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Bubble Trouble
It wasn’t supposed to be like this. Our recovery from the Great Recession happened faster than expected, we got in the mood to buy again, and the housing market spontaneously returned to bidding wars and double-digit gains. Experts say we’re in a bubble that’s ready to pop. The question is, how bad will it be? By Maryam Sanati and Bert Archer
What the Elephants Know
The Toronto Zoo has lost four elephants in as many years, and the fate of the remaining herd is uncertain. Can a one-hectare habitat in the middle of a northern city be any kind of home for exotic animals with complex thoughts and feelings? By Nicholas Hune-Brown
Buff Like Harley
Lady Gaga, Halle Berry, Kanye West and Robert Downey Jr. would be as flabby as the rest
of us if it weren’t for celebrity fitness trainer Harley Pasternak. How an unassuming kid from North York got his number on every speed dial in Hollywood By Courtney Shea
THIS CITY
The naked truth about Caitlin Cronenberg • What (if anything) to do about those pesky pot-growing neighbours • Eight high schoolers on what they learned (if anything) in sex ed
CITY SURVIVOR
The List
Ten things mayoral wannabe Rocco Rossi can’t live without By Amy Verner
Super Shopper
The city’s best loot By Alanna Davey
Great Spaces
Steven and Lynda Latner’s madcap
art-filled abode By Victoria Webster
Getaways
Where to eat, shop, stay and play: a last-minute vacationer’s guide to cottaging
Drink
Red, white and green all over: the really good news about biodynamic wine
By David Lawrason
Restaurants
Where to revel in World Cup mania •
Leslieville’s answer to Pizzeria Libretto • Milagro’s kicky tuna ceviche • Plus, our star-rated reviews
This Month
Metric pop-rocks the Molson Amphitheatre • Gilbert Garcin bites Magritte’s style at the Stephen Bulger Gallery • Canadian industrial design gets bent out of shape at the Design Exchange
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