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Walmart isn’t fun like Target, say analysts
Discount retailer Walmart isn’t sitting on its thumbs while Target prepares for its expansion into Canada next year—Walmart is...
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Food & Drink
The Weekender: Kensington Market Sweets Tour, The Ting Tings and six other items on our to-do list
1. ANNUAL EASTER “EGG”STRAVAGANZA Forget DIY Easter egg hunts, because once the chocolate eggs are gone, it’s all...
City News
Toronto has more sugar daddies (a.k.a. creepy rich guys) than anywhere else in Canada
Toronto has the dubious honour of being the sugar daddy capital of Canada, according to a dating website that specializes in...
Food & Drink
QUOTED: a McDonald’s honcho reflects on the new, breezier atmosphere at his restaurants
— John Betts, CEO of McDonald’s Canada, talking to the Toronto Star’ s Francine Kopun about some of the ways the fast food...
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Food & Drink
South Africa prepares for a pork-off with Canada over health claims
South Africans will happily eat millions of dollars worth of Canadian pork every year, but if we keep (allegedly!) exporting our...
Style
Former U.S. vice-prez Dick Cheney is scared to come to Canada
Former U.S. vice-president and bumbling hunter Dick Cheney has wiggled out of a Toronto speaking appearance this spring because he...
City News
25 Canadians made Forbes’ billionaires list (and two notables did not)
We’re not sure if the “one-per-center” label is exclusive enough for the 25 Canadians who made it onto Forbes magazine’s...
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Culture
Canadians at the Oscars: Christopher Plummer and Justin Bieber edition
Last night at the 84th Annual Academy Awards, the Canadian quotient was at an impressive low (seriously, Rachel McAdams and Ryan...
Food & Drink
Ever-hungry/lazy 20-somethings lead brisk growth in the restaurant industry
When they’re not bellyaching about adulthood and posing for Instagrams, it seems 20-somethings enjoy dining out—a...
Culture
Four Weddings Canada, episode 2: attack of the killer bee edition
We’ve grown accustomed to certain reality TV tropes: the people who “aren’t here to make friends,” the lonely folks who...
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Shopping
Brave Leather launches custom belt service on the Internet (no LED displays in sight)
Brave Leather, a leather goods purveyor in Toronto that boasts designs handmade in Canada, has launched a make-your-own-belt...
City News
Ipsos Reid poll shows Apple among Canada’s “leading-edge” brands—but RIM is nowhere to be found
“Leading edgeness,” despite being a ridiculous buzzword (one that appears to mean “people like it”), is the defining...
Food & Drink
Poultry G-Men and supply management declared enemies of deliciousness in Canada
In today’s Globe and Mail, Mark Schatzker writes about Canada’s supply management system for eggs, chickens and cows, which he...
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City News
Editor’s Letter (January 2012): how immigration and repatriation are making Toronto a more interesting city
Cities are often affected by political events outside their borders. In the mid-20th century, North American cities profited...
Culture
New York magazine names Austra’s Feel It Break the No. 1 album of the year
It’s December, which means that in addition to multiple holidays, inane Justin Bieber and Mariah Carey collaborations and eggnog...
Food & Drink
Toronto takes first and second place in this year’s best washroom competition; see why
After losing out to Vancouver last year, Toronto has ascended the, erm, throne in Cintas’s annual Canada's Best Restroom contest...
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Style
Gilt.com is expanding, and now Canadians can join in on the online shopping fun
Gilt.com has announced that Canadians will now be able to take part in the popular website that holds flash sales for designer...
City News
Rob Ford ducks CBC muckrakers, call the cops—and we feel surprisingly sympathetic (until we see the video)
Did you hear the news about Rob Ford and the CBC interview? No, not that one. Not that one, either. Apparently, the mayor was...
Style
Coco Rocha will team up with Jacob for its fall 2011 campaign
There are Photoshop disasters everywhere we turn, but last year Jacob announced that they were creating a “no retouching...
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City News
The latest target in Giorgio Mammoliti’s sights? The city’s immigrant-settlement services
City News
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...
City News
Satire-loving Torontonians (who aren’t into the whole Internet thing) rejoice: The Onion’s print edition has arrived
The Onion is coming to Toronto —for real. The satirical news organization will be teaming up with the Toronto Star to bring its...
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City News
Jack Layton accomplished the impossible (with a little help from the anti-Iggy movement)—now what?
I should start by telling you that you’re my MP. That makes you my boss. Great—so you have to answer all of my...
Style
The Royal Visit: Kate Middleton has a (possibly scheduled) outfit change mid-flight
Seems as though Kate Middleton ditched her Smythe blazer for another Canadian designer mid-flight on her way to...
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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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