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Street Style: 10 trend-defying looks from FAT, Toronto’s alternative fashion week
This week, Fashion Art Toronto (or FAT, as it's known by industry insiders), has taken over Daniels Spectrum with its annual...
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Style
FAT, Toronto’s alternative fashion week, starts tomorrow
Fashion Art Toronto —or just FAT, as it’s known in artsy circles—is the punky goth chick to Toronto Fashion Week’ s...
City News
Rob Ford needs more time for contemplation, according to Psychology Today
A lot of people had a lot to say about Rob Ford’s apathetic attitude toward his weight-loss challenge, but none offered much...
City News
Rob Ford’s still trying to get thin—just not in the presence of “piranha” reporters
After quitting the “Cut the Waist” challenge on his radio show this weekend, Rob Ford took to the radio again to clarify that...
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Culture
Top Chef Canada exit interview, episode 11: salty language
This season, we’re chatting with each week’s eliminated chef after they get the boot (or, rather, after their boot-getting...
City News
VIDEO: Rob Ford goes to KFC. That is all.
We actually feel sorry for Rob Ford on this one. After a mirth-filled citizen caught the dieting mayor heading into a west-end...
City News
Does Rob Ford have some secret ability to charm unions?
Rob Ford’s administration has avoided any drawn-out work stoppages, which is kind of a shocker for a mayor obsessed with...
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Food & Drink
Grabbing a shawarma for lunch? It might have more fat than a Big Mac
In addition to being a useful tool for economists and fodder for schlocky documentary filmmakers, the Big Mac, with its 540...
Food & Drink
Frank Bruni on the food world’s big fat double standard
In today’s New York Times, former food critic Frank Bruni weighs in on the food fight between everyone’s favourite loudmouth...
City News
How running became the city’s collective obsession
Last year I turned 30, broke up with my long-term boyfriend and moved into a tiny apartment for one. The domestic vision I’d had...
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Style
FAT will surely bring these eight intriguing designers out of their shells
Toronto's Alternative Fashion Week, also known as FAT, will take place April 26 to 29 at 99 Sudbury Street, and we just can’t...
Culture
Ryan Gosling was fired for being too fat
Ryan Gosling admitted this week that he was fired from The Lovely Bones back in 2007 because he put on too much weight in...
Food & Drink
The world’s 10 fattest countries: Canada is out, Palau is in
Despite the recent proliferation of poutine in this country, Canada has been left off the list of the fattest nations of 2010...
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Culture
The CBC thinks we’re fat
The CBC's winter TV lineup was announced late last week, and despite the departure of “give the people what they want even if...
Food & Drink
Canadians are fat, even by rich-people standards
In the past few years, Toronto has been overrun by gourmet dining options of the fattening variety. Whether they're serving...
Food & Drink
Among the delicacies at this year’s CNE: deep-fried butter
For those of us who prefer to waddle rather than race between the attractions at the CNE, food vendor Vicky Skinkle is offering...
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City News
Wait—street hockey is illegal in Toronto? No wonder our kids are fat
Spacing publisher Matthew Blackett was at Yonge and Dundas when Sidney Crosby scored the gold-medal goal for Canada back in...
Food & Drink
“Worst beverage in America” available at Tim Hortons
Just as Canadians were congratulating themselves on their nation-wide health consciousness for rejecting the allure of the Double...
Food & Drink
Five expert tips on finding the ultimate steak
It took Mark Schatzker three years to find the perfect steak. The Toronto-based journalist, traveller and lifelong beef lover was...
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Food & Drink
Tim Hortons adapts to American way of life as doughnuts become hamburger buns
When Tim Hortons started opening locations in the United States a few years ago, we mused that a distinctly Canadian operation...
City News
Mayoral debate more confusing than funny
We're sure there was some real comedy and some real debate on Saturday, but none of it was at the mayoral debate, held at the...
City News
Among Jaffer’s problems: double chin
Troubled ex-MP Rahim Jaffer was arrested for drinking while intoxicated, is an alleged cocaine user, and is accused of using his...
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Food & Drink
The Weekender: The Cake Show, Burlesque’s Most Wanted and seven other weekend events
1. GREEN LIVING SHOW Demonstrations, workshops and speakers cover everything eco-warriors need to know about greening their...
Food & Drink
The eight best bets in St. Lawrence Market
St. Lawrence Market, with its beckoning butchers and weekend crowds, can be a trick to navigate, so we compiled a directory of our...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
Wines of the World
Food & Drink
Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
Toronto Life’s
Best Restaurants
From cabernet and merlot to icewine and chardonnay, these wines are primed to pair and delight
Big Stories
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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