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David Lawrason
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David Lawrason’s Weekly Wine Pick: a racy new Australian red
Wolf Blass 2009 Grey Label Shiraz Cabernet $34.95 | Robe Mount Benson, Australia | This new shiraz-cabernet blend is a racier...
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David Lawrason’s Weekly Wine Pick: a kitschily branded pinot that’s actually good
The People’s 2010 Pinot Noir $16.95 | Central Otago, New Zealand | I’m often skeptical of the quality of kitschy...
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David Lawrason’s Weekly Wine Pick: an Italian red with a sour-cherry finish
Allegrini Corte Giara 2009 Valpolicella Ripasso $16.95 | Veneto, Italy | The warm, ripe 2009 vintage and the fruit-enriching...
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David Lawrason’s Weekly Wine Pick: a cava that’s perfect for this early-onset summer
Adar de Elviwines Brut $15.95 | Spain | This newly arrived Spanish bubbly is ideal for toasting to our sudden onset of summer. And...
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David Lawrason’s Weekly Wine Pick: a refined take on New Zealand’s signature white grape
Villa Maria 2011 Sauvignon Blanc $15.95 | Marlborough | One the great buys at the LCBO seems to get better every year, striking a...
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David Lawrason’s Weekly Wine Pick: an Argentine red that’s not just another malbec
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David Lawrason’s Weekly Wine Pick: a Chilean red with heritage
Cousiño-Macul 2009 Antiguas Reservas Cabernet Sauvignon"...
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David Lawrason picks nine French bottles from 2009, the vintage of the century
In France , where the weather is relatively cool and fluctuates drastically from year to year, vintage is a huge factor in...
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Eight blessedly cheap wines you can bring to any dinner party with confidence (and change in your pocket)
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David Lawrason reveals his holiday wine buying strategy, along with nine of his favourite festive bottles
What are the best holiday dinner wines? This is a question I get every year, usually at the 11th hour when the asker is dashing...
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David Lawrason picks nine new Tuscan reds to splurge on this fall
Tuscany is Italy’s most famous wine region. At its centre, enveloping Florence and Siena, is Chianti, the hilly, vineyard-lined...
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David Lawrason picks nine great, affordable pinot noirs from around the world
Pinot noir is my desert island wine. It’s light and refreshing, and it pairs with just about any food. I adore it. For...
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David Lawrason rounds up some of the best Ontario wines from off the beaten track
New Ontario vintners are planting vines in unlikely places and making wine that will warm your indie-loving locavore heart. In the...
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Why Greek wines are about to become the next big thing
Greek wines are as intriguing as their popular French and Italian counterparts, and they’re half the price Pine-scented retsina...
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A gourmand’s guide to haute dogs for the grill
Innovative butchers are digging up old family recipes and mixing exotic meats with offbeat flavourings Olliffe ’s butchers mix...
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David Lawrason offers nine reasons why garnacha makes for great barbecue wine
Backyard sommeliers bored with the usual summer reds (merlot, shiraz, zinfandel) should try fruity garnacha. It is more commonly...
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Return to Oz: the LCBO is introducing 30 new Australian wines. Here, David Lawrason picks the top nine
Faced with tanking sales, Australia’s winemakers are discovering smaller is better Just three years ago, Australian wines were...
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Reinvention tour: Ontario vintners are showing off their chardonnays and changing minds about the infamous ’80s grape
The consumer revolt against chardonnay, known as the ABC (anything but chardonnay) movement, hasn’t stopped Ontario winemakers...
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Bubbly breakdown: LVMH warns of a looming shortage in champagne supply
LVMH , the luxury goods powerhouse known for its fancy handbags ( Louis Vuitton ) and highfalutin hooch ( Moët Hennessy ), has...
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Just Desserts: sophisticated sweet wines worth the splurge
Sweet wines generally get a bad rap. Even avid wine lovers tend to dismiss them as overly expensive, cloying or lacking in...
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All that sparkles: nine outstanding bottles of bubbly without the elitism
French champagne is still the standard-bearer for the world’s sparkling wines. But New World winemakers are tinkering with its...
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Of Great Import: The best wines from British Columbia
Finally, more of British Columbia’s premium bottles are available in Ontario. Here, the best of the west It’s boom time in...
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When in Rhône: David Lawrason picks the best wines from southern France
Robust, charming and fun, the recent releases from southern France are worth ordering by the case Southern Rhône, the dry, rugged...
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Can’t argue with results: wine biodynamics might be hocus pocus, but it doesn’t really matter
As consumer demand for organic wine grows, more and more wineries will be adopting the oft-contested growing method known as...
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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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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
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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
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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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