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Inside
Toronto Life
’s Most Influential party with Olivia Chow, Sarah Nurse, Jagmeet Singh and more
Devery Jacobs, Keith Pelley, Jeffrey Remedios and Cameron Bailey also attended the exclusive bash
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The 50 Most Influential Torontonians of 2024
Our annual ranking of the people whose courage, smarts and clout are changing the world as we know it
City News
Inside
Toronto Life
’s Most Influential party, with Olivia Chow, Geoffrey Hinton, Cameron Bailey and more
Carley Fortune, David Schwartz and Bonnie Lysyk were also among the attendees of the exclusive bash at Canopy by Hilton Toronto Yorkville
Deep Dives
The 50 Most Influential Torontonians of 2023
Our annual ranking of the people whose courage, smarts and clout are changing the world as we know it
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City News
“It’s a time to discover new talent”: TIFF CEO Cameron Bailey on organizing the city’s glitziest festival in an era of Hollywood strikes
Don't panic: there will still be plenty of celeb sightings
City News
The 50 Most Influential Torontonians of 2022
Our annual ranking of the people whose bravery, smarts and clout are changing the world as we know it
Culture
“There will definitely be some red carpets”: TIFF director Cameron Bailey on the festival’s celeb-studded—and Covid-safe—comeback
The TIFF co-director on selecting the perfect Covid-era opening night movie, which celebs you might see downtown and the plan for managing anti-vaxx protesters
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City News
The Influentials 2017: The top 50
The power wielders whose smarts, connections and clout are changing the world as we know it
Culture
Inside TIFF’s official opening party, with Priyanka Chopra, Jason Isaacs and Director X
Priyanka Chopra was the guest of honour at the Bell Lightbox last night
Culture
Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #14, Cameron Bailey and Piers Handling
The film festival gatekeepers
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Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #14, Piers Handling and Cameron Bailey
Handling and Bailey rep the most important movie marketplace not named Cannes
City News
Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: the people who changed the city in 2014
It’s been a big year in the corridors of power, with an infusion of ambitious new leaders in the city’s most influential...
Culture
TIFF’s new policy: only world and North American premieres can play the busiest days of the festival
The Toronto International Film Festival is such a big deal to locals that it's easy for us to lose sight of the fact that it's...
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City News
How Cameron Bailey, artistic director of TIFF would spend a perfect Saturday in Parkdale
“I first moved to Parkdale in 1998, and I’ve seen a lot of changes since. The condos are creeping up, but Parkdale retains its...
City News
The 50 Most Influential People in Toronto: who really runs this city?
You know you live in interesting times when the chief of police is the most powerful person in town. What propelled Chief Blair to...
City News
SLIDESHOW: Boardroom bigshots, gossip gurus and civic leaders at Toronto Life’s bash for the city’s most influential people
Powerful Torontonians descended on the Ritz-Carlton last night to see Toronto Life unveil its 2013 ranking of the city’s 50 Most...
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Culture
TIFF 2013: the buzziest movies and biggest stars in this year’s lineup
Judging from the list of galas that TIFF CEO Piers Handling and artistic director Cameron Bailey announced earlier today, the...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: Super Bowl XLVII Party, Tristan und Isolde and five other items on our to-do list
1. KUUMBA Harbourfront kicks off Black History Month with the 17th edition of its annual Kuumba festival (“kuumba” means...
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Toronto’s Best Dressed 2012: the city’s 25 most stylish people
Toronto is a good-looking town, with no shortage of beautiful people in beautiful clothes. But only a few are bona fide...
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50 Most Influential 2012: a ranking of Toronto’s top tycoons, backroom operators and supersize egos
The people driving the agenda for the city are more likely to come from outside local government than inside. This was the year...
City News
The insider dish on Soho House: who made the cut and who didn’t at the city’s new, exclusive private club
On Wednesday, July 25, a group of 30 people gathered for a secret meeting in the boardroom of a nondescript office building on...
Culture
TIFF 2012 Insider’s Guide: top 10 spots for boozing and schmoozing with stars
TIFF can be the most exhausting event of the year—10 days of near constant drinking, schmoozing and...
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Culture
TIFF QUOTED: Cameron Bailey on the subtle distinction between OMG and WTF
—TIFF artistic director Cameron Bailey, explaining to The Grid one of the festival’s new slogans: “TIFF: Where OMG meets...
Culture
TIFF 2012: 17 galas, 45 special presentations and a lot of star power at this year’s festival
This morning, TIFF CEO Piers Handling and Artistic Director Cameron Bailey announced TIFF 2012’s opening night gala, galas and...
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These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2025
This year’s list includes a Korean Ecuadorian diner, a supper club that showcases regional Chinese dishes tweaked with seasonal Canadian ingredients and a Parkdale chaat house that makes a mean Pakistani Sloppy Joe. It’s official: fusion is in
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Deep Dives
Save Me From My Screen: How smartphone addiction is ruining our lives
Despite the do-not-disturb settings, time-spent reminders and ritual purging of apps, we’re still hopelessly obsessed with our devices. Dispatches from the digital minimalist movement
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The $4-Million Girlfriend Experience: The thief, the cam girl and their whirlwind fraudulent romance
Stephanie Sahler was a cam girl. Ralph Puglisi was a man willing to pay anything for her doting attention. It was the perfect arrangement—until she realized that every penny he sent her was stolen
Deep Dives
Dr. Ozempic: Inside the medical discovery that revolutionized weight loss
I was just a baby scientist when I discovered the hormone that made Ozempic possible. I had no idea how life-changing—and world-changing—that breakthrough would be
Deep Dives
A behind-the-curtain look at the insatiable political ambitions of Doug Ford
Is Ontario’s pugnacious premier charting a course for Ottawa? He definitely isn’t
not
considering a run for prime minister. A long, hard look at the populist’s playbook
Deep Dives
Sex worker and
Anora
consultant Andrea Werhun’s journey from strip clubs to Hollywood
Andrea Werhun’s dream was to be a writer, but there was a lot more money in sex work. She told herself she’d quit soon, then spent years working as a stripper. In 2022, Sean Baker hired her as a consultant on his Oscar-sweeping film. Now she’s stepping into her own spotlight
Deep Dives
Game Over: Inside fallen Toronto Raptor Jontay Porter’s sports betting scandal
As the pivotal member of a notorious betting ring, Porter was playing for another team. The story of a cheater, his bookmakers and the wager that brought them all down
Deep Dives
Megan Savard for the Defence: Meet the lawyer representing a player at the centre of the Hockey Canada trial
She’s fierce, shrewd and relentless. And she doesn’t just want to win—she wants to dismantle the prison system altogether
Deep Dives
Inside the rise and fall of the Vaulter Bandit, the 21st century’s most notorious bank robber
To fellow tourists he met around the world, Jeffery Shuman was a semi-retired developer with a bright smile, an even tan and a fat wallet. In truth, he was a legendary bank robber on the run from the Toronto police and the US Marshals
Deep Dives
Anchor Man: Fox News host John Roberts on Trump, the trade war and the American psyche
If Fox News seems an unlikely landing spot for a guy who got his start pumping out Platinum Blonde on MuchMusic, you probably haven’t heard his thoughts about joining the notorious network, the Canada–US relationship and what he misses most about Toronto
Deep Dives
Trump’s Loss, Toronto’s Gain: Meet the artists, professors, scientists and other luminaries ditching the US and moving north
They’re coming from Big Law, the Ivy League, arts institutes and beyond, brimming with smarts and energy and united by a common cause: avoiding the carnage of Donald Trump. True tales from the brain gain
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The Magic Lab: How chemist and computer scientist Alán Aspuru-Guzik brought self-driving laboratories from Harvard to Toronto
Aspuru-Guzik and his multinational team of mad scientists are combining chemistry, robotics and AI to fight climate change, streamline organ transplants and supercharge the scientific method. How did their lab end up at the University of Toronto? In a word: Trump
Deep Dives
Dancing Queens: Patrons, staff and performers share their wildest memories of Crews and Tangos, Toronto’s most storied drag bar
Crews and Tangos has been enforcing the rules of the Village for more than 30 years: wear what you want, kiss who you want, but don’t forget to tip the drag queens. With a condo development looming, we asked around for tales from the iconic spot
Deep Dives
The Joy of Sex with Strangers: A Toronto hotwife’s adventures in ethical non-monogamy
Three months ago, I was a suburban mom in a monogamous relationship. Now I’m sleeping with people I meet online—with my husband’s blessing—and we’ve never been happier. Don’t judge us until you’ve read our story
Deep Dives
The Scandal, the Firing and the Fallout: Anatomy of a Bay Street fiasco at RBC
Nadine Ahn was a high-ranking executive at the bank. Ken Mason, her subordinate, was rapidly promoted. Then someone claimed to see them canoodling at the Royal York, tipped off HR and triggered an inquisition
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For Sale: 9 Audubon Court
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For Sale: 500 Wellington St W PH1001
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Welcome to 1445 Islington, a stunning property located in highly sought-after Edenbridge-Humber Valley