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Real Estate News
Condo of the Week: $2.3 million for a three-bedroom penthouse overlooking Yonge and Dundas
The 1,600-square-foot unit also comes with top-notch amenities, floor-to-ceiling windows and a big terrace with a striking view
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Life
Here’s why the giant digital billboard outside the Eaton Centre had an obituary on it
How a family memorial ended up on one of the most prominent advertising surfaces in Canada
Life
Some photos from Toronto’s first post-pot-legislation 4/20 rally
A look at the smoke-filled festivities
City News
How Tony Hawk built a 14-foot half-pipe in Yonge-Dundas Square
Gnarly, dude
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Culture
The Toronto Fringe, a Brian Wilson concert and six other things to do this week
See your childhood literary hero read from her new book for grown-ups Judy Blume’s kid-lit catalogue grapples with first periods...
Style
Street Style: Torontonians of all types converge at Yonge-Dundas Square
Yonge-Dundas Square can be a polarizing intersection for many Torontonians: for some, it's a great place to take in a free...
City News
Slideshow: awesome Toronto landmarks made of Lego at the Legoland Discovery Centre
The Legoland Discovery Centre inside Vaughan Mills Shopping Centre opens Friday, providing a condensed, indoor version of a...
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Food & Drink
The Weekender: Grey Cup Festival, Terminus and five other events on our to-do list
1. 100TH GREY CUP FESTIVAL The Toronto Argos are going for grey on home turf this weekend, facing off against the Calgary...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: Nuit Blanche, Paper Bag’s 10th anniversary and six other events on our to-do list
1. SCOTIABANK NUIT BLANCHE From dusk to dawn, the streets of Toronto will be packed with art and art lovers for the seventh...
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...
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Food & Drink
The Long Weekender: Public Enemy, Brazilian Day and six other events on our to-do list
1. ASHKENAZ FESTIVAL The Ashkenaz Festival is the largest international festival of Jewish music and culture in North America—so...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: Buskerfest, Fan Expo and six other events on our to-do list
1. SCOTIABANK BUSKERFEST Last year, over a million people descended upon Front Street to see the world’s top buskers, making...
Culture
Irie Music Fest pulls Yonge-Dundas Square shows following gun violence worries
The recent spate of shootings on Toronto’s streets has prompted differing reactions from the organizers of the TD Irie Music...
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Food & Drink
Free vegan eats tomorrow at Yonge-Dundas Square
Tomorrow, starting at 11 a.m., Yonge-Dundas Square will play host to what is being billed as North America’s largest plant-based...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: Hamlet, Whoopi Goldberg and six other items on our to-do list
1. HAMLET Arguably Shakespeare’s most famous play, Hamlet is the classic story of the titular character, a young prince whose...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: Doors Open Toronto, Bonnie Raitt and six other items on our to-do list
1. DOORS OPEN TORONTO This long-running design event is really the architectural equivalent of a peep show. For one weekend of...
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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...
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The Find: workout gear (because niche workout movements are so hot right now)
Forget yoga, P90X and your lowly Shake Weight for a second. Crossfit is the new workout regime that has people talking. If...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: The Tsar’s Cabinet, The Nutcracker and six other items on our to-do list
1. THE POLAR EXPRESS PJ PARTY Most children love slumber parties and Christmas movies, which makes the decision to combine the two...
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City News
Exodus to the burbs: why diehard downtowners are giving up on the city
The reasons to abandon the overcrowded, overpriced, not-so-livable city are beginning to outnumber the reasons to stay. More and...
Food & Drink
The Long Weekender: 9 to 5, Food Truck Eats and six other ways to spend your Canada Day/Pride weekend
1. 9 TO 5: THE MUSICAL The ’80s are so hot right now. Ripped skinnies, jelly shoes and Chuck Taylors are all in, samples and...
City News
Six reasons the International India Film Academy Awards are in Toronto
If you encounter more than the usual number of bhangra dancers on the streets this month, that’s because the International...
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City News
50 Reasons To Love Toronto: Nos. 9-11, Momofuku, Bixi, democracy rallies
Food & Drink
The Weekender: Boyz II Men, La La La Human Steps and six other events on our to-do list
1. LA LA LA HUMAN STEPS This Québécois contemporary dance troupe, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, is known...
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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
Deep Dives
Brave New Year: The ultimate try-anything-once bucket list for 2025
For inspiration on wonderful, wild and even some slightly reckless experiences to enjoy in the year ahead
Deep Dives
The stars of the PWHL’s Toronto Sceptres on finally having a league of their own
After kicking off a new chapter for hockey with the PWHL, Natalie Spooner, Sarah Nurse and Blayre Turnbull are blazing a trail for women in sports
Deep Dives
The 50 Most Influential Torontonians of 2024
Our annual ranking of the people whose courage, smarts and clout are changing the world as we know it
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Food & Drink
The US tariffs are coming for your espresso martini
With Kahlúa no longer available at the LCBO, Toronto bartenders are getting creative
Food & Drink
These Ontario-made booze collaborations are coming to a restaurant near you
Toronto bars and restaurants are partnering with their favourite distillers, winemakers and brewers to produce custom-made drinks. Here, nine crushable new concoctions
Food & Drink
“We have over 100 cases of American wine trapped at the LCBO”: Toronto’s Grape Witches on what it’s like to run a bottle shop during a trade war
It’s not as simple as taking sides when you’re a small business
Food & Drink
Six Toronto restaurants serving up all-Canadian menus
With a trade war upon us, our city’s chefs are taking a stand