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Current Obsession: what the chameleonic Colm Feore is loving right now
Feore, who’s known for embodying Shakespearean heroes and blockbuster baddies with equal relish, stars in two of the year’s...
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Culture
Current Obsession: time-warp photographs that blend Toronto’s past and present
Amateur street photographers are the trainspotters of the digital age, chronicling their favourite intersections, skylines and...
Culture
A guide to the summer’s must-attend music festivals
Huntsville Festival of the Arts July 4 to August 28, Huntsville In a nutshell: Roots music meets Roots clothing. The highlights:...
Culture
Current Obsession: the indie record label that launched Feist and Broken Social Scene opens up its photo album
Whenever a local band or performer blows up internationally these days, it feels almost routine. For that, we can thank Arts and...
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City News
Current Obsession: the late shutterbug Arnaud Maggs saved his best work for last
As an artist, Arnaud Maggs was a late bloomer. Before scoring his first exhibition at the age of 51, he worked as a graphic...
City News
Current Obsession: Marimekko’s enduring pop art appeal
Marimekko floral prints and bold designs defined casual cool for five decades. Here, a visual primer on the company that fills...
Culture
Current Obsession: stunning aerial photographs of Toronto taken from Canada’s tallest crane
Robert MacFarlane, a crane operator working on Daniel Libeskind’ s L Tower on Front Street, tweets photos from his panoramic...
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Current Obsession: painter Peter Harris stalks the city in his eerie portraits of Toronto after dark
Peter Harris loves the Gardiner. And the city’s gas stations. And the boxy ’70s rec centres most Torontonians try to...
Culture
Current Obsession: Tegan and Sara’s new radio-friendly album Heartthrob
Canadian indie music darlings Tegan and Sara released their new album on January 29, and I’ve had it on repeat...
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Current Obsession: Drake’s new Toronto-tastic video for “Started From the Bottom”
Drake was a busy guy last night. While he was attending the Grammy’s—where he picked up the Best Rap Album award for Take Care...
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Current Obsession: Downton Abbey spoofs and Tumblrs
The third season of pop period drama Downton Abbey has nearly finished its belated North American run—in less than two...
Culture
Current Obsession: The Metropolis Case, the best way to get pumped for the COC’s latest opera Tristan und Isolde
Richard Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, which opens tonight at the COC, demands total surrender on the part of the audience, both...
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Current Obsession: The Master, back at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in glorious 70 mm
When Paul Thomas Anderson’ s The Master is projected at plain-old 35 mm, the narrative frustrations can start to overwhelm the...
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Current Obsession: New York’s blogger-pianist Jeremy Denk
Jeremy Denk has recorded three well-received solo albums, toured with classical violin superstar Joshua Bell and played with many...
City News
Current Obsession: Desmond Heeley spins dollar store dross into gold with his National Ballet costumes
Desmond Heeley is stage royalty. The 81-year-old designer has created sets and costumes for major theatre, ballet and opera...
City News
Current Obsession: Cirque du Soleil CEO Guy Laliberté’s $35-million vacation photos from space
In September 2009, Guy Laliberté dropped a reported $35 million to hitch a ride on a Russian Soyuz spacecraft and spend 11 days...
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Current Obsession: Lori Nix’s spellbinding post-apocalyptic miniatures
To be a regular at the bar pictured here, you’d have to be no more than an inch tall. The whole scene is only about two feet...
City News
Current Obsession: Larry Towell’s haunting photographs from the ruins of Afghanistan
The Canadian photographer’s images capture the human side of an unwinnable war Larry Towell was in New York for a meeting when...
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Current Obsession: illustrator Michael Cho celebrates the unsung parts of Toronto, one back lane at time
Michael Cho’s gloriously retro drawings of superheroes like Iron Man and the X-Men made him a star in Toronto’s fanatical...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
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’s Best Restaurants returns for its 10th-anniversary edition on June 8
General admission tickets are now on sale for Toronto’s biggest culinary night, featuring top chefs, restaurants and drinks
Big Stories
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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As luxury buyers become increasingly focused on wellness, privacy, and long-term livability, a new generation of custom homes is emerging – one defined less by excess and more by thoughtful design
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This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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A testament to time presiding over one of Uxbridge's most storied streetscapes, this magnificently preserved circa 1880 residence commands its prominent corner lot with the quiet confidence of a true architectural landmark
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A commanding architectural statement in prestigious Stonegate–Queensway, this newly completed custom residence by Bali Homes Group presents a refined interpretation of contemporary luxury living
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