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Canada’s answer to The Great British Bake Off, an Arcade Fire show and eight other things to see, do, hear and read this week

What to do in Toronto during the week of October 30

The Weekender: A Christmas Carol, The Brothers Grimm and six other events on our to-do list

Best of Fall 2012: opera-star-in-waiting Ambur Braid keeps audiences on their toes in Die Fledermaus

Luminato 2012 guide: 20 must-see events at this year’s arts festival

The Weekender: TIFF Kids International Film Festival, The Tales of Hoffmann and six other items on our to-do list

The Pick: Tosca, the Canadian Opera Company’s sublimely soapy melodrama

The COC announces its 2012–2013 season, featuring a revival of Atom Egoyan’s Salome, Ben Heppner in Tristan and much more

Best of Fall 2011: Ten recommendations for an absolutely satisfying, perfectly proportioned autumn

The one thing you should see this week: a star mezzo paired with a brilliant director

Best of Fall #1: Renowned mezzo-soprano Susan Graham as an anguished princess in Iphigenia in Tauris

The Weekender: Ariadne auf Naxos, Itzhak Perlman and five other events on our to-do list

The Weekender: Cinderella, Christy Turlington Burns and six other events on our to-do list