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Spotted: Jessica Chastain at brunch, Martin Landau kissing hands, and Kate Mara at Holt’s
Last night marked the official opening of TIFF 2015, but today was when the magic really started to happen: the day celebrities...
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City News
Six Degrees of John H. Tory: a peek at the high-powered Rolodex of our new Mayor McSchmooze
(images: John H. Tory by Markian Lozowchuk; Liz Tory, Slaight, Phillips, Peterson, Horn, Lind, Crombie, Mulroney, Campbell by...
City News
Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: the people who changed the city in 2014
It’s been a big year in the corridors of power, with an infusion of ambitious new leaders in the city’s most influential...
Food & Drink
California Dreaming: Montecito delivers grown-up food to the Entertainment District
Celebrity chef and farm-to-table pioneer Jonathan Waxman and his director-pal Ivan Reitman bring a grown-up restaurant to Adelaide...
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Spotted: Robert Pattinson at the Montecito lounge
On Tuesday night, Robert Pattinson showed up sans reservation at Montecito for a casual dinner with three non-celeb pals. The...
Spotted: Sigourney Weaver, Ernie Hudson and Ivan Reitman having an impromptu
Ghostbusters
reunion
Over at Ivan Reitman ’s restaurant, Montecito, it’s all Ghostbusters all the time. On Sunday the director and producer even...
Food & Drink
Spotted: Bill Murray eating at pal Ivan Reitman’s new restaurant, Montecito
During a Q&A after a screening of Ghostbusters at TIFF Bell Lightbox last Friday, Bill Murray was quick to take credit for pal...
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Culture
Adam Sandler talks Rob Ford at
Men, Women & Children
red carpet
Considering that most of his early comedies are about blubbering, barely coherent man-children flailing to redeem themselves and...
Food & Drink
Ivan Reitman on
Ghostbusters 3,
California cooking, and exploding-marshmallow deserts
Nobody knows how to draw laughs like the legendary Hollywood producer-director Ivan Reitman. Ask him about his new restaurant, Montecito, and things turn serious
Food & Drink
Introducing: Montecito, the Ivan Reitman-owned restaurant near TIFF Bell Lightbox
Name: Montecito Contact Info: 299 Adelaide St. W., 416-599-0299, montecitorestaurant.ca , @Montecito_TO Neighbourhood:...
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Food & Drink
Ivan Reitman’s new Toronto restaurant will indeed be serving
Ghostbusters-
inspired food
When it was announced that Ivan Reitman, director of Ghostbusters, Stripes and other seminal 80s and 90s comedies, would be...
Food & Drink
The director of
Ghostbusters
is opening a massive new restaurant near the TIFF Bell Lightbox
Ivan Reitman, the guy who single-handedly launched Arnold Schwarzenegger’ s comedic career (and directed Ghostbusters, Stripes...
City News
The Lorne Supremacy: how Lorne Michaels reshaped the world of comedy
The Saturday Night Live honcho is the ultimate Hollywood kingmaker. Here, a who’s who of his star system Lorne Michaels, the...
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Culture
SPOTTED: Ivan Reitman comes to Hogtown in head-to-toe velour
Esteemed hometown producer-director (and Bell Lightbox land benefactor ) Ivan Reitman, the man behind comedic gold like...
Culture
TIFF PHOTO GALLERY: Dan Aykroyd, Jason Reitman at the dedication of Reitman Square
Yesterday wasn't quite TIFF, but it was the perfect occasion to get some buzz for a homegrown project before the celebrities...
Culture
King West city block named after Reitman family
Ivan Reitman and his sisters Agi Mandel and Susan Michaels might have been a little emotional when they handed over the...
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Culture
Bell Lightbox to host free street party, concerts by Polaris Prize nominees
Most star-struck Torontonians will be turned away from film festival parties by burly bouncers, but TIFF's Bell...
Culture
Quoted: the latest TIFF talk
We'll update Quoted regularly before and during the festival. Check back often. “Taking the Toronto Transit Commission's...
Culture
Michael Snow sues Festival Tower condo developer for $950,000 for turning down art
Michael Snow doesn't take rejection lying down. The renowned artist (better known as the man behind the flying geese at the Eaton...
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Culture
Sarah Polley to be inducted into Canadian Walk of Fame
Each year, the discerning minds at Canada's Walk of Fame choose a new group of inductees. This year, Sarah Polley made the cut; so...
Culture
All aboard the Toronto love train: Atom Egoyan, Ivan Reitman and Julianne Moore talk Hogtown and Chloe
While it’s no secret that Chloe director Atom Egoyan loves his hometown, we were surprised that fellow Canuck Ivan Reitman...
Culture
Goodbye, Yorkville, our old friend: A peek inside TIFF’s skeletal new home, the Bell Lightbox
Although the Toronto International Film Festival won't be settling into its new home until this time next year, last week we...
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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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