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“Toronto is due for something the size and scope of SXSW”: Executive producer Kevin Barton on the ambitions of the new Departure Festival
For six days, a reimagined Canadian Music Week will be taking over venues across the city and—if organizers get their way—the hearts, minds and wallets of Torontonians
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City News
What notable Torontonians got up to over the holidays
How the other half spent their time off
Culture
The 10 biggest moments in comedy in the last 50 years
The comedians, punchlines and clubs that mattered most over the past half-century
Culture
Shticks and Giggles: a laugh-lover’s guide to the city’s explosive comedy scene
Toronto’s JFL42 comedy fest returns this month for its third annual 10-day laugh riot. For the uninitiated, the “JFL” part...
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Culture
Chris Rock leads a troupe of comedians down the carpet at the premiere of
Top Five
If the horseplay and high spirits at the Top Five world premiere Saturday at the Princess of Wales Theatre were any...
Culture
See, Hear, Read: eight hot new books, albums and shows—including Stephen Harper’s hockey tome
The scoop on the month’s red-hot releases A Canadian Prime Minister writing a book about hockey is a little like an Australian...
Culture
Meet the five Toronto contestants on Top Chef Canada season three
Season three of Top Chef Canada kicks off on March 18, and earlier today Food Network Canada unveiled the slate of 16...
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City News
50 Most Influential 2012: a ranking of Toronto’s top tycoons, backroom operators and supersize egos
The people driving the agenda for the city are more likely to come from outside local government than inside. This was the year...
City News
Holy mother of God—Pamela Anderson is Russell Peters’s Virgin Mary
It’s not exactly an immaculate casting choice: Pamela Anderson will be playing the Virgin Mary in A Russell Peters Christmas...
City News
The Loaded List: we catalogue the astronomical salaries of Toronto’s ruling class
It’s not particularly polite to ask rich people what they earn. But tact is overrated, and we wanted to know, so we asked...
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Culture
The Swag Series: The Right Hand Gal’s lounge comes with free jewelry and a message
What it is : The Right Hand Gal, a Canadian jewellery company by sisters Shawna and Randi Herlich, have created a special piece...
Culture
TIFF PHOTO GALLERY: Hugh Laurie, Leighton Meester and Allison Janney at the premiere of The Oranges
Last night saw the premiere of suburban morality tale The Oranges at the Winter Garden theatre (scheduled in a dueling time slot...
Culture
SPOTTED: Stephen Harper (yes, that one) partying with Ludacris (yes, that one) at the Thompson Rooftop Lounge
We’d say this is the kind of pairing that could happen only at TIFF, but for all we know it’s not the first time that Prime...
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Culture
The 2011 Gemini Awards’ celebrity guests are but a whisper to TIFF 2011’s mighty roar
The Toronto International Film Festival kicks off September 8, but the night before marks the anniversary of another Canadian film...
Culture
Rogers Media announces Canada’s Got Talent, but who will judge?
It seems another American-by-way-of-the-U.K. show is coming to Canada: Rogers Media has announced that Canada’s Got Talent is...
City News
Russell Peters and Trey Anthony on jokes, race and jokes about race
The place: Cora’s Breakfast and Lunch in Woodbridge. The people: comedians Russell Peters and Trey Anthony. The subject:...
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Six reasons the International India Film Academy Awards are in Toronto
If you encounter more than the usual number of bhangra dancers on the streets this month, that’s because the International...
Culture
Is Drake the coolest Junos host ever?
Last week, the Junos got an injection of cool with news that Drake will be stepping in to host the 2011 awards next...
City News
Russell Peters explains how his cars are like boobs
Let's be honest: modesty has never been Russell Peters ' strong suit. So when the Toronto-born, Brampton-raised comedian talked...
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Culture
Russell Peters is getting a sitcom on NBC
Not content to be the rare comedian who sells out stadiums across the world, our homegrown stand-up star Russell Peters is taking...
Culture
Russell Peters, Rob Lowe making Indian–Canadian hockey movie set in Brampton
The film is called Breakaway, and it's being produced by Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar (perhaps best known to North American...
Culture
TIFF PHOTO GALLERY: David Suzuki Foundation gala with Ed Begley Jr. and Russell Peters
Friday’s sold-out, thousand-dollar-per-head charity fundraiser for the David Suzuki Foundation brought out an environmentalist...
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All Mixed Up: Toronto is the mixed-marriage capital of Canada
How our city is proof that if a post-racial society is possible, it will begin in the bedroom his fall, my husband and I will mark...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: Doors Open, craft beer festival and six other things to do this weekend
1. DOORS OPEN This citywide, one-weekend-a-year event showcases almost 150 of Toronto's most historically and culturally...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
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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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