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This painter and restaurant host makes $56,000 a year. How does she spend it?
“I’m saving up for a visit to Kenya to connect with my roots”
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Culture
A behind-the-scenes look at the Art Gallery of Ontario’s most iconic paintings
The AGO turns 125 this year. To celebrate, we asked for the stories behind some of our favourite artworks from the gallery’s permanent collection
Culture
Drake-themed yoga, Drake dance classes and three other events inspired by—who else?—Drake
Just hold on, we're going Om
City News
The Collector: How Ash Prakash became the preeminent art dealer for the country’s wealthiest families
A look at the reclusive art collector renowned for his connections, his discretion, and his secret stash of multi-million-dollar masterpieces
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City News
Real estate advice: the latest tips on buying, selling, staging and design from local experts
City News
A city panel will answer a question that has eluded art critics for a century
Toronto’s so-called “war on graffiti” has taken a turn for the philosophical, with more talk of what constitutes art and...
City News
Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 7, because kids have a playhouse
How do you make Toronto’s best building even better? You put in a kids’ space. The Weston Family Learning Centre at the AGO is...
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City News
Current Obsession: illustrator Michael Cho celebrates the unsung parts of Toronto, one back lane at time
Michael Cho’s gloriously retro drawings of superheroes like Iron Man and the X-Men made him a star in Toronto’s fanatical...
City News
Got $5,555.55 burning a hole in your pocket? This portrait of Rob Ford could be yours
As Rob Ford continues to scrounge for funding to build his Sheppard subway, he might consider selling self-portraits: an oil and...
City News
The Argument: the Group of Seven has finally been set free (with help from art-obsessed London)
As a native Torontonian who has spent the better part of the past decade living in London, England, I get two questions on visits...
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Culture
Toronto art collector Ash Prakash triumphs in a bidding war at a Sotheby’s art auction
Ash Prakash expanded his art collection at Sotheby’s Canada’s live auction at the ROM Monday evening, scooping up a...
City News
Camera: the $1,500-a-plate fundraiser celebrating the new Marc Chagall exhibit at the AGO
October 15, AGO. If ever there were an event to rouse the city’s tastemaking, power-brokering elite, the $1,500-a-plate...
City News
The Argument: David Hockney’s iPad paintings show that a cool device can’t rescue bad art
David Hockney’s Fresh Flowers exhibition has been touring Europe in advance of its only Canadian stop, at the ROM’s Institute...
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The one thing you should see this week: lush paintings that turn portraiture on its head (by cutting out the faces)
This week’s pick: Lauchie Reid’s The World Turned Upside Down at Narwhal Art Projects Sure, the past century hasn’t exactly...
City News
How Kent Monkman—a half-Cree illustrator from Winnipeg—sexed up the exploitation of First Nations people and conquered Toronto’s art world
Pink high heels. Heartthrob pink. These are dream shoes, shoes to break your heart. Shoes that are up to no good, shoes to dance...
The one thing you should see this week: the rediscovered work of a forgotten Canadian artist
This week’s pick: The Passion of Kathleen Munn at the Art Gallery of Ontario Sure, the AGO’s Abstract Expressionist New York...
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The one thing you should see this week: a Queen West it boy at mid-career
This week’s pick: Luis Jacob’s Album X It’s no coincidence that the image chosen to promote a mid-career survey of Luis...
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The one thing you should see this week: an intimate film about a powerful painter
This week’s pick: Koop at the Reel Artists Film Festival Wanda Koop ’s mother always told her that she didn’t need to be...
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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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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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