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I went to an AI film festival at Hot Docs. It wasn’t great
The Cinema Shift Festival featured 16 AI-generated short films that ranged from cloying monstrosity to surprising competence
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Hot Docs is screening a 2005 documentary about the Toronto police that’s eerily relevant today
As filmmaker Min Sook Lee puts it, “The problem has never been just a few bad apples”
Culture
What Choir! Choir! Choir! co-founder Nobu Adilman loves about the Annex
Including a legendary rock venue, a laid-back billiards lounge and an importer of Asian delicacies
Culture
“Not all trans stories are rooted in pain”: Meet the directors of the Hot Docs tribute to R&B legend Jackie Shane
Documentarians Lucah Rosenberg-Lee and Michael Mabbott on Shane’s 1960s success and disappearance, working with Elliott Page, and better representing the experiences of trans people
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“People don’t think a witch would ride the TTC”: Meet the millennial witch whose ancestors died at Salem
Laura Hokstad, whose exploration of the occult is featured in the new documentary
Coven
, talks #WitchTok, whether her forebears communed with the devil and reclaiming her powers in the modern era
Culture
The return of
The Handmaid’s Tale,
Hot Docs and six other things to see, do, hear and read this week
What to do in Toronto during the week of April 23
Culture
A new Second City revue, a gorgeous photography show and seven other things to see, do, hear and read this week
What to do in Toronto during the week of April 9
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Five things we learned from
Integral Man
, the new Hot Docs film about Toronto’s Integral House
Fun facts about the house that math (and $34 million) built
Culture
Feist’s comeback concert, Hot Docs and eight other things to see, do, hear and read this week
What to do in Toronto during the week of April 24
Culture
Five must-hear shows at Hot Docs’ first-ever podcast festival
Sleepover, Reply All, Criminal and more shows coming to the first Hot Docs Podcast Festival
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A Carly Rae Jepsen gig, a Noma-inspired dinner and nine other things to do this week
What to do in Toronto during the week of April 25
Culture
The 10 films you need to see at Hot Docs 2016
Including compelling flicks about guns in America, Madonna's backup dancers and the best restaurant in the world
Culture
Drink lots of beer, see a bunch of documentaries and eight other things to do this week
Drink and dance at spring’s hottest beer festival Toronto’s Festival of Beer combines two summer traditions: outdoor booze...
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Five piping-hot docs to catch at Hot Docs 2014
Hot Docs , Toronto’s hottest, doc-iest film festival, is upon us. Starting Thursday, the 2014 edition of the annual fest will...
Culture
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...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: Soupstock, Cat Power and six other events on our to-do list
1. SOUPSTOCK In the wake of last year’s wildly successful Foodstock, over 200 chefs from across Canada—among them, Susur...
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TIFF 2012 Film Schedule: Wednesday, September 12
Great Expectations, 11:00 a.m. at Visa Screening Room (Elgin Theatre) (128 minutes) Disconnect, 12:00 p.m. at Ryerson Theatre (112...
Culture
TIFF 2012 Film Schedule: Thursday, September 13
As If We Were Catching a Cobra, 9:30 a.m. at Jackman Hall (Art Gallery of Ontario) (120 minutes) Hannah Arendt, 11:00 a.m. at Visa...
Culture
TIFF 2012 Film Schedule: Friday, September 14
Night Across The Street, 9:00 a.m. at TIFF Bell Lightbox 1 (110 minutes) In the Fog, 9:15 a.m. at TIFF Bell Lightbox 2 (128...
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TIFF 2012 Film Schedule: Saturday, September 15
Venus and Serena, 9:00 a.m. at The Bloor Hot Docs Cinema (100 minutes) Laurence Anyways, 9:00 a.m. at Visa Screening Room (Elgin...
Culture
TIFF 2012 Film Schedule: Sunday, September 16
Love, Marilyn, 9 a.m. at The Bloor Hot Docs Cinema (105 minutes) Amour, 9 a.m. at TIFF Bell Lightbox 2 (127 minutes) Zabana!, 9...
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...
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See the new Bloor Hot Docs Cinema marquee go up
The revamped Bloor Cinema, now the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, opened for regular programming back on March 16, but was without a...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: Itzhak Perlman, the Indie Wedding Show and six other items on our to-do list
1. RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS L.A. rockers Anthony, Flea, Chad and Josh (who replaced original guitarist John Frusciante in 2009, when...
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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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