The Yorkville Swindler: how Albert Allan Rosenberg scammed his way into high...
To his wife and girlfriends and business partners, Albert Allan Rosenberg was a billionaire, a Swiss baron, a merchant banker with holdings around the world, the most charming guy in the room. The...
View ArticlePuckheads: inside the crazed arenas of the GTHL
The world’s largest amateur hockey organization is also a breeding ground for unscrupulous coaches, raging parents and miserable preteens By Rachel Giese | Illustration by Michael Byers Sometimes...
View ArticleMcMansion Wars: inside the nasty neighbour-versus-neighbour feuds of Forest Hill
By Kelly Pullen | Photographs by Daniel Neuhaus The house that used to be at 212 Vesta Drive sold for $1.25 million in 2009. The buyers demolished it without a permit and erected this three-storey...
View ArticleThe naked ambition of National Ballet artistic director Karen Kain
Beneath her poised veneer is an exacting perfectionist, a tenacious fundraiser and a total control freak. Which explains how she turned the floundering National Ballet of Canada into one of the world’s...
View ArticleThe Break-In Artist: the hunt for the cat burglar who terrorized Toronto’s...
By Malcolm Johnston | Illustrations by Matthew Woodson The Fort Knox of Thornhill is a stucco mansion with a mansard roof, front-yard fountain and U-shaped driveway on the area’s most coveted street....
View ArticleThe Kink Club: inside the secret world of BDSM
A growing cohort of Torontonians are indulging their wildest fetishes—and negotiating every slap, spank and lash of the whip. By Stacey May Fowles The Valentine’s Fetish Ball, at the Opera House in...
View ArticleThe Skin I’m In: I’ve been interrogated by police more than 50 times—all...
By Desmond Cole | Photography by Markian Lozowchuk The summer I was nine, my teenage cousin Sana came from England to visit my family in Oshawa. He was tall, handsome and obnoxious, the kind of guy who...
View ArticleThe Charming Mr. Elder
Michael Elder used his family’s establishment connections to convince a who’s who of Bay Street to pour $12 million into his miraculous new device. Thirteen years later, the OSC is circling and a...
View ArticleThe Bay Street Tinder Diaries: dating in the age of the internet hookup
At 5:30 p.m. on Thursdays, Earls at King and York is roaring. From the surrounding towers, players descend to blow off steam and seal the deal—with clients and that night’s conquest. This is their...
View ArticleThe Cult of Jian: his life as an outcast, who’s standing by him, and why he’s...
I knew him to be a charming, if temperamental, narcissist who desperately wanted to be adored—and he was, until it all came crashing down. Now he’s surrounded by a small circle of admirers who either...
View ArticleJennifer Pan’s Revenge: the inside story of a golden child, the killers she...
By Karen K. Ho Read this article in simplified Chinese 点击这里阅读整篇中文文章 Bich Ha and Huei Hann Pan were classic examples of the Canadian immigrant success story. Hann was raised and educated in Vietnam and...
View ArticleTroublemaker: why Jennifer Keesmaat may be exactly what Toronto needs right now
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View ArticleThe Double Life of Ben Levin: his depraved online world, and the sting that...
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View ArticleThe Tenant from Hell: how a serial fraudster took advantage of Toronto’s...
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View ArticleThe Sex Ed Revolution: a portrait of the powerful political bloc that’s...
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View ArticleStuck in Condoland
In a city where space is at a premium, tiny condos are the new family home. Learning to survive in 700 square feet
View ArticleThe Vaccine Truthers: why parents shun life-saving shots
A new generation of parents are refusing to vaccinate their kids
View ArticleThe Bank of Mom and Dad: confessions of a propped up generation
It seems like every 30-something couple has an embarrassing financial secret: their boomer parents are covering their mortgages, child-care costs and other expenses
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