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The Weekender: Lil Wayne, Wild Blueberry Festival and five other items on our...
Wild Blueberry Festival, Dusk Dances and the CNE 1. CANADIAN NATIONAL EXHIBITION The Ex is back, which means wobbly rides, carnival games and plenty of midway food. Whatever your cultural affectation...
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Last night’s storm shut down the Ex, caused power outages—and produced some...
Despite a tornado warning for the area, last night’s storm only resulted in a few power outages, the early shutdown of the CNE and as much as $100,000 in damages to one unfortunate Scarborough house....
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The CNE announces this year’s deep-fried and bacon-laden indulgences
From last year’s fried-things coverage, complete with Regret-o-metre (Image: Gizelle Lau) Each year, we fear and anticipate in equal measure the arrival of whatever new deep-fried offerings and...
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Rob Ford does some dodgy math and cuts up his CNE tickets on camera
Over the weekend, the Toronto Sun posted a video of Rob Ford railing against the organizers of the CNE, who had the nerve to send the mayor free passes to this year’s fair. In a bit of grandstanding...
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The Long Weekender: Public Enemy, Brazilian Day and six other events on our...
The Lemon Bucket Orkestra performs at the Ashkenaz Festival on Sunday (Image: Ashkenaz Festival) 1. ASHKENAZ FESTIVAL The Ashkenaz Festival is the largest international festival of Jewish music and...
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High Rollers: we break down five different billion-dollar plans for a casino...
City councillors could vote on whether to allow a downtown casino as soon as next month, and they, along with the rest of Toronto, remain bitterly divided over whether it would be a money-generating...
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Sideshow Snacks: cronut burgers, Nutella fries and bacon-covered everything...
The much-hyped Cronut Burger (Image: Epic Burgers and Waffles) The CNE food tent has devolved into a culinary freak show: a place where ordinary snacks—like ice cream cones and hamburgers—are jacked...
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Five things to do in Toronto on the weekend of August 16–18
In this edition of The Weekender, the CNE, free outdoor movies and three more things to do in Toronto this weekend. FAIR Canadian National Exhibition The Ex returns for its 135th year of...
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CNE Snacks 2013: we try bacon milkshakes, chocolate-covered franks and more...
We thought last year’s CNE fat-fest was bacon-centric, but this summer’s rendition reveals new levels of porcine depravity: salt-cured pig is pulled, pulverized, crumbled, batter-encased and stacked...
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Cronut Burger Backlash: bad reviews, trademark issues and gastrointestinal...
(Images: Epic Burgers and Waffles (left); Gizelle Lau (right)) Glamour shots of the cronut-encased cheeseburger by Toronto’s Epic Burgers and Le Dolci Bakery sent the blogosphere into a tizzy earlier...
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Quoted: Mayor Rob Ford on the gastronomically suspect Cronut Burger
(Images: Rob Ford, Christopher Drost; Cronut Burger, Gizelle Lau) I didn’t touch it. The cheese and the cinnamon, all that, I just didn’t. There’s not too much I’d miss when it comes to food, but that...
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Cronut Burger Wrap-Up: six ridiculous facts to take away from the public...
(Images: Epic Burgers and Waffles (left); Gizelle Lau (right)) The Cronut Burger probe came to a surprising close yesterday when Toronto Public Health officials fingered the beef-stuffed pastry’s...
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The CNE releases its 2014 stunt-food lineup
A plain old deep-fried Mars bar (Image: RCabanilla/Flickr) In a matter of days, thousands of Toronto digestive tracts will be forced to do business with all kinds of weird and potentially troublesome...
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How do you build a roller coaster at the CNE?
Click to view gallery (Image: Kayla Rocca) The CNE opens its gates today, inaugurating an end-of-summer tradition. Amid all the colours, lights and deep-fried stunt foodstuffs, though, it’s easy to...
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Why are you eating that? (and other questions that came up inside the CNE...
Click to view gallery (Images: Nick Kozak) Snacking at the CNE requires a sense of adventure and a stomach of steel. The food seems to get weirder every summer, with vendors competing to produce the...
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