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Culture
What to see, do, read and hear in Toronto this June
A retrospective of playful Canadian art, a raucous music festival for Pride, a memoir of a year without sex, and more
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City News
Two more corporate sponsors have abandoned Pride Toronto—and it’s giving anti-DEI
Someone pass the premium-grade power hose: Home Depot is washing off the pink
City News
The wildest outfits from Pride weekend
There was a lot of glitter and plenty of dapper dogs
Things To Do
A drag ball with Brooke Lynn Hytes, a sidesplitting stand-up show and six other best bets for Pride Week
Everything worth seeing and doing at this year's Pride festival
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City News
Q&A: Pride Toronto director Olivia Nuamah on the politics of parades
She'll have to manage the desires and demands of BLMTO, councillors, police and countless revellers. Things could get complicated
Style
Where to get Justin Trudeau’s pastel-hued, Pride parade–friendly linen shirts (or ones just like them)
Would you guess that the PM shops at Old Navy?
City News
Q&A: Selwyn Pieters, the only black member of Justin Trudeau’s Pride delegation, on Black Lives Matter
The lawyer and activist reflects on the most controversial Pride parade in recent memory
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Life
The 10 biggest moments in LGBT Toronto in the last 50 years
The milestones, raids and parades that mattered most
City News
Pride Toronto executive director Mathieu Chantelois on the Orlando murders
"Nothing could have prepared me for June 12"
Style
Street Style: Pride Month kick-off party at the AGO
Featuring Christmas pajamas and
Memoirs of a Geisha
—inspired kimonos
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Life
Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #48, Mathieu Chantelois
Pride’s fresh-faced francophone executive director has the diplomatic skills and savoir-faire for the gig
Culture
Show your Pride, listen to some jazz and eight other things to do this week
Listen to Spoon’s cultish indie rock Ask any music nerd to name the most consistent indie band of the past two decades, and...
City News
Reaction Roundup: the nine top responses to Rob Ford’s refusal to attend Toronto’s World Pride event
“I’m not going to go to the Pride parade. I’ve never gone to a Pride parade. So I’m not going to change the way I am.”...
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Slideshow: the wittiest signs, jazziest costumes and proudest marchers at the 2013 Pride Parade
Toronto’s 33rd annual Pride Parade had all the elements of a great party: sunshine, water guns, loud music, rainbow flags, Rob...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: Can I stop my neighbours from renting out their front yards as parking spots?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I moved near the Gay Village last year and noticed many of my neighbours renting out their front yards as...
Style
Year in Review: the 15 best street-style looks of 2012
Every two weeks, we go to a different neighbourhood, seeking Toronto’s best-dressed denizens and examining the diverse style...
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City News
Ford Fest 2012 will have police, pony rides and a Pride parade
Despite the fact that Ford Fest is open to anyone who cares to schlep over to Rob Ford’ s mom’s house in Etobicoke, every year...
Style
Street Style: 33 looks at the men and women of the Village during Toronto Pride 2012
Toronto Pride conjures a multitude of iconic images: leather-clad “daddy” types with their vested “sons,” drag queens clad...
City News
GALLERY: the liveliest revellers at the 2012 Toronto Pride Parade
The 2012 Toronto Pride parade brought out a lot of different feelings: confusion (as to why GO Transit was there, and how its bear...
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Shopping
The Find: a tank top to keep you fresh through sizzling, sweaty Pride
The Pride Parade is this weekend, and while there are many old standards to choose from—a feather boa, a latex onesie or a jock...
Food & Drink
The Long Weekender: Fireworks, That’s So Gay and six other items on our to-do list
1. CANADA DAY FIREWORKS In the interest of easing the decision-making process, here’s a round-up of the ideal spots to catch...
City News
Rob Ford’s vague plans keep him from the raising of the rainbow flag. Again.
Though his likeness made an appearance, Rob Ford himself was “unavailable” for the raising of the Pride flag at city hall...
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City News
Parade battleground: Rob Ford considers a big Canada Day event for the same weekend as Pride
On his last Newstalk 1010 show until September, Rob Ford entertained the idea of a big, celebratory parade held in Toronto on July...
City News
The yearly debate over Pride funding ends in a truce, and a condemnation
After hemming and hawing (once again) over whether to fund Pride if Queers Against Israeli Apartheid marches, council ultimately...
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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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This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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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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