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Toronto’s Bluebird Laser opens up laser hair removal to trans and non-binary people
This story is part of NOW's Support Local series spotlighting small businesses across Toronto. If you want to suggest a business, contact us here and select “Editorial (Life)” from... -
Toronto restaurants have a hiring problem – and it goes way beyond CERB
There’s a ubiquitous image hanging in the windows of restaurants throughout Toronto: “now hiring” signs. Since the sudden reopening of patios in June and indoor... -
Toronto Pillars: A Different Booklist prepares for a new chapter
The owners of A Different Booklist didn’t decide for it to become a cultural centre – their community did. “When people came to the bookstore,... -
How Toronto music venue Cameron House launched a barber shop
The doors are open at the Cameron House – just not the ones you’re used to walking into. Though the long-running Queen West bar and... -
Website listing businesses that require proof of vaccination shuts down
A website that listed businesses in Ontario with fully vaccinated staff or require customers to show proof of vaccination has shut down after less than... -
Toronto Pillars: Play De Record is your favourite DJ’s favourite record store
Toronto Pillars is NOW’s series highlighting longstanding legacy businesses that make the city what it is. This week, coinciding with Record Store Day on July 17,... -
What’s behind Toronto’s pot shop explosion?
Cannabis shops are taking over Toronto. Nearly three years since Canada legalized recreational cannabis, retail pot shops are everywhere. There are officially 161 in the... -
Toronto Pillars: C’est What is “the granddaddy of craft beer bars”
C’est What bills itself as “the granddaddy of craft beer bars.” But when the St. Lawrence Market mainstay opened in 1988, the term “craft beer”... -
Ghost Drops, one of Canada’s most iconic legacy cannabis brands, is muscling into the legal market
The cannabis company Ghost Drops has arrived in the legal market bringing with it its infamous reputation, legacy genetics catalogue, and its partnerships with award-winning... -
Inside one of Toronto’s last video stores
Toronto Pillars is NOW’s new series profiling longstanding legacy businesses that make the city what it is. Have a suggestion? Email me (select Life from the drop-down).... -
Toronto Pillars: Come as You Are is the city’s most inclusive sex shop
Toronto Pillars is NOW’s new series profiling longstanding legacy businesses that make the city what it is. Have a suggestion? Email me (select Life from the drop-down).... -
Toronto Pillars: Tom’s Dairy Freeze makes the city’s most nostalgic ice cream
Toronto Pillars is NOW’s new series profiling longstanding legacy businesses that make the city what it is. Have a suggestion? Email me (select Life from... -
A Toronto ice cream shop that’s for the dogs
Samantha Mok has 300 cups of ice cream in her freezer. It’s full to the brim with dragon fruit, strawberries and cream, mango passionfruit and... -
Absolute Toner and Copiers supports Ontario businesses reopening with Lease-to-Own programs
After more than a year and a half of navigating pandemic-related restrictions and regulations for businesses, there is finally an end in sight. For business... -
Who’s behind Toronto’s cute pink delivery robots?
Toronto is overrun with pink robots. Well, maybe not overrun – there are only about seven or eight wheeling around on any given day. But...
