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Pangaea honoured, grown-up kids’ food, Ontario’s mushroom recall
• The Ontario Hostelry Institute has announced that the owners of Yorkville ’s Pangaea are the 2009 Gold Honourees in the...
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Obamamania on the Danforth, Ontario’s teen super-chef, Maple Leaf’s $27-million payout
• We predicted Obamamania spawning “yes we can” ad campaigns and a surge in sales of political T-shirts, but we didn’t...
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The Final Goodbye
Our eyes feel like they’re bleeding; our lungs are steel wool. There are 13 empty cups and bottles surrounding our laptop. Every...
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The Boiler House: An escape from Yorkville
Each day of the 2008 film festival, Toronto Life will introduce one of TIFF’s hot spot restaurants. We inquire about the...
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Cheers to Monika Schnarre, Kevin Zegers, Sophia Bush and Tim Robbins—recipients of the TIFF Ubiquity Prize
We’d like to give gold stars to Monika Schnarre, Kevin Zegers, Sophia Bush and Tim Robbins. They have been positively ubiquitous...
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Colin Firth and Jessica Biel dine on College Street; Biel’s underwear unconfirmed
On College Street, at the new Grace Upstairs (formerly The Bird, which used to reek of smoke), Colin Firth and Jessica Biel...
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Dressing the fest, and the award for coolest use of TIFF promotional materials
We have a girl crush on Rosemarie Umetsu of RU Studio, an appointment-only boutique on Avenue Road. And it’s not just because...
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Liam Gallagher doesn’t like the view at Soho
In the Soho bar lounge on Saturday, we overheard Noel Gallagher say he was a little surprised to find out Jimmy Page was in...
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Prego Della Piazza: Paris, prosciutto and pirates
Each day of the 2008 film festival, Toronto Life will introduce one of TIFF’s hot spot restaurants. We inquire about the...
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More venues approved for extended liquor licences
On Wednesday, we reported on nine venues that have been given permission to serve booze until 4 a.m. during the film...
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Bruce McDonald is cowboy cool as the editing of Pontypool enters the 11th hour
Last night at Milli’s boutique in Yorkville, we caught up with Canadian director Bruce McDonald ( Highway 61, Hard Core Logo...
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Where Viggo and Brad are sleeping tonight
The A-list quotient just went up in Yorkville: Viggo Mortensen checked into the Park Hyatt last night, and Brad Pitt arrives there...
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eTalk is taking over Yorkville
Is it just us, or has Ben Mulroney taken over the city? eTalk is everywhere—lest we forget the show is Canada’s number one...
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Opus: Lamb, elegance and Mrs. Doubtfire
Each day of the 2008 film festival, Toronto Life will introduce one of TIFF’s hot spot restaurants. We inquire about the...
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Degrassi cast works together and plays together
Spotted outside The Windsor Arms today was the Degrassi squad: Adamo Ruggiero, Nina Dobrev and a couple of buds fresh from the IT...
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Day one dawns in Yorkville
Empty tables at Sassafraz—this won’t last long. Admittedly, we were jogging through Yorkville at dawn this morning when we...
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The modern-day rickshaw will spirit celebrities away from feral fans
Perhaps it’s because David Suzuki has been wagging his finger at us all year, or maybe it’s because the world as we know it is...
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The 2008 Pug Awards: The people have chosen (the wrong buildings)
Poor Lisa Rochon. Last Saturday, the Globe and Mail ’s architecture critic wrote about the Pug Awards—Toronto’s people’s...
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Cheers to Santé
The 10th annual Santé: Toronto International Wine Festival kicks off Monday, May 5, with a week-long tasting menu of winemaker...
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Our squishy urban winterscape
Nice post today on the Spacing Wire about navigating the snowy sidewalks with a baby. I’m so there. On Monday I walked my son to...
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Cause and Effect
Thursday night saw the spectacular start of the 2007 Gold Medal Plates campaign with a sold-out crowd of over 600 guests at...
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Four entrances and an exit
I went to Amaya on Thursday and enjoyed myself no end. Call the cooking there New Indian or Contemporary Subcontinental—or...
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Private Order Break Out
Wine of the Week Bodegas Terras Gauda 2006 O Rosel, Rias Baixas, Spain ($26, 91 points, www.thewinecoaches.com ) Gorgeous...
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The Wine Tasting Challenge
To Via Allegro on Monday for the awards lunch of The Wine Tasting Challenge. It’s an extraordinary competition, created by Via...
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Canada Day Bar Cart: Summer sips
Make the most of this momentous occasion with these easy sippers, including wines, brews, spirits and low-alcohol bevs
Best New Restaurants
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These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2025
This year’s list includes a Korean Ecuadorian diner, a supper club that showcases regional Chinese dishes tweaked with seasonal Canadian ingredients and a Parkdale chaat house that makes a mean Pakistani Sloppy Joe. It’s official: fusion is in
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Sex worker and
Anora
consultant Andrea Werhun’s journey from strip clubs to Hollywood
Andrea Werhun’s dream was to be a writer, but there was a lot more money in sex work. She told herself she’d quit soon, then spent years working as a stripper. In 2022, Sean Baker hired her as a consultant on his Oscar-sweeping film. Now she’s stepping into her own spotlight
Deep Dives
Game Over: Inside fallen Toronto Raptor Jontay Porter’s sports betting scandal
As the pivotal member of a notorious betting ring, Porter was playing for another team. The story of a cheater, his bookmakers and the wager that brought them all down
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Megan Savard for the Defence: Meet the lawyer representing a player at the centre of the Hockey Canada trial
She’s fierce, shrewd and relentless. And she doesn’t just want to win—she wants to dismantle the prison system altogether
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These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2025
This year’s list includes a Korean Ecuadorian diner, a supper club that showcases regional Chinese dishes tweaked with seasonal Canadian ingredients and a Parkdale chaat house that makes a mean Pakistani Sloppy Joe. It’s official: fusion is in
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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An all-Canadian wine festival is coming to Fort York
Elbows Up aims to make it easier (and cheaper) to buy Canadian-made bottles
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This Toronto Italian restaurant is launching a pasta tasting menu made with all-Canadian ingredients
It’s Amano Trattoria’s elbows-up moment
City News
A high-tech greenhouse in King City is sticking it to Trump’s tariffs
How to reduce our reliance on American farmers? Rely on robot ones instead
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“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