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Why Abbey Gardens should be on your road-trip list
A desolate 300-acre gravel pit in the Haliburton Highlands has been transformed into a community hub
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City News
Cancellation Fest: Why so many of this year’s street festivals failed to launch
Partying in the street has never been so complicated
Culture
The Best of the Fests: What to see, do and hear in Toronto this festival season
This July, the streets are brimming with music, art, theatre and other forms of summer revelry. Here, a roundup of the best bets of the month
City News
Group wants to close 10 kilometres of Bloor Street for a giant “Open Streets” festival
Toronto has countless street festivals each year, and most of them are pretty much the same: midway games, Tiny Tom donuts, and a...
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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:...
Food & Drink
Toasted Tangerine food truck motors down for good
Toronto’s food truck scene took a hit Saturday when The Toasted Tangerine announced it would be winding down. Alyssa...
City News
GALLERY: the sights of the 2012 Caribbean Carnival parade
Toronto is rich with street festivals, parades and protest marches, but a top contender for liveliest of the lot has to be the...
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The Weekender: Rogers Cup, Caribbean Carnival and five other items on our to-do list
1. SCOTIABANK CARIBBEAN CARNIVAL Technically, this Caribbean cultural extravaganza runs for over three weeks, but everyone knows...
Food & Drink
Stinky tofu, octopus balls and a midway greeted revellers at this year’s T&T Waterfront Night Market
What smells like rotting garbage and brings out block-long line-ups? Stinky tofu at an Asian food festival, of course. T&T...
Food & Drink
The Long Weekender: Fireworks, That’s So Gay and six other items on our to-do list
1. CANADA DAY FIREWORKS In the interest of easing the decision-making process, here’s a round-up of the ideal spots to catch...
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City News
Patton Oswalt, Todd Barry and David Suzuki join Louis CK for JFL42
Last month, we announced that Louis CK is headlining JFL42, a Just For Laughs festival with 42 offerings (duh), including...
City News
37 reasons Woofstock should be renamed the Cute Overload Festival
Puppies and giant dogs alike were on parade this weekend in the St. Lawrence Market neighbourhood for Woofstock, and we spotted...
Culture
Toronto vs. Chicago: movies, musicals and Oprah edition
After hearing that Chicago is crazy jealous of Toronto’s annual Luminato festival—and the international tourists it...
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Food & Drink
The Weekender: Luminato, Woofstock and six other items on our to-do list
, woofstock.ca Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills Rd., 416-696-1000, ontariosciencecentre.ca historic, renovated, original and...
Today in Toronto: New Ideas Festival and The Black Keys
New Ideas Festival The Alumnae Theatre offers up a solution for opinionated Torontonians with nowhere to vent: the company’s...
City News
Garth Drabinsky still managing to (indirectly) screw people over
Not even performances from acclaimed musicians like Diana Krall and a healthy dose of optimism could save the nascent BlackCreek...
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Toronto mayor Rob Ford set to show his face on the international stage
Apparently, there are some ceremonial events Rob Ford will attend and there are some ceremonial events Rob Ford won’t...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: Nuit Blanche, Spring Awakening and six other items on our to-do list
1. NUIT BLANCHE We wish good luck to those who aim to see all there is to see at this year’s sundown–to–sun-up contemporary...
Culture
Venice vs. TIFF fashion showdown, Madonna edition
Her Royal Majesty the Queen of Pop—that’s right, ladies and gentlemen, Madonna— screened her second directorial feature at...
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Today in Toronto: Southside Shuffle, Vegetarian Food Festival and more
Southside Shuffle This 13-year-old festival once again takes over Memorial Park, even colonizing nearby Lakeshore Road for Street...
Today in Toronto: Nagata Shachu, Fan Expo Canada and more
Axé Capoeira Capoeira, a Brazilian dance form, looks like the love child of breakdancing and mixed martial arts. This Toronto...
Culture
Early Nuit Blanche announcements: art, lots of it, at night
The program for the sixth annual Nuit Blanche (we prefer to leave out the annoying Scotiabank prefix) was announced today, giving...
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Today in Toronto: ‘Da Kink in My Hair, Power of Women and more
Dance: Made in Canada Local dance giants Yvonne Ng, James Kudelka and Peggy Baker all have a hand in this biennial festival, which...
The Weekender: Cirque du Soleil’s Totem, Britney Spears and six other items on our to-do list
1. CIRQUE DU SOLEIL: TOTEM Cirque du Soleil’s latest touring show, Totem, traces the “evolution of humankind”— but don’t...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
Best New Restaurants
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Toronto Life
’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
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!”
Deep Dives
Young and Retired: Meet the super-savers quitting work decades before the average Canadian
In the age of doomspending, these ultra-driven Torontonians give up their weekends, work multiple jobs and never, ever eat out. The upside: they’ll retire long before the rest of us
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