42 h. ago Abandoned Toronto car dealership transforming into sports and social club

A vacant car dealership in Toronto is getting a new lease on life as it gears up to be transformed into a trendy sports and social club.Spring has arrived in Toronto (in theory, at least), bringing with it a renewed excitement to get active among friends for many of the city's residents, and one community in particular is about to get an especially exciting new hub to hang out and hit the courts.Last winter, Ontario-based pickleball and padel club, Fairgrounds, burst onto the scene, opening a series of public clubs everywhere from Etobicoke's Cloverdale Mall to the heart of Yonge and St. Clair, giving folks the city over the chance to get their game on, membership fee-free.This season is shaping up to be no different, as the pickleball brand prepares to open a brand-new club in their most creative location yet: a former Mercedes-Benz dealership at Bayview and Eglinton.The new Leaside flagship is setting up shop at 849 Eglinton East as an interim adaptive use of the sp...

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8 d. ago Canadian car dealership expects price hikes soon over auto tariff dispute

The general manager of a Ford dealership in Dartmouth, N.S. said that 75 per cent of the cars in his showroom are manufactured south of the border.

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2 w. ago Abandoned Toronto factory transforming into the ultimate party pad for one night only

If you're sick of stuffy nightclubs and boring bars, there's a wild warehouse party coming to Toronto this month that might just be the ticket for you.Warehouse parties and festivals are nothing new in Toronto; from events like Promise's German Sparkle Party to Sojourn Festival, the tradition of transforming abandoned industrial spaces into lively party pads is alive and well in the city, and has been for decades.This month, there's a brand-new warehouse party hitting the scene that's transforming an abandoned factory in a truly unexpected way: they're turning it into a house.Created by LOVE U 4EVER, arbiters of a series of both secret and non-secret events across the city year-round, their upcoming "House" Party will see a "wild and weird warehouse" in the city transformed into a house (of sorts) to provide the ultimate party experience.There's only one catch: you don't get to know where the party is actually taking place until you've bought the ticket."If you miss the random ...

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2 w. ago Toronto bar backpedals on permanent closure amid delays with new concept

Members of Toronto's CityPlace community were rattled, to say the least, when the news about the neighbourhood's beloved Fox and Fiddle location's impending closure first broke.A local fixture for years, the franchise was something of a neighbourhood watering hole despite its obvious position as a member of the nationwide pub chain.Independent or not, it served as a go-to spot for after-work drinks and sports game-viewing parties for the community's many residents and workers for years, until early 2025, when the location suddenly shut down, marking the second Fox and Fiddle location in Toronto to close within the space of a week.It wasn't all bad news when the closure was announced, though, as franchise owners, the Reign Company, who also own Fox on John, shared that a brand-new day-to-night social club called Charlie Social House would be taking over the space."We saw an exciting opportunity to create something truly transformative that aligns with our vision for th...

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3 w. ago ‘The Alto Knights’: Double dose of De Niro is half as good as it should be

Set mostly in the 1950s and taking its name from a defunct social club once frequented by the Mafia in New York’s Little Italy, “The Alto Knights” follows the rivalry between Frank Costello and Vito Genovese, childhood friends turned competing Mafia bosses, and their maneuvering for control of the Luciano crime family. Although the fact-based […]

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3 w. ago People in Toronto claim luxury gym is cancelling their memberships over bad reviews

Over the past few years, luxury gyms and wellness clubs have completely transformed the fitness landscape in Toronto, but the members of one club suggest that it's not all smooth squatting.The 2021 arrival of Winnipeg-based "social wellness club" Altea Active in Toronto was a revelation for the city's fitness community, leading to the immediate formation of a near evangelical fanbase for the gym.Opening up shop in an expansive 89,000 sq. ft. space at Liberty Village's Novus building, the gym boasted a virtually unmatched suite of offerings, from aquatic training, fitness classes, open gym training, a restaurant, recreation and child care.With memberships, at the time, starting at $95 per month (which have since been increased), for many, the suite of offerings — on top of the gym's high-calibre instructors, who fostered fan bases of their own — more than justified the lofty cost.Recently, though, members have noted some changes around the gym, and not everyone'...

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