6) #BeerEh: Where to get the cheapest beer in Toronto: In a partnership with Huffington Post Canada, OpenFile cities told you about the cost of beer across the country. From the cheap stuff to the good stuff, we looked at what affects beer prices in Ontario, and scouted for some of the best bar deals in the city (including $7 pitchers!).
7) At Idomo furniture, a pitchman’s final sale: “Unlike so many of Toronto’s more abrasive hucksters—from ‘Bad Boy’ Mel Lastman and his obnoxious bellows of ‘Noooooobody!’ to costumed stunts by Russell Oliver’s (a.k.a. ‘Cash Man,’ a.k.a. ‘The Loan Arranger’)—Gerrit de Boer exhibited a distinctive warmth and humility,” writes John Semley on the retirement of one of the city’s top furniture moguls.
New Broadview House Hotel stands its ground: Four-storey flophouse or a bastion of local east-end heritage? John Semley looks at the story of the building at Queen Street East and Broadview Avenue, known both for its connections to one of the country’s most successful oil tycoons and for Jilly’s, its infamous ground-floor strip club.
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