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TIFF PHOTO GALLERY: Ryan Gosling and George Clooney and pretty much every famous person ever at The Ides of March red carpet
Dare we say it? People are really into Ryan Gosling, and in Toronto, they’re more into him than they are into—gulp— George...
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QUOTED: Davis Guggenheim explains why rock and roll is like a marriage
— Davis Guggenheim draws an odd comparison between U2’ s cohesiveness and his own marriage to Elisabeth Shue
Culture
TIFF PHOTO GALLERY: Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Philip Seymour Hoffman on the red carpet for Moneyball
Screaming fans stretched from Wellington to King Street waiting for the horde of stars associated with director Bennett Miller’...
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TIFF PHOTO GALLERY: George Clooney, Ryan Gosling and Evan Rachel Wood at The Ides of March press conference
Ever the playful (if somewhat glib) trickster, George Clooney was all jokes at The Ides of March press conference...
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TIFF PHOTO GALLERY: Bono and The Edge get all reflective at the From the Sky Down press conference
With the premiere of From the Sky Down behind them, Bono and The Edge seemed pretty relaxed at yesterday’s round-table...
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George Clooney lays the smack down when asked about his dating life at the Ides of March press conference
This just in: George Clooney does not like to be asked about his love life. When a cheeky reporter at today’s press conference...
Culture
TIFF PHOTO GALLERY: Brad Pitt, skinny Jonah Hill and Philip Seymour Hoffman talk money and baseball at the Moneyball press conference
The boys were all smiles at the press conference for Moneyball this afternoon at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. Brad Pitt was front and...
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Bono lookalike caught working the crowd at TIFF’s official opening night party
When someone told us Bono was busy charming the patio crowd at the Liberty Grand last night, we thought it was too good to be...
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TIFF PHOTO GALLERY: Hugh Dillon, a Bono lookalike and Canada’s pretty young things in waiting on the red carpet for the official TIFF opening night party
Whispers of “Bono” filled the air at the red carpet outside the TIFF opening night bash at a spotlit Liberty Grand. Would he...
Culture
TIFF PHOTO GALLERY: Bono and The Edge walk the red carpet at Roy Thomson Hall for Davis Guggenheim’s From the Sky Down
This is the first year that TIFF has kicked off the festival with a documentary (or, apparently, a rockumentary, to use the...
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Flavour of the month: three new spots that change the game on sports bars
Sports bars in Toronto used to mean soggy nachos, face-painted guys named Big Mickey and eau de bleach mixed with stale...
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Blonde Ambition: Charlotte Sullivan courts controversy as Marilyn Monroe in The Kennedys
Almost 50 years after JFK’s assassination, scandal still dogs the Kennedys. A new eight-hour miniseries about the...
Culture
The five best Canadian Grammy performances
With a bumper crop of Canadian artists set to perform at next week’s Grammy Awards—the Arcade Fire , Justin Bieber and Drake...
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James Cameron tops Vanity Fair’s big earners list, is officially our overlord
Vanity Fair has published this year’s list of the 40 top earners in Hollywood , and though only one Canadian made the...
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CBC’s new five-year plan promises all things for all people, as long as you’re Canadian
The CBC is making good on recent promises to increase Canadian programming with their newly-announced five-year plan with the...
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Microsoft accused of ripping off Arcade Fire, Apple suppresses giggles
Microsoft is usually accused of stealing its best ideas from Apple. Now, fingers are being pointed at the software giant for...
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Paintings of G20 riot police get in on the action in Cairo
With revolution breaking out on the streets of Cairo, who would have thought that Toronto’s own police force would be keeping a...
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NHL and Stan Lee give each pro hockey team its own superhero. We rate all 30, including the lousy “Maple Leaf”
Fans of both hockey and comic books—yes, they do exist —have been buzzing ever since the NHL announced it would partner with...
City
Awesome Foundation arrives in Toronto, immediately deemed awesome
It’s great to be awesome, but it’s awesome to be awesome when people throw money at you to help you propagate your own...
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Ellen Page lies down, makes headlines anyway
Wondering what Ellen Page has been up to since Inception ? Judging from a series of recent photos, mostly lying face down in the...
Culture
New artist collective devoted to Canadian musicals launches
While Toronto is the undisputed hotbed of Canadian theatre, we wouldn’t be the first to point out that there’s a shortage of...
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Toronto’s public art policy working surprisingly well
Remember back in 2007, when the city implemented the Percent for Public Art policy, which requires large construction projects to...
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After one week: Kirstine Stewart in, Jeopardy and Wheel of Fortune out?
Kirstine Stewart has officially been at the helm of CBC english programming for a little over a week, and already she’s...
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MTV’s Skins criticized for racy teen sex and Canadianness
For teens tired of the Prada-sporting, beach house–dwelling Gossip Girl set, MTV’s upcoming Skins —a spinoff of the...
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Deep Dives
Meeting Mr. Right: What a Pierre Poilievre election win could mean for Toronto
Anti-Trudeau sentiment has officially breached the GTA. But what does the alternative look like? Here, 12 prognosticators weigh in on the impact of a Poilievre government for Canada’s largest city
Deep Dives
Ontario’s health care system is in chaos, and these doctors and patients are fed up
Half a million Torontonians are without a primary care physician. The search is maddening, exhausting and often futile. Dispatches from the front lines
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 actor, bartender and financial planner makes $264,000 a year. How does she spend it?
“I’ve spent almost $5,000 on my dog this year”
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”
House of the Week
Real Estate
House of the Week: $4.4 million for a gated Summerhill semi overlooking a soccer pitch
The 3,500-square-foot property comes with an elevator, two underground parking spots, landscaping service and a fireplace on the roof
Real Estate
House of the Week: $4.9 million for an enormous ex-schoolhouse near Trinity Bellwoods stuffed with stunning art
The 5,000-square-foot property comes with classroom layouts, an elevator, a kooky catwalk and skylights everywhere
Real Estate
House of the Week: This East York property nearly tripled its asking price in two years
The 2,700-square-foot home comes with a wine rack suspended in mid-air, 20-foot vaulted ceilings and a basement with nanny-suite potential
Real Estate
House of the Week: $4.3 million for a quirky detached near Yonge and Eglinton that was won in a lottery
The 4,000-square-foot property comes with an elevator, two laundry rooms, a three-tier backyard and four bedrooms
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