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Nine TIFF 2017 documentaries we can’t wait to watch
From a Vince Carter biopic to
Super Size Me 2
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Hot Docs 2014 will feature Aaron Swartz, Big Bird and George Takei
Hot Docs announced its full 2014 festival lineup this morning, and the news is good—at least, for people who love giant muppets...
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...
Food & Drink
Five things to do in Toronto on the weekend of February 22 to 24
In this edition of The Weekender: a legendary South African musical group, a double bill from hot young playwright Hannah...
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Culture
TIFF Q&A: Adrian Grenier and Matthew Cooke on America’s costly, futile war on drugs
Last weekend, Adrian Grenier was in town for his now annual documentary premiere, this time as a producer of How to Make Money...
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...
Culture
TIFF deals buzz: 2012 could be a hot year for documentaries
Things could be looking up for documentary films at the Toronto International Film Festival this year. Thom Powers , a programmer...
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Spotlight: Tanis Rideout’s debut novel is the season’s most buzzed-about book
Tanis Rideout has been in a kind of knock-wood daze since last fall, when her debut novel, Above All Things, sparked a bidding war...
The Pick: The Mechanical Bride, a new documentary about sex dolls (and the men who love them)
(Warning: the trailer contains mildly NSFW images of sex dolls without clothing and, at times, heads) Last week, we recommended an...
City News
Editor’s Letter (May 2012): the city is in the midst of a cultural renaissance—except at city hall
The spectacle at city hall has become a common obsession, even among people who never before cared much about municipal...
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The Pick: Jean Painlevé’s hypnotic underwater films, accompanied live by Yo La Tengo
In 1930, a silent science film documenting skeleton shrimp and sea spiders screened in Paris, earning accolades from painter Marc...
The Pick: Gary Hustwit’s Design Trilogy, three docs full of hot typefaces, beautiful objects and glorious city porn
Gary Hustwit has a knack for taking seemingly mundane subject matter—an ubiquitous sans-serif typeface, for example, or a potato...
City News
In the ’60s, Marshall McLuhan was Toronto’s most famous intellectual; now, the world has finally caught up with him
In the ’60s, McLuhan was hobnobbing with celebrities, advising politicians and forever changing how we think about mass media. A...
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See, Hear, Read: three local experts tell us what books, movies and music they’re craving this month
They love it. We want it. Three red-hot releases “Documentaries often present their subjects in a cold, clinical...
Culture
Our picks for the seven best bets at Hot Docs 2011
Documentaries once had a reputation for being sleepy, low-production affairs. That’s all changed in recent times, thanks in no...
Food & Drink
The one thing you should see this week: an intimate film about a powerful painter
This week’s pick: Koop at the Reel Artists Film Festival Wanda Koop ’s mother always told her that she didn’t need to be...
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The Weekender: Tim Burton exhibit, Christopher Hitchens vs. Tony Blair and six other items on our can’t-miss list
1. MUNK DEBATE: CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS VS. TONY BLAIR We live in a world where Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift sweep awards shows and...
Culture
Documentary about Toronto pianist Glenn Gould closer to Academy Award
The Academy Award screening committee is hard at work, whittling down long lists of Oscar hopefuls for the nominations...
Culture
Omar Khadr documentary looks into CSIS interrogation at Guantánamo Bay
The past eight years of Omar Khadr 's life are well documented: in July 2002, the Toronto-born 15-year-old was accused of killing...
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The one thing you should see this week
Today we launch a new column from our culture editor, Stéphanie Verge, who'll let us in on the week's must-see event every...
Culture
Feist documentary to premiere next week
Look at What the Light Did Now, a documentary about the people behind the success of Feist' s album The Reminder, will premiere on...
Culture
Steve Nash wants to make Pelé documentary
Fresh off the Canuck pomp and circumstance surrounding his Terry Fox documentary Into the Wind , Steve Nash is game for another...
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Casey Affleck insists Joaquin Phoenix documentary is the real thing
It's official: Joaquin Phoenix' s boorish rapper shtick was the real McCoy, says Casey Affleck, the director of the documentary...
Culture
50 Buzziest TIFF Films: what to see, what to skip and how to slice through the hype
Tickets go on sale tomorrow for all the screenings at TIFF 2010, but with over 300 titles, guessing at what film is worth the...
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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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