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Spotlight: John Irving’s new novel In One Person is an epic tale of bisexual bawdiness
John Irving writes big, blustery novels full of larger-than-life characters and sex in all its acrobatic and often scandalous...
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See, Hear, Read: our experts pick the movie, music and book release of the month
They love it. We want it. Three red-hot releases “Ed Burns has two careers going on. He’s an actor in big Hollywood movies...
Today in Toronto: Hot Docs, You Can’t Take It With You and more
A Florentine Tragedy and Gianni Schicchi A death-in-opera double bill. Composer Alexander Zemlinsky based his one-act tragedy on a...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: Do you need to give a standing ovation in Toronto even when one isn’t deserved?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I just moved to Toronto from London, England, and I’ve noticed that nearly every theatre production here...
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Celebrity Watch: Margaret Atwood is officially everywhere, from Twitter to Rob Ford: The Opera and more
The recent release of Payback , a new feature documentary based on Margaret Atwood’s book of the same name, confirms it
City News
See, Hear, Read: our experts pick the movie, music and book release of the month
They love it. We want it. Three red-hot releases “This was a dark horse for the Best Picture Oscar this year. It’s a 9/11...
City News
Reason to Love Toronto: because Regent Park’s The Citadel dance theatre is now a reality
At Dundas and Parliament is a gleaming 60-seat dance theatre called The Citadel. It’s the best thing to happen to Regent Park...
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Spotlight: theatrical virtuoso Daniel MacIvor exposes a bitterly funny slice of life in Was Spring
In Toronto’s occasionally precious theatre scene, Daniel MacIvor is like a pit bull in a Japanese paper shop, joyfully shredding...
Today in Toronto: Blackie and the Rodeo Kings and The Seagull
Blackie and the Rodeo Kings Canada’s folk-rock supergroup—consisting of Tom Wilson, Stephen Fearing and Colin...
Today in Toronto: A Celebration of Canadian Art Song
A Celebration of Canadian Art Song Tenor Lawrence Wiliford and pianist Steven Philcox, the directors of this new Toronto...
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Current Obsession: the Malcolmson Collection of historical photographs gets its first hometown public exhibition
Most of the time, the more than 200 rare photographs owned by husband-and-wife collectors Harry and Ann Malcolmson are kept out of...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: Potted Potter, Rhubarb Festival and six other items on our to-do list
1. HAMLET LIVE Part post-apocalyptic dystopia (it’s set in 2080, and the set-up name-checks everything from violent solar flares...
Today in Toronto: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre and more
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre Formed in 1958, this company changed the face of American dance, revelling in modernism and...
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Linda Lundström and other Toronto entrepreneurs will bring art supplies (and a yurt!) to Attawapiskat
Toronto fashion designer Linda Lundström (famous for her LaParka coats in the late ’80s) has been gathering sewing...
City News
The mayor is the son of hippies and tried by a jury of librarians (in Rob Ford: The Opera)
Yesterday’s first and only performance of Rob Ford: The Opera was as packed as an all-night executive committee meeting, with...
City News
The Conversation: Arsinée Khanjian and Megan Follows on collaborating with loved ones
The place: Caffe Doria at Yonge and Roxborough. The people: actors Arsinée Khanjian and Megan Follows. The subject: collaborating...
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The Weekender: All-Girl Pillow Fight League, a Spice Girls tribute band and five other items on our to-do list
1. THE PENELOPIAD A “mix of tragedy, burlesque and Victorian melodrama,” this much-anticipated theatrical adaptation of...
City News
Where to Buy Now: St. Lawrence, because everything an urbanite needs is within a five-minute walk
Established in 1803, St. Lawrence isn’t exactly a scrappy young upstart. But what it’s done exceptionally well on the...
City News
Watch Rob Ford make his ballet debut in The Nutcracker and totally nails his part
Mayor Rob Ford , by now a veteran of the theatre, made his hotly anticipated debut in the National Ballet’s production of The...
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The Toronto Star versus Rob Ford: the paper returns fire with a call to the commish
The Toronto Star is going to the city’s integrity commissioner to settle its long-standing grudge match with Mayor Rob...
Culture
Toronto art collector Ash Prakash triumphs in a bidding war at a Sotheby’s art auction
Ash Prakash expanded his art collection at Sotheby’s Canada’s live auction at the ROM Monday evening, scooping up a...
City News
Rob Ford’s city budget includes a 2.5 per cent tax increase—but that’s really not a big surprise
Yesterday, the city began the lengthy and rather unpleasant process of pushing next year’s budget through the budget committee...
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Culture
Do you have your ticket for Ride the Cyclone? If not, you’re out of luck
It looks like we’ve got a hit on our hands. Ride the Cyclone, the low-budget, high-energy musical comedy currently playing at...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: Prince, Romeo and Juliet and six other items on our to-do list
1. PRINCE He’s a rock star, an icon and, um, something of an odd duck. (Remember his “Internet’s completely over” moment?)...
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Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
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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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