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Comic Book Special: Toronto graphic novelists sketch themselves
Hundreds of graphic novelists will squeeze into the Reference Library on May 9 and 10 for the Toronto Comic Arts Festival. We...
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Culture
Comic Book Special: inside Toronto’s best-connected comics workshop
In 2004, a group of illustrators founded RAID Studio in a tiny workshop above a GoodLife Fitness Club on College Street. Now...
Culture
Go to the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, see a
Simpsons
-inspired play and eight other things to do this week
Go crazy for comics at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival Toronto has always been a comics town—Joe Shuster even modelled...
Culture
Ten amazing shots from the Contact Photography Festival
The city-wide Contact Photography Festival returns in May with a smorgasbord of images from 1,500 artists. Here, the 10 most...
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Rock out with Metz, lose yourself in the Contact Photography Festival and eight other things to do this week
Gorge on a smorgasbord of photographic eye candy Pretty much every gallery in Toronto is surrendering to the swell of the...
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...
Culture
See a play in an abandoned high school, bid farewell to Dame Edna and seven other things to do this week
See a play in an abandoned high school One of the season's most ambitious theatre creations is Sheridan College's Brantwood...
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Attend a pancake party, see Kacey Musgraves and eight other things to do this week
Check out a South African puppet show for grown-ups The latest feat from Canadian Stage is a three-week extravaganza of South...
Culture
Not Your Grandma’s AGO: how a century-old museum became the city’s hippest hangout
On a frigid February evening, 2,500 partygoers descended on the Art Gallery of Ontario for First Thursdays, the museum’s...
Culture
See a play in a pizza parlour’s basement, party with Belle and Sebastian and seven other things to do this week
Check out the next big Britpop star While you endure the interminable wait for Adele's next album, check out Jessie Ware this week...
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How the TIFF Bell Lightbox’s latest piece of interactive art hypnotizes kids with moving light
Every March, the TIFF Bell Lightbox hosts digiPlaySpace, an exhibition of kid-friendly interactive art. This year's marquee...
Rewrite Canadian history with the Cree artist Kent Monkman
Paintings by the Canadian Cree artist Kent Monkman feel familiar at first—romantic landscapes, coniferous forest, Mount...
Discover the culture-clashing art of Jean-Michel Basquiat
A product of New York’s punk scene, the Brooklyn artist Jean-Michel Basquiat quickly jumped from the street to the gallery...
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The birthplace of the Lee’s Palace mural: inside Al Runt’s studio
For a certain kind of aging hipster, Toronto isn’t complete without a mural by Al Runt spilling over the wall of some club or...
Get lost in the Gladstone’s annual art takeover
Every year, as part of the alt-design event Come Up To My Room, the Gladstone Hotel lets artist loose on its quirky rooms and...
Discover the staying power of Gordon Parks’s segregation photography
At Life magazine, where he was the magazine’s first African-American staff photographer, the American photographer Gordon Parks...
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See a radiant retrospective of Art Spiegelman’s comic (and not-so-comic) art
Art Spiegelman never wanted a retrospective. “It feels like walking around among a bunch of tombstones,” he recently...
Go beyond the Grinch at Liss Gallery’s Dr. Seuss exhibition
Searching for a perfect complement to the obligatory annual viewing of How the Grinch Stole Christmas ? Head to Yorkville, where...
Culture
World of Wonders: the Aga Khan brings his treasure trove of Islamic artifacts to Toronto
Anyone who drives in Toronto knows about the kink in the DVP—that bend below the Eglinton off-ramp where, however swiftly cars...
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Learn to distrust your eyes at an exhibition of Charles Bierk’s impeccably photorealistic paintings
The portraitist Charles Bierk is a professional trickster: what look like black-and-white photographic portraits are actually...
City News
How Hudson’s Bay assembles its amazing, animated Christmas windows
Seven years ago, at its flagship store in Toronto's financial district, Hudson’s Bay debuted its Santa-themed Christmas windows...
Culture
Twelve visions of post-apocalyptic Toronto
Toronto sci-fi mastermind Jim Munroe ’s new project, Haphead , is an eight-episode webseries set in a near-future Toronto, where...
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Introduce yourself to Canadian photographer Suzy Lake at the AGO
The title of Suzy Lake ’s AGO retrospective, Introducing Suzy Lake , is a peculiar one, because the revered Toronto-based artist...
Culture
Mingle with high rollers at Toronto’s burgeoning art festival
Over the past decade, the art world’s biggest business has shifted from auction houses and galleries to the glamorous fair...
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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
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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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