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The all-new, futuristic St. Lawrence Market unveiled at last
St. Lawrence Market’s historic north building is getting a not-so-historic-looking facelift. Yesterday, David Miller and...
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Food & Drink
The Fixe Is In: James Chatto on Lynn Crawford’s new restaurant, Ruby Watchco
At Lynn Crawford’s new restaurant, customers eat whatever she feels like cooking that day. The concept is bold and bossy, but...
Food & Drink
Best eight farmers’ markets
Nearly every downtown ’hood has a farmers’ market now, and although the best one is almost always the one closest to...
Food & Drink
Is it appropriate to dicker over prices at the farmers’ market?
Growing small quantities of organic produce is an expensive endeavour. When you’re forking over $8 for a basket of...
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City News
Base instincts: Are the Tories playing to their core supporters in cutting off funding to Toronto Pride?
Who can forget last summer, when then–tourism minister Diane Ablonczy , surrounded by drag queens , handed nearly half a million...
Food & Drink
Ignatieff supports local food, talks like Sarah Palin
Michael Ignatieff has announced that a Liberal government would implement a policy to provide support for farmers and to help...
Style
First lady fashion faceoff: Bonnie Brooks vs. Laureen Harper
While poring over photos from Sarah Jessica Parker’ s recent appearance in Toronto, we were struck by an undeniable resemblance...
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Food & Drink
Water buffalo cheese is the latest in artisinal dairy
Two years ago, Martin Littkemann and Lori Smith were tired of milking cows, so the couple purchased 40 young water buffalo for...
Food & Drink
Six Ontario delicacies being served at the Olympics Pavilion
It’s no secret that corporate sponsorship is one of the most competitive sports at the Games, but a few independent...
Food & Drink
Fifth Town Cheese becomes greenest dairy in North America
Back in 2006, when Toronto Life first wrote about Petra Cooper, a former publishing exec from Toronto who left a successful career...
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Legalized bees, finger limes come to North America, goodbye to Toronto’s floating restaurant
• Honey-loving New Yorkers are abuzz with the news that the city’s health department plans to lift a 10-year-old ban on...
Food & Drink
Grizzly bear bolognese, David Gest cooks with Viagra, Wendy’s is not so big in Japan
• With the Olympics opening in mere weeks, the gaze of the world has been turning to all things Vancouver, including its food...
Food & Drink
Barack burgers coming to Canada, locavorism under attack, the world’s best canned foods
• President Barack Obama' s favourite burger joint, Five Guys Burgers , is coming to Canada. OK, we don’t know for sure that...
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Winter fresh: seven farmers’ markets that stay open through the snowy season
Although falling leaves and impending frost have shuttered most of Toronto’s farmers' markets, not all have packed up their...
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Coke buys off buskers, sky-bound sandwich shop, the truth behind sexy wine labels
• Would-be John Lennons will now be singing a different tune while being ignored by commuters on the London tube. Coca-Cola has...
Food & Drink
R.I.P. Harlan Clark, St. Lawrence Market’s legendary Egg Man
Harlan Clark, the man who St. Lawrence Market shoppers know as the Egg Man, passed away on Tuesday. CBC Radio One carried the sad...
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How to be Martha Stewart’s intern, Elizabeth Hurley’s low-calorie beef jerky, the best kinds of cheeseburgers
• While covering the cheeseburger beat for the Chicago Tribune, Kevin Pang scarfed down 60 different versions of the...
Food & Drink
Five reasons to hit the Royal Winter Fair
The Royal Agricultural Winter Fair starts today, and since we can only spend so much time gawking at horses and Prince Charles, we...
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VQA winemakers win after a year of confusing labels, plonk peddlers and 9,000 tonnes of rotting grapes
The local wine industry just got a helping hand from the Ontario government, but it signals the end of the too-good-too-be-true...
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Food Porn: the Brick Works Picnic shows off the local harvest
It’s harvest time, and that means the Picnic at the Brick Works is close at hand. In only its third year, this annual...
Food & Drink
Dinner with Sarah Palin, fresh Ontario strawberries in autumn, the most carnivorous countries on earth
• An Alabama woman, who was apparently in search of good conversation about hockey and creationism, won an eBay auction for...
Food & Drink
Utah’s last liquor licence, Eva Longoria opens restaurant, Heston Blumenthal’s perfect rating
• A global shortage has driven up the price of hops, turning it into a viable crop for small farmers again. For...
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Farming 101: Five ways for Torontonians to experience country life
Shopping at farmers’ markets has a way of making agriculture seem like a peaceful and tasty career path. In the daydream version...
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Viagra in energy drinks, Tim Hortons expands in NYC, man dies in chocolate vat
• A 29-year-old man died Wednesday after falling into a vat of chocolate at a New Jersey candy factory. Not the most dignified...
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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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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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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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