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Katy Perry has been giving valuable career advice to Xavier Trudeau
The R&B artist and former prime minister’s son also got a confidence boost from Drake. Could a Xav x OVO collab be in the works?
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Food & Drink
McDonald’s Canada just dropped a Drake-inspired meal deal
But is it worth the hype?
Food & Drink
“It’s not as easy as putting two things together”: A Q&A with the Toronto chef who created McDonald’s new Chicken Big Mac
It hits menus March 7
Food & Drink
People are losing their minds over McDonald’s all-day breakfast coming to Canada
A roundup of reactions to the big McNews
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Life
A 25-year-old woman’s Tinder date might have soiled himself in McDonald’s
A true story from the frontiers of Toronto's app-enabled dating scene
Food & Drink
McPretenders: seven Toronto takes on the mighty Big Mac
Toronto’s obsession with fancy fast food isn’t new, but it's growing. As the city's snack bars multiply, so too do the options...
Food & Drink
Canada, say hello to McDonald’s poutine (and check out 17 other McOddities from around the world)
McDonald’s Canada sparked a rapturous online love - fest on Tuesday when it announced that its poutine, previously only...
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Food & Drink
VIDEO: See inside the super-sized new McDonald’s near Yonge-Dundas Square (it has fireplaces)
At 9,000 square feet, the new McDonald’s outlet at 356 Yonge Street is the burger giant’s biggest franchise in Ontario—and...
Food & Drink
Must-Try: the Bulgogi Torta from A-OK Foods, a Mexican-Korean spin on a fast food classic
The fundamental insight behind the addictive Bulgogi Torta from A-OK Foods: few sandwiches are as satisfying as a...
Real Estate News
The weirdly cool Bloor Street McDonald’s is out and another condo tower is in
Not even McDonald’s can avoid Toronto’s condo onslaught. The fast food giant sold its property across from the Royal Ontario...
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City News
50 Most Influential 2012: the inaugural class of inductees into the Toronto power players hall of fame
For some, being powerful is a chronic condition. These are the long-lived titans who continue to influence the city with their...
City News
The List: 10 things CFL commissioner Mark Cohon can’t live without
1 | My indestructible watch In 1990 I went on an expedition to the Arctic with 30 Soviet and Canadian students. While I was...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: Should I forgive my date for being a litterbug?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I recently went on a date with a cute girl. After the movie, she suggested we go to McDonald’s. I avoid...
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City News
Rob Ford is going to Chicago to meet Rahm Emanuel and watch a Cubs game
Rob Ford isn’t fond of business trips—he thinks they cost too much —but he will be heading south next month to meet former...
Shopping
The Bay’s Team Canada Olympics collection includes a teddy bear, a flag and an adorable onesie
The 2012 Olympic Games begin tomorrow, which means that in addition to being bombarded with a lot of McDonald’ s...
Food & Drink
VIDEO: How to make a Big Mac (and other valuable lessons from McDonald’s Canada)
McDonald’s has been the subject of any number of stomach-churning, PETA-offending stories over the years, and it seems that...
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Food & Drink
Hemant Bhagwani, the chef-owner of the Amaya empire, on where he goes to splurge and save
(Image: John Cullen)
City News
Ryan Gosling is one of the top 50 sexiest environmentalists
Rodale Inc., owner of Men’s Health, Women’s Health, Prevention, Running Times and Organic Gardening magazines, has put out its...
Food & Drink
Hold the gravy: fast food chains in Canada among the saltiest in the world
It’s no big secret that sodium levels in fast food can be astronomical, but according to a global study, Canadian fast food may...
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Food & Drink
QUOTED: a McDonald’s honcho reflects on the new, breezier atmosphere at his restaurants
— John Betts, CEO of McDonald’s Canada, talking to the Toronto Star’ s Francine Kopun about some of the ways the fast food...
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
McDonald’s to make treatment of pigs slightly less cruel
For years, animal rights activists have insisted that “gestational crates”—the small boxes used to confine pregnant...
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City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: do people have the right to eat a meal on the streetcar?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I get queasy easily, and I can’t stand it when people eat food on the streetcar. I’ve seen passengers...
City News
Rob Ford embarks upon the most predictable year-end media blitz ever
Rob Ford is wrapping up his year-end interview circuit, having spoken to (most of) the city’s major dailies, along with a few...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
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Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
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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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