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From Jamaican-Italian to Thai perogies, meet the city's latest restaurant craze.

A group of Toronto businesses are changing the way we interact with data. 

After 15 years developing companies in Germany, Mexico, California, and the UK, Hamid Arabzadeh returned to Toronto in 2010 to launch the startup incubator Spoke Technologies Inc. He spoke with Yonge Street about the local startup scene and what it takes to make businesses run.

Every year since 2001, the Toronto Foundation has pulled together data, case studies, and other information to create a comprehensive assessment of the state of our city. Toronto, it's time for your annual checkup.

The city's small batch brewery scene is exploding. In honour of Oktoberfest, we introduce you to breweries from the west end's Junction Craft Brewery to the east end's Left Field to learn more about the narrative of Toronto's craft beer rapture.  

Toronto is getting its manufacturing groove back. We take a look at the contemporary companies making manufacturing, and locally made goods and products, a priority. 

Move over Siri, there's a new voice-activated computer in town. Meet Ubi, a small computer with a remarkable understanding of natural language, and two other distinct Toronto-based user interface innovations. Over the next three to five years, we will see a renaissance in UI and experience design. 

Peekapak is a new curated monthly arts and education package that brings healthier ideas about the world to today's young minds. Featuring protagonists involved in STEM fields, Peekapak challenges traditional homework and ideals.