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Point/Counterpoint: was Ryan Gosling snubbed by the Academy?
This morning we asked Torontolife.com intern Frances McInnis and associate online editor Kevin Naulls to watch the announcement of...
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Culture
Redemption Inc., episode 3: we need to talk about Kevin
The conniving has begun and alliances are forming, which means Redemption Inc. is really heating up (and, presumably, that these...
Culture
Calling all desperate single women or those seeking a career in reality TV: The Bachelor Canada is coming
Fame seekers and rose purveyors rejoice—CityTV has announced that The Bachelor is coming to Canada. The reality series won’t...
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The Thing: The Settlers of Catan, Toronto’s current cardboard fixation
A time-tested antidote to winter-onset agoraphobia Last year , Toronto got Snakes and Lattes, its first dedicated board game...
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City News
Corporate gossip: MLSE chair Larry Tanenbaum unknowingly foiled the Teachers’ plot to unseat him
In striking an agreement with Rogers and Bell to buy the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan’ s majority stake in Maple Leaf Sports...
City News
Rogers and Bell buy MLSE (and now own every Canadian sports team, stadium and channel ever)
Less than two weeks after the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan announced it was taking its majority share of Maple Leaf Sports and...
City News
A member of the notorious new breed of young poker pros who are winning—and losing—millions
Matt Marafioti is a mouthy, high-rolling university dropout who plays 1,000 hands of online poker a night This past September’s...
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City News
MLSE is off the market, planning sports network instead
Last Friday the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan board tersely stated that it’s no longer interested in selling its 80 per cent...
City News
Markham may soon be home to the most expensive insult to Jim Balsillie ever
The remote wilds of Markham could have a $300-million, 20,000-seat sports and entertainment venue by 2014, the Globe and Mail...
City News
See, Hear, Read: local experts share the books, music and movies they’re craving
They love it. We want it. Three red-hot releases “In Life Above All , a young girl in South Africa has to grow up fast in order...
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City News
An American investment company is looking into purchasing the Toronto Maple Leafs
American equity firm Providence Equity Partners is apparently interested in buying the Toronto Maple Leafs. The news follows...
City News
The Loaded List: we catalogue the astronomical salaries of Toronto’s ruling class
It’s not particularly polite to ask rich people what they earn. But tact is overrated, and we wanted to know, so we asked...
Culture
Justin Bieber’s “balls have dropped,” and so have some new tracks
It may only be Halloween, but we’re getting in the holiday spirit a little early this year thanks to the just-leaked Justin...
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City News
The Sun laments government ineptitude with a story about a “porn loser”
We’ve heard of people cursing the government over higher food and gas prices—but blaming the RCMP for failed porn stardom?...
City News
How that disposable pamphlet of infotainment that’s an inescapable part of our daily commute—a.k.a. Metro—is now the most-read paper in the country
It’s 9:30 a.m. on a Thursday, and Metro ’s Church Street newsroom is quiet and empty. By now, reporters at every other paper...
Today in Toronto: Electronica Unplugged, NKOTBSB and Sargasso
Electronica Unplugged Contact Contemporary Music, an ensemble committed to emerging composers and alternative performance...
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Today in Toronto: Adele and The Ex with Brass Unbound
Adele This 22-year-old singer is Britain’s most successful export—she recently became the first artist since The Beatles to...
Culture
One half of Tegan and Sara takes aim at Odd Future’s Tyler, the Creator
Looks like we’ve got an old-fashioned Twitter fight on our hands, this time between a Canadian indie rock darling and hip...
Culture
Ryan Gosling to star in his own directorial debut: a remake of 1980s musical The Idolmaker
What can we say? We love us some Ryan Gosling . So when we heard that the London, Ontario, native has signed on to direct and star...
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Today in Toronto: Joan Rivers and Mellissa Fung
Joan Rivers Old, gifted and blacklisted (by Johnny Carson), Joan Rivers is a real Piece of Work , as seen in the terrific 2010 doc...
Today in Toronto: Get Lit and Solos of My Life
Get Lit A series of notable Canadians read and discuss an excerpt from their favourite book. All funds raised go to The Running &...
Today in Toronto: Mirage, Robert Bourdeau, Jamie Reynolds and more
Alex Kisilevich Belgium’s favourite surrealist is a clear influence on the young local photographer Alex Kisilevich, who has a...
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Culture
The Avenue recap, episode 2: Just Dan-ce, like the Lady Gaga song, only more tragic
Toronto can be cold and complicated, and no one knows this better than the characters on the Web TV show The Avenue. Whether...
Today in Toronto: Russell Braun and The Situationists
Russell Braun: Winterreise Russell Braun’s achingly beautiful baritone and the most heart-rending of Schubert’s song cycles...
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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
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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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For Sale: 92 Arjay Crescent
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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For Sale: 171 Durant Ave
This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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For Sale: 50 First Avenue
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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For Sale: 7 Bentley Drive
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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For Sale: 75 Queen Street
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