liza Minnelli, Día de los Muertos and six other events on our to-do list
1. LIZA MINNELLI La Liza, one of the world’s few EGOT winners (that’s Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony), takes the stage this...
Real Estate News
Office Space: $750 per month for a sunny vintage spot near Dufferin Grove
ADDRESS: 1 Macklem Avenue NEIGHBOURHOOD: Little Portugal AGENT: Lease from owner (Mariana Grezova) PRICE: $750 per month OFFICE...
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Inside Out pop-up shop brings Montreal flavour to Toronto
In a shocking twist, pop-up shop season has already kicked off, long before the holidays: first Philip Sparks launched his first...
Real Estate News
Office Space: $3,300 per month to lease two floors of vintage Queen West real estate
Address: 880A Queen Street West Neighbourhood: Trinity-Bellwoods Agent: Djanka and Edward Gajdel (for lease by owners) Price:...
Food & Drink
Why Greek wines are about to become the next big thing
Greek wines are as intriguing as their popular French and Italian counterparts, and they’re half the price Pine-scented retsina...
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Best of the City 2011: Our picks for the coolest home decor and other goods
Patio chair Camera Axe Reclaimed wood furniture Vintage Curios Fresh-cut flowers Guilt-free makeup Soil for a veggie garden Kids'...
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Best of the City 2011: Toronto’s best clothing—from basics to bespoke
Plain white T Bargain Bespoke suit Custom shirt Espadrille Raw denim Summer loafer Sun hat Sunglasses Drake General Store 1144...
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A look at some of the city’s hottest rides—and some of the most enthused enthusiasts
When the warm weather hits, the car-obsessed and their vintage toys come out to play, top down, engines gurgling, exhaust pipes...
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Food & Drink
David Lawrason offers nine reasons why garnacha makes for great barbecue wine
Backyard sommeliers bored with the usual summer reds (merlot, shiraz, zinfandel) should try fruity garnacha. It is more commonly...
Food & Drink
Nine West Coast wines that are flying off the shelves
California wine has always had a certain easygoing appeal, and the region’s big-ticket bottles have been a staple in...
Culture
Ryan Gosling to star in his own directorial debut: a remake of 1980s musical The Idolmaker
What can we say? We love us some Ryan Gosling . So when we heard that the London, Ontario, native has signed on to direct and star...
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Introducing: BYOB, a Queen West shop for everything booze-related (except alcohol)
Boozehounds, start your livers. Queen West is now home to BYOB, a new shop that specializes in cocktail-related accoutrement of...
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Just Desserts: sophisticated sweet wines worth the splurge
Sweet wines generally get a bad rap. Even avid wine lovers tend to dismiss them as overly expensive, cloying or lacking in...
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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
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!”
Deep Dives
Young and Retired: Meet the super-savers quitting work decades before the average Canadian
In the age of doomspending, these ultra-driven Torontonians give up their weekends, work multiple jobs and never, ever eat out. The upside: they’ll retire long before the rest of us
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