On February 26, 1964, shoppers dressed in their Sunday best walked through Yorkdale Shopping Centre for the first time. With over 1.2 million square feet of retail, restaurants, and services—although not all of them were yet leased on opening day—Yorkdale was briefly the largest indoor shopping mall in the world. With three anchor stores—Simpsons at [...]

Toronto is home to a host of swapping, bartering, and sharing communities. Swapsity is one of them, and for this year’s Buy Nothing Day on November 25, they put their own twist on the occasion, calling it Buy Nothing, Swap Something Day. Swapsity is an online swapping community dedicated to helping Canadians build a more [...]

Why do these Yorkdale shoppers look happy as they begin their browsing or shopping experience? Perhaps it’s because they took the subway instead of motoring to the mall. Anyone who has driven into the Yorkdale parking lot during the weeks preceding Christmas knows it’s not an experience for the timid. While we suspect it was [...]

One of the most fun food destinations in Toronto has new digs. The Peek Freans Cookie Outlet has moved a block away from its former location on O’Connor Drive and is now at 5 Bermondsey Road. Young families as well as seniors stream in to stock up on the cookies, crackers, and candies that are [...]

Sonic Boom, the Annex music store famed for its large selection and elaborate window displays, is being forced out of its old space on Bloor Street so a dollar store can move in. Now, in a fitting bit of turnabout, it's opened a second location in a vacant space in Kensington Market that was most recently—yes—a dollar store.

Seated mannequins in the window of the IZ Adaptive boutique. Jackets zip apart in the front and back to make dressing easier. Getting dressed to go out can be one of the most arduous tasks in your day. Whether it’s picking an outfit for work in the morning or getting ready for a night out, [...]

Motorists line up at Costco’s gas station at its Scarborough location. Over the past couple months, Costco, the members-only wholesaler better known for its massive quantities of just about everything, added gasoline to its product line by opening gas stations at its Etobicoke and Scarborough locations. What’s resulted could best be described as utter insanity. [...]

Photo by Eric Yip. Remembrance Day doesn’t exist in the States. (I was born there and stayed for a little over twenty-two years, and I think I’d have noticed it if it were around.) The US does, of course, have Veterans Day, also celebrated on November 11. And then there’s Memorial Day, a holiday with [...]

Photos by Michael Chrisman/Torontoist. WHERE: The Bay, at Queen and Yonge. WHEN: Friday, October 22, at 6:30 p.m. WHAT: At The Bay’s flagship store, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, two months too soon. (As Dale Watson, who noticed the decorations on Thursday, put it, “WTF?”)

Gerrard Square by PLTam