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Toronto Christmas Gift Ideas 2013: our guide to the perfect gifts for mom, dad, kids and everyone else
We’ve selected the best, brightest, most covetable new items of the year. There’s something for everyone—especially if...
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Toronto Christmas Gift Ideas 2013: our list of presents for the food lovers
Everything a home cook could possibly want See all the gifts »
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Toronto Christmas Gift Ideas 2013: our list of presents for outdoor enthusiasts
Rugged and sporty gifts for the athletically inclined See all the gifts »
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Toronto Christmas Gift Ideas 2013: our list of presents for discerning kids
Gifts for small people with big taste See all the gifts »
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Toronto Christmas Gift Ideas 2013: our list of presents for culture junkies
The year’s best offerings for people who are really into the arts See all the gifts »
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Toronto Christmas Gift Ideas 2013: our list of presents for jet-setters
Gifts for world travellers (or anyone who just likes nice luggage) See all the gifts »
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Toronto Christmas Gift Ideas 2013: our list of presents for under $50
These 41 gifts are covetable, fun and well-designed. They’re also inexpensive. Here, a list of great gifts for under $50. See...
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Toronto Christmas Gift Ideas 2013: our list of presents from $50 to $200
We scoured the city to find a slew of mid-range gifts for everyone on your list. Here, more than three dozen of our...
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Toronto Christmas Gift Ideas 2013: our list of presents for over $200
Santa’s not the only one with a generous soul—most of us have had the occasional urge to splash out on a top-of-the-line...
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Toronto Christmas Gift Ideas 2013: our top 100 presents for everybody on your list
Our annual list of holiday gift ideas includes presents for kids, foodies, outdoors enthusiasts and more. Here, a roundup of 100...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2012: a creepy candle for Christmas non-purists
A skull can add an impressive air to any room (just ask med school instructors, Hamlet directors and Dutch still life painters...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2012: an outrageously high-end hookah
We doubt many people have ever dreamed of a owning a luxury shisha pipe. However, if you’re scrambling for a gift for the...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2012: a shiny red pasta machine for Mario Batali wannabes
A pasta maker will give your favourite foodie the chance to airily declare, “I stopped buying pasta because homemade tastes so...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2012: a pocket-size iPad keyboard that’s sure to make gadget junkies drool
If the shoulder-to-shoulder crowds at local Apple stores are any indication, lots of iPads will be under the Christmas tree this...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2012: monster friends for human kids
From her home in Dartmouth, N.S., Blythe Church sews these handmade monsters, which she says live in the back of closets and...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2012: a playful illustration of Toronto in all its glory
Presents for the home can be tricky—you don’t want the recipient to feel obligated to display a gift that’s not to their...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2012: a cheeky flask for a manly man
A personal supply of hooch can make anything from a freezing cold football game to a niece’s ballet recital a lot more...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2012: an iPhone dock that’s meant to be noticed
Bang and Olufsen, maker of distinctive-looking audio and video products, wouldn’t sell a run-of-the-mill dock. The BeoPlay A8...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2012: a make-your-own animal kit for less than $10
Who knew a wine cork could so easily transform into a charmingly low-budget buffalo, bear, monkey, deer, bunny or crow? These...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2012: Modernist Cuisine at Home, a cookbook for ambitious home chefs
Modernist Cuisine at Home is a spin-off of Nathan Myhrvold’s Modernist Cuisine, a $625 five-volume epic geared toward serious...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2012: Herschel’s durable, primary-coloured backpacks
Herschel Supply Co. (named after the founders’ tiny Saskatchewan hometown ) makes ultra-tough backpacks with all kinds of useful...
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GALLERY: The top 10 booths from the holiday One of a Kind Show
The One of a Kind Show gives Canadian artisans the chance to sell their lovingly crafted wares, and panicked holiday shoppers the...
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Weekend Reading List: top stories from our sister sites, from roller skaters to deep-fried taters
Every weekend we round up the highlights from the other websites in the St. Joseph Media family. Check them out, after the...
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Holiday bling: a glittery cocktail ring for the party circuit
The Thomas Sabo wing ring ($369) is a fantastic little gift to yourself. It's made of sterling silver, and the stones are...
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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
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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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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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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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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