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The List: Ten things Blue Rodeo frontman and Canadian rock icon Jim Cuddy can’t live without
1| My skates I play a lot of hockey. It’s amazing that at my age I still get thrilled about skates, but I do. These ones are by...
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Booze Economics 101: Why the LCBO happily charges more and earns less than it might
Better grab a bottle of Wild Turkey and sit down before trying to understand this one. In an annual report released on...
Food & Drink
David Lawrason reveals his holiday wine buying strategy, along with nine of his favourite festive bottles
What are the best holiday dinner wines? This is a question I get every year, usually at the 11th hour when the asker is dashing...
Food & Drink
Top Toronto chefs recognized in 2011’s Nine of Dine at the Gourmet Food and Wine Expo
This weekend, the Metro Toronto Convention Centre will host the Gourmet Food and Wine Expo, four days celebrating everything...
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See, hear, read: experts from Suspect Video, HMV Superstore and Ben McNally Books offer their selections
They love it. We want it. Three red-hot releases “Werner Herzog got rare access to film inside the Chauvet Cave in France, the...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Alimento, King West’s bright new Italian fine food shop and cheesemaker
For over a year, the windows on the northwest corner of King and Brant have sported signs reading “Alimento Fine Food Emporium:...
Food & Drink
David Lawrason picks nine new Tuscan reds to splurge on this fall
Tuscany is Italy’s most famous wine region. At its centre, enveloping Florence and Siena, is Chianti, the hilly, vineyard-lined...
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David Lawrason picks nine great, affordable pinot noirs from around the world
Pinot noir is my desert island wine. It’s light and refreshing, and it pairs with just about any food. I adore it. For...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: How important is dinner party reciprocity?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My husband and I throw top-notch dinner parties: rib-eyes, good wine, fancy cheeses. We have two...
Food & Drink
New Reviews: Café Belong, Elle M’a Dit and Estiatorio Volos
Farmers’ market fine dining at the Brick Works, stylish Greek food downtown and a proper bistro on Baldwin CAFÉ BELONG 550...
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Introducing: Modus Ristorante, the plush new Financial District spot for upscale Italian
Modus Ristorante, a new restaurant in the Financial District, might serve Italian food, but refreshingly, no one’s anxious to...
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David Lawrason rounds up some of the best Ontario wines from off the beaten track
New Ontario vintners are planting vines in unlikely places and making wine that will warm your indie-loving locavore heart. In the...
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New Reviews: Wvrst and Mavrik
A modern beer-and-sausage hall on King and a quintessential wine bar on Queen WVRST 609 King St. W., 416-703-7775 Chef Aldo...
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Pricier wines garner higher ratings—but only if you’re “materialistic”
Frances Woolley, a Carleton economics professor, posted an interesting story on the the Globe and Mail’ s Economy Lab blog...
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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: Five top spots for a delicious drink
Rooftop drink Cocktail class Ice Blood orange margarita Wine by the glass The Roof Lounge 4 Avenue Rd., 416-925-1234 The Park...
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Matthew DeMille, formerly of Parts and Labour, takes the helm as Enoteca Sociale’s new chef
Earlier this month, Enoteca Sociale , the popular west-end Italian wine bar, posted a notice on their website that their long...
City News
How Toronto’s lavishly rich Latner family is tearing itself apart
Albert Latner made his fortune in real estate, health care and casinos, and lavished his four children with riches. After his wife...
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Loonie goes up, Ontario wine goes down and the U.S. gets angry: a NAFTA story
Cross-border shoppers might be applauding the recent strength of the Canadian dollar, but according to an upcoming Bank of...
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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...
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Two foodie fundraisers set to benefit the Toronto Wildlife Centre this month
There’s a reason food and fundraisers go hand in hand: what better way to encourage patrons and sponsors to empty their wallets...
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Jamie Kennedy back in expansion mode with new Niagara Falls restaurant
A few months ago, Jamie Kennedy told us that for him, 2010 was a year for consolidation and rebuilding. Now, the busy chef—who...
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Introducing: Mavrik Wine Bar, a laid-back Queen West hangout run by two escapees from the corporate world
Mavrik Wine Bar, a cozy new place replacing the Korean spot San , quietly opened a couple weeks ago one door east of Queen West...
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Natalie MacLean introduces bar code–scanning wine app for the wannabe sommelier
For some, choosing a bottle of wine from the LCBO can feel like finding a needle in a haystack. A new version of wine writer...
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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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