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Canadian National Exhibition
Real Estate News
Hotel X proposes a 5,500-seat theatre and a 32-storey tower at Exhibition Place
Expect less empty parking lots, more concerts and luxury suites
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Food & Drink
Fifteen of the CNE’s wacky new foods, ranked from best to worst
Including chicken nugget cookies, Fruity Pebble corn dogs and lobster gelato
City News
The price of the Ex’s new VIP pass will make your head spin
Ex-goers can now choose between rent and rides
Food & Drink
The weirdest and most wonderful things to eat and drink at the CNE this year
Don’t skip the cheese curds dedicated to Taylor Swift
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Life
CNE carnies talk about the craziest things they’ve seen on the job
"I tried out a hotdog that had mac and cheese on it"
Life
Here’s what the CNE looked like over the past century
A midway freak show, a motorcycle race and 10 other fascinating photos of the Ex over the past century
Food & Drink
15 of the craziest cholesterol-charged creations at the CNE this year
Including spaghetti balls, liquid-nitrogen ice cream and a strawberry cheesesteak
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Culture
Scream for One Direction, gorge on fried food at the CNE and eight other things to do this week
Watch Ghostbusters from the prow of your yacht Walk down any Toronto block this summer and you’re bound to bump into a free...
City News
How do you build a roller coaster at the CNE?
The CNE opens its gates today, inaugurating an end-of-summer tradition. Amid all the colours, lights and deep-fried stunt...
Food & Drink
Five things to do in Toronto on the weekend of August 16–18
In this edition of The Weekender, the CNE, free outdoor movies and three more things to do in Toronto this weekend. Canadian...
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Food & Drink
GALLERY: 10 of the world’s most over-the-top fast foods, in honour of the new Kentucky Chicken Rice
KFC, the culinary innovator that launched the infamous Double Down in 2010, introduced the Kentucky Chicken Rice to Japan this...
Food & Drink
A culinary tour of some of this year’s deep-fried wonders at the CNE
For last year’s Canadian National Exhibition, we brought you eight culinary innovations, including the god-awful (but much...
Today in Toronto: Canadian National Exhibition and Susuriwka—Willow Bridge
Canadian National Exhibition The mother of all summer events returns for 18 days of outdoor over- indulgence. Find out more »...
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Food & Drink
The Weekender: Sail-in Cinema, Planet IndigenUS and six other events on our to-do list
1. CANADIAN NATIONAL EXHIBITION The Ex kicks off Friday without long-time partner Ontario Place (it was shuttered back in...
City News
Rob Ford does some dodgy math and cuts up his CNE tickets on camera
Over the weekend, the Toronto Sun posted a video of Rob Ford railing against the organizers of the CNE, who had the nerve to send...
Food & Drink
Ex marks the spot: eight culinary innovations at this year’s Canadian National Exhibition (including deep-fried cola)
In the days of yore, people flocked to the Canadian National Exhibition to see the year’s prize cows, pigs and horses. It’s...
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Today in Toronto: Canadian National Exhibition
Canadian National Exhibition Get ready for funnel cakes, Whac-a-Mole fever and Ferris wheel lineups, because the mother of all...
City News
Is the Toronto air show even worth it anymore? Many people say no
What's loud, brings people to the city from all over the country, annoys the locals, has military overtones, rattles windows and...
Food & Drink
Feasting at the Ex: nine foods that stand out (for various hilarious reasons) at the Canadian National Exhibition
Since the kickoff of the 132nd edition of the Ex, deep-fried butter has dominated CNE-related headlines. There’s no doubt that...
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Today in Toronto: Canadian National Exhibition, The Cappuccino Cantata, Beethoven’s Ninth
Canadian National Exhibition: The big fair is back, with all the usual hullaballoo: the SuperDogs, acrobats over ice, comedic...
Food & Drink
Among the delicacies at this year’s CNE: deep-fried butter
For those of us who prefer to waddle rather than race between the attractions at the CNE, food vendor Vicky Skinkle is offering...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
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Toronto Life
’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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