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Summerlicious, a Ricky Gervais stand-up set and six other things to see, do, hear and read this week
What to do in Toronto during the week of July 10
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Culture
Caribbean Carnival, a boozy bootlegger party and seven other things to do this week
What to do in Toronto during the week of July 25
Food & Drink
The World-Class Toronto Summer Guide: 14 things that are worth sticking around for
What’s one of the best things to do in Toronto this summer? If you can, get out of Toronto. See the world. Find another city’s...
City News
GALLERY: the sights of the 2012 Caribbean Carnival parade
Toronto is rich with street festivals, parades and protest marches, but a top contender for liveliest of the lot has to be the...
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Today in Toronto: Caribana King and Queen Show and Florence and the Machine
Caribana King and Queen Show This massive and deliciously over-the-top costume contest kicks off the final weekend of the city’s...
Culture
Irie Music Fest pulls Yonge-Dundas Square shows following gun violence worries
The recent spate of shootings on Toronto’s streets has prompted differing reactions from the organizers of the TD Irie Music...
Food & Drink
The Real Jerk to throw a farewell party this Saturday
The day that roti lovers across the city have been dreading is finally nigh: after fighting an eviction notice and then steeply...
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The Long Weekender: Drake’s October’s Very Own festival, the festival formerly known as Caribana and six other items on our to-do list
1. OVO FEST We didn’t make it to Drake’s first October’s Very Own festival (and we are so very bitter about it, since...
City News
Goodbye, Caribana; hello, Scotiabank Caribbean Carnival Toronto
A street festival by any other name would be as much fun? We sure hope so, because today our beloved Caribana died, and the...
City News
Get off the Road: Toronto street festivals take the whole city hostage. Jan Wong says that it’s time we learn to say no
One of Toronto’s biggest, most aggravating problems is traffic. In a recent poll about the upcoming mayoral...
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Food & Drink
The Long Weekender: Drake’s music festival, Caribana and six other events on our to-do list
1. THE OVO FEST Lucky for us, Drake is over his fear of the mean streets of Toronto just in time to launch a new music fest, the...
City News
Caribana stiffed by feds and province, but golf and tennis get a bundle
This is starting to look like a trend: a major Toronto cultural event loses out on government funding and has to basically pass a...
Today in Toronto: Pasolini retrospective, Caribana kick off
TIFF Cinematheque: The AGO’s cinema program begins its series of films by storied Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini. Find out...
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Summer Camp Guide
City News
Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
Wines of the World
Food & Drink
Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
Toronto Life’s
Best Restaurants
From cabernet and merlot to icewine and chardonnay, these wines are primed to pair and delight
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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