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Food & Drink
Tim Hortons debuts weird Buffalo-sauce doughnut; Gawker calls Canadians “food-confused”
The orange beauty above is a Tim Hortons Buffalo Crunch doughnut (a yeast doughnut dunked in Buffalo sauce and crusted with corn...
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City News
Rob Ford’s world imploded last night: a chronological recap
Prior to Wednesday night, there were people who would have said it was impossible to force Rob Ford into substance-abuse...
City News
The
Star
’s Robyn Doolittle has had a crazy week
The Toronto Star ’s Robyn Doolittle won the race to publish a comprehensive treatment of Rob Ford ’s crack scandal with the...
Culture
Toronto Centre MP Chrystia Freeland explains Canada to Americans
In an essay for Politico , a U.S. publication whose attentions don't normally stray this far north, former journalist and current...
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City News
What ever happened to Gawker’s Crackstarter money?
Six weeks after Gawker began soliciting donations to procure the infamous Rob Ford crack video, the gossip site was left with more...
City News
Police watched Gawker editor John Cook watch the Rob Ford crack video
Here’s a comforting bit of news for Gawker editor John Cook: as he sat in a car outside a Dixon Road housing development last...
City News
The Toronto Star names the man who tried to hock the Rob Ford crack video
The Rob Ford crack scandal is all but dead. Gawker has given up on buying the video; Ford has replaced all his departed...
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City News
Gawker gives up on buying the Rob Ford crack video
Gawker has officially called off its quest for the infamous Rob Ford crack video—which doesn’t come as a big surprise since...
City News
Crack Facts: a look at everything we know about the Rob Ford drug scandal
Six weeks into the Rob Ford crack scandal, the surge of new details has slowed to a trickle, the video is likely gone and the...
City News
Here’s what the massive pre-dawn drug raid had to do with Rob Ford
After a (mostly) quiet week on the ongoing Rob Ford crack scandal, the rumour-mill revved up again this morning when police...
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City News
Five things we learned from Gawker’s update about the Rob Ford crack video
In a lengthy post last night, Gawker editor John Cook revealed some bad news about the campaign to buy the Rob Ford crack video:...
City News
Rob Ford’s Official Tweets Vs. Reality: a day-by-day comparison of the last two weeks
In the two weeks since news broke that Rob Ford (allegedly) smokes crack, the mayor has lost his temper, nearly a third of his...
City News
It’s Rob Ford’s birthday: 10 gifts for the man who has everything (and by everything, we mean a crack scandal)
Rob Ford probably didn’t want to spend his 44th birthday dodging the media, walking past vacant desks where trusted advisors...
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Culture
QUOTED: An OCAD U father complaining about his daughter’s $180 pictureless art history textbook
— Brent Ashley, the father of a new OCAD University student, blogging about the mandatory $180 textbook required for his...
City News
Did Ryan Gosling really save Laurie Penny’s life? We’re not so sure
Dear Laurie Penny, Given that Ryan Gosling has not actually come out to confirm your life-changing event (he has merely confirmed...
City News
Jonathan Kay responds to Gawker’s taunts over his Toronto Life feature “Almost Rich”
When you argue that a household income of $196,000 is “positively middle class,” as Jonathan Kay did in an essay from Toronto...
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City News
The Toronto Star’s Richard Ouzounian pens “the worst remembrance of Whitney Houston on the Internet”
Snarky site Gawker has called a column by Toronto Star critic Richard Ouzounian “the worst remembrance of Whitney Houston on the...
Food & Drink
LINK: the disgruntled Whole Foods buyer speaks to Gawker (from South Korea)
Yesterday we told you about an unhappy former bulk foods buyer at the Yorkville Whole Foods whose verbose screed of a resignation...
Food & Drink
A kiss-off letter from a disgruntled former Yorkville Whole Foods buyer makes it to Gawker; Internet explodes
A disgruntled former employee of the Whole Foods Market in Yorkville has become an Internet sensation after an incredibly long and...
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City News
Mayor’s office allegedly pulls Now Magazine from city hall, increasing Now’s exposure by 10,000 per cent
The city’s media has a touchy relationship with Rob Ford ’s weight. The mayor is rarely as disarming to reporters as when...
City News
Toronto named possible escape destination for Americans unhappy with today’s election
The U.S. midterm elections are going down today, and lefties are paranoid as the Democrats brace for huge losses . Case in point:...
City News
Burlington woman develops fictional cancer to get attention, Internet grants her wish
The Internet is like a 21st-century monkey's paw: sure, it will grant you a wish, just not in the way you think—you never know...
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Style
American Apparel just can’t catch a break, heinous hiring policy exposed
Beleaguered clothing retailer American Apparel is in hot water yet again, this time after part of its hiring policy, which states...
City News
Oprah names Justin Bieber one of the world’s most talented kids
Yesterday, teen dream Justin Bieber appeared on Oprah as part of her World's Most Talented Kids episode, taped in front of a...
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Wines of the World
Food & Drink
Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
Toronto Life’s
Best Restaurants
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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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This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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