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The dreamiest looks we saw at the National Ballet of Canada’s annual gala
This year’s theme was all about getting lost in a pleasant daydream
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The best-dressed guests at UHN’s ritzy new gala, A Night Out
Attendees were manifesting spring with plenty of floral dresses
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The best-dressed guests at the Biblio Bash 2026 party
Esteemed attendees included Linwood Barclay, Brandi Leifso and Margaret Atwood’s daughter, Jess Gibson
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The little black book of Toronto charity galas
A comprehensive guide to the glitziest annual events on the social circuit
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What went down at a glittering Diwali gala at the Fairmont Royal York
The Lit Gala raised an impressive $130,000 for H2O4ALL
Culture
What went down at the 2023 AGO Art Bash gala
The stylish event celebrated new exhibitions of works by KAWS and Keith Haring
City News
Party Pages: local philanthropists don their dandiest cowboy duds for the Wellspring Henderson Hoedown
Should all Toronto’s ritzy charity galas require guests to wear goofy outfits? Probably not, but last Thursday’s Wellspring...
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A delightfully unstuffy affair (featuring Malcolm Gladwell) at the UWI Toronto Benefit Gala
More fancy Toronto benefit galas should be like the third annual University of the West Indies Toronto Benefit Gala at the Four...
Culture
TIFF 2011 Roundup: The winners, and the losers, from this year’s installment of the Toronto International Film Festival
Well, it’s a wrap. Some might suggest that there are no winners and losers at TIFF, and that the festival is a harmonious...
Culture
TIFF PHOTO GALLERY: the Ten Year red carpet gala features a lot of pretty young things posing for the camera
We learned something last night at the gala presentation for Ten Year at the Ryerson Theatre: ensemble cast movies about high...
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Today at TIFF: Swarovski celebrity gifting lounge, From The Sky Down gala and more
Our daily roundup of opening galas, parties and screenings. • 11:30 a.m. Swarovski Lounge at the Four Seasons Hotel • 3...
Culture
TIFF names best Canadian films of 2010 to be screened at Lightbox
While all of Hollywood fires up its engines for the self-love fest that is awards season, the Toronto International Film Festival...
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Comedy Awards may signal a golden age for improv in Toronto
What happens when you put several hundred of Canada's funniest people together in the same room for an evening? A lot of...
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Behind the barricade: meet eight TIFF celebrity hunters
Behind the barricades of the TIFF red carpets are hundreds of fans, autograph collectors and amateur photographers...
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TIFF PHOTO GALLERY: Jennifer Connelly, Ed Harris and Yeardley Smith at the What’s Wrong With Virginia premiere
Photographers, reporters and publicists all agree that TIFF madness peaked with Monday’s Kidman-Portman double-header. Despite...
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Today at TIFF: Casino Jack, Master Kev, Louis and Anane Vega and more
Our daily roundup of opening galas, parties and screenings. • 6:30 p.m. Casino Jack world premiere gala at Roy Thomson Hall •...
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Today at TIFF: What’s Wrong With Virginia, the Bang Bang Club, DJ set by AL P. and more
Our daily roundup of opening galas, parties and screenings. • 4 p.m. What’s Wrong With Virginia Party at Swarovski Gallery...
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Today at TIFF: Lightbox block party, Barney’s Version, Hereafter, 127 Hours and more
Our daily roundup of opening galas, parties and screenings. • 11 a.m. Bell Lightbox Block Party at King and John Streets •...
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Score: A Hockey Musical wins over some locals, but virtually no one else
The first onslaught of critical feedback is out after the world premiere of Score: A Hockey Musical — Mike McGowan' s filmic ode...
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Greased lightly: fries are the ones Olivia Newton-John wants at Brassaii
Words cannot express how relieved we were to see nary a hint of hockey hair at Brassaii’s party for Score: A Hockey Musical last...
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Confirmed: Edward Norton will interview Bruce Springsteen at TIFF
We heard the rumours , but the prospect of having Edward Norton interview Bruce Springsteen as part of the gala presentation of...
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TIFF closing night film announced, plus free screenings at the Bell Lightbox
TIFF announced today that it has chosen Massy Tadjedin' s Last Night for its closing night gala, possibly for its convenient...
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Celebrity speculation begins: are Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and Freida Pinto coming to TIFF?
We have a preliminary leak of some stars expected to attend TIFF this September. Martin Knelman of the Star dishes that The King's...
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Superhero: How a Toronto paramedic made Time’s 100 most influential list
When the earthquake hit Port-au-Prince last January, Rahul Singh took GlobalMedic, his relief organization, to the centre of 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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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
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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
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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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