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David Cronenberg
Culture
This Toronto director filmed the horror movie
Undertone
in his childhood home
In Ian Tuason’s debut, grief, podcasts and ancient demons converge in one terrifying spectacle
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Deep Dives
Starry Nights: Untold stories from the Toronto International Film Festival’s first 50 years
Every September, Toronto turns into an orgy of air kisses and after-parties, VIPs and paparazzi, celebrities and superfans, lineups and meltdowns—and we love it all
Culture
Guillermo del Toro is hosting a very Canadian horror film fest this summer
Prepare to get spooked with the Toronto-obsessed
Frankenstein
director
Culture
“Death is a very entrepreneurial thing”: David Cronenberg on his new film,
The Shrouds
The cult favourite horror director is back with a sexy new techno drama that doubles as a romantic tribute to his late wife. A conversation with the Baron of Blood
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City News
What went down at last night’s TIFF Tribute Awards
With appearances by Cate Blanchett, Amy Adams and David Cronenberg
Culture
“It’s always there—the dark feeling in my stomach that the world’s going to hell”: A Q&A with director Caitlin Cronenberg
The newly minted filmmaker talks growing up on her dad’s movie sets, the story behind her new eco-thriller and feeling like the least important person in the room
City News
The Influentials 2017: Atwood everything
The Toronto stars orbiting Planet Peggy
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Culture
The 10 best films on Toronto Public Library’s free Netflix-style streaming service
A David Cronenberg hit, the film that inspired
The Magnificent Seven
and more
Culture
The 10 biggest moments in Toronto pop culture in the last 50 years
The music, movies and shows that mattered most
Culture
TIFF 2014 cheers and jeers: the best and worst of this year’s festival
Because everything related to film culture, even tangentially, can and should be evaluated using a Siskel-and-Ebertian binary...
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Culture
At the premiere of
Maps to the Stars
, David Cronenberg wears sunglasses at night
With the camera flashes so plentiful, it's no wonder hometown auteur David Cronenberg showed up to Tuesday's Roy Thomson Hall red...
Culture
John Cusak talks about the time he met Andre the Giant
Try though he might, Robert Pattinson can't shake the Twi -hards. The alley adjacent to the Lightbox was teeming with adolescents...
Culture
Here are five trailers for films we now know are coming to TIFF
This morning, the Toronto International Film Festival made its first in what will certainly be a long series of programming...
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Culture
David Cronenberg name-checks
Dilbert
at the 2014 Canadian Screen Awards
The Canadian Screen Awards are a mystifying thing. Formed in 2012 out of a merger of the Gemini Awards and the Genie Awards , the...
Culture
For David Cronenberg, turning 70 is like waking up as the Brundlefly
Somebody needs to send David Cronenberg a candygram or something, because it seems like the 70-year-old Torontonian director is a...
City News
The Dark Knight: David Cronenberg’s creepy obsessions say as much about us as they do about him
In a way, David Cronenberg put me in the hospital. Last January, I attended a screening of a documentary by the filmmaker Ric...
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Culture
Cronenberg Filmography: how one Toronto director changed filmmaking and turned actors into megastars
Over a 40-year obsession with mutants, fetishists and freaks, David Cronenberg has transformed from avant-garde boy wonder into...
City News
QUOTED: Jeremy Irons, Oscar-winning actor, says he can identify with Rob Ford
— Jeremy Irons , while being interviewed on George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight . The Oscar-winning actor was in town to discuss...
Food & Drink
Five things to do in Toronto on the weekend of November 1–3
In this edition of The Weekender, the annual Royal Agricultural fair opens, the TIFF Bell Lightbox mounts an eerie David...
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Culture
SLIDESHOW: A preview tour of the new David Cronenberg Exhibit at the TIFF Bell Lightbox
For over three decades, Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg has disturbed and delighted audiences with his uncanny knack for...
City News
Best of Fall 2013: the six best art exhibitions in Toronto this autumn
By Andrew D’Cruz, Sue Carter Flinn, Emily Landau, Alison Mah, Jason McBride, Courtney Shea, Stéphanie Verge, Chris Webster and...
Style
Sarah Gadon is ready to heat up Hollywood
Sarah Gadon lies motionless in a bed, luminous as a light bulb against a backdrop of crisp white linen. Her lips are painted a...
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The Weekender: The Penelopiad, Canada’s Top Ten and five more events on our to-do list
1. THE PENELOPIAD Following last year’s acclaimed run, Nightwood Theatre’s production of The Penelopiad is back at Buddies in...
Culture
QUOTED: Brandon Cronenberg on what’s really behind all that TIFF red carpet gawking
–Filmmaker Brandon Cronenberg, director of Antiviral and son of David Cronenberg, talks celebrity obsession. [Grolsch Film...
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Summer Camp Guide
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
Best New Restaurants
TL Events
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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