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Face it: Toronto will always be a hockey town. Even as the Maple Leafs remain mired in the team’s longest playoff drought in decades — an exciting late-season Hail Mary notwithstanding — hockey continually dominates the city’s sports landscape. It’s enough to make a guy forget that Toronto has other … Read More
Because soccer without beer would be like Christmas without snow, the city offered up special events permits to a handful of local drinking establishments for the World Cup, which kicks off on Friday. Here, some of the best pubs for 8 a.m. World Cup action. How you get through the … Read More
It can be tough, in this town, to find someone who’s actually from Calgary. In addition to a sizable immigrant population, our fine town is home to hundreds of thousands of Canadian expats: folks who migrated here from other provinces. And, like Canadians living abroad, these native ex-pats inevitably get … Read More
While we at XY tend to focus on the urban lifestyle, we must acknowledge that some great drinking holes exist outside the 416. Herewith, the best of the ’burbs. Ten Restaurant & Wine Bar Deep red banquettes and soaring two-storey maroon walls create a lusty atmosphere, so head straight to … Read More
In the past few years, as rising rents and loft-hunting yuppies have pushed out the indigenous Queen West crowd, refugees have been drifting north along Ossington, opening galleries and vegan coffee shops along the way. The migration has produced the strange and dynamic intersection of Dundas and Ossington, where Portuguese … Read More
