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Toronto rapper KILLY has just released a non-fungible token (NFT) that unlocks the title and cover art of his new track.  Called “HYPER RARE DEMON FACE,” the NFT is currently accepting bids via Rareable. Only 25 copies will be released to buyers. An NFT is a unique unit of cryptocurrency that gives artists, creators, and buyers outright […]

Canada Goose, purveyors of power parkas made for impossibly harsh climates, may not strike you as the ideal brand to link up with the NBA. But they do have a history with the league. Back in 2016, when the NBA All-Star game was held in Toronto for the first time, the outerwear titan made some limited-edition […]

Freddie Wahter wants to open up.  He’s overcome racism and poverty to become the man he is today: a Toronto-based artist with global reach, working with musicians, fashion designers, and photographers to create the art he wants to make. But the world wasn’t always at Freddie’s grasp.  Growing up poor to two Ghanaian immigrants who met […]

The Toronto Raptors returned to face the Detroit Pistons Wednesday night looking a bit like Steven Seagal in Hard to Kill—outgunned and undermanned—thanks to positive COVID-19 results and ongoing contact tracing within the organization. The team was down to a skeleton roster, with starters Fred VanVleet, Pascal Siakam, and OG Anunoby all ruled out in accordance with the league’s health and […]

Things don’t seem to be slowing down for pop sensation Tate McRae. The 17-year-old Calgary native was recently announced as Apple Music’s Up Next artist for this month, making her the fourth Canadian to be featured and joining a roster of talented artists like Daniel Caesar, Megan Thee Stallion, Jesse Reyez, and Billie Eilish. This, after […]

Culture and vibes. If Kazeem Kuteyi had a catchphrase, this would be it. It’s been sort of a running joke between him and his friends for years—a phrase fit for many occasions but most importantly, just something fun to yell at each other across the crowded dancefloors of yore. But beyond the ribbing, there’s not […]

Hockey is back, and with it comes highlight-reel plays, online debates, and fantasy drafts. In short: it’s the type of high-octane diversion we all deserved given the global circumstances. Not even a reduced season (56 games) and a late start (Jan. 13) could dampen our spirits. Although arenas are emptied of hardcore fans (a blow […]

A recent report has ranked Toronto and Vancouver among the most expensive cities for real estate in the world. The report, published by the Urban Reform Institute and Frontier Centre for Public Policy, showed that Toronto is “severely unaffordable,” a category for markets found to have a price-to-income ratio of 5.1 or more. The city […]

Canadians have evidently reached peak COVID fatigue as a new study reveals that a significant amount of people are planning to break the country’s pandemic rules during spring break. Insights West, a Canadian market research company, surveyed 1,614 English-speaking Canadians about how often they follow COVID-19 restrictions in their province.  Following provincial restrictions and guidelines day-to-day, about 48 […]

Pressa has shared an unreleased track via a unique virtual concert film experience that just debuted YouTube. The Toronto rapper reimagines the conventional virtual concert as a stylistic film in a 15-minute video that features a tracklist of eight songs, spanning past hits and select tracks from his highly acclaimed EP Gardner Express. The rapper also includes a surprise […]