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Wednesday’s NXNE picks: Pat Jordache, Library Voices, We Are Wolves and more
For NXNE wristband holders and general music enthusiasts alike, today is the day. More specifically, it’s Wednesday, and more...
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Culture
Brian Wilson named inaugural recipient of the NOW Magazine Lifetime Achievement Award
Amid announcements of performances by up-and-comers like Shad , Black Light White Light and Rick and Chuck at this year’s North...
City News
The housekeepers revolt: behind the labour dispute at the Royal York Hotel
In an era of decline for organized labour, an aggressive hospitality workers’ union is determined to turn menial labour into...
Culture
Keanu Reeves bears witness to TIFF’s most awkward moment yet
What was possibly the most awkward hour of TIFF so far took place yesterday at the press conference for the new Keanu Reeves...
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Culture
Grief group shot down Nicole Kidman for Rabbit Hole research
We often hear about people bending rules for celebrities, so it was refreshing to hear that Nicole Kidman was told no when she was...
Culture
Black Swan director owns up to girl-on-girl action, apologizes to Natalie Portman for making her eat carrots
“How do you make an independent film that makes people curious and want to come to it? Just get a couple of girls kissing, and...
Culture
TIFF PHOTO GALLERY: Catherine Deneuve and François Ozon gossip about Gérard Depardieu at the Potiche press conference
Potiche , which got its TIFF premiere last night at Roy Thomson Hall, marks the second time that legendary French actor Catherine...
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Culture
TIFF PHOTO GALLERY: Hilary Swank and the woman she portrays at the Conviction press conference
"If I didn't do justice to this story, which is so beautiful and inspiring, I don't think I could live with myself," said...
Culture
TIFF PHOTO GALLERY: Clive Owen and David Schwimmer discuss stranger danger at the Trust press conference
Just as one film about the power of making on-line friends ( The Social Network ) builds buzz, another is highlighting the hazards...
Culture
TIFF PHOTO GALLERY: Jon Hamm, Ben Affleck and Blake Lively at The Town press conference
As we reported earlier today, the stars of The Town, the Ben Affleck -directed heist film, were looking a little rough at the...
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Culture
Today at TIFF: Roger Ebert Twitter showdown, Hello! party, Vanity Fair party, OneXOne fundraiser
Our daily roundup of opening galas, parties and screenings. • 12:00 p.m. George Christy Luncheon at Avenue Bar and Print Room...
Culture
Yorkville 1: King West 0. Hotel workers picket outside Hyatt
A day after hotel workers handed out pamphlets outside the King Street Hyatt Regency —the headquarters of all TIFF...
Culture
Fight! Roger Ebert takes on Rainn Wilson in a tweet-off moderated by Dan Levy
Roger Ebert seems to love getting into fights at TIFF. Two years ago, at the Slumdog Millionaire screening, he got whacked in the...
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The swag series: celeb guests get Bulgari bling, Bay blankets at the Hazelton Hotel
Yorkville's Hazelton Hotel is one of the swankiest places to stay in Toronto, which is why 30-something celebs are booked in for...
Culture
TIFF troubles: Royal York workers set to strike tomorrow
Last week, a bedbug scare and a one-day workers' strike at the Hyatt Regency had TIFF organizers in a tizzy. This week, Royal York...
Culture
Where to get a TIFF drink: the film festival’s 44 spots with 4 a.m. licences
The arrival of TIFF always demands answers to three crucial questions: which celebs are coming to town, what are the best flicks...
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It’s business time: TIFF outgrows relaxed vibe, prepares for major film deals
For most of us, TIFF is synonymous with glamorous parties and getting to see major films before the rest of the world, but for...
Culture
Are the doomsayers right? Is it the end for Yorkville as TIFF epicentre?
With the Bell Lightbox TIFF headquarters at King and John finished, doomsayers have begun predicting the demise of Yorkville as...
Culture
TIFF Countdown ’09: British film picked to open festival
There’s no better way to kick off Toronto's biggest party than with a room of shocked reporters. For the third time in 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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