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Holiday Gift Guide 2011: 27 impressive mid-range presents from $100 to $499
Sometimes it is hard to stick to a limit, because sometimes the gifts over $100 really are the perfect presents. We’ve found a...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2011: 19 festive finds from $31 to $99
It’s the jolliest time of the year for some, and for many, mulled wine, cider or anything, really, are the social lubricants...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2011: 11 top-tier treats for over $500
The big-ticket items are what we’re all hoping to get for the holidays, and sometimes we’re special enough to be the recipient...
City News
Best of Fall 2011: Ten recommendations for an absolutely satisfying, perfectly proportioned autumn
The problem with this season is there’s simply too much to do. Too many tortured opera divas. Too many ballerinas with toe...
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Best of Fall #10: Don McKellar and Bob Martin find the funny in depression in their new TV series
The impish comedy men Don McKellar and Bob Martin can’t get enough of the crazy—or of each other. Twitch City , the cult...
City News
Best of Fall #9: Kim Cattrall dazzles as the brittle Amanda in Noël Coward’s Private Lives (proving she’s much more than Carrie Bradshaw’s sidekick)
For many people, Kim Cattrall’s body of work begins and ends with Samantha Jones, the ageless, tireless publicist who put much...
City News
Best of Fall #7: Johanna Skibsrud’s second book is packed with gunshots, ill-timed vacations and terror at the circus
When Johanna Skibsrud snagged last year’s Giller Prize for The Sentimentalists , she edged out, among others, a previous Giller...
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Best of Fall #5: How the National Ballet’s Elena Lobsanova is preparing for her big debut in Romeo and Juliet
Elena Lobsanova knows disappointment. The Moscow-born dancer began training at the National Ballet School in 1996, when she was...
City News
Best of Fall #4: Grace Kelly gets the royal treatment at a TIFF Lightbox exhibit
What you notice first is the skin, often described as pearlescent. Then, perhaps, the sapphire eyes. Then the hair, a perfect...
City News
Best of Fall #3: Rising director Brendan Healy makes theatre exciting again with Jean Genet’s psychosexual thriller The Maids
Last year, Brendan Healy tossed a dead baby into Toronto’s sedate theatre world. The 36-year-old, a graduate of the National...
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Best of Fall #2: Jazz legend Herbie Hancock at Massey Hall
Herbie Hancock’s jazz experiments—fusion, folk, hip hop, disco—earned him as many detractors as fans. Backed by an orchestra...
City News
Best of Fall #1: Renowned mezzo-soprano Susan Graham as an anguished princess in Iphigenia in Tauris
Once upon a time we didn’t get international stars at the Canadian Opera Company. We settled for good singers. We didn’t get...
Food & Drink
Best of the City 2011: Six of Toronto’s tastiest treats and where to get them
Whoopie pie Wings Ice cream Fries Marshmallows Cask-conditioned ale Bobbette and Belle 1121 Queen St. E., 416-466-8800 For any kid...
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Best of the City 2011: Three stops for your meat, fish and fruits and veggies
Game Fish Farmers’ market Whitehouse Meats 93 Front St. E., 416-366-4465 Leila Batten, the ebullient 50-year-old owner of...
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Best of the City 2011: Seven ways to have a great time (bowling and bachelor parties included)
Ten-pin Queue Spot for a bachelor party Spot for a bridal party Yacht rental Saltwater dip Exercise craze Bathurst Bowlerama 2788...
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Best of the City 2011: Five top spots for a delicious drink
Rooftop drink Cocktail class Ice Blood orange margarita Wine by the glass The Roof Lounge 4 Avenue Rd., 416-925-1234 The Park...
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Best of the City 2011: Our picks for Toronto’s top services—from beard trimming to doggie fitness
Spray paint removal Beard maintenance Canine workout Bedbug exterminator Personal shopper Tattoo removal Artful mani Cleaver care...
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Best of the City 2011: The city’s most interesting dishes, places to eat them and, yes, hot sauce
Baguette Pasta Fad Hot Sauce Lobster reinvented Carnivore cure Roast chicken Devilled eggs Patio for dessert Woodlot 293...
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Best of the City 2011: Our picks for the coolest home decor and other goods
Patio chair Camera Axe Reclaimed wood furniture Vintage Curios Fresh-cut flowers Guilt-free makeup Soil for a veggie garden Kids'...
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Best of the City 2011: Toronto’s best clothing—from basics to bespoke
Plain white T Bargain Bespoke suit Custom shirt Espadrille Raw denim Summer loafer Sun hat Sunglasses Drake General Store 1144...
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Best New Restaurants 2011
This year’s crop of restaurants, from a million-dollar dining room to a brazen burger joint, pushed Toronto’s culinary culture...
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’s Best Restaurants returns for its 10th-anniversary edition on June 8
General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks
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Deep Dives
Dead Reckoning: The executor of their estate was supposed to divide it among their friends and family. Instead, he bankrupted it
When Sami and June Suomalainen died, it fell to the executor of their wills, a lawyer they hardly knew, to sell their million-dollar midtown home and split the proceeds among their inheritors. Seven years and six lawsuits later, the beneficiaries haven’t seen a cent
Deep Dives
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2026
This year’s list includes a 150-square-foot omakase counter, a Parisian brasserie in the Annex, Korean comfort food, Filipino karaoke and a Summerhill seafood spot that’s reinventing the raw bar
Deep Dives
Hoop Dreams: Inside the making of the Toronto Tempo, the city’s newly assembled WNBA team
After years of false starts, months of nail-biting negotiations between the league and the players’ union, and an 11th-hour scramble to build a roster, Toronto finally has its own major-league women’s basketball team. Now it just has to live up to the hype
Deep Dives
Live From New York: Inside the slay-or-be-slayed world of Studio 8H with
SNL
rookie Veronika Slowikowska
Slowikowska is the first Canadian to join the cast of
Saturday Night Live
in more than 25 years. She’s also this season’s breakout star. Now all she has to do is keep crushing it
Deep Dives
Better Call Deepak: Meet drug lord Ryan Wedding’s self-styled cocaine lawyer
The man who represented the infamous drug lord is unapologetically flashy—he has a Lamborghini and two Maseratis and wears $1,200 Louboutins. But did he become an accomplice to his client’s crimes? Deepak Paradkar says he was just doing his job. The FBI says he crossed a line
Deep Dives
The Redemption Tour: The Blue Jays are back. Can they finish what they started?
We’re not over it, but they are. Six months after that devastating defeat, the Jays take the field once more, bent more than ever on winning the World Series. Dispatches from the dugout
Deep Dives
My Life as a True Crime Spectacle: My father’s crimes fractured our family. Then came the press
My dad was the infamous Rolex Killer. The news of his crimes nearly broke me. And ever since, my family has been hounded by reporters, podcasters and true crime fanatics—a whole new circle of hell
Deep Dives
Robby on the Line: Out and about with Robby Hoffman, comedy’s equal opportunity assassin
Larry David is the indisputable king of brutal honesty. But if anyone comes close, it’s Robby Hoffman, the suddenly everywhere comic from whom no group is safe
Deep Dives
Notes on an Academic Scandal: Why did TMU demote a leading advocate of DEI?
Pamela Sugiman, a former arts dean at Toronto Metropolitan University, was a key player in the school’s push for diversity, equity and inclusion. When the backlash against DEI arrived, she was demoted. The school says it was a coincidence. She disagrees
Deep Dives
City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?
Scenes from the rent-for-life revolution
Deep Dives
This generation was pummelled by Covid high school. Now the job market wants to replace them with AI
It’s hard out here for a 20-something
Deep Dives
The High Price of Hope: Inside Toronto’s white-hot fertility market
Desperate wannabe parents are betting their life savings on unproven treatments and false promises
Deep Dives
Man vs. Machine: ChatGPT caused him to spiral into delusion. Now he’s suing OpenAI
Last spring, a chatbot convinced Allan Brooks that he had discovered a revolutionary mathematical theory. He says it nearly destroyed him
Deep Dives
Smart City: 20 mind-blowing Toronto inventions that are changing the world
Homegrown innovations that will transform lives for the better
Deep Dives
293 Days Without My Son: I gave up everything to rescue my kidnapped child from my abusive husband
When Valentino was abducted, I knew three things: he’d been taken by his father, he was somewhere in India and I would not rest until I found him
Deep Dives
The Violent Life of a Tow Truck Driver: How an unremarkable profession turned Toronto into a war zone
The towing industry has been hijacked by criminals and kingpins who fleece customers, beat up dissenters and shoot their enemies. Inside the brutal turf war for the city’s wrecks
Deep Dives
Street Fight: Inside the battle raging over Toronto multiplexes
If this city stands any chance of solving the housing crisis, it will need buildings with multiple units in residential neighbourhoods—a move that has many residents saying, “Anywhere but here!”
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For Sale: 92 Arjay Crescent
As luxury buyers become increasingly focused on wellness, privacy, and long-term livability, a new generation of custom homes is emerging – one defined less by excess and more by thoughtful design
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For Sale: 171 Durant Ave
This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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For Sale: 50 First Avenue
A testament to time presiding over one of Uxbridge's most storied streetscapes, this magnificently preserved circa 1880 residence commands its prominent corner lot with the quiet confidence of a true architectural landmark
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For Sale: 7 Bentley Drive
A commanding architectural statement in prestigious Stonegate–Queensway, this newly completed custom residence by Bali Homes Group presents a refined interpretation of contemporary luxury living
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For Sale: 75 Queen Street
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