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    "name": "Yonge St Daily",
    "alternateName": "YSD",
    "url": "https://yongestreetdaily.com/",
    "type": "Organization",
    "category": "City guide and culture publication",
    "tagline": "Toronto's guide to what's on, what's open and what's worth it.",
    "description": "Yonge St Daily is a Toronto city guide and culture publication covering food and drink, things to do, free events and deals, neighbourhoods, nightlife and day trips from the city.",
    "language": "en-CA",
    "founded": "2026",
    "coverageArea": {
        "city": "Toronto",
        "region": "ON",
        "country": "CA"
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    "audience": "People living in or visiting Toronto who want to know where to eat, what is on and what is worth doing.",
    "covers": [
        "Restaurant and bar openings, closings and recommendations",
        "Weekend plans, festivals, markets and seasonal events",
        "Free events, discounts and deals",
        "Neighbourhood guides across Toronto and the GTA",
        "Music, film, art and nightlife",
        "Day trips within a few hours of the city",
        "Practical guides for people new to Toronto"
    ],
    "doesNotCover": [
        "Crime, accidents and tragedy",
        "Court proceedings",
        "Active political controversy"
    ],
    "editorialProcess": "Every article is written and edited by a person before it is published. Automated tools are used to gather leads and assemble first drafts; nothing publishes without human review. Sources are recorded for every claim.",
    "selectionMethod": "We recommend rather than list. Places and events are included when we have been, when a reader we trust has sent them in, or when we can verify the details with the venue or an official listing.",
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        {
            "name": "Eat & Drink",
            "url": "https://yongestreetdaily.com/category/eat-drink/",
            "description": "Where to eat and drink in Toronto right now. New openings, the places that just closed, patio season, cheap eats that are actually cheap, and the restaurants worth crossing the city for. We include the practical part most guides skip: the address, the neighbourhood, what a meal costs and when to go so you are not waiting an hour."
        },
        {
            "name": "Things To Do",
            "url": "https://yongestreetdaily.com/category/things-to-do/",
            "description": "What is on in Toronto this weekend and the rest of the week. Festivals, markets, seasonal events, gallery openings and the small things that make a Saturday worth leaving the house for. Everything here is a recommendation, not a listing dump. If it is not worth your time we leave it out, and we tell you what it costs to get in."
        },
        {
            "name": "Deals & Free",
            "url": "https://yongestreetdaily.com/category/deals/",
            "description": "Free things to do in Toronto, plus discounts, giveaways and the deals worth planning around. Free museum nights, pay-what-you-can theatre, festival admission, happy hours and the events that cost nothing but a TTC fare. We check dates and prices before we run anything, and we say plainly when free means free with a catch."
        },
        {
            "name": "City Life",
            "url": "https://yongestreetdaily.com/category/city-life/",
            "description": "How Toronto actually works, day to day. TTC changes, construction that will affect your commute, rent and housing, weather that reshapes the weekend, and the slow shifts in what the city looks like. Practical and useful rather than dramatic. We cover the things that change how you get around and what your week costs."
        },
        {
            "name": "Neighbourhoods",
            "url": "https://yongestreetdaily.com/category/neighbourhoods/",
            "description": "Area guides to Toronto, written at street level. Kensington, Liberty Village, Yonge and Eg, the Distillery, Scarborough, the east end and everywhere else that deserves more than one post a year. Each guide covers where to eat, what to do, how to get there and what the area is actually like on a normal afternoon."
        },
        {
            "name": "Nightlife & Culture",
            "url": "https://yongestreetdaily.com/category/culture/",
            "description": "Music, film, art and where to go after dark in Toronto. Shows worth the ticket price, gallery and repertory cinema listings, club nights, and the venues that are quietly the best in the city. We include cover charges, start times and the closest station, because a recommendation without those is not much of a recommendation."
        },
        {
            "name": "Day Trips",
            "url": "https://yongestreetdaily.com/category/day-trips/",
            "description": "Places within a few hours of Toronto that are worth the trip. Escarpment hikes, wine country, small towns, beaches and the seasonal drives everyone forgets until it is too late to book. We flag which ones you can reach without a car, roughly what a day costs, and the best time of year to go."
        },
        {
            "name": "Toronto 101",
            "url": "https://yongestreetdaily.com/category/toronto-101/",
            "description": "The practical guides for anyone new to Toronto, or anyone who never got around to figuring the city out. Rent, transit, winter, getting from Pearson downtown, where to find a doctor, how the city is laid out. Straight answers to the questions that are annoying to look up and rarely answered in one place."
        }
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    "usage": {
        "attribution": "Cite as Yonge St Daily and link to the source page.",
        "aiTraining": "Crawling for search and answer engines is permitted. Wholesale republication of articles is not."
    },
    "updated": "2026-08-20T03:53:18-04:00"
}