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Food & Drink
The scraps, stunts and multi-million-dollar investments behind Charles Khabouth’s empire of cool
Life is one never-ending, exclusive party in Charles Khabouth’s 17 faddish restaurants and nightclubs. For those of you who have...
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Food & Drink
Chris Nuttall-Smith takes on La Société, Charles Khabouth’s sexy, buzzy French bistro
Four million dollars buys a lot of restaurant, even on Bloor Street, at the heart of the city’s richest retail mile. Charles...
Food & Drink
Introducing: Café Belong, Brad Long’s new restaurant at the Brick Works
After almost half a year of delays, Brad Long ’ s Café Belong finally opened at the Evergreen Brick Works on Saturday...
Food & Drink
Introducing: 416 Snack Bar, Queen West’s newest spot for cosmopolitan late-night grub
With the recent arrival of such hot spots as The Hideout , Tattoo Rock Parlour and Barchef , the Queen and Bathurst area has seen...
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Culture
Looking back at TIFF 2010: Nick Di Donato on how to throw a film festival party
Nick Di Donato , president and CEO of Liberty Entertainment Group, is sitting in his newest Yorkville restaurant, Ciao , where...
Culture
Today at TIFF: What’s Wrong With Virginia, the Bang Bang Club, DJ set by AL P. and more
Our daily roundup of opening galas, parties and screenings. • 4 p.m. What’s Wrong With Virginia Party at Swarovski Gallery...
Culture
Today at TIFF: Good Neighbours, The Debt, Edward Norton interviews Bruce Springsteen and more
Our daily roundup of opening galas, parties and screenings. • 6 p.m. Edward Norton interviews Bruce Springsteen at Bell Lightbox...
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Culture
Spotted: Josh Brolin, Paul Haggis and Javier Bardem at Av and Dav
On our way home last night, we decided, on a lark, to check out the Toro After Dark space at Pears on Avenue Road. No official...
Culture
Slash parties at Tattoo Rock Parlour with a troupe of bodyguards
When we heard that Slash, the epic rock icon from Guns N' Roses and Velvet Revolver was “hosting” (read: sitting in a private...
City News
From the Archives: a look back on TIFF’s most memorable moments
Oh, Snap 1978 Festival judge Robbie Robertson orders the Plaza II Hotel’s entire stash of Dom Perignon within an hour of...
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Culture
Toronto mom claims Canada’s ultimate MILF prize
Toronto artist Alison Brown took home the Miss Cougar Canada Crown on Friday at a pageant held at Tattoo Rock Parlour . Brown, who...
City News
Rock bands cancel campaign gig when they find out it’s for Mammoliti
Mayoral candidate Giorgio Mammoliti' s camp is scrambling to find a new lineup for next Wednesday’s Rock the Vote night at...
Food & Drink
Just Opened: Ciao Wine Bar mixes South Beach and Italy, and moves it all to Yorkville
For Ciao Wine Bar, its newest high-octane hub, the Liberty Entertainment Group has shaken up the formula that has served them well...
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Culture
Whip It good: Drew Barrymore and Ellen Page at Tattoo Rock Parlour
Roller derby chicks whirled around a TTC streetcar outside Tattoo Rock Parlour on Queen West on Sunday, giving the red carpet...
Culture
Drew Barrymore ditches her Whip It after-party for Sweaty Betty’s
Still a wild child, Drew Barrymore ditched her own party for Whip It (see the red carpet photos here ) at Tattoo Rock Parlour for...
Culture
Today at TIFF: September 13, 2009
Our daily roundup of the most buzz-worthy opening galas, parties and screenings. • Woodstock free public...
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Culture
Canada’s queen of gossip, Lainey, tells us what she knows about the coming of Oprah, Mariah, Clooney, Cage and more
TIFF starts tomorrow, so for our last-minute update on what to expect, who to look for and where to go, we sat down with none...
Food & Drink
Topless coffee shop goes bust, poisoned chickens, speakeasies on the rise
• A Ryerson University professor is developing a time-release salt that delivers an initial burst of flavour followed by smaller...
Food & Drink
Ultra Supper Club unveils its make-over tonight—new name, new menu, new design
Recession menus and food giveaways are quickly becoming the norm for Toronto restaurants. It is in the midst of such bad-times...
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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
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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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
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