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Christmas
City News
A Scarborough family’s Christmas decorations were destroyed by masked vandals with hammers
What did Frosty ever do to them?
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Culture
How the National Ballet keeps its 30-year-old
Nutcracker
costumes looking fresh
The production’s legendary outfits have survived 672 performances
City News
You can buy a Christmas gift for all the animals at the Toronto Zoo
Ever thought about what a hippopotamus might want for Christmas?
Food & Drink
A popular Italian bakery is making panettone with mortadella
Out with candied fruit, in with meat and cheese
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Food & Drink
Everything there is to eat and drink at the Distillery District’s Winter Village
Labubu cotton candy, Dubai hot chocolate, poutine with Michelin-star power, and more
Food & Drink
These Advent calendars are filled with things like cheese, wine and beer
Get your hands on one of these delicious countdowns before December 1
Food & Drink
A look inside Miracle on Bloor, a diabolically festive pop-up cocktail bar from the Civil Liberties elves
It’s time to dig those ugly Christmas sweaters out of the closet
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Deep Dives
Quality Trash: Meet director Ron Oliver, Hallmark’s king of schmaltz
Over two decades and dozens of made-for-TV Christmas films, Oliver has become the Hallmark Channel’s most prolific, flamboyant and unapologetically sappy director
Food & Drink
“I grew up watching the Food Network. This year, I competed in their
Christmas Cookie Challenge
—and won”
Stephanie Urlando, the owner of Little Rose Baking Co., took home the grand prize of $10,000 for her
Elf
-themed cookie creations
Food & Drink
Twelve of Toronto’s festive holiday food-and-drink events, ranked
Including kitschy cocktails, brunch buffets and fancy fondue dinners
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Culture
A roundup of the most festive holiday hits streaming now
What to watch on Prime Video, Disney Plus, Netflix, Crave and AMC Plus this winter break
Food & Drink
Turkey dinners, latke bundles, boozy brunches and other festive holiday feasts at Toronto restaurants
After two years of takeout, IRL holiday dinners are back
From the archives
Old
Toronto Life
gift guide ideas that didn’t stand the test of time
Ghosts of gift guides past
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Food & Drink
A look inside Miracle on Queen Street, a super-festive pop-up cocktail bar on Queen West
It's even open on Christmas Day
Life
The hottest trend in Santa photos this Christmas: canines
And a couple of cats
Food & Drink
This Toronto man made a freakishly large Ferrero Rocher, and you can too
Recipe included
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Life
Take a look at the most dazzling light shows around Toronto
'Tis the season of peace, joy and astronomical hydro bills
Culture
Three Daniel Caesar shows, a
Die Hard
quote-a-long and seven other things to see, do, hear and read over the next two weeks
What to do in Toronto during the weeks of December 18 and 25
Shopping
Our 20 favourite finds from this year’s Christmas One of a Kind Show
With over 800 vendors, there's something for everyone
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Food & Drink
How this factory—Canada’s only candy cane producer—makes one million candy canes a day
See how the classic Christmas sweet is made, step by step
Culture
A comprehensive guide to everything worth doing this holiday season
18 concerts, comedies, plays and art shows you need to see this December
Life
Dear Urban Diplomat: Do I have to let my friends bring their dog to dinner?
"Since they refuse to leave the thing home alone, they say they’re unable to attend"
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Style
Canadians are feeling pretty frugal this Christmas
—The average amount Canadians expect to spend on Christmas presents this year, according to a recent survey of 2,006 gift-givers...
Shopping
Toronto Holiday Gift Guide 2014
Holiday shopping doesn't have to be torture—not if you know where to go and what to get. We asked retail tastemakers across the...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
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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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