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Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Culture
Mandle Cheung will guest conduct London, England’s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra this summer
The amateur conductor paid a reported half-million dollars to lead a Toronto Symphony Orchestra performance last year
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Culture
What to see, do, read and hear in Toronto this February
Including a Palestinian coming-of-age novel and an inconceivably good orchestral score
City News
What
Toronto Life
readers loved and loathed in our November issue
Including an AI therapy memoir, the story of a founder of the hacker collective Anonymous and the tech millionaire who paid to lead the Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Deep Dives
The DIY Maestro: How a millionaire paid to lead the Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Tech CEO Mandle Cheung was willing to hand over big money to conduct a symphony. The TSO said yes. Its musicians said,
Seriously?
A story about outsized ambitions, cash-strapped arts organizations and the limits of wish fulfillment
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Culture
The best stage performances coming this fall
Including a diva on a mission, a play about petty oligarchs and family dysfunction, and more sneak peeks at the season’s best opera, theatre and dance
City News
“I’m grateful to be working in a country that values the arts”: Why Mark Williams left Cleveland to run the Toronto Symphony Orchestra
“I’m a six-foot-one Black gay man,” says the TSO’s CEO. “I have to be very mindful about putting myself in situations where I will have a fair shake”
City News
The Questionnaire: Three new performing arts heads on their pandemic pivots
After two tough years, the performing arts are live once more. Here, the leaders of Toronto’s top institutions explain how they plan to get things humming
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Culture
I was hired in 2019 to lead the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. After almost three years, I’m finally making my official onstage debut
"Playing together again reminded us of who we are and what we love to do"
Culture
“By the time I was finished, 50 people had joined in”: This musician is giving street concerts to honour front-line workers
“I watched my neighbours emerge, drinks in hand, to watch. It was an overwhelming moment”
Culture
“This is like a musical hug”: How the Toronto Symphony Orchestra created one stunning performance from 29 separate locations
“I was crying while I watched it”
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Culture
The coolest Contact exhibits, the return of Tessa and Scott, and seven other things to do, hear, and see this week
What to do in Toronto during the week of April 30
Culture
The return of Drake, a Westeros-ian opera and seven other things to do this week
What to do during the week of October 3
Life
Eleanor McCain and Jeff Melanson’s $5-million breakup is Toronto’s messiest
They were the city’s most influential arts duo. When their marriage fell apart, the fallout was explosive
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Life
I’m 24, I make $140,000 a year and I own two homes. I don’t regret a thing
"I want to buy another property before I turn 27"
Culture
A Paul Simon show, a
Mean Girls
screening with Lindsay Lohan and seven other things to do this week
What to do in Toronto during the week of June 20
Culture
A warehouse Valentine’s party, a raucous indie fest and eight other things to do this week
What to do in Toronto during the week of February 8
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Culture
A bohemian solstice carnival, a Christmas cocktail cruise and nine other festive things to do this holiday season
What to do in Toronto during the 2015 holiday season
Culture
A symphonic
Psycho
screening, a Wes Anderson–inspired ball and eight other things to do this Halloween weekend
Things to do instead of (or in addition to) handing out candy
Culture
Relive Motown’s golden years, buy a bunch of books and seven other things to do this week
What to do in Toronto during the week of September 21
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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...
Culture
Drink lots of beer, see a bunch of documentaries and eight other things to do this week
Drink and dance at spring’s hottest beer festival Toronto’s Festival of Beer combines two summer traditions: outdoor booze...
Food & Drink
Listen to the sound of old meeting new, with pianists Emanuel Ax and Jan Lisiecki
Age difference aside, the international piano superstar Emanuel Ax and Calgary-born teen sensation Jan Lisiecki have a lot in...
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Food & Drink
Five things to do in Toronto on the weekend of May 16–19
In this Victoria Day edition of The Weekender, a fireworks display, a chance to see some Japanese indie rockers and three other...
Five things to do in Toronto on the weekend of February 28–March 2
In this edition of The Weekender, a contemporary music festival, an eco-fashion market and three more things to do in Toronto this...
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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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