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Toronto art auction makes $14 million in sales
International lovers of Canadian art went a little paddle crazy last night, buying $14 million in fine art at Heffel’s fall...
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Culture
New book tries to prove that the Junos matter
If you, like most Canadians, don't watch the Juno Awards, a new book is trying to convince you to tune in. The new coffee table...
City News
Guiding lit: eight must-read books of the season
We asked three of the city's booksellers for their top fall reads. Their picks below, plus five more page-turns after the...
City News
Art attack: six must-see gallery exhibits
Euan Macdonald This Scottish-born multimedia artist has built a career out of making ordinary objects and moments seem...
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City News
Wild Thing: the story behind the Brick Works
The bucolic eco-paradise between Rosedale and the DVP almost never was. How big money and one ambitious entrepreneur remade the...
City News
Will the latest cabinet shuffle at Queen’s Park be good news for Toronto? Probably not
The chairs at Dalton McGuinty 's big cabinet table were rearranged slightly yesterday, as he brought in two new men and moved some...
Culture
Ten must-see events at the Bell Lightbox this fall
Toronto's film industry is on quite a roll these days. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World opened last weekend to rave reviews ( if not...
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Real Estate News
House of the week: $1.8 million for historic Hogarth House
ADDRESS: 58 Hogarth Avenue NEIGHBOURHOOD: North Riverdale AGENT: Maria Jenkins , Re/Max Hallmark Real Estate Services...
Food & Drink
The Toronto Temperance Society: College Street’s “secret” speakeasy
There may be no decoy phone booth in the vein of New York’s secret bar, Please Don’t Tell , but a door on College Street...
City News
Tobacco timeline: with candy cigarettes now banned, we look back at Canada’s anti-smoking history
Fruit-flavoured and candy cigarettes and cigars were pulled from shelves across Canada yesterday as part of the government’s...
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City News
New York Times on G20 riot violence: meh
While this weekend’s orgy of vandalism may have been earth shaking for Torontonians, the event left the New York Times decidedly...
City News
Hogtown versus the world: how does Toronto’s G20 compare with previous summits?
The G20 summit has mostly wound down, and the result is pretty mediocre: for billions in spending and a few torched police...
City News
50 Reasons to Love Toronto
While the Great Recession battered other cities, Toronto has emerged triumphant—Bay Street is bullish, our real estate market is...
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Today in Toronto: Idomeneo, Authors at Harbourfront Centre
Authors at Harbourfront Centre: Two masters of the contemporary blockbuster drop by Harbourfront: John Boyne, whose The House of...
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Knocked off: the Hudson’s Bay blanket’s American look-alike
Among our beloved symbols of Canadiana, like Tim Hortons, hockey and BeaverTails, the Hudson’s Bay point blanket ranks...
City News
Get set for Toronto’s newest summer pastime: Katie Holmes spotting
Unable to wait for the Jaffer-Guergis debacle to play out, Canwest announced yesterday that its History Television channel is...
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City News
The Lost Station
After stalling for years amid corruption charges, lawsuits and bureaucratic bungling, the overhaul of Union Station is finally...
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Richard Florida: 10 things I can’t live without
The Rotman prof by day, rock star by night—who just released his latest urban manifesto—reveals the 10 things he can’t live...
Food & Drink
Laura Secord returns to Canadian ownership
After more than 20 years, Laura Secord is back in Canadian hands after Quebec-based chocolatier Nutriart bought the company for...
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Great Spaces: an antique lover gives his Annex semi the royal treatment
In this edition of Great Spaces, we tour Andrew Taylor’s stately Victorian home on Tranby Avenue. The experience is like a crash...
Food & Drink
The big business of expired food, Brian Boitano’s cooking show, the most expensive beer in the world
• People who care what Brian Boitano would cook for an all-female roller derby crew are in luck: his Food Network show has been...
Culture
Geoff Pevere talks to us about Toronto’s role in cinema history
“It’s kind of like living in the world’s biggest stand-in,” writes Toronto Star veteran film critic Geoff Pevere in his...
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Inside the semi-controversial downtown Leon’s, set to open in July
Donning construction helmets and fluorescent red vests, the media took a preview tour of the John Street Roundhouse yesterday as...
Food & Drink
Why do we say Spa-DEE-na House, but Spa-DIE-na Road?
Dear Urban Decoder: Why do we say Spa-DEE-na House, but Spa-DIE-na Road?—Alexis Boul, Riverdale In 1818, doctor, lawyer and...
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Deep Dives
Charm Offensive: The cottage country mortgage broker who lost $101 million of his clients’ money
Sandy Sussman spent decades wooing the upper echelons of Toronto society, becoming their go-to investment guy. He took their money and made a huge bet on cottage country. When the market tanked, he lost it all. Then he did everything in his power to cover it up
Deep Dives
The Monster Cottages vs. the Resistance: Inside the ruthless battle for the future of Muskoka
From Gravenhurst to Port Cockburn, the uber rich and powerful are buying up shoreline for private island compounds and sprawling mega-resorts, radically changing the face of Muskoka and infuriating environmentalists, locals and long-time cottagers
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
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