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Party Animals: who’s backing whom in the race for the PMO
Which local bigwigs are helping the candidates take home their share of the votes?
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The Captive: John Greyson’s time in Egyptian prison
John Greyson is the quintessential loud-and-proud gay activist—earnest, ardent and perpetually revved up about one cause or...
Culture
Canada’s film industry elite call on Egypt to release filmmaker John Greyson and physician Tarek Loubani
More than anything else, TIFF is about supporting people who want to tell stories. At a press conference today, festival mainstays...
City News
The insider dish on Soho House: who made the cut and who didn’t at the city’s new, exclusive private club
On Wednesday, July 25, a group of 30 people gathered for a secret meeting in the boardroom of a nondescript office building on...
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City News
Behind the Scenes: The Art of Time Ensemble returns with Orson Welles’ The War of the Worlds
The ultra-eclectic chamber orchestra known as The Art of Time Ensemble is always looking for ways to break through the stuffiness...
City News
Best of Fall 2012: the season’s must-see stage shows
(Images: from top: courtesy of Justin Rutledge; by Keith Beaty/Getstock; by Cylla Von Tiedemann; by Paul Kolnik; by Tim Matheson)
Culture
What are the odds a Torontonian will win the Nobel Prize in Literature? Not great
This year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature doesn’t get announced until October, but London oddsmaker Ladbrokes is...
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Camera: Leonard Cohen at the Glenn Gould Award Gala (and Fran’s Restaurant)
May 14, Fran’s Restaurant. By the time the VIP after-party rolled around, few attendees expected the man of the hour to...
City News
Party Pages: The Trillium Awards, a rowdy affair for beflowered Ontario authors
The Trillium Awards, the annual ceremony for Ontario-based authors, took place, fittingly, at the Toronto Reference Library last...
Today in Toronto: Divisadero, Hanson, War Horse and more
Divisadero: A Performance Michael Ondaatje’s 2007 novel got the theatrical treatment last year, with Daniel Brooks directing...
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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...
The Weekender: International Festival of Authors, Operanation and six more items on our to do list
1. LG FASHION WEEK Some of the city’s more fashionable citizens have been accumulating this year behind Roy Thomson Hall to...
City News
Weekend Reading List: top stories from our sister sites, from an autumn walk to the King of Rock
Every weekend we round up the highlights from the other websites in the St. Joseph Media family. Check them out, after the...
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Michelle Dean: I ♥ N.Y. (Not T.O.)
Dear Toronto: I’d like to say that it’s me, not you, but I’d be lying. It is you. You have no passion, no ambition. You...
Culture
Battle of the books: the 2011 Giller Prize shortlist revealed
The Giller Prize announced its short list earlier today, featuring six books by Canadian authors nominated for the $50,000...
City News
See, Hear, Read: Our experts from Queen Video, Sunrise Records and Book City offer three red-hot releases
They love it. We want it. Three red-hot releases “ Troll Hunter is Norway’s answer to the ‘found footage’ trend. It’s...
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Dates with Margaret Atwood and Michael Ondaatje up for grabs in Toronto library contest (we’re looking at you, Doug Ford)
Doug Ford better start brushing up on his writing chops (because this might be a surefire way for him to finally figure out who...
Culture
Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje and other Toronto artists are banding together for Japan fundraiser
In today’s hype-obsessed mediascape, it’s easy for public attention to bounce from one issue to another. Toronto to Japan, a...
Food & Drink
The Long Weekender: Divisadero—A Performance, the National Home Show and six-other can’t miss events
1. THE JUNO TOUR OF CANADIAN ART This collaboration between the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts...
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Today in Toronto: Divisadero, Nalo Hopkinson and Djanet Sears, Paterson Ewen and The Secret Garden
Divisadero: A Performance Michael Ondaatje brings his powerful 2007 novel about a family fractured by violence to the stage—his...
City News
A Fine Bromance: Michael Ondaatje returns to the stage after more than 20 years, in a collaboration with an untested star
Adapting any novel for the stage is a tricky thing, a task the British writer Sebastian Faulks recently likened to “trying to...
Culture
New Ondaatje novel confirmed for this summer, billed as “most thrilling and moving” ever
Publisher McClelland and Stewart has confirmed what the Canadian literati were already buzzing about: Michael Ondaatje ’s new...
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Today in Toronto: Craig Cardiff, Michael Ondaatje
Craig Cardiff Waterloo’s pride and joy (RIM aside) couldn’t be better suited to the college set if he were tailor-made: his...
City News
Is Canada’s high-low culture war a figment of John Doyle’s imagination?
For the second day in a row, the Globe and Mail 's television columnist, John Doyle, is boldly claiming there is a culture war...
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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
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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
Big Stories
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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