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A look back at the best celebrity parties from 50 years of TIFF
Featuring an Old Hollywood soirée, a robot dance-off and a star-studded conga line
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TIFF Party: Webers burgers, foul language and a charitable dunking at the star-studded APJ fundraiser
A hodgepodge of Hollywood elites and local royalty gathered at the Forest Hill home of Michael Budman and Diane Bald (otherwise...
Culture
Colin Firth and Stephen Moyer attend pre-drinks with Atom Egoyan at Hudson Kitchen
"Go west, young man" seems to be the credo for stars at this year's TIFF. While Grey Goose Soho House has hosted some major...
Culture
TIFF Party: Nicole Kidman holds court and Colin Firth is downright dashing at The Railway Man after-party
Firth wore the crap out of his tux (of course, when a man can wear the crap out of a Christmas sweater, a tux isn’t much of a...
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The 50 Buzziest Films of TIFF: We Cut Through the Hype So You Don’t Have To
Single tickets for the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival go on sale this Sunday, September 1. The schedule, packed with...
City News
The insider dish on Soho House: who made the cut and who didn’t at the city’s new, exclusive private club
On Wednesday, July 25, a group of 30 people gathered for a secret meeting in the boardroom of a nondescript office building on...
Culture
TIFF RED CARPET: Colin Firth celebrates his 52nd birthday with Emily Blunt at the Arthur Newman premiere
Since TIFF began, the seemingly tireless Emily Blunt has walked the Argo red carpet, snuggled up to husband John Krasinski at Soho...
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TIFF PARTY: Naomi Watts is a dancing queen at the CAA bash
Watching Naomi Watts shake her groove thang to the sultry sounds of George Michael at the CAA party at Cinema in Liberty Village...
Culture
TIFF 2012 Insider’s Guide: top 10 spots for boozing and schmoozing with stars
TIFF can be the most exhausting event of the year—10 days of near constant drinking, schmoozing and...
Culture
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...
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CONFIRMED: Mr. Darcy (er, Colin Firth) is coming to TIFF
No matter what he does, Colin Firth will always be remembered as the sometimes dashing, sometimes devious Mr. Darcy from Pride and...
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Photos from the Vanity Fair Oscar party: George Pimentel takes us through his shots of Bieber, Gwyneth and many more
Toronto’s top celebrity shutterbug, George Pimentel , spent last week—Oscar week—stargazing in Tinseltown. His tour included...
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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Shafted! (Or, our requisite article on how Canada fared in the 2011 Oscar nominations)
When the Oscar nominations came out this morning, we scrolled right past the laundry list of best picture nods (that 10-picture...
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Justin Bieber gets new hair, plus top five Canada moments at the Golden Globes
Moment 1: The kid is all right He’s just growing up, that’s all. Justin Bieber presented an award sporting a brand new hairdo...
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Canadian novels to be given away for free in Britain
Three revered Canadian novels will be getting both a publicity and sales boost, thanks to a new reading campaign across the...
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TIFF’s most memorable couples
Is it just us, or were significant others one of the most commonly spotted red carpet accessories? Nicole, Jon, Megan (to name a...
Culture
Looking back at TIFF 2010: Eight films to watch
As with any film festival, TIFF 2010 had its share of disappointments (Miral, Hereafter) and outright disasters (Passion...
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TIFF’s best dressed
Admittedly, this was a harder list to put together than our worst-dressed roundup . But we dug through the TIFF photo archives and...
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Looking back at TIFF 2010: an Alliance Films VP gives her run down of this year’s fest
On Friday morning, Carrie Wolfe , the vice president of publicity and promotion for Alliance Films, was packing up her...
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TIFF PHOTO GALLERY: Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush at the King’s Speech premiere
The King's Speech is already garnering Oscar speculation for Colin Firth's role as King George VI's struggle to overcome a stutter...
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TIFF PHOTO GALLERY: Colin Firth’s 50th Birthday at Soho House Club
The Toronto International Film Festival happened to coincide with the birthday of one of its most frequent guests: Colin Firth...
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Year of the silver fox: TIFF’s 10 hottest celebrities over 50
Today is Colin Firth’ s 50th birthday, and you know what that means. Time to praise the lord for tight-fitting sweaters and...
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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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’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
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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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