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Food & Drink
Reasons to Love Toronto 2014: #9. Because a Three-Block Stretch of Dundas West is Jammed with New Businesses
Four years ago, Dundas west of Gladstone to Brock was still described as “up and coming.” Now, it’s a full-fledged hipster...
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Food & Drink
The Weekender: Just For Laughs 42, Gallery Hop and six other events on our to-do list
1. JUST FOR LAUGHS 42 Because one week just wasn’t long enough, Just for Laughs spreads this year’s staggering 42 acts across...
Style
The entire list of Fashion’s Night Out parties and shopping events
Tonight is Toronto’s first Fashion’s Night Out, and we’re expecting plenty of open-door parties, sales and designer...
Style
More details about the free Fashion’s Night Out parties on September 6
Fashion’s Night Out, a night-time shopping party that takes over New York every year, is coming to Toronto on September 6, and...
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Style
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...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: Kensington Market Sweets Tour, The Ting Tings and six other items on our to-do list
1. ANNUAL EASTER “EGG”STRAVAGANZA Forget DIY Easter egg hunts, because once the chocolate eggs are gone, it’s all...
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...
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Style
Six male style archetypes inspired by Toronto shop owners’ disdain for heritage dressing and fun socks
There are few manners of dress among men in Toronto, because so few are popular enough for independent retailers to endorse. We...
Shopping
25 awesome Toronto Boxing Day 2011 sales that will inspire you to don gay apparel (i.e. pants)
December 26 (or, in some parts, Boxing Day) is one of the worst days to leave the house, especially if the reason for leaving the...
Shopping
Holiday Gift Guide 2011: 90 of the best presents money can buy
The holiday season is rapidly approaching, and we’ve tackled the ever-difficult task of narrowing down a list of items that...
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Shopping
Holiday Gift Guide 2011: 17 eye-grabbing offerings for the finest fellas
The modern man is more complicated than the slipper-wearing, pipe-smoking, paper-reading image of yesteryear. This year’s gift...
Shopping
Holiday Gift Guide 2011: 21 execu-gifts for working girls and business bros
Any aspiring Tess McGills or Gordon Gekkos would be pleased to get any gift on our list for the Bay Street broker. There aren’t...
Shopping
Holiday Gift Guide 2011: 19 perfect presents for the jet-setting cosmopolitan
We can’t all be glamorous jet-setters and playboys, skipping across the globe to test the slopes of Whistler, Kitzbühel and Les...
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Shopping
Holiday Gift Guide 2011: 19 festive finds from $31 to $99
It’s the jolliest time of the year for some, and for many, mulled wine, cider or anything, really, are the social lubricants...
Style
Five menswear-friendly brands we wish would open up flagships in Toronto but, for whatever reason, are not
Given the tremendous support Topman has received as it slowly joins Toronto’s fashion market, we thought we’d talk about...
Style
Introducing: Woodlawn, a boutique for basics on Dundas West
The place : On Dundas Street West, far from the din of the new watering holes popping up everywhere, lies Woodlawn, a small...
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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
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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Food & Drink
“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