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SPRING IS IN THE AIR JEANNE BEKER ON TWISTED TRENCH COATS — THE SEASON’S HAUTEST TREND

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If the last two years have taught us anything, it’s that every Toronto doctor is deserving of our thanks and recognition.

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Over time, Kathy picked up on our likes and dislikes, and often helped point out those features, which was great to have an additional perspective, especially further into our house hunt journey.

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A baby giraffe to beat the doom and gloom Plus Fred VanVleet gets engaged and summer music festivals are almost here

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Summer in Toronto means music, and this year’s music festivals are

back, in-person, and already delivering some early promises to be better than ever. Those making announcements already include the popular VELD music festival slated for July 29–31 in Downsview Park. As well, the Toronto Jazz Festival, featuring artists such as Herbie Hancock and Smokey Robinson, is slated to open on June 24. Other great festivals to check out include the NXNE music festival June 14–19 and Canadian Music Week June 6–11.

Fred VanVleet is officially off the market. Last month, the 27-yearold Toronto Raptors point guard proposed to longtime girlfriend Shontai Neal, and the lovebirds took to Instagram to share the news.

A photo posted by VanVleet shows him holding Neal’s hand as she proudly shows off a massive diamond ring and gazes back at him. He added three hearts and fire emojis in the caption. VanVleet and Neal were high school sweethearts and attended college together at Wichita State in Kansas. The couple shares two children, a four-year-old daughter, Sanaa, and their two-year-old son, Fred. Jr.

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Are the Raptors for real We chat with ex-Raptors great and current broadcaster Alvin ‘Boogie’ Williams about our unorthodox team, the rise of Gary Trent Jr. and why he thinks Villanova is still the team to beat in March Madness. by Ron Johnson

40 The number of years the legendary Randy’s Patties was in business before announcing a closure last month.

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Alvin Williams was a popular player during his time with the Raptors and now (inset) as part of the Raptors broadcast team with Sportsnet

That game against Philadelphia during the playoffs, we were one Vince Carter rim bounce away from a deep playoff run.

Is that your most memorable moment?

Yeah, that moment right there, in the playoffs being on a team having success in the postseason. I didn’t play at all the previous year in the playoffs, and that next year beating the Knicks in the Garden, then playing against a very good 76ers team with Allan Iverson that eventually lost to the Lakers in the finals. That post-season was the highlight of my career.

And the opportunity to play with so many great players, having the opportunity to play with people like Mugsy Bogues, Dee Brown, Charles Oakley, Antonio Davis, Dell Curry, Mark Jackson, so many great players. It was very cool.

How does playing in front of our fans here compare to a place like MSG?

Well, Madison Square Garden is the mecca

What is your prediction for March Madness this year?

I mean I gotta go with my [Villanova] Wildcats. I love the product coach Wright puts out there, the culture he’s created. Villanova always recruited a certain type of kid and family, and those guys play their butts off, they play hard and disciplined. I’m going with Wildcats again.

Has the team surprised you this year?

Right now, they are right around where I thought they would be. I’m very happy with Scottie Barnes. He was a great draft pick. I believe he can be one of the next great players in this league with his ability and skill but more importantly with his love of the game.

What, if anything, is this team missing?

Players coming off the bench, we need to solidify that role. There are a lot of players who can do multiple things, and that’s beautiful.

But you also need to have a guy who’s just a

great shooter, a sniper or a guy with constant energy to come get four or five offensive rebounds. I love the versatility, but you need depth when it comes to a specialty.

How about Gary Trent Jr., what’s the ceiling on this guy?

I love it, I love what he’s bringing. To me, when he came to Toronto, we knew he was someone who can score. Playing with CJ [McCollum] and Damian Lillard in Portland, he definitely learned some things on the scoring side of the basketball. But defensively, really, is where he’s making his bones. He’s really competing, guarding and then that scoring punch. He is that guy.

So what team is coming out of the East?

It’s tough. Of course you have to look at Brooklyn. With KD [Kevin Durant] and Kyrie [Irving] and now Ben Simmons, they have the roster that looks like it can do damage. I’ve always questioned their leadership. I wonder what the locker room looks like to go for a championship run.

Then, of course, you have to look at Milwaukee, 76ers again with a threat like James Harden alongside Joel Embid.… I’m not saying Raps are championship level, but they’re in the mix. Then, of course, Chicago. Miami has a culture and toughness, even though I don’t think they have the size they need. In other words, I don’t have a clue who is going to come out of the East, but it’s going to be very interesting to watch.

18/1 The current odds of the Toronto Maple Leafs making it to the Stanley Cup Finals in 2022.

40 The percentage of Toronto and area young homebuyers who had help from parents to make the purchase, according to a new poll.

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The enthusiasm and the support was always there, it’s always fun to play in Toronto. Now fans know the NBA game more, the culture, the players. There’s more knowledge. But with that comes greater expectations and more criticisms. There is a lot that’s changed from that standpoint. But the makeup of the fan base has always been supportive. It’s a beautiful thing to have one team rep a whole country.

— historically, traditionally, there is no comparison because of that history. You see the history when you walk in there, Ali fought there. It’s like wow, we are in a different place.

And it’s dark everywhere except on the court, so it’s like centre stage when you’re playing there. Toronto is a newer team, the tradition is growing, they won a championship. But it’s the fans of Toronto who really make that building. You see other players talk about playing in Toronto and how cool it is.

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It has been a while. If you’re like me, you’ll be very cautiously optimistic with one eye to the future and one looking behind, in a perennial state of checking to make sure the coast is clear. I feel as though this will be standard operating procedure for a long time to come.

For doctors and the entire healthcare community, it means time to breathe and time to catch up. I managed one visit to the doctor during a lull between one of the waves. I haven’t been back since. I expect a surge to come from those who have waited patiently to see to those minor issues that have been piling up. It’s all part of getting back to normal. And looking after yourself both mentally and physically should be a priority.

This month, our cover story highlights some of the best doctors in the city, whether specialists, surgeons or family doctors providing much-needed essential care to our communities.

I wish I could say it’s over. I’ll leave it to those in the know, and I don’t mean politicians. But I do know that we still have each other’s backs, and I hope we will continue to put people first going forward. That way, nobody loses.

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Is this the month that everything changes? That we begin to put the pandemic in the rear view mirror and return to a close approximation of normalcy? Maybe. For most of us, we are united behind science and, more importantly, doing the right thing to make sure we all stay safe. And, that also means we understand that things could change again. We accept it. But that doesn’t mean we are happy about it.

That being said, March has a way of putting everyone in a good mood. It means the arrival of spring, longer days and an increasing number of warmer ones. Toward the end of last month, it was already beginning. A few warm days in a row meant shovelling the snow off the back deck, sitting and enjoying the day in relative peace and quiet outside the house, then recovering a wayward bird feeder from a snowbank knocked unceremoniously to the ground by a plucky squirrel eager for a snack.

At this point, it’s the small things. And that’s OK. We all have things on our lists we are looking forward to. That first time returning to a favourite restaurant with friends or family will be a memorable experience. Returning to a large concert venue to share in a communal experience of live music, many taking an extra moment to survey the scene, take it all in with a smile.

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Toronto is one of the most multicultural cities in the world. We wear that badge proudly. Ukrainians first settled in this area in the early 1900s, and there continues to be a strong and proud community in the city. When Russia invaded Ukraine, it didn’t take long for us, as Canadians, to support our friends and our neighbours. There have been rallies in support of Ukraine. Organizations in the

city are directing donations to those in need, including the Canada-Ukraine Foundation, Save the Children Canada and the Ukrainian World Congress. And anything else that needs to be done, it is clear that we will make it a priority.

This has been a trying two years, and what has happened to Ukraine shall not stand and will not be forgotten.

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City councillor Josh Matlow happy Regent Theatre will get a new life

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A production company based in St. John’s, Newfoundland, has purchased the Regent Theatre in Toronto’s Davisville community and hopes to return it back to its former glory.

Terra Bruce Productions purchased the Regent for $7.4 million and plans to use the space for live theatre — the venue’s original use when it first opened in 1927, before it became a movie theatre.

The production company was started in 2018. They have since created a wide variety of content, from live theatre to music videos and web series.

They just finished a big run of their musical No Change in the Weather that ran in both Toronto and St. John’s. Now the company is making its first foray into Toronto’s venue scene with the Regent.

“We believe that breathing new life into this historic theatre will be of enormous benefit to the city, the arts community and to Davisville,” Terra Bruce’s chief operating officer, Bob Hallett, told Post City. “There’s going to be a huge investment in time and resources to bring the building back to its former glory.”

The theatre is heritage listed, which means that further evaluation must be done if there are plans for demolition.

However, Hallett said that any work on the building will be

“more cosmetic” and focus largely on its interior to allow for live productions. He said that design plans are currently being considered and are in the “early stages,” and he does not have a timeline for when the theatre will reopen.

City councillor for the neighbourhood, Josh Matlow said that he is “thrilled” about the purchase of the Regent and is set to speak to Terra Bruce shortly on their plans.

“I’ve been advocating for the revitalization of the theatre for many years along with the community,” Matlow said. “I’m just so happy about the direction that we seem to be going.”

Matlow said that the theatre has been an “iconic” part of the Davisville community for decades and an important element in Toronto’s arts and culture scene. He hopes that the revitalization will also be a boost to local businesses reeling from COVID-19 restrictions, envisioning patrons grabbing a bite before seeing a show.

Although the Regent has seen closures over the last two years due to the pandemic, Matlow is optimistic that live theatre will return and even see a “vibrant renaissance.”

“This is just good news for everyone,” he said.

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Renderings of the proposed development on the surface parking lots around Yorkdale Mall

Yorkdale is about to get huge add up to 10,000 new residents.

“We’re getting an area that’s going to be built that is larger than many Ontario towns,” he said.

He said the project will be a “monumental challenge” to create given the relatively small size of the lot and the traffic congestion that is already there.

For context, the surface area of the development is similar to a downtown area bounded by University Avenue to the west, Yonge to the east, Queen to the south and Dundas to the north, taking in all of the Eaton Centre,

“It’ll just be gridlock if we can’t get those two streets going.” city hall and much more. It is that big.

With the Yorkdale surface parking lots gone, Colle said all parking at the mall will move underground, but he still feels there may not be enough if people continue to rely on their cars.

Adding to congestion are three 30-storey towers already under construction across the street.

To help with traffic flow, the city is working on a transportation master plan that Colle said is “contingent” for this project to work properly.

The plan calls for Dufferin

Street to be extended north of Wilson Avenue and hook into the Allen Road expressway and for Caledonia Road to be extended north by tunnelling under Highway 401.

“You can’t have those two dead end streets [Dufferin and Caledonia],” Colle said. “It’ll just be total gridlock if we can’t get those two streets going.”

There are also a substantial number of recommendations to improve the cycling and pedestrian modes around the site: including two bridges reserved for cyclists and pedestrians, as well as three mobility hubs for bike share, adding sidewalks to all roads without them and cycling connections throughout the development.

Community consultation was slated to be held in late February to go over the transportation plans.

Colle is also pushing for “community infrastructure” to be included in the new development, including a school, clinics and a library.

Luckily, the city has plenty of time to work with Yorkdale developers to make all of the plans feasible. Colle said this project likely wouldn’t be complete for the next 20 to 30 years.

“It’s a very daunting task ahead for everybody to make this work,” he said. “But we’ve got time to do it. We’ve got to get it right.”

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If you’re fed up with traffic congestion and parking at Yorkdale Shopping Centre, we’ve got news — things may not get any better in the future with the addition of thousands of new residents over the next decade.

That’s because a large-scale development is being proposed for the mall’s surface parking lot that could hold more than 5,000 new residential units on the site, as well as more stores, a promenade, a new hotel and three public parks.

Oxford Properties, which owns the mall, is calling for 19 towers that range from 12 to 40 storeys to be built in a crescent pattern along the lot’s north and west ends.

Oxford and the City of Toronto have been working on the Yorkdale Block Master Plan for years. The latest version went to the Design Review Panel for comment last November.

The developer said in a statement that Yorkdale will become “the heart of a new neighbourhood complete with parks, open space and walkable streets.” Oxford added, “In the future, surface-level parking lots will not constitute the highest and best use of land in dense urban centres. Future residential development at Yorkdale provides an opportunity to utilize this land to add to the city’s modest supply of modern purpose-built rental apartments.”

Local councillor Mike Colle told Post City that the development is essentially a “new city within the city” that could

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by Jennifer Schembri The Government of Canada announced this week that through FedDev Ontario it would be investing $480 thousand to Nia Centre for the Arts, Canada’s first multidisciplinary professional arts space dedicated to Black artists and residents in Toronto.

Located steps away from Toronto’s Little Jamaica neighbourhood at 524 Oakwood Ave. in the Cedarvale neighbourhood, Nia Centre for the Arts is a not-for-profit organization that was established more than a decade ago to, according to the centre, “address the lack of safe space for the Afro-diasporic community to collaborate, create, and for Black artists to push their creative limits.”

Construction of the 14,000square-foot facility is underway, and once complete, the space will house a 160-seat performance theatre, a digital media lab, an event and exhibition space, a multi-use performance space and a visual art and recording studio.

The newly redeveloped centre will hold programs and events and provide space for artist studios and galleries, and a coworking space, rooftop patio, upgrades to building accessibility and enhanced Wi-Fi infrastructure are also in the works.

“Nia Centre plays an essential

role in keeping Black Canadians connected to each other through arts programs, cultural events and community advocacy,” said Alicia Hall, executive director of Nia Centre. “Through this funding, we will have a much-needed outdoor space and be able to respond to our communities’ need for accessible facilities.

Investments in Black communities is an essential component in building a sustainable future for Canada.”

Through fundraising efforts, the organization has already raised more than $6 million for the renovation and over the years has connected thousands of young people and emerging youth artists to mentors and created opportunities to build transferable skills and employment.

“Supporting diverse and inclusive economic growth is critical, as the Toronto region prides itself for its vibrant, multicultural community hubs,” said Carolyn Bennett, Minister of Mental Health and Addictions and member of Parliament for Toronto–St. Paul’s.

The centre has also launched a $1.7 million capital campaign, which will go toward completing the renovation as well as equipment purchases. To date, the centre has raised just over $665,000.

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The One condo at Yonge and Bloor may have lost its anchor tenant, Apple

No Apple store for Yorkville?

Landmark space could go back on market A new multi-use condo project called The One at Toronto’s Yonge Street and Bloor Street intersection was all set to have a glitzy tenant move into the main floor of the retail space. Tech giant Apple was preparing to take up thousands of square feet of retail space for its brand-new flagship store. But the company is now threatening to exit the 85storey skyscraper by Mizrahi Developments, causing major trouble for the project that is expected to be the tallest mixeduse residential and commercial building in the country.

It has been reported that, with a variety of building delays and missed deadlines, the flagship Apple store may pull out of the project entirely by taking advantage of an option in its lease agreement that will allow

the company to exit the space without penalty as long as the developer misses certain deadlines.

Apple’s lease in the One is a sprawling 15,000 square feet with over 9,000 square feet of ground floor retail space alone.

Mizrahi Developments even agreed to pay for all of Apple’s design costs for the custom-built ground floor space, estimated to ring in at $6.24 million.

Apple’s departure would leave a stunning space empty.

In court documents filed by Mizrahi in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice this past fall, the One argued that Apple was meant to be an anchor tenant in the world-class property and its exit will cause irreparable harm. “[It’s] a loss that cannot be compensated in damages,” the

by Raquel Farrington company stated.

The space was designed by architects Foster & Partners, including seven layers of glass built with custom-fabricated panels retailing at over $400,000.

Apple declined to comment on the matter when contacted by Streets of Toronto. There has yet to be any resolution and both parties appear to still be fighting out the issue in court.

Positioned in an ideal spot on the Mink Mile at 1 Bloor St. W., where luxury retail abounds, other than a major blow to the ego and a bit of a hit to the building’s reputation, The One shouldn’t have too much trouble finding a replacement.

The building is set to include a hotel and restaurants, as well as luxury condos and penthouse suites priced at over $30 million.

The proposed site is approximately 200 metres north of the upcoming Leaside LRT station. The city originally proposed a maximum height of six storeys for the location, but that has since been overridden by a provincial mandate for more density around transit stations to increase Toronto’s housing supply.

Leaside Residents Association’s co-president Geoff Kettel pointed out, though, that three other nearby developments are mid-rise.

“What’s different about this location?” Kettel asked. “It just doesn’t make sense.”

The application comes amid a “big rush” from developers, Kettel said, to get project applications in before the city enacts an Inclusionary Zoning policy in September. “[They] just want to get them in the door before the door closes,” he said.

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Residents are saying a proposed 25-storey development near Bayview Avenue and Eglinton Avenue East is too tall for the location, despite its proximity to an upcoming LRT station.

The proposed project at 1837-1845 Bayview Ave., from developer Gupta Group, features 288 residential units. There would also be a six-storey base and 256 square metres of retail space on the ground floor.

Local councillor Jaye Robinson told Post City in a statement that the current application is “completely inappropriate for the site.”

“At 25 storeys, the proposed development is out of scale with the existing context, which is characterized by low- and mid-rise buildings,” Robinson said.

She said she has received dozens of emails and phone calls from the community concerning the proposal.

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The law of unintended consequences renders an explanation for the obvious that seemingly no one could have predicted. We can see this law at work in midtown.

Midtown is becoming the new downtown as a result of the rampant highrise development and the Eglinton-Crosstown LRT. Now is time to think about the vision of midtown. City councillors should seize the opportunity at this year’s municipal election.

For decades, the “progressive” downtown councillors have been skilled and unapologetic at directing investment into the downtown core to meet the ongoing needs of those who live there, such as theatres and cultural centres, public art and parks.

Midtown councillors need to learn from their colleagues and make sure their neighbourhoods have a plan that not only includes traffic, but also affordable housing, schools and the addition of other core amenities.

The impacts of increased traffic have been felt already. Traffic lights have replaced stop signs on Duplex, and other local streets have become one-directional.

Although these measures are welcome, they are ad hoc. The traffic plans should expand beyond Eglinton Avenue and Yonge Street to include traffic management of residential streets.

Like the core, homelessness has also become an increasing

problem in the midtown area.

The city’s experiment using hotels to house the homeless has been controversial, but, at the same time, the unaffordability of housing is an intractable problem for the area. The current approach is to require developers to include a percentage of affordable housing in new developments; however, this will not be enough.

With the conversion of the local theatres in the area to condos, midtown needs a performing arts and cultural centre. There have been many competing plans for the TTC lands at Yonge and Eglinton.

Given the pressures on midtown, those lands should be used strategically to support the conversion of midtown to a new downtown. The lands should be used for green space, a performing arts centre and a school. If there is any housing that is built on the site, it should be affordable.

We can still achieve the best that a downtown has to offer while minimizing some of the downsides. Hopefully councillors will seize the opportunity instead of having the deal with the consequences.

KAREN STINTZ

Karen Stintz is a former city councillor, elected in 2003, and was a chair of the TTC. She lives in Ward 8.

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“What can be done to bring people back into a sense that they are an integral part of society at large?”

It was a powerful program, resulting in what some even call a golden age. Jobs were plentiful, virtually everyone had good money, and social institutions expanded enormously: witness the growth of universities, health care facilities and housing people could afford.

No, it was not perfect. Some were mired in poverty, racial discrimination was far too prevalent, the natural environment was put under too much stress, and the legacy of colonialism was not addressed.

But for the growing middle class there was a strong social cohesion.

Our challenge, if we are to confront the fractured society we

now live in, is to devise ways to again make everyone feel they are part of something larger.

It will probably start with finding ways of sharing our financial resources broadly: a fairer tax system and ways for our public institutions to fund and deliver programs that give everyone fair opportunities.

Critical, of course, is finding ways to address climate change and acknowledging that the fossil industry is leading us to widespread calamity and death.

The great disappointment is that our governments hardly seem up to these tasks. Justin Trudeau’s regime has no interest in a fairer tax system, nor does the Conservative opposition.

That’s the conundrum.

We must construct a more progressive system of government and democracy. We need our leaders to talk seriously about creating a society in which everyone feels they have a part, that they can share in the wealth and opportunity.

Yes, it means a government more active in changing the distribution of wealth and income, and that is a tall order.

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The idea of recreating social cohesion is the problem that faced the western world after the Second World War. Societies were at a crossroads, and the solution was the welfare state: distribute social goods, such as health care, education, income and wealth, more broadly.

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The Freedom Convoy folks met their match in the Toronto police.

The police blocked trucks and other vehicles from parts of the central city, so the protestors were on foot, something many of us can easily live with.

Toronto police learned from the failure of police in Ottawa and on Windsor’s Ambassador Bridge to control the occupation or insurrection or whatever one might call it.

What is surprising in Toronto and elsewhere is the significant number of people that these events attracted. More than 90 per cent of Canadians have received at least one vaccination, so it is clear that many of these protesters are reacting to more than just the vaccine mandate, which some truckers said was their issue.

Yes, some of the convoy consists of those wanting to bring down the government by any devious means, but most everyone agrees that most of those attending the protests probably do not share those twisted values.

I think the larger issue is that too many people feel disaffected. They do not feel part of the larger society.

It is an inchoate disappointment or anger, one that is not fully formed and searching for some new kind of cohesion. The terrifying worry is that cohesion might come from fascism or dictatorial rule, which seems to be hovering at the edges and ready to seize the opportunity for power.

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Prominent menswear shop makes big move Plus a hauntingly delicious new fried chicken joint, a luxury skin care clinic and more The Coop Ink might be known best for creating

several of former hockey commentator Don Cherry’s iconic custom suits, but it has actually been a staple in the neighbourhood since 1983. Now, nearly 40 years later, this designer and custom suit shop is relocating. The new location will only be one level with a larger parking area, and it will be just a short drive from the original location at 3435 Yonge St. The new Coop Ink will be opening in midMarch at 156 Duncan Mill Rd. Black Goat Cashmere will be hosting its annual

warehouse sale at the Kimpton Saint George Hotel at 280 Bloor St W. Shoppers can get 30 to 80 per cent off some of the most sustainable cashmere in the city from the brand’s only Toronto location. The warehouse sale will run from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. from March 24 to March 26. Appointments are encouraged and can be booked online.

Johnny Corallo, owner of the almost 40-year-old the Coop

Mississauga’s Ghost Chicken has just opened a second location at 74 Ossington Ave. The popular fried chicken joint is known for its halal meat and chicken thigh sandwiches. In addition to the classic Nashville fried chicken, Ghost Chicken offers mac and cheese, garlic fries and bites. Like its name implies, once you’ve had one sandwich, this place will haunt you until you’ve had another.

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A new skin care clinic located at 468 Eglinton Ave. W. is bringing out-of-this-world skin care treatments to Toronto. Services at LeReve Skin Clinic include platelet-rich plasma, laser hair removal and micro-needling, alongside plenty of facials and treatments. If you’re not quite sure what you need, Le Reve provides complimentary consultations and personalized treatment plans.

Marc Jacobs is the latest upscale brand to be

introduced to Yorkdale Shopping Centre. The 1,900-square-foot location at 3401 Dufferin St. marks the New York City brand’s first stand-alone storefront in Canada. Visit the shop for handbags, footwear and the latest styles in ready-to-wear fashion. Marc Jacobs is open on the ground level between Jo Malone London and Tumi.

The size-inclusive Miriam Baker boutique inside Bayview Village has permanently shut its doors after just four months of operation. Citing COVID-19 closures that have affected the retail world, founder Miriam Baker decided not to continue the lease at 2901 Bayview Ave. The storefront included a cutting table that allowed the designer to work while serving customers. Although the boutique was Baker’s first physical store location, it likely won’t be her last.

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officers have arrested a 30year-old male suspect of Toronto after the stabbing of a TTC employee. On Wednesday, Feb. 9, at 6:11 a.m., officers responded to a call of a stabbing at Dupont Subway Station. It is alleged that the on-duty TTC employee was travelling south on the University line when a male suspect became disruptive on the train.

When he was asked to stop by the TTC employee, the suspect became aggressive and stabbed the TTC employee. He is facing several charges including assault, assault with a weapon and assault causing bodily harm.

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Police began their investigation into the male suspect on Jan. 25, 2022, after one of his former students reported a sexual assault that had occurred in 2016 when she was approximately 13 years old. On Feb. 3,

the suspect was arrested and charged with sexual assault and sexual interference with a person under 16.

The accused has taught karate for many years at locations in Vaughan and Mississauga and had access to children. Police are urging any additional victims or witnesses to come forward. is requesting public assistance as part of a shooting investigation. On Saturday, Feb. 19, at 2:30 p.m., police officers responded to a call for a shooting in the area of Dufferin Street and Sheppard Avenue West. It is alleged that two motor vehicles were being driven southbound on Dufferin Street when the occupant of one vehicle pulled out a gun and fired a shot at the other vehicle. No one was injured, but the shot caused the vehicle’s window to break. Police are asking anyone driving in the area at the time who may have dashboard camera footage to contact them.

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Urban farming is a trendy new condo amenity that could have much greater benefits New developments around the city are allowing residents to get dirt under their green thumbs on terraces, rooftops and adjacent lands by Ron Johnson Condominium amenities used to be fairly simple. There was a party room, maybe a fitness centre. Then things changed when condo living took off. Now, the latest amenity not only fills a void often associated with sky-high living — namely, getting your hands dirty in fresh soil and growing things — it not only benefits those who use it, but could turn out to offer greater benefits for the city at large.

Call it urban farming or rooftop gardening, but it is, ahem, growing like a weed.

Joe Nasr, PhD and certificate instructor and associate researcher at Ryerson University, is an independent scholar, lecturer and consultant based in Toronto who has been exploring urban agriculture and food security issues for 25 years.

He says the trend of growing food on building rooftops is now taking off, but has been here for the better part of two decades.

And it’s one that extends well beyond residential building rooftops. But this is an area that is expanding.

Waterfront Toronto recently

gave the city its first look at the upcoming Quayside development and jaws collectively dropped. Not just as a result of the scale of the development, but also the forward-thinking nature of the buildings and amenities. One thing that stood out as a growing trend that could have many benefits for the city and its residents is urban farming.

The world-class development, located on a 12-acre site at the foot of Parliament Street and Lake Shore Boulevard East, will be the country’s first all-electric, zerocarbon master plan.

Following an international search, Waterfront Toronto announced that it will begin negotiations with Dream Unlimited Corp. (Dream) and Great Gulf Group, known as Quayside Impact Limited Partnership, for developing the downtown Toronto site.

“Today we take an important next step in unlocking the full potential of the city’s waterfront.

Dream Unlimited and Great Gulf together with their team of architects and local partners have a

strong proposal to make Quayside and Toronto’s waterfront among the best in the world,” said Jack Winberg, chair of Waterfront Toronto’s Investment and Real Estate Committee (IREC).

As part of the Quayside development, an urban farming operation will be stationed atop a mass timber residential building.

But, according to Waterfront Toronto, details of the operation are still taking shape.

located at 60 Richmond St. E., and that there are approximately 20 such operations on buildings around the city.

At 60 Richmond St. E., an 11storey, 85-unit apartment building designed for the Toronto Community Housing Corporation, is the first Toronto co-operative housing project built within the last 20 years.

Here, located on the sixth floor, is a productive garden utilized not

“Many of the new buildings being built in the phases that have been completed so far have essentially a community garden on the roof. ” “The farm will be situated atop the mass timber building designed

by Adjaye Associates,” said Simon Bredin, a spokesperson for Waterfront Toronto, although no further details are available just yet.

He explained that one of the first buildings to adopt an urban farm on its rooftop back in 2006 is

only by residents, but also a main floor restaurant that grew some products that were used in the kitchen. Buildings such as the Logan condominium on Queen Street East in Leslieville and the Artsy Condo in Regent Park also have urban farming amenities.

Both examples are from builder Daniels Corp., which Nasr cites as

a particularly innovative company in this field.

“The potential is starting to be realized, through some recognition by the builders, that this can be an amenity that many residents appreciate,” said Nasr. “The leader in this regard has been Daniel's Corporation and what they have done in particular in Regent Park.

Many of the new buildings being built in the phases that have been completed so far have essentially a community garden on the roof for the residents. And this has also been picked up by some of the buildings being developed by the Toronto Community Housing Corporation.”

Another development with urban farming is the Plant on Queen West, which opened in 2020. One of its featured amenities is residential garden plots on a third-floor terrace.

Nasr explained that, as an amenity, how it works is that residents can be assigned a garden bed to develop as they see fit, just like the many community gardens in the city of Toronto.

“You have the ability to plant certain things that you might, you know, if there is some particular cultural background, you might plant those things that are hard to get,” he said.

There are many ways in which developers are including gardening opportunities. Urban farming amenities can also include an internal greenhouse such as the one at the Plant, which cultivates seeds and plants.

Moreover, each suite at the boutique 10-storey building incorporates a micro garden bed and a terrace for growing crops. If the trend continues to grow, it could mean a deal more than a pleasant hobby.

“There are various broader benefits of urban agriculture that are recognized by now and those are more general,” Nasr explained.

“In the case of residential buildings, they [the gardens] are brought into denser areas where there would be no alternatives, but at the same time greening the roof.”

Urban agriculture could become a viable local food source, especially when looked at beyond simple residential construction to include the barren rooftops of commercial warehouse and manufacturing businesses as well as institutional buildings.

“It is becoming larger. There's more commercial and more investment pouring into it internationally,” he said.

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Clockwise from left: An aerial rendering of the rooftop urban farming operation at Quayside, the Plant condo on Queen West, and researcher Joe Nasr (right) published a book on urban agriculture with Mark Gorgolewski and June Komisar

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If you like the idea of calling your vacation spot home, you’re not alone. According to findings from the Statistics Canada’s 2021 Census, resort destinations are among the fastest growing communities in Canada; Ontario is no exception. Data on the population growth rate of census agglomerations (CAs) across Canada saw Wasaga Beach and Collingwood high on the list.

The Wasaga Beach CA showed an increase of 20.3 per cent from 2016 to 2021 in the number two spot, and Collingwood jumped by 13.8 per cent in the number five spot. Tillsonburg, at number three, showed 17.3 per cent population growth.

The report from Statistics Canada noted that Wasaga Beach and Collingwood are known for being tourist destinations or resort cities. “These resort CAs attracted migrants from other areas in their respective provinces, a factor that explains practically all the population growth in [these towns],” the report notes.

Yvonne Brockman, a realtor operating in Wasaga, Collingwood, Stayner, Meaford and Thornbury, is seeing a similar trend in person. “[GTA buyers] are selling their homes and cashing out and then looking for land to build on. Land

is really in demand right now,” she says, adding that Collingwood is in the midst of a one-year moratorium on new builds, implemented by town council.

“Collingwood’s getting really over-saturated.… The locals aren’t buying as much. It’s really GTA [buyers] coming from Brampton, Guelph, Kitchener and Toronto and the surrounding areas.”

It’s all very indicative of lifestyle trends hatched during the pandemic. Homeowners want more space and better value than what large urban centres can offer.

Meanwhile, the appeal of somewhere like Wasaga or Collingwood is strengthened by their proximity to Canada’s best ski hills, parks and beaches. Even so, Brockman says that lakelandsbased realtors have been surprised by the rush of interest in the outskirt real estate markets.

“We didn’t expect to see such a spiraling out of control here at this time of the year,” she says.

At one point, Wasaga Beach was down to a two-week supply of houses: eight homes for sale and about 800 buyers.

“I think that’s because of all of the talk about inflation and interest rates going up, and people just want to lock in to their new mortgage for the next three to five years,” she says.

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Developer Brad Lamb on pockets of value in a very hot market

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There's a very low supply of lowrise housing year to year. And there's a much bigger supply of mid- to high-rise housing. If you put a house up for sale pretty much anywhere in the GTA, you're holding offers and you're going to get multiple offers on that house, and then that house will likely sell for a record. But now, the condo market is very tight, too, and I’m going to say that offers are being held on about 25 per cent of the condos that come to market. They’ll put those up for sale, and it will sell for a record as well. The thing about Toronto is, single-family housing surrounds our core, and it’s so conveniently located that these houses will just go up higher and higher in value. I think there’s still more relief in

What is the greatest opportunity for potential buyers right now?

The cheapest real estate is the stuff that was built in the ’80s.

And there's a bunch of stuff built in the 1980s clustering around Bay Street, the St. Lawrence Market, a little bit on King West and a little bit on Yonge and St. Clair. Those units are priced significantly below the new product, and they're also significantly larger. Back in 1988, when 1001 Bay St. was built, for example, those units are 600square-foot one-bedrooms. And today a one-bedroom is 450 square feet. That older unit will sell for 20 per cent below what a new building will sell for and you could put in a new kitchen, new bathroom flooring and you got kind of a new apartment.

What trends are you seeing in new builds for condos?

The City of Toronto decided recently that balconies should be included in the encroachment areas between buildings. That means that, if you’re building

next to another building, you have to stay a certain distance away. The building face used to be where the encroachment started, but now they’re saying the balcony face is where the encroachment starts.

So balconies are being eliminated everywhere. If you put a six-foot balcony all the way around your building, you’re losing six feet of density times 40 floors, and builders can’t sell that space as interior space. Price always determines everything. Units are getting smaller because people have limited budgets, so we’re looking at ways to make apartments more efficient and cheaper.

We’re also finding that tenants, who make up most of the condo market, who move into a unit that’s 700 to 800 square feet or smaller usually don’t have a car.

They might have an electric bike or scooter or something, so they’re taking up less parking.

However, the people buying larger apartments, two bedrooms or more, they tend to have more money and tend to have cars. So what we try to do in my company is reserve parking for anyone buying a two-bedroom or larger.

We used to have one or more parking spaces per condo unit 15 or 20 years ago, and now we typically have one for every four units.

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Is the condo market on the same path as the home market?

the condo market. I don’t think we will see the same kind of absurd pricing as those singlefamily properties. But 10 years from now, we will be significantly higher in the condo market than we are today.

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The Toronto condo market appears to be following the same track of the single-family home market after a slight cooling down. With competition among buyers spurring bidding wars and a shortage of listings, prices are on the rise almost week by week.

For some insight into what’s to come for the condo market and what trends to look out for, we spoke with Brad Lamb, developer and founder of Brad J. Lamb Realty.

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bicyclists and a pedestrian bridge that will provide access into the City of Toronto’s trail system.

Clockwise from left: The Meadoway in the Don Valley, the popular Beltline Trail and midtown’s new linear park the Green line

It’s almost spring, and linear parks are set to take over the city From the Green Line in midtown to an expansion of the York Belt Line, the Davenport Diamond and the sprawling 16-kilometre Meadoway by Jennifer Schembri

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Toronto is home to more than 1,500 incredible parks and green spaces, from the 11 located within the Scarborough Bluffs, to the picturesque, 36-acre Trinity Bellwoods located just west of the downtown core. These traditional urban spaces are crucial for quality of life, especially as the pandemic pushed more people to the outdoors. But one of the most intriguing green spaces gaining in popularity is the linear park.

The distinction of linear parks is that they are significantly longer than wide, can be used to transport visitors across neighbourhoods and are an ingenious way to repurpose underused land.

New York City’s High Line is a prime example of a linear park done right. Built on an elevated rail line that was once destined for demolition, the dynamic public space is a continuous, 1.45-mile greenway, featuring more than 500 species of trees and plants, and is home to a number of public programs.

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of a new linear park is causing a great deal of excitement in Toronto. With construction set to begin in the spring, the Green Line is a five-kilometre, multiuse park system, located in midtown Toronto. It will run from Wiltshire Hydro Corridor to the Annex. Although the City of Toronto has operated many parks in this hydro corridor for several decades, the vision to make this space, consisting of 45 parcels of land, function as a connected series of open spaces within this corridor has been a long-standing goal.

“I think everyone will agree that we’ve seen our parks and green spaces used and appreciated like absolutely never before,” said Dave Harvey, executive director of Park People, the organization that developed the Green Line project. “It’s more commonly held now that parks are absolutely core urban infrastructure. It’s not a nice little amenity. It’s as essential as roads or water or sewers,” he said during the Future of Public Space webinar presented by Ryerson

City Building Institute.

Once completed, the Green Line will provide much-needed park space for a number of the neighbourhoods it passes through and connects. Last year, the first confirmed park within the Green Line was announced. Located in the Davenport neighbourhood, construction of Macpherson Avenue Park is set to begin in the spring and will become the eastern entrance to the Green

Line will include a doubling of parks in the corridor, bike paths and accessible walkways, public gardens, a dog park, seating areas, Indigenous placekeeping through art, interpretive signage and medicinal plants and opportunities for public art.

Although it won’t be complete until 2024, there’s another linear park set to join Toronto’s growing list of green spaces. The Meadoway is a 16-kilometre

“We’ve seen our parks and green spaces used and appreciated like absolutely never before.”

Line. The proposed design plans show a large number of seating options, exercise equipment, an abundance of shrubs and fruit trees and an amphitheatre.

There are 20 proposed projects for the Green Line, and according to the implementation plans, some may take upwards of 10 years to accomplish.

Once complete, the Green

swatch of green on an old hydro corridor stretching from the Don Valley to Rouge Park.

The $38 million project will connect seven river and ravine systems, 15 parks, 13 neighbourhoods, 500 acres of meadow and more than 1,000 diverse species of flora and fauna.

Renderings show multi-purpose trails for pedestrians and

“The Meadoway is a bold vision for an amazing part of our city,” said Mayor John Tory in a tweet. “People in every part of Toronto deserve places where they can walk, play and enjoy themselves.”

In the west end, over the last few years, Metrolinx has been busy working on a project called the Davenport Diamond Guideway and Greenway.

The Davenport Diamond is one of North America’s busiest rail intersections located just northwest of the Dupont Street and Lansdowne Avenue intersections. To help solve congestion problems, a guideway will be built over existing rail tracks, which will elevate the GO Train corridor between Bloor Street West in the south and Davenport Road in the north.

The new guideway will open up the ground for a new greenway.

“We wanted the design to reflect the community’s needs, while ensuring it follows a practical and sustainable framework that will create valuable spaces for future generations to enjoy,” said John Potter, Metrolinx manager, design division.

Although it’s still in the design stage, the Greenway will include fully accessible multi-use paths for pedestrians and cyclists, gathering spaces, pollinating gardens and a sustainable approach to landscape and plantings.

And finally, in uptown Toronto, built on the former Beltline railway, Toronto’s Beltline Trail is a nine-kilometre cycling and walking trail that was established in 1989.

Consisting of three sections — the York Beltline Trail (west of Allen Road), the Kay Gardner Beltline Park (from Allen to Mount Pleasant Road) and the Ravine Beltline Trail (south of Mount Pleasant Cemetery through the Moore Park Ravine).

This magical trail has been a long-standing favourite, thanks to its number of parks, wooded areas and bridges.

The city has announced that the trail is getting an expansion between Marlee Avenue and Allen Road. With construction slated to start in the spring, a new trailhead will be added to the Marlee Avenue entrance, south of Roselawn Avenue.

TOP DOCTORS

Over the last couple of very trying years, our health-care professionals, led by Ontario doctors, have put their lives on hold to keep fighting for us. And when we are finally getting back to normal and, fingers crossed, out enjoying our beloved city, they will be catching up on the gigantic workload that has been put on hold as we struggled through this global pandemic. In this cover story, we

highlight the most gifted physicians to call Toronto home. Whether a family doctor or a heart surgeon, we showcase the best of the best. We came up with these names the best way we knew how, by asking other doctors to nominate them. One thing we learned: we are blessed with an abundance of incredibly talented and dedicated people who put our health first every time.

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If the last two years have taught us anything, it’s that every Toronto doctor is deserving of our thanks and recognition.

Post City is grateful to those physicians who graciously nominated their peers for this special edition.

ALLERGY IMMUNOLOGY Dr. Stephen Betschel Graduated: McMaster, 1998 St Michael's Hospital 416-864-5074 Dr. Tracy Pitt Graduated: Howard U, 2004 Kipling Heights Medical Centre 416-741-4545 Dr. Christine Song Graduated: University of B.C., 2008 St. Michael's Hospital 416-864-3056 Dr. Gordon Sussman Graduated: Schulich School, 1977 Sussman Allergy & Immunology Clinic 416-944-8333

ANESTHESIOLOGY Dr. Fahad Alam Graduated: McMaster, 2008 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-480-4864 Dr. Arsenio Avila Graduated: Universidad Del Zulia, 1977 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-480-4864 Dr. James Baker Graduated: Queen's, 1995 St. Michael's Hospital 416-864-5071

Dr. Everton Gooden

Dr. Sony Sierra

Dr. Rolf Gronas Graduated: U of T, 1997 North York General Hospital 416-756-6000

Dr. Akshay Bagai Graduated: U of T, 2003 St. Michael's Hospital 416-864-5973

Dr. Beverly Morningstar Graduated: U of T, 1976 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-480-4864

Dr. Roland Beaulieu Graduated: U of Alberta, 1978 North York General Hospital 416-756-6000

Dr. James Robertson Graduated: U of T, 1997 The Hospital For Sick Children 416-813-7445

Dr. Eric Cohen Graduated: U of Calgary, 1983 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-480-5880

Dr. Marcos Silva Restrepo Graduated: U of Colombia, 2004 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-480-4864

Dr. Eugene Crystal Graduated: Vitebsk State Medical Institute, 1983 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-480-6100

CARDIAC SURGERY

Dr. Lorretta Daniel Graduated: McMaster, 1983 Toronto General Hospital 416-340-5174

Dr. Gideon Cohen Graduated: U of T, 1992 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-480-6077 Dr. Fuad Moussa Graduated: McGill, 1997 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-480-4742

CARDIOLOGY Dr. Shaheeda Ahmed Graduated: McGill, 1996 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-480-6043

Dr. Diego Delgado Graduated: Universidad del Salvador, 1994 Toronto General Hospital 416-340-4800 Dr. Paul Dorian Graduated: McGill, 1976 St. Michael's Hospital 416-864-5104 Dr. Vladimir Dzavik Graduated: U of Alberta, 1983 Toronto General Hospital

Dr. Crystal Pallister

416-340-4800 Dr. John Graham Graduated: U of Glasgow, 1995 St. Michael's Hospital 416-864-5918 Dr. Andrew Ha Graduated: U of Ottawa, 2002 Toronto General Hospital 416-340-5206

Dr. Tony Finelli

Dr. John Ross Graduated: Queen's, 1972 Toronto General Hospital 416-340-5042 Dr. Sheldon Singh Graduated: U of T, 2001 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-480-6100

CARDIOTHORACIC SURGERY

Dr. Ilan Lashevsky Graduated: Tel Aviv U, 1989 Vaughan Heart Institute 416-588-3788

Dr. Shafqat Ahmed Graduated: McGill, 1990 Toronto General Hospital 416-340-3131

Dr. Luc Mertens Graduated: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 1992 Hospital For Sick Children 416-813-7418

Dr. George Christakis Graduated: U of T, 1981 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-480-6080

Dr. Melitta Mezody Graduated: Medical University of Semmelweis, 1982 Toronto General Hospital 416-603-5800 Dr. Kareem Morant Graduated: U of Ottawa, 2010 North York General Hospital 416-907-4990 Dr. Heather Ross Graduated: Queen's, 2007 Toronto General Hospital 416-340-3131

Dr. Robert Cusimano Graduated: U of Calgary, 1983 Toronto General Hospital 416-340-4928 Dr. Tirone David Graduated: Universidade Federal Do Parana, 1968 Toronto General Hospital 416-340-5062 Dr. Stephen Fremes Graduated: U of T, 1979 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-480-6073 Dr. Anup Gupta Graduated: LLRM Medical

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Marcus J. Kargel MD FRCPC FCCP

Director, Division of Respirology, Michael Garron Hospital Medical Director, Respiratory Medicine Services, Michael Garron Hospital Lecturer, Department of Medicine, Division of Respirology, University of Toronto

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Dr. Aarti Kapoor

College Meerut University, 1979 Michael Garron Hospital 416-462-3884 Dr. Shaf Keshavjee Graduated: U of T, 1985 Toronto General Hospital 416-340-4010 Dr. Anthony Ralph-Edwards Graduated: Queen's, 1987 Toronto General Hospital 416-340-4309 Dr. Thomas Waddell Graduated: U of Ottawa, 1987 Toronto General Hospital 416-340-3432

CRITICAL CARE Dr. Shelly Dev Graduated: U of T, 2001 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-480-6100 Dr. Robert Fowler Graduated: McGill, 1995 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-480-6100 Dr. John Granton Graduated: McMaster, 1987 Toronto General Hospital 416-340-4485

Dr. Christie Lee

St. Joseph's Health Centre 416-530-6000 Dr. Damon Scales Graduated: U of T, 1997 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-480-6100 Dr. Phil Shin Graduated: U of T, 2001 North York General Hospital 416-756-6840 Dr. Natalie Wong Graduated: U of T, 1998 St. Michael's Hospital 416-864-6060

DERMATOLOGY

Dr. Sheldon Singh

416-964-8888 Dr. Chantelle Ung Graduated: Dalhousie, 1994 The Dermatology Group 416-750-8400 Dr. Scott Walsh Graduated: U of T, 2000 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-480-4908

EMERGENCY MEDICINE Dr. Tim Dalseg Graduated: Schulich School, 2009 Toronto General Hospital 416-340-3856

Dr. Philip Doiron Graduated: McMaster, 2009 Women's College Hospital 416-323-7546

Dr. Sara Gray Graduated: Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, 1999 St. Michael's Hospital 416-864-5095

Dr. Anatoli Freiman Graduated: McGill, 2002 Toronto Dermatology Centre 416-633-0001

Dr. Walter Himmel Graduated: U of T, 1976 North York General Hospital 416-864-6443

Dr. Martie Gidon Graduated: McMaster, 1977 Gidon Aesthetics and Medispa 416-483-4541

Dr. Laurie Morrison Graduated: McMaster, 1981 St. Michael's Hospital 416-524-5434

Dr. David Hall Graduated: U of T, 2000 St. Michael's Hospital 416-864-5516

Dr. Marissa Joseph Graduated: Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine, 2004 Midtown Pediatrics 416-489-3273

Dr. Margaret Herridge Graduated: Queen's, 1990 Toronto General Hospital 416-340-3057

Dr. Fara Redlick Graduated: U of T, 2003 Compass Dermatology 647-351-9277

Dr. Christie Lee Graduated: U of T, 2004 Mount Sinai Hospital 416-321-2613

Dr. Neil Shear Graduated: McMaster, 1976 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-480-4908

Dr. Joanne Meyer Graduated: U of T, 1994

Dr. Nowell Solish Graduated: U of T, 1990 Cosmetic Dermatologist

ENDOCRINOLOGY Dr. I. George Fantus Graduated: McGill, 1975 Mount Sinai Hospital 416-586-8665 Dr. Bruce Perkins Graduated: U of T, 1995 Mount Sinai Hospital 416-586-8763 Dr. Annie Sawka Graduated: U of Manitoba, 1992 Toronto General Hospital Research Institute 416-430-3678

Dr. Amanda Mayo

FAMILY MEDICINE Dr. Alan Abelsohn Graduated: U of Cape Town, 1974 Dalla Lana Sch. of Public Health 416-483-8111 Dr. Jeff Ashley Graduated: Schulich, 1988 William Osler Health Centre 416-743-5853 Dr. Stephen Cord Graduated: U of T, 1992 Forest Hill Family Health Centre 416-782-6111 Dr. Cara Flamer Graduated: Queen's, 2006 GSH Medical 416-789-2449 Dr. Karen Fleming Graduated: U of T, 1989 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-440-1880 Dr. Noah Forman Graduated: McMaster, 1984 North York Medical Arts Building 416-498-7007 Dr. Rajesh Girdhari Graduated: McGill, 2008 Sumac Creek Health Centre 416-864-3022 Dr. Liisa Jaakkimainen Graduated: McMaster, 1995 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-480-6100

Dr. Vincent Lin

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-480-6100 Dr. Emilie Lam Graduated: U of T, 2010 Markham Stouffville Hospital 905-294-2290 Dr. Fok-Han Leung Graduated: U of T, 2004 St Michael's Hospital 416-864-3011 Dr. Gillian Lindzon Graduated: U of T, 2011 Glengrove Medical Centre 416-322-5888 Dr. Puneet Seth Graduated: McMaster, 2009 Bay College Medical & Lockwood Diagnostic 416-921-2121 Dr. Rebecca Stoller Graduated McMaster, 2002 North York General Hospital 416- 494-7396 Dr. Daphne Williams Graduated: McMaster, 1996 St Joseph's Health Centre 416-530-6860 Dr. Kevin Workentin Graduated: U of T, 2000 Michael Garron Hospital 416-699-7775

GASTROENTEROLOGY

Dr. Aarti Kapoor Graduated: U of Ottawa, 2009 Magenta Health 416-479-8410

Dr. Rupert Abdalian Graduated: McGill, 2003 North York General Hospital 416-447-7000

Dr. Doug Kavanagh Graduated: U of T, 2011 North Toronto Medical Associates 416-782-4447

Dr. Paul Kortan Graduated: McMaster, 1974 St. Michael's Hospital 416-864-3094

Dr. Jeff Kwong Graduated: U of T, 2001

Dr. Morgan Rosenberg Graduated: U of T, 2009 Toronto Endoscopy Clinic

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TORONTO’S TOP DOCTORS 2022 DR. EUGENE CRYSTAL

SUNNYBROOK, WOMEN’S COLLEGE HOSPITAL, LAWRENCE PARK CARDIOLOGY, YORKVIEW CARDIOLOGY Dr. Crystal is a cardiologist and electrophysiologist at the Schulich Heart Centre, founder of the Arrhythmia Services at Sunnybrook and a Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He serves as an Associate Scientist at Sunnybrook Research Institute and the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute. He’s authored many peer-reviewed manuscripts and holds numerous patents in the field of cardiology. A member of over 15 scientific committees, a reviewer for numerous journals and co-appointed as Cardiac Electrophysiologist at Women's College Hospital.

How do you build trust with a patient in your care?

As a believer in patient-centered care, honest education of individual patients on his/her options going forward is the most important part. Empowering the patient with knowledge is key to the journey towards personal well-being.

What is your proudest accomplishment as a physician?

My proudest accomplishment as a physician is to witness my patients and their families living a better life. The patients’ expectations are frequently well beyond what medical science can deliver today.

Combining best professional care with patient empowerment frequently leads to a great outcome, even in very challenging medical circumstances. I am extraordinarily proud of many of my patients who were able to contribute to their own healing process. Additionally, I take pride in the teams I work with who are able to support the patient in his/her journey.

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Dr. Jerome Leis

416-551-6006 Dr. A. Hillary Steinhart Graduated: U of T, 2000 Mount Sinai Hospital 416-586-5121

GENERAL SURGERY Dr. Fred Brenneman Graduated: U of T, 1988 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-480-4232 Dr. Mark Cattral Graduated: U of Alberta, 1983 Toronto General Hospital 416-340-3760 Dr. Zane Cohen Graduated: U of T, 1969 Mount Sinai Hospital 416-586-4800 Dr. Preeti Dhar Graduated: Queen's, 2007 Toronto General Hospital 416-340-3453 Dr. Stan Feinberg Graduated: U of T, 1980 North York General Hospital 416-756-6764 Dr. Chris Feindel Graduated: McGill, 1976 Toronto General Hospital 416-340-5909 Dr. Anand Govindarajan Graduated: U of T, 2003 Mount Sinai Hospital 416-586-4800 Dr. Barbara Haas Graduated: McGill,, 2006 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-480-5255 Dr. Calvin Law Graduated: U of T, 1994 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-480-4825

Dr. Suzan Schneeweiss

Dr. Ian McGilvray Graduated: McGill, 1993 Toronto General Hospital 416-340-4190

Dr. Carol Schwartz

Dr. Dov Gandell Graduated: McGill, 2002 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-480-4076

Dr. Donna McRitchie Graduated: U of T, 1985 North York General Hospital 416-756-6906

Dr. Bianca Petrut Graduated: Victor Babes U, 1996 North York General Hospital 416-756-6871

Dr. Crystal Pallister Graduated: McGill, 1997 Markham Stouffville Hospital 905-471-7122

Dr. Samir Sinha Graduated: Schulich, 2002 Mount Sinai Hospital 416-586-4800

Dr. Fayez Quereshy Graduated: U of T, 2004 Toronto Western Hospital 416-603-5553

Dr. Katina Tzanetos Graduated: McMaster, 1997 Toronto General Hospital 416-340-4800

Dr. Jory Simpson Graduated: U of B.C., 2006 St. Michael's Hospital 416-864-5804

Dr. Camilla Wong Graduated: U of T, 2003 St. Michael's Hospital 416-864-5015

Dr. Peter Stotland Graduated: U of T, 2002 North York General Hospital 647-258-9960 Dr. Homer Tien Graduated: McMaster, 1992 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-671-2166 Dr. Lorraine Tremblay Graduated: Schulich School, 1991 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-480-5255 Dr. Frances Wright Graduated: U of T, 1996 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-480-4210

GERIATRIC MEDICINE Dr. Shabbir Alibhai Graduated: U of T, 1993 Toronto General Hospital 416-340-5125

HEMATOLOGY Dr. Jeannie Callum Graduated: U of T, 1993 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-480-6100 Dr. Yulia Lin Graduated: U of T, 1999 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-480-4042 Dr. Rita Selby Graduated: Nagpur U, 1989 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-480-5561 Dr. Richard Wells Graduated: U of Newfoundland, 1985 Odette Cancer Centre 416-480-4757

HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE Dr. Daphna Grossman Graduated: U of T, 1992 North York General Hospital 416-756-6000

Dr. Barry Rubin

INFECTIOUS DISEASE Dr. Isaac Bogoch Graduated: U of T, 2005 Toronto General Hospital 416-340-3505 Dr. Jerome Leis Graduated: U of Ottawa, 2008 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-480-6100

INTERNAL MEDICINE Dr. Leena Hajra Graduated: U of T, 2005 Markham Stouffville Hospital 905-472-7068 Dr. Armand Keating Graduated: U of Ottawa, 1976 Toronto Western Hospital 416-603-2581 Dr. Ophyr Mourad Graduated: U of T, 2017 St. Michael's Hospital 647-964-6627 Dr. Donald Redelmeier Graduated: U of T, 1984 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-480-6999 Dr. Steve Shumak Graduated: U of T, 1980 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-480-4290

MATERNAL & FETAL MEDICINE Dr. Elaine Herer Graduated: U of Calgary, 1982 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-480-4680 Dr. Johannes Keunen Graduated: Maastricht U, 1993 Mount Sinai Hospital 416-586-4800 Dr. Greg Ryan Graduated: U of Ireland, 1979 Mount Sinai Hospital

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NEPHROLOGY Dr. Michelle Hladunewich Graduated: U of Alberta, 1994 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-480-5590 Dr. Vanita Jassal Graduated: Queen's University Belfast School of Medicine, 1987 Toronto General Hospital 416-340-3196 Dr. S. Joseph Kim Graduated: U of T, 1997 Toronto General Hospital 416-340-3131 Dr. David Naimark Graduated: U of Manitoba, 1987 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-480-5590 Dr. Ron Wald Graduated: McGill, 1999 St. Michael's Hospital 416-867-3703 Dr. Jeffrey Zaltzman Graduated: McGill, 1985 St. Michael's Hospital 416-867-7444

NEUROLOGY Dr. Anthony Lang Graduated: U of T, 1975 Toronto Western Hospital 416-603-2581 Dr. Lisa Markson Graduated: State University of New York-Stony Brook, 1990 Mackenzie Health 905-832-6546 Dr. Michael Sawa Graduated: McMaster, 2002 Synergy Sports Medicine 416-703-3525

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NEUROSURGERY Dr. James Drake Graduated: U of Ireland, 1979 The Hospital For Sick Children 416-813-6125 Dr. Suneil Kalia Graduated: U of T, 2006 Toronto Western Hospital 416-603-5866 Dr. Abhaya Kulkarni Graduated: U of T, 1994 The Hospital For Sick Children 416-813-6427

OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY Dr. Lisa Allen Graduated: Schulich School, 1992 Mount Sinai Hospital 416-586-3162 Dr. Tatiana Freire-Lizama Graduated: McMaster, 1997 St. Michael's Hospital 416-360-4000 Dr. Jamie Kroft Graduated: U of T, 2005 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-480-4535 Dr. Kimberly Liu Graduated: Schulich School, 2001 Mount Sinai Fertility 416-586-4748 Dr. Mara Sobel Graduated: U of Ottawa, 2007 U of T Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology 416-978-2216 Dr. Bruce Thomas Graduated: U of T, 1962 Women's College Hospital 416-323-7744

ONCOLOGY Dr. Georg Bjarnason Graduated: U of Iceland, 1979

Dr. Dov Andell

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-480-5847 Dr. Neesha Dhani Graduated: Schulich School, 2001 Princess Margaret Cancer Ctr. 416-946-2000 Dr. Pamela Goodwin Graduated: U of Ottawa, 1979 Mount Sinai Hospital 416-586-4800 Dr. Yoo-Joung Ko Graduated: U of T, 1993 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-480-4662 Dr. Natasha Leighl Graduated: U of T, 1994 Princess Margaret Cancer Ctr. 416-946-4645 Dr. Stanley Liu Graduated: U of T, 2004 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-480-4998 Dr. Mark Minden Graduated: U of T, 1974 Princess Margaret Cancer Ctr. 416-946-2000 Dr. Joanne Yu Graduated: U of T, 2008 North York General Hospital 647-352-3674

OPHTHALMOLOGY Dr. Ray Buncic Graduated: McGill, 1965 The Hospital For Sick Children 416-813-8919 Dr. Hall Chew Graduated: Dalhousie U, 2002 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-480-5340 Dr. Hatem Krema Graduated: Cairo University, 1989 Princess Margaret Cancer Ctr. 416-946-2000

Dr. Osami Honjo

Dr. Reshma Amin

Dr. John Lloyd Graduated: Schulich School, 1989 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-480-4424

Dr. Peter Ferguson Graduated U of T, 1994 Mount Sinai Hospital 416-586-4800

Dr. Carol Schwartz Graduated: U of T, 1980 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-480-5770

Dr. Patrick Henry Graduated U of Sydney, 2004 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-967-8741

Dr. Allan Slomovic Graduated: U of Newfoundland, 1979 Toronto Western Hospital 416-603-5389

Dr. Richard Jenkinson Graduated Schulich School, 2001 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-480-6160

Dr. Ray Stein Graduated: U of T, 1982 Bochner Eye Institute 416-921-2131

Dr. Paul Marks Graduated: U of T, 1986 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-480-6838

Dr. David Wong Graduated: Schulich School, 1984 St. Michael's Hospital 905-727-4041

Dr. Sarah Ward Graduated: U of T, 2008 St. Michael's Hospital 416-864-5394

ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY Dr. Benjamin Alman Graduated Thomas Jefferson University, 1986 Hospital For Sick Children 416-813-2178 Dr. Mansour Alvi Graduated: McMaster, 2004 Clinic 360 416-360-7360 Dr. David Backstein Graduated U of T, 1993 Mount Sinai Hospital 416-586-8457 Dr. Tommy Chan Graduated: Western, 1979 North York Medical Center 416-636-9963 Dr. Dale Dantzer Graduated Schulich School, 1998 North York General Hospital 416-492-5633

Dr. David Wasserstein Graduated: U of T, 2007 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-480-5798

OTOLARYNGOLOGY Dr. Ralph Gilbert Graduated: U of T, 1980 Toronto General Hospital 416-340-3145 Dr. Everton Gooden Graduated: U of T, 1996 North York General Hospital 416-499-5558

Dr. Fred Brenneman

Dr. Jonathan Irish Graduated: U of T, 1984 Toronto General Hospital 416-340-3113 Dr. Adrian James Graduated: Oxford U, 1990 The Hospital For Sick Children 416-813-6558 Dr. Vincent Lin Graduated: Queen's, 2000 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-480-6100 Dr. Jeffrey Werger Graduated: U of T, 1991 Mackenzie Health 905-472-6511 Dr. Ian Witterick Graduated: Schulich School, 1986 Mount Sinai Hospital 416-5864800

PAIN MANAGEMENT Dr. Andrea Furlan Graduated: U of Sao Paulo, 1992 Toronto General Hospital 416-340-3131 Dr. Melody Nguyen Graduated: U of T, 2005 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-335-9700 Dr. David Sussman Graduated: U of T, 2011 St. Michael's Hospital 416-864-5071

CHECK OUT THE TOP DOCTORS LIST OR SHARE IT ONLINE AT STREETSOFTORONTO.COM/TOP-DOCTORS

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TORONTO’S TOP DOCTORS 2022

PATHOLOGY CONT.

Dr. Jonathan Yeung

Dr. Sara Gray

PATHOLOGY Dr. Dalal Assaad Graduated: Alexandria U, 1971 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 647-347-6908 Dr. Bo-Yee Ngan Graduated: U of T, 1982 Hospital For Sick Children 416-813-6409

PEDIATRICS Dr. Jillian Baker Graduated: U of Calgary, 1999 St. Michael's Hospital 416-867-3655 Dr. Tony Barozzino Graduated: Queen's, 1989 St. Michael's Hospital 416-867-3655 Dr. Genevieve Bouchard-Fortier Graduated: McGill, 2008 Women's College Hospital 416-323-7744 Dr. Eric Bouffet Graduated: Universite de Lyon I, 1986 The Hospital For Sick Children 416-813-7457 Dr. Manuel Carcao Graduated: U of T, 1990 The Hospital For Sick Children 416-813-1500

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Dr. Mark Feldman Graduated: U of Ottawa, 1987 The Hospital For Sick Children 416-813-7391

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Dr. Homer Tien

416-813-7654 Dr. Jill Hamilton Graduated: U of Ottawa, 1992 The Hospital For Sick Children 416-813-5115 Dr. Sharifa Himidan Graduated: King Abdul Aziz University, 1990 The Hospital For Sick Children 416-813-7654

Dr. Miriam Weinstein

Dr. Miriam Weinstein Graduated: Queen's, 1996 The Hospital For Sick Children 416-813-8186 Dr. Sheila Weitzman Graduated: U of Witwatersrand, 1968 The Hospital For Sick Children 416-813-7654

PHYSICAL MEDICINE & REHABILITATION

Dr. Osami Honjo Graduated: Shimane Ikadaigaku, 1997 The Hospital For Sick Children 416-813-6420

Dr. John Flannery Graduated: Queen's, 1989 U of T Centre for the Study of Pain 416-597-3422

Dr. Sheila Jacobson Graduated: U of the Witwatersrand, 1983 Clairhurst Pediatrics 416-531-3331

Dr. Amanda Mayo Graduated: U of T, 2008 St. John’s Rehab 416-226-6780

Dr. Jacob Langer Graduated: U of T, 1980 The Hospital For Sick Children 416-813-6405

PLASTIC/ COSMETIC SURGERY

Dr. Shoo Lee Graduated: U of Singapore, 1980 Mount Sinai Hospital 416-596-4200 Dr. Suzan Schneeweiss Graduated: U of T, 1987 The Hospital For Sick Children 416-813-1500 Dr. Kim Tran Graduated: McMaster, 2008 T&T Medical Clinic 905-761-7765

Dr. Eyal Grunebaum Graduated: The Hebrew University, 1988 The Hospital For Sick Children 416-813-8625

Dr. Paul Wales Graduated: U of B.C., 1993 Hospital For Sick Children 416-813-7654

Dr. Sumit Gupta Graduated: U of T, 2005 The Hospital For Sick Children

Dr. Eitan Weinberg Graduated: U of T, 2004 Kindercare 416-848-7665

Dr. Oleh Antonyshyn Graduated: U of T, 1980 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-480-4868 Dr. Trevor Born Graduated: McMaster, 1990 TMB Cosmetic Plastic Surgery 416-921-7546 Dr. Robert Cartotto Graduated: Queen's, 1986 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-480-6706 Dr. Joel Fish Graduated: McMaster, 1986 The Hospital For Sick Children 416-813-7654 Dr. Christopher Forrest Graduated: U of T, 1983 The Hospital For Sick Children 416-813-8659

Dr. Jeannie Callum

Dr. Marc Jeschke Graduated: Eberhard Karls University at Tubingen, 1994 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-480-6703 Dr. Joan Lipa Graduated Schulich School, 1992 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-480-6069 Dr. Ronald Zuker Graduated: U of T, 1969 The Hospital For Sick Children 416-813-7349

PSYCHIATRY Dr. Mariam Abdurrahman Graduated U of Ottawa, 2008 St. Joseph's Health Centre 416-530-6591 Dr. Kevin Gabel Graduated: Schulich School, 2006 The SickKids Centre for Community Mental Health 416-756-6933 Dr. Marshall Korenblum Graduated U of T, 1975 SickKids Centre for Community Mental Health 416-924-1164 Dr. Lara Propst Graduated U of T, 1998 North York General Hospital 416-756-6933 Dr. Adam Quastel Graduated McGill,, 1994 St. Michael's Hospital 416-864-3082 Dr. Ron Ruskin Graduated Queen's, 1970 Mount Sinai Hospital 416-928-0675 Dr. Ivan Silver Graduated Dalhousie, 1975 CAMH 416-535-8501

Dr. Marc Jeschke

Dr. Ian Swayze Graduated Schulich School, 1992 CAMH 416-535-8501 Dr. John Teshima Graduated: U of T, 1994 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-480-4208 Dr. Peter Voore Graduated U of T, 1982 CAMH 416-535-8501

PULMONOLOGY Dr. Marcus Kargel Graduated: U of T, 1999 Michael Garron Hospital 416-469-7777 Dr. Theodore Marras Graduated Queen's, 1995 Toronto Western Hospital 416-603-2581 Dr. Christine McDonald Graduated: U of B.C., 2001 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-480-4758

RADIATION ONCOLOGY Dr. Normand Laperriere Graduated: U of T, 1978 Princess Margaret Cancer Ctr. 416-946-2126

RADIOLOGY Dr. Robert Beecroft Graduated: Schulich School, 1998 Mount Sinai Hospital 416-586-4800 Dr. Charles Catton Graduated: U of Ottawa, 1976 Princess Margaret Cancer Ctr. 416-946-2000 Dr. Gilbert Chow Graduated: Queen's, 1996 North York General Hospital

TORONTO’S TOP DOCTORS 2022

RADIOLOGY CONT.

416-756-6186 Dr. Andrew Common Graduated: McGill, 1980 St. Michael's Hospital 416-864-5680 Dr. Hassan Deif Graduated: Alexandria U, 1974 North York General Hospital 416-756-6181 Dr. Timothy Dowdell Graduated: U of T, 1985 St. Michael's Hospital 416-864-5690 Dr. Hemi Dua Graduated: U of T, 2004 Princess Margaret Cancer Ctr. 416-946-4501 Dr. Leonard Grinblat Graduated: McMaster, 2002 North York General Hospital 416-756-6000 Dr. Neil Isaac Graduated: Dalhousie, 2002 North York General Hospital 416-756-6186 Dr. Walter Mak Graduated: Schulich School, 2001 St. Michael's Hospital 416-864-5656 Dr. Dan Marcuzzi Graduated: U of T, 1984 St. Michael's Hospital 416-864-5681

Dr. Donna McRitchie

Dr. Ryan Margau Graduated: U of T, 2001 North York General Hospital 416-494-8800 Dr. Derek Muradali Graduated: McGill, 1988 St. Michael's Hospital 416-864-5652

Dr. Mia Skarpathiotakis Graduated: U of T, 2006 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-480-6100

REPRODUCTIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY

Dr. Victor Hoffstein Graduated: U of Miami, 1975 North York Sleep & Diagnostic Centre Inc. 416-642-4232

Dr. Shikha Mittoo Graduated: McMaster, 2001 Mount Sinai Hospital 647-954-1030

Dr. Robert Casper Graduated: Schulich School, 1973 TRIO Fertility 416-506-0804

Dr. Brian Murray Graduated: U of T, 1995 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-480-6100 Dr. Indra Narang Graduated: U of Wales, 1993 The Hospital For Sick Children 416-813-1500

THORACIC SURGERY Dr. Sony Sierra Graduated: U of T, 1999 TRIO Fertility 416-506-0804

TOP DOCTORS: METHODOLOGY - To create the list, Post City contracted DataJoe Research to facilitate an online peer-voting process and Internet research process. DataJoe Research is a software and research company specializing in data collection and verification, and conducts various nominations across North America on behalf of publishers.

To create the list, we paired DataJoe Research’s online peer-voting process with an Internet research process to identify success characteristics. DataJoe checked and confirmed that each published top doctor had, at the time of review, a current, active licence status with the provincial regulatory board. If we were not able to find evidence of a doctor's current, active

Dr. Michael Ko Graduated: Schulich School, 2000 St Joseph's Health Centre 416-530-6805 Dr. Kazuhiro Yasufuku Graduated: Chiba Medical University, 1992 Toronto General Hospital 416-340-4729 Dr. Jonathan Yeung Graduated: U of T, 2005 Toronto General Hospital 416-340-3131

Dr. Jonathan Irish

VASCULAR SURGERY Dr. Andrew Dueck Graduated: Queen's, 1999 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-480-6947 Dr. Ahmed Kayssi Graduated: Queen's, 2009 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-480-6948 Dr. Thomas Lindsay Graduated: McGill, 1983 Toronto General Hospital 416-340-4620

SLEEP MEDICINE Dr. Reshma Amin Graduated: U of T, 2002 The Hospital For Sick Children 416-813-1500 Dr. Douglas Bradley Graduated: U of Alberta, 1978 Toronto General Hospital 416-340-3131

Dr. Ken Cadesky Graduated: U of T, 1978 TRIO Fertility 416-506-0804

Dr. Ellen Greenblatt Graduated: McGill, 1982 Mount Sinai Fertility 416-586-4748

RESPIROLOGY

RHEUMATOLOGY

Dr. Dawn Pearce Graduated: Schulich School, 1992 St. Michael's Hospital 416-864-5656

Dr. Hillary Steinhart

Dr. Jamie Kroft

Dr. Marc de Perrot Graduated: U of Geneva, 1994 Toronto General Hospital 416-340-5549

UROLOGY Dr. Tony Finelli Graduated: U of T, 1996 Toronto General Hospital 416-946-2851 Dr. Robert Hamilton Graduated: U of Alberta, 1979 Toronto General Hospital 416-946-2909 Dr. Ronald Kodama Graduated: U of T, 1980 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Ctr. 416-480-5956 Dr. Jason Lee Graduated: U of T, 2004 Toronto General Hospital 416-340-3855 Dr. Armando Lorenzo Graduated: Universidad De Panama, 1994 The Hospital For Sick Children 416-813-1500

registration, that doctor was excluded from the list. In addition, we checked available public sources to identify doctors disciplined for an infraction by the province. These entities were excluded from the list.

Finally, DataJoe presented the tallied result to the magazine for its final review and adjustments. We recognize that there are many good doctors who are not shown in this representative list. This is only a sampling of the huge array of talented professionals within the region. Inclusion in the list is based on the opinions of responding doctors in the region. We took time and energy to ensure fair voting, although we understand that the results of this survey nomination and Internet research campaign are not an objective metric. We

Dr. Graham Roche-Nagle Graduated: Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 1998 Toronto General Hospital 416-340-5332 Dr. Barry Rubin Graduated: McGill, 1986 Toronto General Hospital 416-340-3645

While this issue is dedicated to

the city’s top doctors, we realize that nurses are the backbone of the Canadian medical system.

In recognition of Toronto’s

incredibly dedicated nurses we have made a donation to the following charities.

VON (Victorian Order of Nurses) www.von.ca/en The Frontline Fund www.frontlinefund.ca

certainly do not discount the fact that many, many good and effective doctors may not appear on the list.

Disclaimers: DataJoe uses best practices and exercises great care in assembling content for this list. DataJoe does not warrant that the data contained within the list are complete or accurate. DataJoe does not assume, and hereby disclaims, any liability to any person for any loss or damage caused by errors or omissions herein whether such errors or omissions result from negligence, accident, or any other cause. All rights reserved. No commercial use of the information in this list may be made without written permission from DataJoe.

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MEDICAL FEATURE

Raptors team doctor Paul Marks

L-R: Dr. Aisha Khatib with newly delivered baby on Qatar Airways flight, and the doctor with a happy family

Toronto doctor delivers ‘Miracle’ mid-flight Delivering a baby at 35,000 feet Delivering a baby was the furthest thing from Dr. Aisha Khatib’s mind when she boarded a flight from Qatar to Uganda back in December.

Khatib, an assistant professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto, as well as a travel doctor, was an hour into her flight on Qatar Airways when the crew made an announcement asking if there was a doctor on board. It was then that Khatib learned that a 25-year-old migrant worker had gone into labour. Snapping quickly into doctor mode, and with the assistance of a nurse and a pediatrician who were also on the flight, Khatib got to work.

“I was just thinking, ‘I need clamps. I need scissors, If I don’t have clamps, I’ll need shoelaces’ and just trying to figure out what to do with this situation if I didn’t have the materials,” Khatib said in an interview with Global News.

by Jennier Schembri

Approximately 20 minutes later, Khatib delivered a healthy baby girl whom the mother named Miracle Aisha in her honour. The doctor gifted the new infant a necklace she had been wearing with the name “Aisha” written in Arabic.

Khatib shared the news on Twitter, announcing to the world that a ‘Miracle’ had taken place 35,000 feet in the air while flying over the Nile.

“Is there a doctor on the plane? Never thought I’d be delivering a baby on a flight!” she wrote. “Thanks to the airline crew who helped to support the birth of this Miracle in the air! Mom and baby are doing well and healthy!”

Khatib’s social media was soon flooded with congratulatory messages from wellwishers and peers.

“On a list of top things you’d never expect to do as a travel doctor, delivering a baby is right up there. Amazing work

@AishaKhatib on delivering a healthy baby girl in the air!” wrote one commenter.

“What a badass emergency medicine doctor! Great work!” wrote another Twitter user.

In January, Khatib launched a GoFundMe campaign for the new mother with the goal of raising $100,000.

“The story of baby Aisha’s debut into this world has brought so much happiness and joy around the globe during difficult times.

Let’s give her a chance of a better and beautiful life filled with hopes and dreams so that she can surpass the clouds and someday reach the stars,” she wrote.

According to the GoFundMe page, on the day she gave birth, Miracle’s mother had been flying home to Uganda from Saudi Arabia where she was employed as a maid. The campaign has raised close to $2,000 so far.

Orthopedic surgeon Dr. Paul Marks was about 35 years old when NBA legend Isiah Thomas signed him up to be the team doctor for newly minted franchise the Toronto Raptors. And for the past 27 years, he’s been just that, through the Vince Carter knee surgery and the 2019 NBA Championship run. Although glamourous, it represents just a small slice of his work.

Marks went to medical school at the University of Toronto before surgery residency at Western University. He has done extensive Fellowship training in Canada, the U.S.A. and Europe in arthroscopy, sports medicine and shoulder and knee reconstruction as well as soft tissue injury.

He says, most of his patients are what he describes as 95 percent hard-working Canadians that just want to be active.

“As people get more senior, they are living longer and still want to be able to do their activities and enjoy life and do so without pain,” he says.

And if he’s learned anything from working with the Raptors for so many years, it’s the importance of a good team.

“I always emphasize with patients the importance of our team,” Marks says. “It’s the same thing with the Raptors — players, coaching staff, therapists, med. staff — everyone has to do their job to win the championship.”

In addition to his medical practice, Marks also conducts sports medicine research and holds the inaugural Susanne and William Holland Chair in Sport Medicine Research at the University of Toronto. He is also intent on passing down the knowledge he’s gleaned working in the field for over a quarter-century as associate professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine, department of surgery, and division of orthopaedics.

“At this stage in my career, I have a responsibility and obligation to teach the next generation,” he explains.

—Ron Johnson

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Research shows that healthy students are better learners. And although there are thousands of food programs in Canada, a Unicef report found that Canada was ranked 37th out of 41 wealthy nations in providing children with access to nutritious food.

Researchers at the University of Toronto began to study schoolbased meal programs across Canada to analyze which were working well, if there were any changes experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic, and whether Canada would join the other G7 countries and adopt a national school food program.

“The timing is right for policy development on a national program, and this study will provide a strong evidence base for those efforts,” says Katerina Maximova in an article posted on the university’s website. Maximova is an associate professor at U of T’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health and a member of the study’s steering committee.

The study, entitled Feeding Kids, Nourishing Minds, will address these issues and more over the next four years. Statistics Canada research shows that pre-pandemic, seven out of 10 children aged four to eight do not meet Canada’s Food Guide recommendations for fruits and vegetables, and 30 per cent or children aged five to 17 were obese.

“More children have missed meals they would have had at school.

Many were home all day and snacked on less nutritious food,” says Sloane Freedman, assistant professor of pediatrics at U of T and a research team member on the university’s website.

As the study progresses, workshops will be employed as will consultations with school nutritionists, public health units and local educators. This will be followed up with cohort studies, trials and a national knowledge-sharing campaign.

—JS

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MEDICAL FEATURE

One of the world’s top cardiac surgeons is Toronto’s Dr. Tirone David

Canada’s top heart surgeon: Tirone David More than 50 years and counting Tirone David became a doctor in 1968, when he was 25 years old. Four decades later, he’s still at the top of his game, known as one of the world’s leading cardiac surgeons and as an established leader in the field. Although he’s admittedly slowed down over the last 10 years — he’s scaled back from the seven-day, 12hour schedule he kept during his first 30 years of practice to three days a week prepandemic, the 77-year-old trailblazer has no intention of retiring anytime soon.

“There is nothing else in life I’d rather do.

I know, however, that a day will come when I will have to stop,” he says. “Luckily, I have an overdeveloped sense of self-criticism, and quality in cardiac surgery is easy to assess. I will know before anyone else when I begin to falter.”

A professor of surgery at the University of

Toronto and the holder of the Melanie Munk Chair of Cardiovascular Surgery at the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, Dr. David was born in Brazil and moved to Toronto in 1975.

Under the tutelage of doctor Wilfred Bigelow, a pioneer in the field, he began his training in cardiac and thoracic surgery at Toronto General Hospital. Although his intention was to return to Brazil to practise heart surgery, David became enamoured with the Canadian health-care system, and despite being offered a six-figure salary to work in the U.S., he decided with “no regrets” to remain in Toronto, although he would earn significantly less.

Amongst the numerous (upwards of 15) operative procedures he’s pioneered over the years, David achieved groundbreaking success in the 1980s, with the development of the

“David Operation,” used to treat patients who develop aneurysms of the proximal aorta. At the time, these patients only had one surgical option — to have the aorta and valve replaced with artificial devices. The David Operation allowed the patient’s aortic valve to be preserved.

Although he’s been called a maverick and risk taker in the operating room (descriptions he does not agree with), David has remained modest about his achievements.

“On the contrary, I am extremely cautious when it comes to my patients, and I believe in God’s punishment if I sin. However, surgery is far from a perfect form of therapy, and there are plenty of opportunities to make it better.

That is what I have done in my career,” he says. “I developed new approaches to treat patients with heart diseases, but they were all based on previous knowledge and experiences.

Surgical innovation is a stepwise, logical progression of operative procedures. Early on in my career I discovered that I possess certain skills that were unique to me, and I took on cases that my colleagues deemed inoperable, and by doing so, I developed new surgical therapies.”

David’s list of accomplishments is long and varied and it includes the publication of more than 365 papers and the performance of more than 15,000 surgeries. In 2015, the American Association of Thoracic Surgery presented him with the Scientific Achievement Award and its Lifetime Achievement Award in 2020.

Of his many accolades, there are some that David is particularly proud of, including being elected University Professor in 2004 — the highest honour the University of Toronto bestows on its professors. In 1993, he was elected as a member of the Order of Ontario and was made an officer of the Order of Canada in 1996.

As his thoughts turn to the future, it’s more than likely that the self-proclaimed workaholic will continue to be a force in the field.

“I plan to continue doing surgery as long as my clinical outcomes remain second to none,” he says. “I am trying very hard to write a book for heart surgeons and transmit all I learned over the past four decades. The task has been far more difficult than I estimated, but I am on it.”

—JS

NEWS

BY THE NUMBERS

43,000 The number of physicians in Ontario.

94 The percentage of Canadian doctors who use virtual care.

1 Ontario is facing a backlog of nearly one million surgeries as a result of the pandemic.

340,009 The number of patient visits per day in Ontario.

75 The percentage of doctors who experienced burnout during the pandemic.

T.O. doctor hopes to combat loneliness in older adults

3,717 The number of students enrolled in Ontario medical schools.

94,000 The number of full-time jobs in Ontario physician practices.

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will follow those 70 and older who have been discharged from the emergency department at Mount Sinai (and soon from North York General).

Over a period of 12 weeks, participants will speak with a volunteer for 30 minutes weekly. Of the 56 people who have been enrolled in the program, 42 per cent were moderately lonely and eight per cent were severely lonely.

“Not surprisingly, two-thirds were lonelier since COVID started. Interestingly, nine per cent said they were less lonely since COVID,” says Lee. Although the feedback by both volunteers and participants have been generally positive, Lee says that the team won’t be able to make any firm conclusions until the completion of the study in October.

The results of the Australian HOW ARE U? study, published in 2018, showed that 68 per cent of patients experienced reductions in depressive symptoms and 53 per cent experienced reduced feelings of loneliness.

Moving forward, Lee says the team is also looking for additional volunteers, 60 years and older who are willing to share their time.

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As the COVID-19 pandemic reaches its second anniversary, the demand for help for seniors has increased due in large part to reduced personal contact that has raised the risk of loneliness, especially for those who were self-isolating. Emergency physician Jacques Lee witnessed this first-hand.

“I had a patient who was living in a retirement home and had recovered from COVID-19 early in the pandemic,” he says. “Because of all the fear and uncertainty, his only human contact was having a meal tray left at his door.”

Lee, the research chair in geriatric medicine at the Schwartz Reisman Emergency Medicine Institute (SREMI) at Mount Sinai Hospital, was impacted greatly by his patient’s grief, which motivated him to target a new field of research: social isolation and loneliness in older people who need care in the emergency department. Last September, he launched the “social isolation and loneliness trial,” a research program based on the Hospitals and patients WoRking in Unity (HOW R U?) program, developed in Australia by his colleague Judith Lowthian.

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For the Oscars this year, we’re definitely going in with a favourite. Nightmare Alley, filmed in Toronto and directed by Guillermo del Toro, is nominated for Best Picture, and it’s got a team of Torontonians behind it. Del Toro is known for his love affair with Toronto, filming countless movies in the GTA, including The Shape of Water and Pacific Rim. He’s continuing his streak of bringing

Toronto to the Oscars with Nightmare Alley, a team which boasts Torontonians Luis Sequeira (costume designer), J. Miles Dale (producer) and Tamara Deverell (production designer). Sequeira earned his own nomination for Best Costume Design and Deverell for Best Production Design. When the world tunes in on March 27, Toronto knows exactly who we’ll be rooting for!

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L-R: Founders Andrea Lenczner (seated) and Christie Smythe, and the store interior

The founders of Smythe talk location and more Keeping it local with T.O.’s new fashion boutique by Julia Mastroianni When womenswear brand Smythe moved into the Summerhill neighbourhood this month, the mission was clear — local first.

Founders Christie Smythe and Andrea Lenczner ensured everything in the store, excluding the floors, was locally made — including local interior designers behind the space, Ashley Botten and Tom Smythe. We spoke with the duo about their flagship store at 1116 Yonge St., reuniting after high school and how Smythe started with a single blazer.

What was your path into fashion?

AL: My parents were not about fashion growing up. They didn’t believe in spending a lot of money on clothing. I think I rebelled because they weren’t interested, so I became so interested. I started in banking but decided to follow my passion and took a massive salary cut to go into buying at Holt Renfrew.

CS: I studied at Parsons in New York City. I then joined the product development team at the design headquarters of the Gap and

worked for their bodywear team. Intimate apparel construction is a very complex and detailed design and fit process. This was an excellent education in the female form.

things for all these different areas, and we’re trying to design for all these things.

How did you decide on the store location?

We were both in Canada at the same time, and when we decided to do something together, we settled on the blazer. At the time, women’s blazers weren’t a category. You could buy a suit, but you couldn’t buy what men have, just a casual sports jacket. We saw that gap in the market, and that’s how we started.

We both live nearby and it felt less risky to be in an area that we understand. We like to shop here in this area, and we really love that neighborhood idea of just stopping by to see what's in store. We waited for a match for the right size of store in the right block, and it wasn't easy because there isn’t a ton of turnover here.

But we just wanted to make sure it was right.

And then we finally found this great space.

What are your major fashion inspirations?

Why the local focus for the store?

Our designs for Smythe have been very influenced by both high fashion and street fashion. We were inspired by our friends and women who we thought had original style. A lot of how we design is thinking, “What are you wearing to a concert? What do you wear to dinner with your girlfriends? What are you wearing to an interview?” As women, we need

It's just the way Tommy and Ashley work.

They’re the most beautiful, skilled people in our city that work within the design business.

We have so much raw talent here in Toronto that you don't need to look beyond. So it didn’t even come from a place of wanting to be able to say everything was made here. It just came about very naturally.

How did Smythe start?

An all-in-one vintage, consignment and rework shop just made the move from Kitchener all the way to Dundas West, and it has a new pandemic-inspired focus.

Artisanal Design Co. (ADC) initially began as a store specializing in goods and homewares made by local artists and entrepreneurs. Among the artwork and soaps, there was a rack of clothes, but as owner Danielle Green notes, it wasn’t the main focus. When the pandemic began, Green looked for a more profitable source of revenue, and she realized she could match her lifelong love for vintage with her entrepreneurial pursuits — including a new Toronto location.

As a longtime vintage lover, Green says there’s a lot of work to be done, including making the price range accessible for customers and demystifying the stigma around vintage itself in Toronto.

“I’m hoping ADC expands to the point where vintage is seen as a regular part of shopping, where there’s no taboo or any idea of it being ‘less than’ attached to it anymore,” she says.

As opposed to the well-trodden Queen West area, Green chose to open her Toronto location at 903 Dundas St. W., between Bathurst and Ossington.

She felt it was more tame and had the right amount of foot traffic. ADC is only a few stores down from Drake’s flagship OVO location, opened in 2014, though it has since closed.

“If Drake chose Dundas West, I’m like, ‘damn, I feel like I made the right decision,’” Green says.

Although she’s only just opened ADC, Green has a long-range plan for the future, including expanding the shop’s rework section to transform older pieces into updated styles.

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Your closet could be worth more than you think Aside from the seasonal, she says designer handbags and jewelry and vintage jeans always do well in the shop. She also points to mini shoulder bags and cross-bodies, in the style of the Prada nylon bags, are making a huge comeback.

“Nine times out of 10, ladies will have one of those from years ago in their closet. They don't even realize how much it's worth,” she says.

Owner Louise Cooper at the Cat’s Meow, at 180 Avenue Rd., echoes the designer bag trend. “Chanel is the answer to everything.

It always does very well, all of the accessories,” she says. “And really anything with a logo.”

Another star trend of the season? The ’90s style. “Anything ’90s is hot right now. Those little bias cut slip dresses, they don’t have to have a great label, they just have to be good quality,” Cooper says. — JM

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Vintage, consignment, thrifting — it’s all the rage in Toronto right now, and it doesn’t seem to be going anywhere. With all the demand for second-hand clothing, consignment shops in the city say a closet cleanout might be just what you need to make enough for a comfortable new side gig.

Jenna Dick, store manager of consignment shop Second Nature Boutique at 514 Mt. Pleasant Rd., likens consignment to investing in real estate. “Anytime you buy a quality vintage piece or you have something that's sitting in your closet that’s one of those big labels, if you hold on to it for another year, realistically, you're gonna get back in your pocket double than what you paid originally,” she says.

Dick says Second Nature works seasonally, so the items they’re looking for right now include trench coats and spring floral dresses.

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To save the earth, the glass is still half-full It’s not too late for planet restoration to reverse our human impact It’s not a surprise to hear that humanity’s impact is negative overall, as evidenced by global climate change, biodiversity loss and species extinction. Although life on Earth has undergone vast changes over millions of years, never before has one species been the cause.

Geologists have classified most epochs in Earth’s history according to fossils, radiometric dating and composition of the strata. The widely endorsed label for our current era, the Anthropocene, describes the extent to which our collective human footprint is changing the planet. It’s a proposed “geological epoch dating from the commencement of significant human impact on Earth’s geology and ecosystems.”

Happily, in response to our negative impacts, many humans are engaged in repairing historical and ongoing ecological damage.

Actions that degrade and repair the planet’s ecosystems do not amount to a zero-sum game, though. At any moment places are being destroyed and restored, but they’re not the same places, and the actions don’t happen in equal measure. We haven’t repaired nearly as much as we’ve degraded and destroyed. (In fact, most restoration initiatives are pet projects of the very industries damaging the land.)

It’s unrealistic to imagine that human lives, coupled with our many wants and needs, could ever be benign for the planet. But no one is arguing for this.

Ecologists around the world are making the case for societies to change the systems that oversee development and resource extraction so that ecosystem functionality — which supports all life — can be maintained or restored.

Figuring out and upholding thresholds to ensure ecosystem health is not easy. Much thought has gone into determining goals to tip the scales in nature’s favour so that initiatives to heal the planet will outweigh activities that further degrade it, and ecosystem health can be restored where it’s been lost.

Some scientists have argued that “nature needs half ” — that half the planet’s natural areas should be protected to maintain the processes that support human and non-human wellbeing. Considering we’re just one of around 10 million animal species and many areas we grudgingly yield are covered with rock, ice and snow, that’s not a lot.

Last year, a group of international conservationists released a paper that advanced benchmarks to achieve a “nature positive” world. The goals are to reach zero net loss of nature after

2020, damage less than we repair by 2030 (become “net positive”) and achieve “full recovery” by 2050.

Full recovery could mean many things. The Convention on Biological Diversity links it to ecosystem services maintenance: “By 2050, biodiversity is valued, conserved, restored and wisely used, maintaining ecosystem services, sustaining a healthy planet and delivering benefits essential for all people.”

Our federal government is responsive to these targets and has made commitments to achieve them. However, it has not come up with a plan that outlines how these goals will be assessed and reported, nor defined what full recovery would look like in the Canadian context.

But there’s wind in the sails.

The UN has even declared this the “Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.”

Our marks on the planet don’t have to be permanent. We can apply the same ingenuity we used to construct the infrastructure we’ve imposed on the world around us to reconfigure it. Roads that fragment wildlife can be pulled out and replanted with vegetation; dams that block fish can be torn down.

As the editors of the essay collection Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet write, acts of restoration give us an opportunity to explore the question: “How can we repurpose the tools of modernity against the terrors of Progress to make visible the other worlds it has ignored and damaged?”

Our impacts on the planet are ongoing. One way of looking at the Anthropocene is to recognize that we are continually shaping the world with every development and restoration plan. Restoration initiatives give us the chance to hold the ground, literally, until, as Barry Lopez wrote in his book Horizon, “industrial expansion ends and begins to show signs of drawdown” and the scales tip back toward the health of lands and waters and the life they support.

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Brandon Ash-Mohammed might be a relative newcomer comedian, but you wouldn’t be able to tell from watching Amazon Prime’s LOL: Last One Laughing Canada.

On the show, Ash-Mohammed fits right in alongside comedic veterans like Caroline Rhea, Tom Green and Colin Mochrie.

LOL, which launched in February, is based on a Japanese game show with the premise of getting a group of comedians to engage in crazy antics to make each other laugh. The goal is to simply be the one who can’t be cracked.

“It’s very hard to make comedians laugh. So you have to do crazy stuff,” says AshMohammed. “It’s ridiculous.”

He might now be laughing — or trying his best not to laugh — along with Canada’s funniest personalities, but he wasn’t always sure he was meant for comedy.

In fact, it wasn’t until he was attending high school that he was really drawn toward the stage and toward comedy. The years he studied at Western Tech, AshMohammed says, were “very crucial” to becoming a comedian.

“If it hadn't been for some of the teachers,” he says, “I don't think I would have been here.”

The standup comedian is talking specifically about one Grade 10 teacher who really saw his potential and had the “foresight” to encourage the school to nurture his talent. When his mandatory English class conflicted with the elective drama class, the English and leadership teacher, Anisha Khan, pushed for Ash-Mohammed to be eligible for her advanced English course.

This allowed him to take the drama class simultaneously.

This push not only helped AshMohammed to land roles in the school’s productions and to win the drama award, but further allowed him to improve on his writing skills, which he says he continues to use when writing his standup.

Now, Ash-Mohammed, who describes his style as “whimsical but with a social conscience,” is changing the face of comedy.

When he felt “not one hundred per cent included” in the comedy shows he was performing in, AshMohammed created one that consisted of all queer BIPOC performers, called The Ethnic Rainbow.

“I realized that there wasn’t really a space for someone like me or people like me,” AshMohammed explains. “I thought that comedy in Toronto would be reflective of Toronto. Back in those days, it really wasn't like that. It was very much ‘good old boy’ comedy. And there wasn't that much diversity.”

But Ash-Mohammed recognizes progress in recent years as The Ethnic Rainbow celebrates its fourth anniversary.

“I was the one that had to go through this kind of jungle of uncharted territory for someone like me and kind of blaze a path for others. And that was really hard. I don't think that that would have been possible before.”

Now, through his role on LOL, Ash-Mohammed is representing the intersectional identities he wasn’t able to look up to during his formative years of performing.

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An Oscar-nominated Toronto romance CBC filmmaker Nathalie Bibeau on husband Lionel Mann’s proposal under the stars Award-winning filmmaker Nathalie Bibeau’s first documentary feature, The Walrus and the Whistleblower — which follows the life of a Marineland worker who blows the whistle on animal abuse — garnered her three Canadian Screen Award nominations, the top Audience Award at the Hot Docs International Film Festival and earned her an Oscar nomination for best direction in a documentary program. Now, she’s back with a CBC documentary exploring the role of dance in evolution called Why We Dance. It premiered on CBC on Feb. 25.

Bibeau is also looking forward to a soon-to-be announced, four-part Amazon Original Series slated for release later this year. Here she tells us about her adventure-filled relationship with her husband, Lionel Mann.

How they met

I was invited to a concert at the Rivoli where a friend of a friend was playing. I walked over from CBC, where I worked, and was the last one to arrive. There was one empty chair. I plopped down,

turned to my right and said, “Hi!” Looking back were a set of ocean blue eyes and a big smile. I didn’t realize it at the time, but Lionel told me later that was the moment he knew.

“I woke up to Lionel holding out a ring he had made with his grandmother’s gemstones.”

that night at the Rivoli when his best friend asked me out before he could! Lionel was about to leave for a three-month rock climbing trip in Mexico and was so confident in what he felt that [he says] he knew he didn’t have anything to worry about. By the time he came back to town, his friend had struck out. We ran into each other again, this time at an Irish pub on the Danforth, and that’s when the courtship started.

Another moment I won’t ever forget was on our first big trip together. We were travelling through India for two months, and I got very sick. We had run out of food and water on a 24hour train ride, and the heat of the crowded cabin was unbearable. On our next stop, before I could blink, he had jumped off the train to fetch water, but as he was making his way back, the train started to leave. I started to panic, but out of nowhere, I saw him sprinting with a bottle of water alongside the moving train and then he vaulted himself onto the next car.

The proposal

It was at the break of dawn, on a small island in Algonquin Park during a canoe trip we had made with friends. We had slept by the water under the stars, and I woke up to Lionel holding out a ring he had made with his grandmother’s gemstones. The mist was coming off the lake and the air was still.

The wedding

We were married in the south of France and lived there for six months. Our honeymoon was a year long. We travelled through Asia and Africa and volunteered in Ethiopia.

The kids

We have two children. A boy named Julien, who inherited his father’s ocean blue eyes, and a girl named Cléa who inherited her mother’s spunky heart.

The first date

Shared hobbies and interests

Our first date was at 7 West on Charles St. W. on a weeknight in the freezing rain of February. It was pouring, and I was late (of course). When I arrived, Lionel was standing under an umbrella.

As I stumbled over my apologies, he chimed cheekily, “You’re lucky.

One more minute and I was gone.”

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Toronto-based artist Jason Loo’s life is not unlike that of Lucas Barrett’s, the protagonist from his highly successful comic book series The Pitiful Human-Lizard.

Barrett is a thirty-something Toronto office clerk by day and a crime-fighting superhero (albeit a struggling one) by night.

Loo’s 9-to-5 gig is as a library children’s programmer, and he spends his evenings as a supercartoonist, drawing comics for the likes of Marvel and Star Wars.

OK, so maybe not totally similar to Barrett.…

Although Loo used Kickstarter to self-publish the series back in 2014, it wasn’t long before Canadian comic publisher Chapterhouse came calling. The series went on to receive immense international attention and has even been included in the graphic novel program syllabus at both York and the University of Toronto.

“It’s a very grounded story and not like any other superhero story,” says Loo. “There are a lot of things people can relate to in this character, especially for those who fantasize about being a superhero in the real world. They can look at The Pitiful Human-Lizard and see that it’s a lot of work, and there’s not a lot of success, and there can be a lot of awkward moments.”

Since the final issue was published in 2019, Loo has gone on to do other impressive things.

In 2020, he won an Eisner Award for best digital comic for Afterlift, a five-part miniseries he co-created with Chip Zdarsky,

about a ride-share driver who ends up taking a road trip to the afterlife.

Over the last year, Loo has had the opportunity to be involved in some pretty amazing projects.

“I’ve been working on a lot of Marvel stuff, and I’ve also done several Star Wars comics for IDW (Publishing) and Lucas Films, which is a dream come true because I am a huge Star Wars nerd,” he said.

His work will soon be seen as part of the Stillwater anthology series, published by the same company behind the longrunning comic The Walking Dead, and he will appear as a featured guest at Toronto Comicon, taking place March 18 to 20.

‘It’s a great way to meet face to face with fans that read my comics, especially the ones that may not recognize my face,” Loo says. “They walk by my table, and they’re like, ‘I’ve seen that work!’ and I get to hear all the kind words on why they enjoy my comics.”

If you’re interested in what Loo might be up to next, check out his latest Instagram post and you’ll meet Syahdan Raden, a.k.a.

Phantom Blade, an Indonesian supernatural vigilante who lives in Gotham Chinatown.

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Sea-Hi, a popular local Chinese food restaurant, is reopening — sort of. It closed in February 2020 after 59 years in business. Fans were crushed. It had become a cult classic in the community for unique North American spins on Chinese food.

But now, fans can rejoice. After rumours swirled, representatives officially confirmed that Sea-Hi Famous Chinese Food is back. The beloved restaurant

has undergone some changes, but it is officially back for spring. It moved slightly north of its previous location, relocating into a new purpose-built spot at 7000 Bathurst St. in Thornhill, to begin making everyone’s Sea-Hi favourites such as the iconic chicken sticks, egg rolls, sweet and sour spare ribs and fried chicken in a takeout, catering and delivery-only capacity.

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“I went to Rome to train to make these pizzas. I am the only certified Roman pizza maker in the city of Toronto. I do my preparations on Wednesdays and Sundays, but every pizza is made fresh.”

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“That’s good pizza. Really thin crust, it’s flavourful and properly chewy. That tastes like authentic Italian pizza.”

“The flavours are really different.

It’s really unique, a barbecue pizza. We’ve never tasted something like it before.”

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Rebecca & Mandy take T.O. The sisters behind Mandy’s spoon out stories of quirkiness, Yorkville rent and how they got to Toronto

by Ben Kaplan

L-R: Sisters Mandy and Rebecca Wolfe bring their popular eatery Mandy’s to Ossington Avenue

restaurant operators like the Wolfe sisters want to do. And then there’s the reality of what landlords in Forest Hill and Rosedale dare to charge.

“We looked at opening in Yorkville for a while, but that was quickly cut short because we were so intimidated by the rent,” says Rebecca with a laugh, dreaming of a Forest Hill location, where obviously her restaurant template would translate. “Hopefully we can get to Yorkville or Rosedale someday — we would love that!

— but at the moment that still remains a dream.”

“We felt like we’re finally ready to be tested in the big city” “Obviously we want to dip our pinkie in the water before we run, but the timing and energy feels really good, really positive, for us to expand. It feels like we’ve been waiting to open in Toronto our whole life.”

The expansion in Toronto from Montreal isn’t entirely seamless, and quickly the Wolfe sisters, who also wrote the addictive cookbook for their salads, bowls and desserts — Mandy’s Gourmet Salads: Recipes for Lettuce and Life — learned a real estate lesson in the big smoke. There are things

The dream of what Mandy’s provides — a place where you’re served healthy food in a colourful setting by people who are actually nice to you and want you to feel good — has received an inadvertent boost from COVID19. With so much emphasis on our health, natural foods, with freshly sourced ingredients prepared in a spotless environment, have only become more valuable to Canadian diners. Rebecca says the pandemic has the Mandy’s team doubling down on their values and their desire to see their brand

grow.

“In Montreal, it’s been way less ‘let’s go out and drink heavy and party,’ because the virus is literally hurting our health and people want to put goodness into their bodies,” Rebecca says. “Food is medicine and that’s worked in our favour. Wellness is at the heart and soul of what people want right now.”

People definitely want empathy right now, and they also want value and delight. So when there’s a large matzo ball soup at Mandy’s called the Bubby for $8.49 or a Hippie Bowl with black beans and citrus tofu for $10.49, you can feel why, in Toronto, the Mandy’s recipe will be favourably reviewed. Rebecca is genuine and delightful, and when asked if she wished the restaurants were called “Rebecca’s” and not “Mandy’s” — because why should her sister receive all the love — says things like “Mandy asks me that all the time, but it was my idea to call it her name, and she’s the most modest, humble, private person.

She’s the love of my life!”

Mandy’s restaurants are finally opening in Toronto, and they’re spreading a lot of love around the city. Eventually, they’ll open north of Bloor Street. In our opinion, the arrival of the Wolfe sisters isn’t happening a moment too soon.

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The popular Quebec shawarma spot opened its first Toronto location in Scarborough earlier this year, serving up modern, elevated Mediterranean fare.

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Sushi with soya paper and rice paper comes to T.O., alongside this eatery’s nigiri, maki, poke bowls, Thai dishes and more, adding to its 30 Quebec locations.

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to Toronto, and their plans for the city are — like their Endless Summer Salad with pomegranate seeds and tamari mock chicken or their Pretty in Pink smoothie with basil and strawberries — huge.

“We have eight locations in Montreal, and Toronto is bigger and it feels kind of like the city is our oyster, so we’re hopefully looking at opening more than eight Toronto locations,” says Rebecca, adding that she’s nearly closed a lease agreement on a flagship Toronto location at King Street West and Spadina Avenue.

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That the most popular export from Montreal to Toronto was started by two sisters and specializes in unique salads speaks volumes to how one-of-akind these salads are. With funky, flavourful dressings and concoctions unavailable elsewhere — sister Rebecca Wolfe’s favourite is the Wolfe, with Parmesan, toasted walnuts and avocado — Mandy’s, owned and operated by Rebecca and Mandy Wolfe, is finally opening this month in Toronto.

According to Rebecca, the sisters are ready to spread their specific, joyful approach to both food, and life.

“We felt like we’re finally ready to be tested in the big city,” says Rebecca, who began her popular chain in 2004 in the back of a Montreal clothing shop and has seen it grow into a Quebecois franchise with eight restaurants.

“The energy in Toronto is just different, and while the decor and menu from Montreal will remain the same, the vibe and feel of Toronto — the quirkiness — feels like an opportunity for a real big breath of fresh air,” she says.

The Toronto location of Mandy’s will open at 52 Ossington Ave., across the street from Foxley and just south of Paris Paris, adding to that strip’s reservoir of kitchy elegance, taste and glamour. It’s been an 18-year odyssey for the sisters to relocate

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Second chance popcorn Toronto’s Emily O’Brien got the idea for her snack company while serving time in prison

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“Popcorn so good it’s criminal,” reads the logo. The drawing above it reinforces the idea: a blond woman in a stereotypical, blackand-white prison uniform, her head resting in her hand.

The logo sits proudly at the top of the Comeback Snacks website, on every bag of $7 popcorn and on founder Emily O’Brien’s promotional materials. She wants everyone to know that Comeback Snacks was born during her time in prison, and she beams with the perfect mix of self-belief and desire to make a change. She doesn’t care what you think of her past. She cares about the future.

Today, O’Brien’s life is different than when the idea of Comeback Snacks was born. What fills her days now is volunteer work, speaking engagements and other day-to-day operations. Most days, she’ll make a stop at the Hamilton-based storefront, where she maintains a small office. It features cheeky tributes to her time in prison — including her actual jail uniform — offering a constant reminder of how she got to where she is.

“The idea for Comeback Snacks was forged while I was still in prison, where I was keenly aware of the tough challenges my fellow inmates and I faced in getting back on our feet,” the Comeback Snacks website reads.

“Since then, it has been the Comeback team’s mission to raise

awareness for second chances, hire those in need of one when we can, and to support reintegration programs, with a share of profits allocated to like-minded causes as we grow the business. Comeback Snacks are made with conviction.”

Her year inside Kitchener’s Grand Valley Federal Prison for Women was the result of a vacation with her then boyfriend that landed her a drug-smuggling conviction with a four-year sentence. In 2015, she was apprehended at Pearson International Airport, wearing a special suit her boyfriend convinced her would help smuggle bricks of cocaine back from St. Lucia. The arrest was the crux of a time spent battling an eating disorder, masking it through toxic relationships and substances.

“I never had any past trauma.

And I had a great family, but no one’s immune to addiction or eating disorders,” she says. “So that’s what landed me on this trip.

I have an alcohol addiction, and I was with someone that I thought I trusted.”

Sent to Grand Valley as a firsttime offender, O’Brien decided to look at her sentence as an opportunity.

“When I was sentenced, I knew I was going to do something that mattered. I didn’t know what it was going to be. When I got into prison, I listened to everyone’s

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people that were coming out of the system and create a platform for people to share their stories so people would be part of the change. When you get out of prison, the barriers don’t stop there. If anything, they can even get worse. It’s harder to find a job, it’s hard to find an apartment, it’s hard to even find people that believe in you,” O’Brien says.

“Food was something that brought people together, something that allowed people to connect and just forget where we were.”

and then pop it in the halfway house, and I started making little bags and going out to events and practising my speaking,” she says.

Today, Comeback Snacks employs six people, all of whom have stories that resonate with O’Brien. Each needed a second chance — one that O’Brien could give.

A 41-year-old mother of four named Miranda is one of them.

“I’ve been with the Comeback team for a little over a year after having spent some time in prison,” she writes on the website.

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“When I was sentenced, I knew

She attributes a lot of her success to the library, from having the librarian print off peerreviewed journals and articles about the food industry to reading 82 books to writing handwritten blog posts to send to her business partner, which he published on Comeback Snacks’s website. She operated that way, setting up for the company’s eventual opening, until she was released, serving the last three years of her sentence on parole.

“Living in the halfway house, I would buy the kernels at the store

“My turnaround story is still unfolding and is a little raw, but I find my greatest solace and peace when I’m in the kitchen preparing popcorn.”

Recently, O’Brien completed her parole, so she filed her Comeback Snacks patent in the United States, with dreams of making a global social impact and changing the world for the better.

Comeback Snacks believes in second chances, and Emily O’Brien is making the most of hers.

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stories, and I just saw how everyone had done things for the same reason I did, because they wanted to escape something in one way or the other. There’s very few people I know that just want to keep committing crimes over and over,” she says. “It’s mostly because of past trauma or addiction or even just being in the wrong place at the wrong time. I wanted to help rewrite the narrative.”

Her year incarcerated helped her realize her relationship with food was the catalyst that brought her to Grand Valley. It was a far cry from her childhood, where she got good grades and took a socially conscious trip to Costa Rica at 16. But in prison, she tapped into her drive to make change, inspired by her surroundings.

“If you’re in medium or minimum security, you actually buy your own food. You get an allowance. You get to take this $30 and spend it on groceries,” O’Brien says. Items included spices, the ones most people find in their cupboards. The dill and the lemon pepper stood out to O’Brien, who sprinkled them on popcorn at the facility’s Super Bowl party.

“That’s when I decided that I wanted to create a popcorn company but also create a company that could serve as a social enterprise and help employ

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A little piece of Mykonos in Toronto Petros82 serves Greek cuisine in a modern setting by Erica Commisso

Calamari, plucked fresh from the ice and placed directly onto the grill

You can now get the Mykonos feel without ever leaving the city, thanks to Petros82.

Once housed inside Hotel X, the Greek eatery has now found a new, two-storey space in the Entertainment District to call home. Located at 299 Adelaide St. W., the 10,000-square-foot restaurant is adorned with floor-to-ceiling windows and a sleek, modern interior.

All of that space allows for a traditional, upscale restaurant setting, as one would expect. But it also houses the YK Marketta, where traditional Greek provisions are available for purchase; a live seafood market; and even a semi-private mezzanine for private events.

Of course, the spotlight is on the traditional Mediterranean fare, which is accompanied by an extensive craft cocktail list, made largely with spirits native to Greece.

“There was a lot of trial and error with working with Greek spirits," explains wine director and operations manager Antonio Sabato. “We didn’t want to give a cocktail that was too overpowering. We wanted items to complement each other."

Seafood-focused appetizer options include kakavia, a traditional seafood soup, alongside a shrimp cocktail, oysters, PEI cocktails and a chilled seafood salad.

There’s also a selection of comfort foods, Greek pastas and shareable dishes (like spanakopita), as well as meat and fish mains.

“A steak is a steak, a lamb is a lamb, but there aren't

too many places in the city that let you pick your own fish. It's pretty unique," says chef Tony Andrady. “We don’t have fish on the menu. When people walk in, hosts and servers bring you to the fish bar, and you get to pick your fish,” Andrady says.

The whole vibe at Petros82 is comparable to that of Estiatorio Milos, a New York City seafood restaurant that has garnered international attention. The modern decor paired with the live market create Toronto’s version of the upscale Manhattan restaurant. Of course, a big draw is the huge wine cellar, a labour of love by Sabato. Inside, there are hundreds of bottles imported from around the world, with a heavy selection of Greek labels, but the selection stems from across Europe.

The restaurant is a division of Peter & Paul’s hospitality group, which owns a multitude of restaurants across the GTA. Its charge also includes event spaces and catering businesses, where event organizers can have celebrations flow between multiple rooms if they choose.

It serves as an homage to owner Peter Eliopolous’ Greek roots and even features tributes to his life in Greece, including olive oil sourced from his farm in his native country. The 82 is a nod to the fact that Eliopolous has been in the hospitality industry since 1982.

Petros82 is open from 4 to 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday, for both takeout and delivery.

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L-R: Three Kingdoms Pizza’s guokui, a hand-held stuffed flatbread, and a snack from A Bite of Sichuan

Chinese street eats hit Baldwin Village Bold Food Hubs serves an array of unique dishes by Harriette Halepis GTA. Braised quail eggs, spicy dried wonton, Langya spicy fries, Sichuan crispy pork and Mom’s Best Pig’s Trotter Soup are some of the dishes you can add to your Signature Nine Dishes platter.

Bold Food Hubs is open daily from 11:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. The food is available for delivery through Uber Eats, DoorDash and Facedrive, or dine in, perfect for relaxing and absorbing the custom artwork and colourful decor.

Reminiscent of the food halls recently made popular in New York City and beyond, Bold Food Hubs offers up an entire Instagram-worthy setup, from the vibrant, authentic food to bold murals that sprawl across the walls in bright, standout colours.

Anthony Rose finally gets his chef Graham Pratt and Anthony Rose have been fans of each other for a long time. When Pratt and his wife ran the Gabardine, a popular brunch spot that closed just as the pandemic hit, Rose struck up a friendship, rooted in respect, with Pratt.

After a few missed opportunities, Rose asked Pratt to helm the kitchen at his two conjoined eateries, Rose & Sons and the Big Crow.

“I’ve been a fan of both of these restaurants for a long time. I remember when Anthony was building this place, I was like, ‘This is so cool,’” Pratt says.

As Pratt makes the menu more his own, he has created two distinct menus for both the front part of the restaurant, Rose & Sons, and the bigger, back part of the restaurant, occupied by the Big Crow.

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deli-inspired feel, and the Big Crow exudes a cottage-like vibe with a more smoke-focused menu and a big, sprawling patio.

“In differentiating the two places, what we’re looking to do is have some crossover items, for sure, as it’s one team and one chef,” Pratt says. “But we’re driving the Big Crow to be more BBQ focused, and then we’re going to go more classic deli/diner and a bit of Tex-Mex influences in the back as well.”

Some of Pratt’s new dishes are beetroot and potato salad with horseradish, crema and dill; a smoked pork and shrimp chorizo; and Texas-style chuck beef chili.

The Big Crow and Rose & Sons are open at 176 Dupont St. for takeout, dine in and delivery, complete with Graham Pratt’s new, revamped menu.

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Singapore, Malaysia, China and elsewhere in the world but are a first for the GTA. But you can’t stop at pizza when you visit Bold Food Hub. Fortune Tea is there to help with a less sugary version of boba tea, ensuring the very best kind of indulgence. Fortune Tea’s drinks claim to have less sugar and more real tea than most artificially flavoured boba tea options and can be topped with the restaurant’s handmade whipped cream.

Post tea can only mean more food, which will inevitably lead you to A Bite of Sichuan and its bite-sized snacks meant for sharing (or excessive snacking).

With more than 500 locations in China, A Bite of Sichuan is a well-oiled machine that aims to deliver Sichuan street food to the

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Gokui pizza, healthier boba and mini-bites of Chengdu-style street food await foodies at Bold Food Hub, a new food mecca at 5 Baldwin St. The multi-concept Chinese food centre is a far cry from spare ribs and moo shoo pork, in the best possible way.

Maybe the most intriguing of the three is Three Kingdoms Pizza. The unique restaurant has more than 5,000 locations worldwide and serves guokui – a large hand-held, stuffed flatbread pizza that’s both chewy and crispy. It operates as the Asian take on a classic Italian dish, bringing new flavours and textures to a tried-and-true dish.

Three Kingdoms has multiple pizza flavours, including BBQ mushroom, pork and vegetable and spicy beef. The face-sized pizzas are well-known in Korea,

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Putting mistakes behind them, Buca Yorkville reopens While Rob Gentile is off to Los Angeles, the eatery finds new life and a new chef

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Good news for Buca fans: the outpost in Yorkville has of 2021. So for version two, there was a high staff opened its doors yet again. turnover and a new chef at the helm. It’s now fully Following a $30 million debacle that saw big owned by King Street Food Company, and chef de changes and former executive chef Rob Gentile head- cuisine Justin Friedlich has taken over the Yorkville ing to Los Angeles for a partnership with celebrated kitchen. Chef Jorge Fernando Fiestas is the executive food mogul Janet Zuccharini, the Italian eatery is chef of both Buca locations. Both were promoted back. Both the King Street and Yorkville locations from their previous roles as sous chef and chef de cuiopened with the easing of the new restrictions, an- sine, respectively, after some pandemic-related delays nouncing via their Instagram accounts that they and obstacles. Fiestas serves as Friedlich’s would take reservations beginning Feb. 1. friend and mentor, helping him with the Now open for dinner Tuesdays through transition into the greater role at the ON THE MENU Saturdays from 5 to 10 p.m., both locanew Buca.

Linguine alle cozze, tions are closed on Sundays and MonPandemic-related closures saw fluccrudo misto, focaccia days. Throughout the restriction-related tuations in openings at the King West and branzino, among closures, the restaurant had Buca at location, and the obstacles took shape other delicacies.

Home, a program that offered an à la carte in terms of the transition at the takeout and delivery menu from the King Yorkville location, as the doors were not West location at 604 King St. W. and a prix allowed to be open and restrictions prefixe menu for two from the Yorkville outpost. vented the staff from being fully present in the Now that in-person dining is available again, the restaurant at one time. seasonally changing menu is back, populated by Inside the Yorkville edition, the earthy decor is Buca’s take on traditional Italian fare, including a new punctuated by rich wood and stone, with sleek lines linguine alle cozze (linguine with mussels) dish, pizza, and modern brick accents. It complements the upseasonal oysters, salumi di mare (a selection of cured dated, New World take on classic Italian dishes, givocean meats) and, of course, meat and seafood en- ing new life to the eatery. trees.

Buca Yorkville’s front entrance is located at 53 As a result of a $30 million slip up, the original Scollard St., but Buca is also accessible through the Buca iteration permanently closed its doors in the fall Four Seasons Courtyard on Yorkville Avenue.

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Mark McEwan exits ONE Restaurant brunch dishes, like avocado toast and buttermilk pancakes, alongside lunch and dinner fare, like vegan mushroom bolognese, chicken ballotine and bone-in veal parmesan, all of which have drawn praise from foodies across the city.

Celebrated Toronto chefs, bloggers and fine dining fans flocked to Mark McEwan’s post to wish him success. Patrons thanked him for his tenure at the restaurant, congratulating him on its yearly success. Many also thanked him for teaching them along their culinary journeys.

One Restaurant was Mark McEwan’s longest standing project, serving up a variety of brunch and dinner cuisines in a chic, modern environment. Of course, the famed chef will still be at the helm of several other restaurants across the city. His

company is responsible for Fabbrica, Bymark and Diwan at the Aga Khan Museum, among others. The McEwan Group’s grocery stores and catering service will also operate as normal.

One Restaurant, at 116 Yorkville Ave., is a popular Toronto meeting spot for those looking for an elevated dining experience. It also offers in-room service to hotel guests. As of now, it is unclear how many changes McEwan’s departure will bring to the restaurant, as the remaining 50 per cent ownership of the eatery belongs to the McEwan Group’s co-founders, who gave the kitchen to chef Darby Piquette. The Hazelton Hotel is one of the most esteemed in the world, and a quality dining experience is paramount in its continued success.

Go back in time with the last Toby’s Good Eats Turns out it’s easier than you would think to take a trip back in time. All you have to do is head to Toby’s Good Eats in Hamilton and bask in the old-timey bliss.

Toby’s Good Eats was founded in 1983 with a simple, diner-style interior and a unique menu boasting quality ingredients. Although the last standing Toby’s is newly renovated, it has maintained all of the original design elements to preserve its vintage charm.

“We want people to know that we really care about our business and that we are here to stay,” says a representative from Toby’s Good Eats.

Old meets new at Toby’s Hamilton with several revisions to the menu in order to remain on trend with changing customer palates: like, for example, the addition of a Beyond Meat burger for plant-based

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But those who may remember the better days when Toby’s Good Eats had over 10 locations across Toronto and the GTA need not worry — the restaurant still offers its quintessential “popularity” and “truck stop” burgers as well as the chunky fries and cheese sauce that shot them to local diner fame back in the day. Patrons can also order up typical brunch and lunch items like the bacon and eggs breakfast, clubhouse sandwich or fish and chips. Opt for the fried chicken or pork chop meal if you’re looking for a bestseller that won’t disappoint.

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There are big changes coming at One Restaurant.

Recently, the McEwan Group announced the sale of its 50 per cent share in One Restaurant, turning it over to the new proprietors of the Hazelton Hotel. With this announcement, chef Mark McEwan confirmed that he, too, is leaving the Yorkville eatery. His departure comes after 15 years of operating the restaurant.

“It’s been a wild ride — 15 years of memories and stories some wouldn’t believe!” McEwan wrote on Instagram. “I’ve worked with some incredible people over the last 15 years. You’ve truly made the place hum, and to those that will remain after my departure, we wish you continued success.”

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1,847 likes This is what Sam the Record Man looked like in 1971 before it acquired its iconic, neon spinning record sign. Even though Sam’s is gone, you can still find the sign shining atop 277 Victoria St. overlooking Yonge-Dundas Square.

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The Presidents’ Conference Committee (PCC) streetcars were all the rage in the 1930s and first hit the T.O. streets in 1938. On Dec. 8, 1995, the last regular service run of the PCC streetcar was completed.

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Here is what Nathan Phillips Square looked like on a crisp afternoon in the late ’60s with the reflecting pool converted into a skating rink! Nathan Phillips Square first opened on Sept. 13, 1965, and is Canada’s largest city square.

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