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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
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The Weekender: A Christmas Carol, The Brothers Grimm and six other events on our to-do list
1. A CHRISTMAS CAROL For the sixth time in his Soulpepper career, founding member Joseph Ziegler steps into Scrooge’s shoes in...
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Today in Toronto: Snow White, Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio Competition and more
Canadian Opera Company Ensemble Studio Competition A training ground for young singers, the COC ensemble has been around since...
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Best of Fall 2012: opera-star-in-waiting Ambur Braid keeps audiences on their toes in Die Fledermaus
Ambur Braid’s warm sheen of a voice, not to mention her sheer gorgeousness, have landed the young soprano a big, juicy part in...
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Luminato 2012 guide: 20 must-see events at this year’s arts festival
Luminato begins this Friday, and it can be a bit of a whirlwind. Everything from a Philip Glass opera about Einstein’s life to a...
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The Weekender: TIFF Kids International Film Festival, The Tales of Hoffmann and six other items on our to-do list
1. TIFF KIDS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL This film fest is for the city’s smallest movie lovers. Aimed at kids three and...
The Pick: Tosca, the Canadian Opera Company’s sublimely soapy melodrama
Puccini’s Tosca has never been a critical favourite. The melodies are just too schmaltzy, argue its detractors, and the plot is...
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The COC announces its 2012–2013 season, featuring a revival of Atom Egoyan’s Salome, Ben Heppner in Tristan and much more
Opera nerds across the city (and in this office) were aflutter today over the announcement of the Canadian Opera Company’s...
City News
Best of Fall 2011: Ten recommendations for an absolutely satisfying, perfectly proportioned autumn
The problem with this season is there’s simply too much to do. Too many tortured opera divas. Too many ballerinas with toe...
The one thing you should see this week: a star mezzo paired with a brilliant director
This week’s pick: Iphigenia in Tauris at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts We’ve already extolled the virtues of...
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Best of Fall #1: Renowned mezzo-soprano Susan Graham as an anguished princess in Iphigenia in Tauris
Once upon a time we didn’t get international stars at the Canadian Opera Company. We settled for good singers. We didn’t get...
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The Weekender: Ariadne auf Naxos, Itzhak Perlman and five other events on our to-do list
1. TORONTO INTERNATIONAL CIRCUS FESTIVAL Acrobats, fire-eaters, stilt-walkers—it’s not just the kids who’ll love this...
The Weekender: Cinderella, Christy Turlington Burns and six other events on our to-do list
1. FESTIVAL OF IDEAS AND CREATION ( ) CanStage’s annual Festival of Ideas and Creation is all about supporting artists and...
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Today in Toronto: Love Songs and The Magic Flute
Love Songs The derring-do program of the month has mezzo Anne Sofie von Otter sharing billing with jazz pianist Brad Mehldau in a...
Today in Toronto: John Adams, Graphic Details and Trio Voce
American Berserk: The Solo Piano Music of John Adams If the COC’s take on Nixon in China hasn’t satisfied your appetite for...
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The one thing you should see this week: a probing opera about a world-changing event
This week’s pick: Nixon in China at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts “The Cold War isn’t thawing; it is...
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Ben Heppner withdraws from the Ring Cycle in New York
New York’s Metropolitan Opera announced on Tuesday that Ben Heppner , the celebrated Canadian tenor, has withdrawn from the role...
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The Weekender: Nixon in China, Kuumba and six other events on our to-do list
1. FRIDAY AFTER FIVE: DINNER AND A MOVIE This edition of the Gardiner Museum’s popular Friday night event features a screening...
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Canadian Opera Company 2011/2012 season features flashy new shows, logo
The Canadian Opera Company announced its 2011–2012 season yesterday with an exciting and surprisingly contemporary...
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Today in Toronto: Highlights From the Magic Flute
Highlights From the Magic Flute Something of an amuse-bouche for the COC’s run of Mozart’s crowd-pleasing main course, this...
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The Weekender: An all-girls dance party, even more Henry Moore and six other events on our to-do list
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Today in Toronto: Sondra Radvanovsky
Sondra Radvanovsky You might want to arrive early for this one: international superstar Radvanovsky (fresh from her COC debut in...
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The Weekender: nine things on our to-do list (yes, including Halloween events)
1. CINDERELLA: ROCK THE BALL The annual fundraising gala for the Canadian Opera Company, Operanation is always a place to see and...
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Toronto the highbrow? Canadian Opera Company announces record-breaking sales
Torontonians may love the over-the-top, big-budget musicals , but it seems we're patrons of highbrow culture, too: the Canadian...
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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
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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
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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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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
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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
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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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Edward the Conqueror: The unlikely ascent of Canada’s telecom king
Edward Rogers was dismissed as a meddling nepo baby—until he muscled out his siblings, acquired his competitors, cornered the telecom market and became the dominant force in Canadian sports
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Lady Parts: Inside Meredith MacNeill and Jennifer Whalen’s new show,
Small Achievable Goals
The
Baroness von Sketch Show
alumnae have elevated joking about women’s issues to an art. Their new show takes aim at menopause. How funny is that?
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Murder in the Blue Mountains: The story behind the killing of Ashley Schwalm
Ashley and James Schwalm had what seemed like a fairy tale life—two wonderful children, fulfilling careers and a gorgeous home close to the private ski club where they’d fallen in love. Then Ashley’s remains turned up in a burned-out car at the bottom of a ditch, and all signs pointed to her husband
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Dark Horse: Inside the fall of Eric Lamaze, Canada’s most famous equestrian
For years, Lamaze was the world’s top-ranked show jumper, living an enviable life filled with fancy cars, international travel and adoring fans—the kind of life a person might do anything to protect
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An all-Canadian wine festival is coming to Fort York
Elbows Up aims to make it easier (and cheaper) to buy Canadian-made bottles
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This Toronto Italian restaurant is launching a pasta tasting menu made with all-Canadian ingredients
It’s Amano Trattoria’s elbows-up moment
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A high-tech greenhouse in King City is sticking it to Trump’s tariffs
How to reduce our reliance on American farmers? Rely on robot ones instead
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“We felt disconnected from the outdoors before”: What St. Lawrence Market North vendors think of their new home
And what locally made and grown goods they’re selling