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Keanu Reeves
Culture
The biggest celebrities coming to Toronto for TIFF 2025
Let the September stargazing begin
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Quoted: Keanu Reeves on air guitar, Bill and Ted 3 and growing up in Toronto
– Along with his love for parks, conker fights and the city’s reportedly floundering burger chain, Keanu dished on potential...
Culture
TIFF 2013 Trend: Stars getting friendly with fans
It felt like the celebs at this year’s festival were engaged in a no-holds-barred competition to be the sweetest star at...
Culture
TIFF Red Carpet: first-time director Keanu Reeves talks villainy at the premiere for Man of Tai Chi
Keanu Reeves has embarked on a whole new kind of excellent adventure, making his directorial debut at TIFF with yesterday’s...
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SPOTTED: Pierce Brosnan eats eggs at Stock in the Trump Tower
Stock —the pricy eatery on the 31st floor of the Trump Tower—is one of the better spots to happen upon celebs during...
City News
A new mixed-raced generation is transforming the city: Will Toronto be the world’s first post-racial metropolis?
I used to be the only biracial kid in the room. Now, my exponentially expanding cohort promises a future where everyone is...
The Weekender: The Penelopiad, Canada’s Top Ten and five more events on our to-do list
1. THE PENELOPIAD Following last year’s acclaimed run, Nightwood Theatre’s production of The Penelopiad is back at Buddies in...
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TIFF 2012 Insider’s Guide: top 10 spots for boozing and schmoozing with stars
TIFF can be the most exhausting event of the year—10 days of near constant drinking, schmoozing and...
Culture
Being Am-Erica! Canada’s favourite TV time traveller is getting an American adaptation, so let’s cast it
This week has been an emotional rollercoaster for Being Erica fans ( such as ourselves ). First, we had to say so long to season...
City News
From Michael J. to Justin Biebs: a brief history of Canadian teen heartthrobs
Homegrown teen heartthrob Cory Monteith (better known as Finn from Glee ) is hosting this year's Gemini Awards (November 13), we...
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Food & Drink
Food memes: Sad Keanu edition
At TIFF this year, we were perplexed as to why some photographers were so hell-bent on getting a photo of Keanu Reeves...
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...
Culture
TIFF PHOTO GALLERY: Keanu Reeves dodges traffic and Vera Farmiga shows off baby bump at gala screening of Henry’s Crime
Today’s lesson in red carpet photography is that photos of pregnant actresses sell very well. As a result, all the photographers...
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Official TIFF guest list released: Jon Hamm, James Franco, Javier Bardem, Marion Cotillard, Will Ferrell and more
Woot! Woot! The exhaustive official guest list for TIFF has been released (James Franco! Jon Hamm! Uma Thurman!), meaning we can...
Culture
TIFF announces 50 films starring awesome famous people who might come to Toronto
Today’s edition of TIFF celebrity stalking is a little meatier, as co-directors Piers Handling and Cameron Bailey announced 50...
Culture
RED CARPET INTERVIEW: We talk to Rebecca Miller, Robin Wright Penn and Keanu Reeves at The Private Lives of Pippa Lee premiere
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Lessons learned while photographing celebrities
We consider ourselves to be experts in taking red carpet photos, having attended quite a few of the galas and special...
Culture
Dignity helps when trying to party with Nicolas Cage, Fergie and Keanu at the InStyle bash
“We want the king, we want the king!” At first we couldn’t decipher what the overzealous crowd was chanting, but as we drew...
Culture
Keanu Reeves is not going to be this year’s Sean Penn, sorry
“He talked to me, you know,” breathed a girl at Joe Fresh’s dinner for The Private Lives of Pippa Lee and its players:...
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Patrick Swayze passes away during TIFF and the awkwardness of getting celebrity death reactions
Every time a famous person passes away, news organizations call up a bunch of celebrities to get reactions, usually consisting...
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PHOTO GALLERY: Keanu Reeves, Robin Wright Penn and Rebecca Miller at The Private Lives of Pippa Lee premiere
Robin Wright Penn, who plays Pippa in The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, walked the red carpet at Roy Thomson Hall last night with...
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Keanu Reeves won’t comment on beard, fans dismayed by facial hair
We’re sure Keanu Reeves ’s new film The Private Lives of Pippa Lee is great, but we were distracted throughout its press...
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Summer Camp Guide
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
Best New Restaurants
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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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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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This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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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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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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