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National Ballet of Canada
Style
The dreamiest looks we saw at the National Ballet of Canada’s annual gala
This year’s theme was all about getting lost in a pleasant daydream
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Culture
The National Ballet of Canada’s fastest-rising star just left the company
Siphesihle November is exiting stage left—and he’s not even 30
Culture
How the National Ballet keeps its 30-year-old
Nutcracker
costumes looking fresh
The production’s legendary outfits have survived 672 performances
Culture
Scottie Barnes and Jamal Shead are ditching sneakers for dancing shoes
Don’t tell Nike
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Culture
Guillaume Côté just gave his final performance after 26 years with the National Ballet of Canada
And the man knows how to mark a moment
Style
Inside a ballet power couple’s romantic bash at the Great Hall
Featuring a Fonda Balam slushie machine, a song written for the occasion and a costume change for the dance floor
City News
Neighbourhood Crawl: What National Ballet principal dancer Guillaume Côté loves about Leslieville
Including a welcoming espresso bar, a historic concert venue and a superior local alternative to Costco
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Culture
What to see, do, read and hear in Toronto this November
A pop superstar comes to town, a new production of a classic ballet, a Haida artist’s latest series and more
City News
What went down at the 2024 Mad Hot Ballet gala
Including stylish appearances by Karen Kain, Guillaume Côté, Siphesihle November and others
Culture
“You have to become Alice—the audience knows if you’re faking it”: A Q&A with Tirion Law, lead ballerina in
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
The National Ballet of Canada soloist talks warm-up routines, cheat meals and how to tell a story using body language
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Culture
“I don’t get nerves anymore—I’ve been doing this for a long time”: Principal dancer Heather Ogden on the National Ballet’s production of
Emma Bovary
Ahead of the show’s opening on November 11, Ogden talks about the adaptation of Gustave Flaubert’s classic French novel and showbiz superstitions
Culture
“Karen Kain is not a Real Housewife”: How the filmmakers of
Swan Song
captured the subtle drama of the National Ballet of Canada
The documentary by Chelsea McMullan and Sean O'Neill follows Kain as she directs a production of
Swan Lake
—her final act with the company after a legendary 50-year career
City News
“I want people to feel like they’re living inside Atwood’s novels”: A Q&A with
MaddAddam
choreographer Wayne McGregor
The award-winning artist discusses working with Margaret Atwood, ABBA avatars and the freakish fun of designing human-animal hybrids
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“After the show, a lot of us cried happy tears”: What it’s like for a National Ballet dancer to be back onstage
"Big jetés and tours require a great deal of physical power, and it took a while to build up the strength to execute those moves again"
Life
Real Weddings: Inside the lush L.A. celebration of two Toronto-based ballet dancers
With a champagne tower, tropical greenhouse and spontaneous drum performance
Culture
Field Trip, the National Ballet’s take on
A Streetcar Named Desire
and nine other things to see, do, hear and read this week
What to do in Toronto during the week of May 29
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Culture
A ballet in the AGO, a play in a tattoo parlour and seven other theatre-less shows to see this summer
The most glorious plays this season are being staged in parks, pubs and tents
Culture
Behind-the-scenes shots from the National Ballet classic
Giselle
Snapshots from preparations for the beautifully spooky ballet
Culture
Dinner at Jamie Kennedy’s farm, an Ellie Goulding concert and six other things to do this week
What to do in Toronto during the week of June 13
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Ten things the National Ballet’s brand-new principal dancer, Jurgita Dronina, can’t live without
Her mascara, her plastic pants and eight other favourite items
Culture
A Bahamas show, a supper for Syria and six other things to do this week
What to do in Toronto during the week of November 23
Culture
A chat with Margaret Atwood, a dazzling new ballet and seven other things to do this week
What to do in Toronto during the week of November 9
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Behind the scenes with the cast of the National Ballet’s
The Sleeping Beauty
In 1972, the sneering, stately Russian dance icon Rudolf Nureyev joined the National Ballet of Canada to stage a sumptuous new...
Culture
Catch fish in a swimming pool, battle with bubbles and eight other things to do this week
Experience Brit-style revelry at the city’s first annual Bestival Bestival, a raucous U.K. import, will inject the city’s...
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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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