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“I was a struggling actor for years. Then I blew up on YouTube overnight”
Julie Nolke spent almost a decade fruitlessly auditioning for acting gigs. She worked as a customer service rep, a bartender and at a private equity association while making comedy videos on the side. Then she got her big break
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“My doctor was like, you can’t do this anymore”: A Q&A with Vartan Fresh, a Toronto mukbang artist who left the family business to eat professionally
His most popular video so far involves a Jollibee feast
Life
Inside the dizzying world of Lilly Singh, Toronto’s accidental megastar
How a Scarborough twentysomething conquered Hollywood
City News
Let’s all pay attention to Kai Bent-Lee’s YouTube channel
Susur Lee's son's video blogs are weirdly hypnotic
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Inside Toronto’s YouTube Space, where video stars can film high-quality content for free
Local YouTubers with more than 10,000 subscribers can join a totally free creative community within George Brown's downtown campus
Life
Dear Urban Diplomat: How do I make peace with my Google results?
"There’s just one thing standing in my way: an extremely unfortunate rap video I made as a joke in high school"
City News
A Blue Jays post-season YouTube playlist
A look at some of the best (and worst) musical odes to the Jays
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City News
Toronto’s biggest video stars: a who’s who of the new Internet fame factory
Eight years ago, an unsullied Justin Bieber posted his first YouTube video, kick-starting a global pandemic (Bieber Fever) and the...
City News
Q&A: Jasmeet Singh, the biggest GTA celebrity you’ve never heard of (unless you’ve heard of Jus Reign)
It was only around five years ago that Jasmeet Singh, then a bored summer school student living in Guelph, posted his first...
City News
Jimmy Kimmel will appear on Rob Ford’s YouTube show
Considering the humiliation he suffered during his appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! earlier this month, it would be totally...
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Doug Ford revives his war on Waterfront Toronto in new “Ford Nation” YouTube videos
Remember when Doug Ford tried to scrap Waterfront Toronto ’s carefully drafted plan for Toronto's port lands so he could fill...
City News
Rob and Doug Ford release a new batch of YouTube videos
When their Sun News Network show was cancelled after just one episode, Rob and Doug Ford vowed to bring their brother act to "the...
City News
VIDEO: the trailer for a touching, hilarious (and entirely made-up) Rob Ford movie starring Chris Farley
Our current favourite of the many, many, many, many, many Rob Ford spoof videos circulating online? This fake trailer for Rob...
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City News
A primer on Rob Ford’s latest troubles, from nocturnal wanderings to a jailhouse visit
Just when we thought Rob Ford’ s public relations problems were petering out, there’s a spate of new allegations, each...
City News
Videos: watch Jon Stewart, Jimmy Kimmel and Jay Leno weigh in on the Rob Ford crack allegations
Rob Ford has studiously avoided addressing his alleged proclivity for smoking crack for four days, though pundits, councillors and...
City News
The eight coolest things Chris Hadfield did from space
As if being the first Canadian to walk in space wasn’t enough, astronaut Chris Hadfield has become a social media...
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Video: a snarky look at Toronto’s obsession with Canada Goose parkas
Although we’ve spotted a couple of great winter outfits this year, hooded Canada Goose coats have become the de facto uniform of...
City News
Fetal Position: inside the world of Lia Mills, the 16-year-old leader of a new generation of anti-abortion activists
Lia Mills didn’t start Grade 7 with a plan to become famous. The year was 2009, and she was enrolled in a gifted class at Gordon...
City News
Conrad Black’s best lines from his BBC interview with “a priggish, gullible British fool”
Whether he’s leveling his verbiage at Occupy protesters or hearkening for the good ol’ days of the Empire, Conrad Black always...
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Jesse Brown: How fame seekers finally figured out how to make a living on YouTube
Across the GTA, a new breed of entertainer is making a living and playing to audiences in the tens of millions. Welcome to the era...
City News
VIDEO: Rob Ford gets Gangnam Styled
Sure, this video is pure Internet silliness, but we couldn’t help but laugh at the awkwardness of Rob Ford trying to pretend not...
City News
VIDEO: see how much hard work—and how much food—it takes to be an Olympian
We were already pleased at how well represented Toronto will be at the London Olympics next month, and now we have another...
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VIDEO: Steve Jobs as a drug-dealing murderer (in this news cartoon about RIM)
This animated slap in Research In Motion’ s face comes courtesy of Next Media Animation, the Taiwanese studio also responsible...
City News
VIDEOS: our favourite Toronto-made commercials from this year’s Cannes Lions awards
The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity is an annual pat on the back for the advertising and PR...
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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
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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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
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