March 2009 Contents
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Features
The Pillager’s Guide to Real Estate
It’s official: the buyer’s market is back. Here’s what you need to know to find the jaw-dropping bargains, the neighbourhoods that promise big, fat returns, and the condos that will actually get built By Bert Archer
Susur’s Gamble
Toronto’s one true celebrity chef opened a glitzy restaurant in New York at the precipice
of a recession. Is he good enough to beat the odds? By Sinclair Stewart
Superbugged
I went in for minor surgery and came out with a life-threatening infection. A story
about contaminated hospitals, dirty doctors and the bacteria that are killing 8,000
Canadians a year By Stéphanie Verge
COLUMNS
Empire of the Son
A year ago, after snapping up Alliance Atlantis, Leonard Asper was bathing
in his own brilliance. Now Canwest, his family’s sprawling media empire, is drowning
in debt. A cautionary tale By Michael Posner
The Blockbuster Imperative
It’s been 13 years since Fugitive Pieces became an international best-seller.
Can Anne Michaels do it again? McClelland & Stewart is banking on it By Don Gillmor
This City
Alpha Male
Hugh Dillon—ex-rocker, ex-junkie, ex-bad body—is turning Flashpoint into the most successful cop show since Law & Order By Jason McBride
Party Watch
The city’s top bashes this month
The Moment
The never-ending York University strike By Chris Nuttall-Smith
Settling the Score
A smut lover’s guide to the recent off-ice hockey scandals By Greg Shortall
Telling Tales
Dispatches from the urban jungles
City Sindex
We plot the most absurd antics of our not-always-civil servants
Wonder Boy
Toronto’s most dogged do-gooder is younger than some of the stuff in our fridge
The Temperature
Our monthly assessment of all things faddish and fleeting
CITY SURVIVOR
The List
Ten things Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff can’t live without By Amy Verner
Commuter Guide
The average Torontonian spends 340 hours a year travelling to and from work. Tips, tricks and toys to make the daily trek less hellacious
Great Spaces
Living large (in 316 square feet) at the Gladstone Hotel By Veronica Maddocks
Eating and Drinking
Dining
French food—with a Toronto twist—is making a comeback By James Chatto
Drink
Hip hops: premium beer is the quaff du jour By Stephen Beaumont
Devil’s Advocate
Le Petit Castor’s cheese-stuffed prunes are satanically sinful By Chris Johns
Relish the Thought
Chefs are doing kicky things with house-made condiments
Power Hour
Lunch spots where you can seal the deal on a budget By Denise Balkissoon
This Month
By George
George F. Walker’s new TV show is about vigilante cops determined to clean up their neighbourhood. Will the master of dark comedy triumph again? By Stéphanie Verge
Can’t Stop the Music
As the ranks of the unemployed swell, reinvention has never been such a valuable skill. The 12-step Liza guide to career rehab By Andre Mayer
The Undead Zone
What is it with Torontonians and zombies? From movies to musicals, we can’t get enough By Jason Anderson
Maestro Fresh
Wunderkind conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin has dazzled Europe. Now it’s our turn By John Keillor
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