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Food & Drink
Batifole sticks it to the credit card companies
Fed up with credit card companies' service charges, the venerable French restaurant Batifole is asking patrons to not use their...
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Food & Drink
Trouble stewing at the Spice Room?
It seems like just yesterday that we spoke with Greg Couillard at the Spice Room about his trips to Toronto to prepare special...
Food & Drink
Just Opened: Ciao Wine Bar mixes South Beach and Italy, and moves it all to Yorkville
For Ciao Wine Bar, its newest high-octane hub, the Liberty Entertainment Group has shaken up the formula that has served them well...
Shopping
Good Stuff Cheap: the fashion challenge
We dared two of the city’s retail celebs— Maha Zeibak, co‑owner of Yorkville’s UPC Boutique , and Julian Finkel, clothing...
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Food & Drink
J.P. Challet returns to the Windsor Arms
More than a decade after he reopened the restaurant at the Windsor Arms, French chef J.P. Challet is returning to revamp the...
Style
Andy Thê-Anh closing its Yorkville boutique, opening two new Toronto stores
Andy Thê-Anh , the luxe Canadian womenswear retailer, will close its Yorkville boutique to open two new Toronto locations by...
Food & Drink
J.P. Challet to take over at the Windsor Arms
We hear that George Friedmann of the Windsor Arms has asked local legend J.P. Challet and his team to take over the Yorkville...
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Style
Thirty-four Toronto stores that didn’t make it through 2009
Last year was for Toronto store owners what recent seasons have been like for the Blue Jays: difficult to endure and full of...
Style
Just opened: Hugo Boss debuts Yorkville flagship
The Mink Mile's newest resident is Hugo Boss. The office wear outfitter recently opened a store on Bloor Street, where Bemelmans...
Food & Drink
How the mighty have fallen: 24 more restaurant closures
Since our last report on restaurant closures in August, the wake of the worst economic storm in decades has forced scores of...
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Style
Yorkdale is not without its charms
It got Burberry before Bloor Street earlier this year, and now Yorkdale Shopping Centre has its own Tiffany bracelet. The sterling...
Food & Drink
Greg Couillard’s back in Toronto to cook up a Mexican-Caribbean-Indonesian-Asian menu at the Spice Room
"If chefs are not doing drugs, they're drinking; and if they're not doing either, they're lying," says Greg Couillard while...
Style
Torontonians score the most honours at the national hairstyling awards
While most people were gorging themselves on tiny chocolate bars and mini-bags of chips on the weekend, the country's aesthetic...
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Food & Drink
Just Opened: Cinq 01
Lounge king Toufik Sarwa, owner of Amber , is branching out of Yorkville with the opening of a quaint bistro called Cinq 01 in...
Food & Drink
Halloween comes early at the Toronto Chocolate Festival
Adults wanting to satisfy their sweet tooths (but who are unwilling to pass themselves off as a kid on Halloween) can find their...
Shopping
Sales roundup: Nuit Blanche sales, denim trunk show at Lileo, Jeremy Laing sample sale
FASHION AND BEAUTY AXI SPA In Yorkville, Nuit Blanche means late-night shopping (and a little bit of art). Save on products (until...
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Culture
The final goodbye: this is TIFF.TO, signing off
We went into TIFF feeling like a groomed and glowing Jessica Simpson and came out looking like Mickey Rourke after a bender. What...
Culture
The best and worst of TIFF 2009
TIFF is toast for 2009, so we asked our team of writers and photographers report back on the best and worst, the scary and the...
Culture
The White Stripes under dimmed West Queen West lights: Jack and Meg hit the Beaconsfield
Not only do they dress in the colours of our flag, but the Detroit duo Jack and Meg White of The White Stripes has done what few...
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Culture
Elevated Oprah takes no chances with security (except sometimes)
Going up? O, no you’re not. When Oprah Winfrey rides the elevator, the numbers go black, or so claims a Yorkville insider we met...
Culture
The TIFFing point: last night at 9 p.m., the film fest ended in spirit, if not in fact
We regret to inform you that TIFF 's party circuit is dead. The knell sounded just before 9 p.m. last night, on a quiet Yorkville...
Culture
Danny Glover is a no-show at the Down For Life party
Why is it, again, that our city is nicknamed Toronto the Good? Because based on everything we’ve seen so far at TIFF, we’re...
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Culture
Yorkville, where not everybody knows Woody Harrelson’s name
When we caught a partial glimpse of a blond guy amid a bunch of flashing cameras on Saturday night, we thought we knew which...
Food & Drink
Where to eat lunch this week
Our pick for a great mid-TIFF lunch is at this Yorkville sushi emporium that serves meals that are both reasonably priced and...
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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
Just Listed
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This classic Hamptons-style home by Chatsworth Fine Homes offers an exciting opportunity to customize a new dream home and build instant value - without the long wait of new construction
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For Sale: 92 Arjay Crescent
As luxury buyers become increasingly focused on wellness, privacy, and long-term livability, a new generation of custom homes is emerging – one defined less by excess and more by thoughtful design
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For Sale: 171 Durant Ave
This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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For Sale: 50 First Avenue
A testament to time presiding over one of Uxbridge's most storied streetscapes, this magnificently preserved circa 1880 residence commands its prominent corner lot with the quiet confidence of a true architectural landmark
Just Listed
For Sale: 7 Bentley Drive
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