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Taste of the Danforth
City News
Did Doug Ford just commit to bringing back Taste of the Danforth?
The premier’s news conference ad-libbing with Olivia Chow about funding for the Greektown festival has the city dreaming of gyros
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City News
Cancellation Fest: Why so many of this year’s street festivals failed to launch
Partying in the street has never been so complicated
Food & Drink
This summer’s can’t-miss food and drink festivals
Brunch Fest, Sweetery, Waterfront Night Market, and a bunch more festivals where you can stuff your faces
Life
Some photos from an emotional Taste of the Danforth
Weeks after a tragic mass shooting incident, the Danforth came together for its annual celebration
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Culture
A Shawn Mendes show, the Color Run and six other things to see, do, hear and read this week
What to do in Toronto during the week of August 8
Culture
Taste of the Danforth, the ultra-hip Time Festival and eight other things to do this week
What to do in Toronto during the week of August 2
City News
A primer on Rob Ford’s latest troubles, from nocturnal wanderings to a jailhouse visit
Just when we thought Rob Ford’ s public relations problems were petering out, there’s a spate of new allegations, each...
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Five things to do in Toronto on the weekend of August 9–11
In this edition of The Weekender, the annual Taste of the Danforth festival, a rare breed dog show and three more things to do in...
The Weekender: Taste of the Danforth, SummerWorks and six other items on our to-do list
1. TASTE OF THE DANFORTH This huge neighbourhood fest is a Toronto tradition, and with good reason. It has all the necessary...
Food & Drink
Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for August 6 to 12
Monday, August 6 Tuesday, August 7 Wednesday, August 8 Thursday, August 9 Friday, August 10 Saturday, August 11 Sunday, August 12...
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Food & Drink
The Weekender: Taste of the Danforth, Rogers Cup and six other items on our to-do list
1. ONTARIO VINIFERA SHOWDOWN Forget everything we‘ve said about other showdowns (smoked meat, the kickass women of roller...
City News
Get off the Road: Toronto street festivals take the whole city hostage. Jan Wong says that it’s time we learn to say no
One of Toronto’s biggest, most aggravating problems is traffic. In a recent poll about the upcoming mayoral...
Today in Toronto: Taste of the Danforth, orangutan awareness at the zoo
Taste of the Danforth: Come summer, the city is a hotbed of food fests, but none match the popularity of Greektown’s...
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Food & Drink
The Weekender: Paul McCartney’s concert, the Rogers Cup and six other items on our to-do list
1. PAUL MCCARTNEY Paul McCartney's in town this weekend with his Up and Coming Tour. Far be it for us to question a rock and roll...
Food & Drink
The Danforth Guide: our 21 favourite spots along the east end’s main avenue
The east end’s main thoroughfare has long been known for two things: Greek food and the Taste of the Danforth. Over the past...
Food & Drink
Pilfering pizzas, beets for Barack, fretting over frogs’ legs
• Globe recipe writer Lucy Waverman has given Barack Obama what might be the weirdest birthday present he’ll receive this...
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Food & Drink
Taste of the Danforth: The east-end street braces for a 72-hour “gift to Toronto”
At last night’s launch party for the annual August feeding frenzy, Taste of the Danforth , we ate: stuffed phyllo...
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Summer Camp Guide
City News
Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
Best New Restaurants
TL Events
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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