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TIFF 2011 Swag
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...
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Culture
The Swag Series: CANFAR and TDot TV celebrate celebrity and philanthropy at the Bata Shoe Museum
What it is: Hosted by the Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research (CANFAR) and lifestyle website TDot TV, this lounge paired...
Culture
The Swag Series: RealTVFilms caters to Canadian celebrities and maybe Glenn Close
What it is: RealTVFilms, a California-based social media–type blog covering TV and films, has launched its annual TIFF gifting...
Culture
The swag series: the Murale and Sally Hershberger TIFF suite gets media types red-carpet ready
What it is: Murale and celeb hairstylist Sally Hershberger teamed up for a gifting suite at the Richmond, where both important and...
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Culture
The Swag Series: NKPR’s IT Lounge, like Oprah’s Favourite Things, but in a TIFF gifting lounge
What it is: Another year of NKPR’s IT Lounge, hosted at their Adelaide Street headquarters. NKPR honcho Natasha Koifman has...
Culture
The Swag Series: Swarovski’s Wings of Fantasy suite is fit for a black swan
What it is: The Swarovski accessories collection Wings of Fantasy and its fall/winter 2011 couture collection designed by Daniel...
Culture
The Swag Series: Tastemakers Lounge, where celebrities go to feel young again
What it is: Rock-It Promotions has once again teamed with stylist Leesa Butler for the annual TIFF Tastemakers gifting...
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Culture
The Swag Series: CBC’s Strombo-curated Made in Canada gift lounge
What it is: Celebs sashaying though the CBC studios to tape a segment on George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight can stop by the “Made...
Culture
The Swag Series: Bask-It-Style, a gift bag for the A-lister that likes to read
What it is: Rather than have the stars stop over at a lounge or suite, the swag comes to them. Bask-It-Style hand delivers its...
Culture
The Swag Series: The Essentials Lounge, where media feel like celebrities
What it is: The Essentials Lounge at Hotel Le Germain is a gifting suite and TIFF prep lounge specifically created for media...
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Culture
The swag series: Hazelton Hotel takes care of its celebrity guests with, um, everything
What it is: Every guest who stays in one of the Hazelton Hotel’s 77 rooms and suites during TIFF (and visiting celebs renting...
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Summer Camp Guide
City News
Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
Wines of the World
Food & Drink
Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
Toronto Life’s
Best Restaurants
From cabernet and merlot to icewine and chardonnay, these wines are primed to pair and delight
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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