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Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 8, because we’ll traipse anywhere for conceptual art
Not too long ago, the intersection of Bloor and Lansdowne was best known for a decent Value Village, two competing strip clubs and...
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City News
Current Obsession: cartoonist Junko Mizuno twists Hello Kitty–style art into something seductively nightmarish
In Japanese culture, Kawaii is the blanket term for the alternately beguiling and disturbing brand of Hello Kitty cutesiness in...
City News
The Argument: the Group of Seven has finally been set free (with help from art-obsessed London)
As a native Torontonian who has spent the better part of the past decade living in London, England, I get two questions on visits...
City News
The Power Plant’s new director is Quebecer Gaëtane Verna
After an “extensive international search,” the Power Plant has found its new director right next door in Quebec. Gaëtane...
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How Matthew Jocelyn tried to revive Canadian Stage but instead ended up scaring audiences away
As the crowd settled in for an early June performance of Édouard Lock’s Untitled at the Bluma Appel Theatre, Matthew...
City News
How Kent Monkman—a half-Cree illustrator from Winnipeg—sexed up the exploitation of First Nations people and conquered Toronto’s art world
Pink high heels. Heartthrob pink. These are dream shoes, shoes to break your heart. Shoes that are up to no good, shoes to dance...
Today in Toronto: George S. Zimbel and the Tirgan Iranian Festival
George S. Zimbel This Montreal-based photographer has shot everyone from Marilyn Monroe to Pierre Trudeau, and his artwork sells...
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Gregory Burke pulled the Power Plant out of debt and enhanced its international reputation. Then, he quit.
The Power Plant’s first board meeting of the year was held at noon on Monday, February 7. The gallery, situated on prime...
Food & Drink
The Long Weekender: Divisadero—A Performance, the National Home Show and six-other can’t miss events
1. THE JUNO TOUR OF CANADIAN ART This collaboration between the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts...
Culture
Toronto artist AA Bronson demands his work be returned to Canada after Smithsonian caves to pressure from Christian groups
Acclaimed Toronto artist AA Bronson is demanding that the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., return a piece of his...
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Today in Toronto: The Great War, Spent, Art Toronto
The Great War Think of it as history class, only funnier and with better lighting. VideoCabaret has devoted the past 25 years to...
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The Weekender: nine things on our to-do list (yes, including Halloween events)
1. CINDERELLA: ROCK THE BALL The annual fundraising gala for the Canadian Opera Company, Operanation is always a place to see and...
Food & Drink
The Dundas West Guide: our 21 favourite places between Ossington and Lansdowne
The strip of Dundas West between Ossington and Lansdowne has not been immune to the wild gentrification going on directly south of...
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Food & Drink
Just Opened: Parts and Labour, Parkdale’s new bar-club-restaurant-art gallery-wine bar
For many residents of Parkdale, the opening of Parts and Labour at the Roncy end of Queen West means one of two things: here’s a...
Style
Details magazine takes on Toronto, barely leaves 501 streetcar
Details magazine has named Toronto a mecca of “modern-art galleries, high-concept restaurants and fashion-forward boutiques,”...
City News
Galleries reap rewards of Ossington restaurant restrictions
When the contentious moratorium on new bars and restaurants on Ossington Avenue was passed last year, the strip lost its...
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Today in Toronto: an homage to Duke Ellington and March break at the Bata Shoe Museum
Duke Ellington Remembered: This homage to Sir Duke stars bassist John Lamb, who played in Ellington’s orchestra for over a...
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The Harbord Guide: 25 spots that are giving the strip a good name
Once-sleepy Harbord Street leaped into the spotlight last year when it became the setting of Toronto’s latest NIMBY vs. business...
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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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For Sale: 92 Arjay Crescent
As luxury buyers become increasingly focused on wellness, privacy, and long-term livability, a new generation of custom homes is emerging – one defined less by excess and more by thoughtful design
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For Sale: 171 Durant Ave
This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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For Sale: 50 First Avenue
A testament to time presiding over one of Uxbridge's most storied streetscapes, this magnificently preserved circa 1880 residence commands its prominent corner lot with the quiet confidence of a true architectural landmark
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For Sale: 7 Bentley Drive
A commanding architectural statement in prestigious Stonegate–Queensway, this newly completed custom residence by Bali Homes Group presents a refined interpretation of contemporary luxury living
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For Sale: 75 Queen Street
Guelph is having a moment