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This Toronto hip-hop artist is teaming up with a chicken chain to raise funds for hurricane relief
Kardinal Offishall is going behind the grill at Nando’s tonight
City News
What went down at
Toronto Life
and
Hello! Canada
’s Hollywood North party
Actors, pop stars, tennis champions, Raptors and celebrity chefs got together to celebrate 50 years of TIFF
Shopping
Neighbourhood Crawl: What Kardinal Offishall loves about Queen West
The multi-platinum artist and music exec takes us on a tour of his favourite spots
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Culture
Kardinal Offishall is trying to find and sign the next Drake
Universal Music Canada's newly minted VP is trying to make sure the next generation of Canadian musicians don't have to leave to make it big
Culture
Watch Jus Reign and Kardinal Offishall drive around Toronto
No one looks more at home driving around Toronto in a Hummer than Kardinal Offishall. That was true a decade and a half ago, when...
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Style
Michael Fassbender dazzled fans (and then disappeared) at TIFF’s official launch party
Inside the fest's first soirée, with Cameron Bailey, Director X and more
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Toronto’s Best Dressed: CanCon music mainstay Kardinal Offishall
Rapper, producer and avant-garde outfit aficionado
Culture
Famous people party (and drop cash) for Haiti at the Artists for Peace and Justice fundraiser
The annual Artists for Peace and Justice fundraiser upped the ante this year, charging $15,000 a table (up from last year’s...
Culture
TIFF Party: Julie Benz contemplates a permanent move to Toronto at the One X One charity bash at AMC Storeys
A slew of Hollywood stars and Toronto socialites headed to AMC Storys this weekend for a gala benefitting One X One, a charity...
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City News
Great Offices: an ad agency’s quirky John Street headquarters, complete with slide
What: Grip Ltd., an ad agency with clients like Honda, Bell, Budweiser, Samsung, Labatt and Kokanee, among others Where: A brick...
Culture
TIFF PARTY: Ms. Lauryn Hill set the room on fire at the big annual One X One party
While most A-listers chose to spend their Saturday night downtown, anyone looking to have some real fun was at the Kool Haus for...
Culture
TIFF RED CARPET: Snoop Lion with Eli Roth and more at the gala presentation of Reincarnated
In the run-up to the world premiere of Reincarnated, Snoop Lion (the name Snoop Dogg gave himself after his rasta rebirth) had the...
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The Weekender: Canadian Music Week, Jane Goodall and six other items on our to-do list
1. CANADIAN MUSIC WEEK Music lovers can thank this huge, new music-focused fest for the influx of current rock stars and...
Culture
The Swag Series: RealTVFilms caters to Canadian celebrities and maybe Glenn Close
What it is: RealTVFilms, a California-based social media–type blog covering TV and films, has launched its annual TIFF gifting...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: Jane’s Walk, Toronto Comic Arts Festival and six other can’t-miss events
1. JANE’S WALK ( ) 2. KARDINAL OFFISHALL ( ) Kardi’s made some headway south of the border, signing with Akon ’s Konvict...
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TIFF PHOTO GALLERY: David Schwimmer, Strombo and Ron McLean on the red carpet for the official TIFF opening night party
By all accounts , the official TIFF opening night party was a Canad-a-thon, mostly featuring TV actors, singers, filmmakers and...
Culture
At the Caitlin Cronenberg party, guests diss TIFF opening gala fashion
Condo space Pears on the Avenue at Av and Dav has been taken over by Toro magazine to host a series of events for TIFF, the first...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: Beach Ribfest, Taste of Little Italy and six other things to do this weekend
1. TSO GOES LATE NIGHT Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, a piece that reportedly had audience and orchestra alike weeping at its...
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Kardinal Offishall doesn’t hate Drake, he just doesn’t want to talk about him
Kardinal Offishall, once Toronto’s ambassador to the world of hip hop with his 2001 single "BaKardi Slang," wherein he...
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Summer Camp Guide
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
Wines of the World
Food & Drink
Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
Toronto Life’s
Best Restaurants
From cabernet and merlot to icewine and chardonnay, these wines are primed to pair and delight
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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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