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Silver Linings Playbook wins the People’s Choice Award at TIFF (despite the lame name)
TIFF differs from Cannes and Venice in that its major awards are chosen by audiences rather than by a jury. So, while critics and...
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Culture
TIFF Oscar Scorecard: what this year’s fest tells us about next year’s Academy Awards
It’s still far too early for Oscar pools, but now that the big TIFF movies have screened, it’s high time to get in on the...
Culture
TIFF RED CARPET: Rachel McAdams and Olga Kurylenko shine for To The Wonder (director Terrence Malick does not)
Time was, director Terrence Malick’ s films came once in a blue moon, each an organic outgrowth of the filmmaker’s elusive...
Culture
TIFF WEEKEND ROUNDUP: The five buzziest red carpets
It’s no secret that TIFF is obscenely, absurdly front-loaded, with the premieres for all the biggest films—and the red-carpet...
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TIFF PRESS CONFERENCE: Ben Affleck reveals the secret to faking Canadian at the Argo presser
Culture
TIFF RED CARPET: Ben Affleck kisses one lucky fan at the Argo premiere
Shows of spousal support seem to be a theme for TIFF 2012. First, John Krasinski accompanied Emily Blunt to a string of opening...
Culture
TIFF Teasers: Argo, a Ben Affleck movie that finally leaves Boston
After a string of terrible films in the early aughts ( Gigli being the most egregious), Ben Affleck reinvented himself by...
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The 50 buzziest films of TIFF 2012: we slice through the hype so you don’t have to
Single tickets for the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival go on sale this Sunday, September 2. And with a record 372 films...
Culture
CONFIRMED: Ben Affleck will attend TIFF 2012
Ben Affleck was all over TIFF back in 2010, and we’re happy to report that he’s returning this year—as he should, given that...
City News
10 juicy pieces of celebrity gossip (including some blind item reveals) from Lainey Lui’s annual Smut Soirée
It was a veritable gossip summit last night at the Evergreen Brick Works, where 800 people—almost all female—turned up for The...
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TIFF 2011 Roundup: “Glowing” (i.e. pregnant) mothers edition
Baby bumps were in fashion this year at TIFF, where several expecting stars strolled red carpets in clothes that skirted the usual...
Culture
The swag series: Hazelton Hotel takes care of its celebrity guests with, um, everything
What it is: Every guest who stays in one of the Hazelton Hotel’s 77 rooms and suites during TIFF (and visiting celebs renting...
Culture
TIFF to Tinseltown: a tour of the 14 Oscar-nominated films that screened at TIFF
The Toronto International Film Festival may not have the glamour of Cannes, the street cred of Berlin or the skiing of...
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For $12 million, you can name this pink diamond after yourself
After the joy of rolling around in a pile of $100 bills wore off, we started wondering what to do with our millions—extreme...
Culture
The Being Erica BS detector: Season 3, Episode 1
CBC’s hugely popular Being Erica premiered its third season Tuesday night. The good news: 1) With Lost out of the picture, BE...
Culture
TIFF bromance alert! Are Ben and Matt breaking up?
Paging Matt Damon ! We don’t want to set off any unnecessary alarm bells (OK, maybe we do), but based on this snap of Ben...
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TIFF PHOTO GALLERY: Jon Hamm, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner, Blake Lively at The Town gala
Yowza! The premiere of Ben Affleck' s heist flick The Town was a bevy of fashion hits and misses. Rebecca Hall, what were you...
Culture
TIFF PHOTO GALLERY: Jon Hamm, Ben Affleck and Blake Lively at The Town press conference
As we reported earlier today, the stars of The Town, the Ben Affleck -directed heist film, were looking a little rough at the...
Culture
Casey Affleck is turning Ben’s hair grey, but brothers will team up for new script
The cast of Ben Affleck’ s crime drama The Town showed early signs of TIFF fatigue at a junket press conference Friday...
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Spotted: Jennifer Garner at Holt Renfrew
We spy one Mrs. Ben Affleck, the always gorgeous Jennifer Garner, eating lunch with a female at the Holts Café . Her order:...
Culture
Spotted: Don Draper has landed
That's right, ladies. Don Draper himself, Jon Hamm has arrived in Toronto. Sightings of the Mad Men man (in town to promote The...
Culture
Official TIFF guest list released: Jon Hamm, James Franco, Javier Bardem, Marion Cotillard, Will Ferrell and more
Woot! Woot! The exhaustive official guest list for TIFF has been released (James Franco! Jon Hamm! Uma Thurman!), meaning we can...
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From Natalie Portman’s lesbian-ballet drama to Ben Affleck’s comeback, five TIFF films with major buzz
All right, now that we’re past the “OMG! Don Draper is coming to Toronto to find a new Betty!” stage after TIFF announced...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
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’s Best Restaurants returns for its 10th-anniversary edition on June 8
General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks
Big Stories
Deep Dives
Dead Reckoning: The executor of their estate was supposed to divide it among their friends and family. Instead, he bankrupted it
When Sami and June Suomalainen died, it fell to the executor of their wills, a lawyer they hardly knew, to sell their million-dollar midtown home and split the proceeds among their inheritors. Seven years and six lawsuits later, the beneficiaries haven’t seen a cent
Deep Dives
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2026
This year’s list includes a 150-square-foot omakase counter, a Parisian brasserie in the Annex, Korean comfort food, Filipino karaoke and a Summerhill seafood spot that’s reinventing the raw bar
Deep Dives
Hoop Dreams: Inside the making of the Toronto Tempo, the city’s newly assembled WNBA team
After years of false starts, months of nail-biting negotiations between the league and the players’ union, and an 11th-hour scramble to build a roster, Toronto finally has its own major-league women’s basketball team. Now it just has to live up to the hype
Deep Dives
Live From New York: Inside the slay-or-be-slayed world of Studio 8H with
SNL
rookie Veronika Slowikowska
Slowikowska is the first Canadian to join the cast of
Saturday Night Live
in more than 25 years. She’s also this season’s breakout star. Now all she has to do is keep crushing it
Deep Dives
Better Call Deepak: Meet drug lord Ryan Wedding’s self-styled cocaine lawyer
The man who represented the infamous drug lord is unapologetically flashy—he has a Lamborghini and two Maseratis and wears $1,200 Louboutins. But did he become an accomplice to his client’s crimes? Deepak Paradkar says he was just doing his job. The FBI says he crossed a line
Deep Dives
The Redemption Tour: The Blue Jays are back. Can they finish what they started?
We’re not over it, but they are. Six months after that devastating defeat, the Jays take the field once more, bent more than ever on winning the World Series. Dispatches from the dugout
Deep Dives
My Life as a True Crime Spectacle: My father’s crimes fractured our family. Then came the press
My dad was the infamous Rolex Killer. The news of his crimes nearly broke me. And ever since, my family has been hounded by reporters, podcasters and true crime fanatics—a whole new circle of hell
Deep Dives
Robby on the Line: Out and about with Robby Hoffman, comedy’s equal opportunity assassin
Larry David is the indisputable king of brutal honesty. But if anyone comes close, it’s Robby Hoffman, the suddenly everywhere comic from whom no group is safe
Deep Dives
Notes on an Academic Scandal: Why did TMU demote a leading advocate of DEI?
Pamela Sugiman, a former arts dean at Toronto Metropolitan University, was a key player in the school’s push for diversity, equity and inclusion. When the backlash against DEI arrived, she was demoted. The school says it was a coincidence. She disagrees
Deep Dives
City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?
Scenes from the rent-for-life revolution
Deep Dives
This generation was pummelled by Covid high school. Now the job market wants to replace them with AI
It’s hard out here for a 20-something
Deep Dives
The High Price of Hope: Inside Toronto’s white-hot fertility market
Desperate wannabe parents are betting their life savings on unproven treatments and false promises
Deep Dives
Man vs. Machine: ChatGPT caused him to spiral into delusion. Now he’s suing OpenAI
Last spring, a chatbot convinced Allan Brooks that he had discovered a revolutionary mathematical theory. He says it nearly destroyed him
Deep Dives
Smart City: 20 mind-blowing Toronto inventions that are changing the world
Homegrown innovations that will transform lives for the better
Deep Dives
293 Days Without My Son: I gave up everything to rescue my kidnapped child from my abusive husband
When Valentino was abducted, I knew three things: he’d been taken by his father, he was somewhere in India and I would not rest until I found him
Deep Dives
The Violent Life of a Tow Truck Driver: How an unremarkable profession turned Toronto into a war zone
The towing industry has been hijacked by criminals and kingpins who fleece customers, beat up dissenters and shoot their enemies. Inside the brutal turf war for the city’s wrecks
Deep Dives
Street Fight: Inside the battle raging over Toronto multiplexes
If this city stands any chance of solving the housing crisis, it will need buildings with multiple units in residential neighbourhoods—a move that has many residents saying, “Anywhere but here!”
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