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Giller Prize
Culture
No Arms in the Arts and CanLit Responds have ended the Giller Prize boycott after demands were met
More than 500 authors and publishing industry workers boycotted the literary organization due to its sponsors’ ties to the Israeli military
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Culture
Five minutes with 2025 Giller winner Souvankham Thammavongsa
The author of
Pick a Colour
talks about her historic win, training as a boxer and whether having a boyfriend is embarrassing
City News
The 2025 Giller Prize shortlist has been announced
And the awards gala will once again be pre-taped
Culture
“We can throw a wrench into the war machine”: Why pro-Palestine Canadian authors are boycotting the Giller Prize
Comics artist and illustrator Michael DeForge, an organizer with CanLit Responds and No Arms in the Arts, on protesting the award's lead sponsor's stake in Israeli arms manufacturing
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Culture
“You cannot achieve peace in the Middle East by destroying a literary arts organization”: Elana Rabinovitch on protests against the Giller Prize
The executive director of the Gillers discusses the prize’s controversial lead sponsor, her response to demands made by more than 1,500 Canadian authors, and the relationship between literature and dissent
City News
Thirty years, 30 photos: A look back at the Scotiabank Giller Prize’s greatest moments
Canada's most prestigious and lucrative literary honour has launched careers, celebrated legends and championed authors of all stripes
City News
All the glitz and glamour from the 2022 Giller Prize Gala
Hosts Rupi Kaur and Sarah Gadon charmed the crowd, celebrities came decked out in high fashion, and Suzette Mayr took home the $100,000 prize
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From the archives
Jack Rabinovitch and Doris Giller: the love story behind Canada’s most prestigious book award
Doris Giller loved books. And she loved Jack Rabinovitch, who created the Giller Prize to make sure we’d never forget her
Culture
Giller Lite: peek inside Canada’s six best books of the year
On November 10, one Canadian author will become $100,000 richer when the winner of this year’s Scotiabank Giller Prize is named...
Culture
Excerpt: Frances Itani’s
Tell
In her Giller-nominated novel, Frances Itani (author of the beloved book-club staple Deafening ) returns to familiar CanLit...
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Culture
Excerpt: Miriam Toews’s
All My Puny Sorrows
If you’re looking to place a $100,000 Giller bet, many literary insiders swear that Miriam Toews’s funny and devastatingly sad...
Culture
Excerpt: Padma Viswanathan’s
The Ever After of Ashwin Rao
Set 20 years after the 1985 Air India bombing, Padma Viswanathan’s Giller-nominated novel borrows from real life in following...
Culture
Excerpt: Heather O’Neill’s
The Girl Who Was Saturday Night
Heather O’Neill is the closest thing CanLit has to a rock star, so it’s fitting that her nominated novel follows the 19-year...
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Culture
Excerpt: David Bezmozgis’s
The Betrayers
Political and personal revenge are at the centre of two-time Giller nominee David Bezmozgis’s latest novel, The Betrayers . An...
Culture
Excerpt: Sean Michaels’s
Us Conductors
A surprise contender from Montreal music journalist Sean Michaels, whose debut novel fictionalizes the life of Lev Termen, KGB spy...
City News
See, Hear, Read: March’s best movie, music and book release
Derek Cianfrance did the small and intimate thing in his acclaimed 2010 film, Blue Valentine, about a relationship going belly-up...
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City News
The Argument: C. S. Richardson’s new novel crowns him the new king of the highbrow Harlequin
C. S. Richardson is living a double life. As creative director at Random House of Canada, he spends his days fussing over...
Culture
Luminato 2012 guide: 20 must-see events at this year’s arts festival
Luminato begins this Friday, and it can be a bit of a whirlwind. Everything from a Philip Glass opera about Einstein’s life to a...
City News
The Conversation: authors Linden MacIntyre and Kyo Maclear on relationships, family and deception
The place: The Rooster Coffee House on Broadview | The people: authors Linden MacIntyre and Kyo Maclear | The subject:...
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Food & Drink
The Canadian Culinary Book Awards get an extreme makeover
The Canadian Culinary Book Awards have a new name, a new logo and, the organizers hope, some newfound relevance. TV consultant...
City News
Weekend Reading List: top stories from our sister sites, from bookshops to protest flops
Every weekend we round up the highlights from the other websites in the St. Joseph Media family. Check them out, after the...
City News
Best of Fall #7: Johanna Skibsrud’s second book is packed with gunshots, ill-timed vacations and terror at the circus
When Johanna Skibsrud snagged last year’s Giller Prize for The Sentimentalists , she edged out, among others, a previous Giller...
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Battle of the books: the 2011 Giller Prize shortlist revealed
The Giller Prize announced its short list earlier today, featuring six books by Canadian authors nominated for the $50,000...
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The Weekender: Boyz II Men, La La La Human Steps and six other events on our to-do list
1. LA LA LA HUMAN STEPS This Québécois contemporary dance troupe, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, is known...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
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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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