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Jesse Brown: Why music streaming services mean the death of radio—or perhaps...
By Jesse Brown | Illustration by Steve Murray Video never did kill the radio star. Neither did CDs or MP3s or even satellite radio, which tried to take down dusty old AM/FM radio by offering a cable...
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Farewell, penny: 10 oddly sweet articles about the coin’s demise
(Image: screenshot from Google.com) The Royal Canadian Mint will stop distributing pennies to banks and businesses tomorrow, which means that, although the humble copper coin remains legal tender,...
View ArticleWhy does everything cost so much more in Canada?
Target’s plans to charge higher prices in Canada than in the U.S. triggered a new round of grumbling about the Canadian–American price gap last month. Now, a Senate committee report on the issue has...
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A new mixed-raced generation is transforming the city: Will Toronto be the...
I used to be the only biracial kid in the room. Now, my exponentially expanding cohort promises a future where everyone is mixed. By Nicholas Hune-Brown | Photography by Kourosh Keshiri | Interviews by...
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Zara is launching online shopping in Canada by summer
(Image: Aurelijus Valeiša) For a long time, Zara has fended off Canadians’ pleas for online shopping, focusing instead on bringing the service to Europe (2010), the U.S. (2011), Japan (2011) and China...
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Starbucks is renaming its Blonde Roast to sound more Canadian
As part of its never-ending quest to lure coffee drinkers away from Timmies, Starbucks has launched a campaign to find a more Canadian name for its Blonde Roast. After canvassing the country for...
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Zara launches online shopping in Canada
After years of waiting for Zara to bring online shopping north of the border, the retail giant is finally launching its Canadian online shop and mobile app. Both the website and the app have the full...
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Toronto surpasses Chicago to become the fourth-largest city in North America
Big news: Toronto pulled ahead of Chicago to become North America’s fourth-largest city behind Mexico City, New York and Los Angeles. According to estimates from Stats Canada and the U.S. Census...
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Is Hudson’s Bay nearing a deal to bring Uniqlo to Canada?
Hudson’s Bay CEO Richard Baker dropped a cagey hint this week that Japanese fast-fashion retailer Uniqlo could be coming to the iconic department store. Baker told the National Post that Uniqlo “is a...
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Trend We Love: clothing stores charging the same prices in Canada and the U.S.
Cross-border shopping is getting less and less tempting. First, a raft of American brands opened stores in Toronto, and now a growing number of shops, including Loft, Ann Taylor, Express and Lululemon,...
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Kirstine Stewart leaves the CBC to run Twitter Canada
(Image: Alan Langford) Two and a half years after Richard Stursberg’s ouster, the CBC is once again looking to fill a void at the helm of its English-language services. News broke just after noon that...
View ArticleJay Onrait and Dan O’Toole are leaving Canada for a gig at Fox Sports
Like so many Canadian television personalities, freewheeling SportsCentre hosts Jay Onrait and Dan O’Toole are moving south of the border. Apparently, after a Wall Street Journal article alerted Fox...
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Jones Soda gets in on the Canadiana trend with its intense new...
Jones Soda, the Vancouver company known for its wacky flavours, is bringing a poutine-flavoured drink to Canada. The beverage is supposed to taste strongly like cheese with a smooth potato finish (we...
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The Find: t-shirts inspired by Broken Social Scene, Feist and other Canadian...
Just in time for the music festival season, designer Jeremy Laing has teamed up with Toronto record label Arts and Crafts and a handful of visual artists to produce a collection of t-shirts inspired by...
View ArticleTarget’s next designer collaboration is with 3.1 Phillip Lim—and it’s being...
After a reported five year courtship, Target has finally convinced buzzy New York-based designer Phillip Lim to do his first mass-market collaboration for fall 2013. Available September 15 across...
View ArticleReal estate website Zoocasa is offering rebates on broker commissions in Toronto
Rogers Communications rolled out a revamped version of Zoocasa, its online resource for home buyers, this week, and along with a new, cleaner look that’s heavy on infographics, the site’s promising to...
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A massive new outlet mall west of Toronto will have the first ever Hudson’s...
Construction is well underway (Image: Premium Outlets) Real estate giants Simon Property Group and Calloway Real Estate Investment Trust are opening a huge outlet mall on August 1 in Halton Hills,...
View ArticleVIDEO: Margaret Atwood has a plan to improve the lyrics to “O Canada”
Should Canada’s anthem be gender-neutral? Literary goddess Margaret Atwood and former PM Kim Campbell think so. Their proposed two-word tweak (“in all thy sons command” would become “in all of us...
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Neiman Marcus not coming to Canada after all
(Image: Franco Folini) The last few years have seen an influx of American retail heavyweights in Canada, including soon-to-launch department dinosaurs Saks Fifth Avenue and Nordstrom. So, it certainly...
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