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A Toronto man raised $500,000 for a woman he saw in a YouTube video
With the disheartening number of animals left in cars during this week’s heat wave, we needed something to renew our faith in...
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The Weekender: Toronto Jazz Festival, Top Gun! The Musical and six other items on our to-do list
1. TORONTO JAZZ FESTIVAL At the risk of sounding a little cliché, this annual music fest is definitely in the “something for...
City News
Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 22, because the world’s funniest meme started here
Shit Girls Say began as a Twitter feed and YouTube video and quickly became the year’s most imitated and outrage-inspiring...
City News
Find out which city councillors are Facebook and Twitter junkies
In the spirit of both June and council report cards, Campaign School, a project from the Academy of the Impossible, evaluated city...
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Culture
Toronto vs. Chicago: movies, musicals and Oprah edition
After hearing that Chicago is crazy jealous of Toronto’s annual Luminato festival—and the international tourists it...
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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...
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Video: TD Bank jumps on the “It Gets Better” train—as a business decision
TD Bank has made a video for Dan Savage’ s “It Gets Better Project” in support of LGBT youth, and they're the first of...
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Culture
Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe” has reached its end: it’s nominated for several MMVAs
Carly Rae Jepsen’ s “Call Me Maybe” video has received over 62 million YouTube views, which means—based on arbitrary...
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The Weekender: TIFF Kids International Film Festival, The Tales of Hoffmann and six other items on our to-do list
1. TIFF KIDS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL This film fest is for the city’s smallest movie lovers. Aimed at kids three and...
City News
Young, attractive man (who looks like Ryan Gosling) releases a video on how to live like Ryan Gosling
Good news: guys who will never, ever look like Ryan Gosling can still live like the Almighty Goz. (And keep their grizzly...
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Canada’s year on YouTube: the tragicomedy to end all tragicomedies
Remember when home videos were so painfully boring, but you were happy to sit through them if doing so made a loved one very...
City News
VIDEO: Toronto comedy duo Kyle Humphrey and Graydon Sheppard make a short with Juliette Lewis
Listen, listen, listen... local filmmakers-comedians-writers Kyle Humphrey and Graydon Sheppard released a YouTube video today...
City News
Rob Ford threatens to remove Occupy Toronto; Anonymous threatens to remove Ford from the Internet
Last week Rob Ford proclaimed that it’s time for the Occupy Toronto protesters to leave St. James Park. The announcement...
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Hoping to draw attention to its copyright crusade, U.S. website throws Justin Bieber in (Photoshopped) jail
In a genius bit of appropriation, a website petitioning the U.S. government over a proposed copyright bill is using Justin Bieber...
City News
BlackBerry blackout resolved, RIM’s Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis say they’re really sorry
Media punching bags and RIM co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis confirmed in a 10 a.m. conference call that full, global...
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In the ’60s, Marshall McLuhan was Toronto’s most famous intellectual; now, the world has finally caught up with him
In the ’60s, McLuhan was hobnobbing with celebrities, advising politicians and forever changing how we think about mass media. A...
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Wednesday’s NXNE picks: Pat Jordache, Library Voices, We Are Wolves and more
For NXNE wristband holders and general music enthusiasts alike, today is the day. More specifically, it’s Wednesday, and more...
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YouTube vids created for class get student suspended, spark cries of free speech
Like many Toronto youth, Jack Christie posts videos to YouTube . Sure, his animated clips are often off-colour and crude—but...
City News
Ontario teachers told not to friend students on Facebook
We assumed it went without saying, but apparently it doesn't. The Ontario College of Teachers has put out an advisory on the...
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Yoko Ono’s publishing company pulls Stephen Harper’s “Imagine” performance off YouTube
It looks like the video of Stephen Harper and Maria Aragon singing John Lennon ’s “Imagine” (a clip that both amused and...
City News
Watch a comparison between strikingly similar ads: one for Stephen Harper, one for a U.S. Republican candidate
The Liberal Party of Canada is sending around a video implying that Conservative Leader Stephen Harper has borrowed American...
Culture
The Avenue recap: new Web series “takes” Toronto—and so far, we want it back
Toronto-focused television already has its place in fiction, from the mind-warping fantasy of Being Erica to the gang’s-all-here...
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Shawn Desman pegged as celebrity judge for Gleek-worthy Show Choir Canada National Championships
Shawn Desman may have started a terrible hair trend back in the early 2000s (come to think of it, was the side-strip buzz cut...
City News
The sports media is totally over-reporting the suggestion that Miami Heat players cried after a loss
One of the greatest scenes in any sports movie ever comes from A League of Their Own : Tom Hanks , playing a drunk, depraved...
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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
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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
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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
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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
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?
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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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“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
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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
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“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