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Take a look at some of the items in the Stratford Perth Museum’s insanely popular Justin Bieber exhibition
Here’s what thousands of Beliebers will see on their pilgrimage to Stratford
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Food & Drink
15 of the best restaurants outside the GTA
Get out of town—literally
Culture
Ten unmissable cultural road trips within two hours of Toronto
Including a starlit movie screening in a vineyard and a play in a barn
Culture
See The Roots play for free, watch Eugenie Bouchard hit the ball and eight other things to do this week
See a loopy surrealist interactive play in a church courtyard An Evening in July , produced for SummerWorks by the Toronto sketch...
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Culture
The Toronto Fringe, a Brian Wilson concert and six other things to do this week
See your childhood literary hero read from her new book for grown-ups Judy Blume’s kid-lit catalogue grapples with first periods...
City News
The List: 10 things Stratford’s new artistic director Antoni Cimolino can’t live without
1. My heroes In 1992 I played Romeo opposite Megan Follows. I love this photo from opening night. I really admire the other three...
City News
Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 30, because Christopher Plummer at 82 is sexy
Christopher Plummer is an impossibly jocular old rascal. He dances jigs in his one-man shows. He guzzles stiff martinis. And even...
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Culture
556 theatres in New York will play the same Christopher Plummer performance for one night only
In 2010, Christopher Plummer portrayed Prospero in a Stratford performance of The Tempest. Now New York cinemas have picked up a...
City News
The Conversation: Steven Page and Johannes Debus on making music—both popular and avant garde
The place: the Cameron House on Queen West | The people: singer-songwriter Steven Page and COC music director Johannes Debus | The...
Food & Drink
This is what happens when 12 culinary students get to cook with Paolo Lopriore, the world’s 39th best chef
During the second year of their apprenticeship at the Stratford Chefs School— considered one of the most prestigious in the...
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City News
Justin Bieber: patron saint of Stratford and skater boys
If Stratford is looking for a patron saint, they could do worse than Justin Bieber. The city is already working the Bieber angle...
City News
Spotlight: Actress Blythe Wilson brings brassiness and a big voice to Mary Poppins at the Princess of Wales Theatre
In a world of instant stars and stunt casting, Blythe Wilson is a throwback to the brassy belters and hoofers of theatre’s...
Food & Drink
In a bid to stop the “mega-quarry,” Michael Stadtländer rallies (nearly) every chef we’ve ever heard of for Foodstock
Michael Stadtländer has rallied 100 of the best chefs from across Canada to participate in Foodstock, an epic, pay-what-you-can...
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Culture
Christopher Plummer receives the inaugural Stratford Shakespeare Festival lifetime achievement award—for a lifetime of being awesome
Earlier this year we learned that Christopher Plummer was to be the recipient of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival’s inaugural...
City News
North York’s Cara Ricketts’s inner strength ignites Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming this summer at Stratford
It took an old chestnut—a raisin, actually—for Toronto theatregoers to appreciate Cara Ricketts’ ability to breathe new life...
City News
Stratford star Seana McKenna is trading in her corsets to play Richard III. Can audiences handle a female portrayal of true evil?
At this point in our cultural history, cross-dressing is subversive only to the most sheltered among us. Drag now is the kind of...
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Monday’s Luminato picks: Beatniks, Broadway and Denis Gagnon’s take on Alice in Wonderland
The fifth edition of Luminato, the city’s annual everything-culture fest, kicked off last Friday and goes all through the...
Food & Drink
New summer food truck event fuels hopes for a Toronto street food revolution
Steeltown might have beaten us to the food truck race, but three special events starting this summer are laying the groundwork for...
Today in Toronto: An Evening with Al Pacino and Richard III
An Evening with Al Pacino With a career spanning over 40 years, Pacino is a true Hollywood great, best known for playing...
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Justin Bieber named one of Time’s 100 most influential people
Apparently purple high-tops, wind-swept mop tops and songs about babies are pretty influential these days—or at least that’s...
City News
Renaissance Man: Colm Feore channels a 15th-century zealot and a comic book baddy in two flashy new gigs
Colm Feore is a master of the double life. The country’s supreme leading man has tackled theatre’s most demanding roles at...
Today in Toronto: Bjoerling’s Larynx, Good Mourning Mrs. Brown and On Stage: Four Shakespeare Lectures
Bjoerling’s Larynx Don’t miss your last chance to see American photographer David Leventi’s exhibition of the impossibly...
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The eBay auction for Justin Bieber’s hair just closed. The sale price? $40,668
When Justin Bieber lopped off his magnificently bobbed mane, we worried he’d pull a Samson and lose his mighty power over...
City News
Sandra Shamas and Rod Beattie discuss the benefits of ditching Toronto to pursue small-town living
The place: Tango Palace Coffee Company on Queen East. The people: comedian Sandra Shamas and actor Rod Beattie. The subject:...
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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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