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Toronto’s best produce sellers
We relish the trek to these great green grocers
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CNN Travel lists the St. Lawrence Market as one of the world’s 10 best fresh markets
The St. Lawrence Market is having a moment: not only did celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain recently stop by to film a segment for...
Food & Drink
Ontario’s corn the latest crop to be threatened by this year’s weird, scorching weather
After the weather in southern Ontario played hot and cold this spring and devastated countless orchards, another local crop is in...
Food & Drink
Go ahead and eat that banana: a local academic (and Margaret Wente) argues local food’s benefits are bunk
In our exploration of foodie resentment last year, locavorism ranked high on the list of gripes. Now, the 100-mile diet backlash...
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Introducing: Stasis Local Foods, the new Roncesvalles emporium for all things pickled and jarred (and preferably local)
Up at the northern tip of Roncesvalles, just south of Dundas, sits the neighbourhood’s newest gourmet food shop, Stasis Local...
City News
Weekend Reading List: top stories from our sister sites, from an autumn walk to the King of Rock
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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Best of the City 2011: Three stops for your meat, fish and fruits and veggies
Game Fish Farmers’ market Whitehouse Meats 93 Front St. E., 416-366-4465 Leila Batten, the ebullient 50-year-old owner of...
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What a waste: UN reports that one third of the world’s food becomes garbage
We already knew we probably waste way more food than we should, but we didn’t know it was this bad. As the BBC reports , a...
Food & Drink
Introducing: The Lakeview Storehouse, Dundas West’s new corner store and communal pantry
Back in November 2010, we told you that the owners of the Lakeview Restaurant were planning on going retail in early December with...
Food & Drink
Want to know how much salt and fat there is in your food? Tough luck, thanks to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency
While Canadians decide who they want leading the country, the bureaucracy in Ottawa is largely spinning its wheels until the next...
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Leslieville strikes oil: Montreal-based Olive and Olives to open up shop this spring
Leslieville’s recent boom in new gourmet food stores—including Foodist Market , Hooked and Sausage Partners —shows no signs...
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Cookstown Greens goes up for sale after 22 years
Cookstown Greens, the pioneering supplier of specialty produce to top Toronto restaurants, is up for sale . Founded in 1988 by...
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Holiday Gift Guide: 13 edible present ideas
We prefer to pass the holiday season by eating our way through it and forcing loved ones to do the same. So we’ve come up with...
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Wild Thing: the story behind the Brick Works
The bucolic eco-paradise between Rosedale and the DVP almost never was. How big money and one ambitious entrepreneur remade the...
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Introducing: Nature’s Emporium, a 50,000-square-foot organic grocery utopia
Just walking past the juice bar and the pesticide-free garden centre and into the almost ridiculously beautiful produce wing of...
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The great scapes: five ways that Toronto chefs are using garlic shoots
For the past few weeks, garlic scapes have been cropping up on menus throughout the city. An early summer treat, these shoots are...
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We ask the top chefs at Toronto Taste what’s in store at George, Splendido, Scaramouche and the rest of the city’s hot restaurants
This past Sunday marked the 20 anniversary of Toronto Taste, the annual event that unites Toronto’s food lovers and food makers...
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My neighbours are growing pot plants in their garden. Our houses are attached, and there’s only a low fence separating our yards. If they were busted, could I get in trouble? Am I being paranoid?
As long as Mary Jane stays on her side of the property line, the fuzz has no reason to knock on your door. And it’s unlikely a...
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Margaret Atwood calls plan to close prison farms “dumb as a stump”
Margaret Atwood scared us into improving our recycling habits with her novels about environmental apocalypse, but the CanLit queen...
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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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The Roncesvalles Guide: Our 25 favourite eating and shopping destinations along Parkdale’s Polish drag
Referred to as Little Poland by long-time residents and Roncey by the younger crowd, the Roncesvalles strip is one of the few...
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Where to eat lunch this week: Epic Restaurant
The ultimate power lunch: the three-course prix fixe at the Royal York makes for refined, delicious multi-tasking The place:...
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Mickey’s pushing mushrooms: Disney sells out to big veggie
Proving that children are an easily swayed mass of consumption, Disney is now shilling fresh vegetables and seeing major...
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Walmart and Whole Foods go head-to-head in organic battle
Developing a hate-on for corporations and big-box retailers is a pastime of many, but it may be time for a paradigm shift. The...
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’s Best Restaurants returns for its 10th-anniversary edition on June 8
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
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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
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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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For Sale: 50 First Avenue
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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For Sale: 75 Queen Street
Guelph is having a moment