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The Drake General Store’s Union Station outpost is open
Union Station' s long-anticipated re-vamp is finally coming together . In addition to getting a fancy new food court next...
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My Winnipeg (*****)
Both departure and summa, My Winnipeg is Maddin’s funniest and most Canadian film to date, a tribute to the hometown that has...
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WALL-E (***)
Pixar is not a studio to compromise on quality, at least as far as visuals are concerned. Their new WALL-E is expertly...
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Encounters at the End of the World (****)
Few directors could get away with making a film like Encounters at the End of the World , and Werner Herzog is one of them. The...
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Expelled (*)
For all Expelled ’s asinine tautologies, one must concede a few things to its creator and smothering presence, anti-Darwinist...
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Get Smart (*)
Get Smart the ’60s television show, co-created by Mel Brooks and Buck Henry, was full of gags and groaners. There was little...
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Before the Rains (**1/2)
Before the Rains ’ Henry Moores (Linus Roache) is a British developer in late-colonial India with ambitious plans to construct a...
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The Incredible Hulk (***)
The Incredible Hulk washes away Ang Lee’s eccentric and despised Hulk (2003) and puts in its place a competent...
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The Happening (*)
M. Night Shyamalan is the critics’ favourite whipping boy because his films represent everything that’s wrong with...
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Irina Palm (*)
Maggie, a.k.a. Irina Palm, the heroine of Sam Garbarski’s latest film, is a poor, 50-something widow who gets a job jerking men...
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You Don’t Mess With the Zohan (*)
Now in his 40s, Adam Sandler is in a deep, widely acknowledged creative funk (correspondingly, he’s gotten meatier and...
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Mongol (***)
Sergei Bodrov’s Mongol —nominated for an Oscar as this year’s Best Foreign Language Film—is being marketed in North...
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My Brother Is an Only Child (***)
Daniele Luchetti’s My Brother Is an Only Child (Mio Fratello è Figlio Unico) will suffer from inevitable comparisons to...
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Sex and the City (**)
Sex and the City used to be a good show—a fact that faded further from view during its last few seasons, and of which the movie...
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The Strangers (NO STARS)
The Strangers ’ awfulness is manifold. The thin, shock ’n’ schlock plot is based on true events (as a booming, Cops-like...
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Planet B-Boy (***)
Planet B-Boy is a well-made look at the culture of B-boying, popularly known as breakdancing, across the world. The thesis of...
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (****)
As the fourth instalment of one of the most successful franchises in movie history, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal...
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The Edge of Heaven (***)
The current cinematic trend towards exploring apparent truths of globalization shows no signs of stopping, and The Edge of Heaven...
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This Beautiful City (***)
Local stage director Ed Gass-Donnelly has set his take on urban alienation and desperation in Queen West West, a decision that...
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Savage Grace (***_)
With Savage Grace , Julianne Moore plays a mid-century housewife for the fourth time in her career (the other three were for Far...
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Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell (****)
Matt Wolf’s new documentary on cult musician Arthur Russell, Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell , comes on the heels...
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Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden? (*)
Those under the impression that vulgarity is the exclusive domain of the right wing need only watch the first few minutes of...
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The Stone Angel (**)
Kari Skogland’s The Stone Angel resembles Sarah Polley’s Away From Her , and not just because it’s a film about dying and...
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The Unknown Woman (***_ )
It doesn’t seem fair to give too much away about The Unknown Woman (La Sconosciuta) , the new outing by Cinema Paradiso director...
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The Private and Independent School Directory Fall 2024
Browse through Canada’s top independent and private schools to find the right fit for your child
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Deep Dives
Turf War: Old money versus new money at the Toronto Lawn Tennis Club
For 148 years, the country’s oldest tennis club was an ivy-covered bastion of civility with a roster of like-minded, blue-blooded members. Then chaos erupted
Deep Dives
The Cult of Wellness: Othership, Nutbar and the expensive, obsessive quest for a perfect life
A growing cohort of Torontonians are swapping the coke-fuelled, booze-soaked club scene for cold plunges, sobriety and superfood smoothies. Here’s what it takes (and costs) to foster the ideal body and mind
Deep Dives
Michelin Men: Inside the making of LSL, Toronto’s wildly ambitious new fine-dining powerhouse
The $680-a-head uptown restaurant everyone’s talking about has three giant egos in the kitchen and one very rich benefactor calling the shots. If they don’t self-destruct, they may well produce something spectacular
Deep Dives
Inside Toronto’s explosion of bad dogs and worse owners
Boisterous, barky, humpy, mean: they’re everywhere and no one’s happy. Dispatches from the canine wars
Deep Dives
The Battle for Leslieville: Gentrification, opioids and murder in the city’s most divided neighbourhood
Last summer, when a stray bullet killed a young mother near the South Riverdale supervised consumption site, it sparked a vicious fight between area residents. One year later, tensions are high, neither side will back down and the overdose crisis rages on
Deep Dives
Scatterbrain: Inside the explosion of adult ADHD
Five years ago, hardly anyone was talking about adult ADHD. Now it’s all over social media, and self-diagnosis is rampant. How a complex neurological condition became the new superpower
Deep Dives
Who Earns What: The stories behind Toronto’s top salaries
From Olivia Chow to Galen Weston Jr. to Drake, here’s everything we could find on what the city’s biggest names are bringing home
Deep Dives
How the abuses of a small-town family doctor tore his community apart
Wameed Ateyah was the answer to Schomberg’s prayers: a family physician who took walk-ins, made house calls, gave to local charities. Then his dark secret was revealed
Food & Drink
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2024
This year’s winners include a tiny perfect snack bar, a Japanese listening lounge and a high-flying steakhouse. What they all have in common is a fanatical commitment to excellence
Deep Dives
How Carley Fortune is reinventing the romance novel
In just two years, she’s published two runaway bestsellers, sold film rights to Prince Harry and Meghan, finished a third book—which hits shelves this month—and is well into her fourth. Here, she talks anti-romance snobbery, what makes a good sex scene and how sudden fame has changed her life
Deep Dives
The professor, the caregiver and the missing $30 million
Before he died, William Waters transferred his fortune to his wife’s caregiver. His lawyers say she coerced him. She says they were having an affair. The untold story of a scandalous estate battle
Deep Dives
The perilous lives of Canada’s international students
They come here for the promise of a good education and a better future. Then they discover the target on their backs
Deep Dives
My Psychotic Break: The postpartum nightmare no one talks about
After the birth of my first child, I split with reality. I had terrifying hallucinations, received messages from the spirit world and spent so much on New Age paraphernalia that I had to sell my house. A memoir on finding my way back to reality
Deep Dives
The Great Pretenders: How two faux-Inuit sisters cashed in on a life of deception
Karima Manji wanted it all for her twin daughters, Amira and Nadya. And she found a way to help them get it: financial aid earmarked for Indigenous kids. The fact that they weren’t remotely Indigenous wasn’t going to stop her
Cost of Living
City
This Wychwood couple makes $123,800 a year. How do they spend it?
“Ontario was too expensive, so we’re having our wedding in Mexico”
City
This Distillery District couple makes $120,000 a year. How do they spend it?
“I like fancy brunch and he likes dives—but all of it is expensive”
City
This registered dietitian makes $106,000 a year. How does she spend it?
“I spent more than $4,000 on my cats last year”
City
This insurance analyst makes $62,000 a year. How does she spend it?
“Groceries are so expensive that I rely more on takeout”
House of the Week
Real Estate
House of the Week: $3.1 million for an Edwardian duplex in Little Portugal sitting on a massive commercial lot
The 3,800-square-foot property comes with Moroccan tiles, a meditation room, a backyard workshop and a tire swing
Real Estate
House of the Week: $3.7 million for a whimsical custom-built home backing onto an Etobicoke ravine
The 3,800-square-foot property comes with a sauna, a hot tub, cave-like walls and nature all over
Real Estate
House of the Week: $4.2 million for a new build by the Humber with a fireplace in a closet
The 3,900-square-foot property also comes with an elevator, a powder room with a swoosh sink and a playful blue laundry room
Real Estate
Surreal Estate: $6 million for a Rosedale Victorian with a bath fit for a temple
What property off Sherbourne would be complete without a floating fireplace, a 14-foot butcher block, smart-home tech and a deck built around a tree?
Real Estate
House of the Week: $5.5 million for a Lytton Park home with a cocktail lounge
The 5,200-square-foot property also comes with six bathrooms, automated everything, a ribbon staircase and a display for purses