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Halloween
Culture
“We started to hear a voice”: Meet the family who moved into a spooky Dresden funeral home
$570,000 for 12,000 square feet is worth making a deal with the devil
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City News
Toronto’s best-dressed dogs this Halloween, from Bob Ross paintings to a gnome
Because you can never have too many pooches in costumes
Real Estate News
$2 million for a seriously spooky Victorian fixer-upper in the Junction
More treat than trick, this property has huge investment potential with its coveted location, original heritage features and 5,000-square-foot lot
Food & Drink
Halloween at home: Creepy cookie kits, scary-movie snacks, spooky booze and other treats you can get delivered to your door
This year, have the candy come right to you
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Life
The most creative, elaborate Toronto jack-o-lanterns from this year’s pumpkin parades
Gone are the days of crooked smiles and triangle eyes–in 2019, pumpkin-carving is an elaborate art form. On November 1, at parks...
Style
The wackiest Halloween costumes from Toronto celebs
See our favourite looks, including Ben Mulroney as Katy Perry
Life
The most outrageous Halloween costumes from Toronto dogs
These good boys and girls are ready to go trick-or-treating
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Life
10 of the GTA’s best haunted attractions, ranked from kid-friendly to nightmare-inducing
Be afraid, be very (or just sort of) afraid
Culture
The 20 best jack-o’-lanterns from last night’s pumpkin parades
Including Pennywise, Gord Downie and more than a few Trumpkins
Life
Church Street’s Halloween partiers talk about their deepest fears
Check out some costumes from Toronto's biggest Halloween party for grownups
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Culture
A séance in High Park, a haunted Island tour and seven other spooky things to do this Halloween
All the haunted happenings worth doing this Hallow's Eve
Life
Some Toronto-related Halloween costume ideas for 2017
Oh-so-topical dress-up concepts
Culture
Casa Loma just transformed into a giant haunted house for Halloween
A tour of the castle's ultra-creepy Legends of Horror spookfest
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Culture
The 20 best jack-o’-lanterns from last night’s pumpkin parades
The city's most dazzling works of squash art
Style
A guide to hipster occultism in Toronto, just in time for Halloween
A few tricks and treats you can find around the city this weekend, and beyond
Culture
Five frightening attractions you need to see this Halloween
Casa Loma's $1.5 million fright fest, ghost tours and more
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Style
Twenty-two dogs dress up for Halloween
The most adorable puppy costumes from PawsWay's furry festivities
Culture
A symphonic
Psycho
screening, a Wes Anderson–inspired ball and eight other things to do this Halloween weekend
Things to do instead of (or in addition to) handing out candy
Style
Street Style: Seaton Village kids go trick-or-treating in terrifyingly cute costumes
Seaton Village, with its high concentration of young families and narrow houses (almost all of which were decked out like...
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Pretend Weezer only ever made two albums at Sheezer’s Halloween show
Twenty years ago, Weezer released its self-titled debut, perhaps better known as the Blue Album. “Say It Ain’t So,” “My...
Food & Drink
Pop-Up Pick: a grown-up Halloween feast on College Street
We've previously mentioned Dave Mottershall, the east-coast chef who left his prestigious job at The Chase to start a food...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: my wife wants to give out toothbrushes on Halloween—should she?
Dear Urban Diplomat, My wife is a dentist and wants to give out toothbrushes instead of candy for Halloween. I told her this is...
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City News
Stefania Zanini: “There are always the zombie haters out there”
—Toronto Zombie Walk spokesperson Stefania Zanini , telling the Star about the public's reaction to the annual parade's online...
City News
PHOTO: Rob Ford completely freaks out reporters with his haunted house tour (but not in a good way)
Rob Ford is taking Halloween really seriously this year. The holiday is still two days off and he has already transformed his...
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Best New Restaurants
Food & Drink
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
Big Stories
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Food & Drink
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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?
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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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Food & Drink
An all-Canadian wine festival is coming to Fort York
Elbows Up aims to make it easier (and cheaper) to buy Canadian-made bottles
Food & Drink
This Toronto Italian restaurant is launching a pasta tasting menu made with all-Canadian ingredients
It’s Amano Trattoria’s elbows-up moment
City News
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
Food & Drink
“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