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City News
The World Cup trophy has landed in Toronto
It’s made of 18-karat gold and can be touched only by former champions and heads of state
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Culture
These iconic Toronto musicians are playing a free benefit show in June
CanCon heads, this one’s for you
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
“I don’t think that only one person can change things”: Why people attended Toronto’s women’s march
Hundreds of feminist protesters gathered downtown on Saturday
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Shopping
The five best Christmas markets in Toronto this year
Can’t-miss markets to visit this coming month, whether you're Christmas shopping or hungry for street food
Life
“I just came from a renegade rave”: Nuit Blanche die-hards talk about why they’re still up at 4 a.m.
Late-night interviews with the Nuit's faithful
City News
How Torontonians are reacting to the Paris attacks
"We can’t just sit and be scared"
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Culture
See The Roots play for free, watch Eugenie Bouchard hit the ball and eight other things to do this week
See a loopy surrealist interactive play in a church courtyard An Evening in July , produced for SummerWorks by the Toronto sketch...
Culture
Ride a giant waterslide, see the Flaming Lips for free and eight other things to do this week
Watch Downsview Park transform into a giant waterslide Slide the City has turned nearly 200 major city streets across North...
Food & Drink
Celebrate #FoodTruckFreedom Day at Nathan Phillips
Want to have lunch with the mayor? Then head to Nathan Phillips Square on May 13 between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. for a John...
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Style
Street Style: bundled-up out-of-towners and students show off their ice-skating style at Nathan Phillips Square
Whether it's a bejewelled headband, leopard-print scarf or loud legwarmers, there's something about ice skating that gets people...
Food & Drink
Five things to do in Toronto on the weekend of July 11–13
In this edition of The Weekender, a night market, outdoor theatre and three other things to do in Toronto this weekend. Night it...
Food & Drink
Five things to do in Toronto on the weekend of April 4–6
In this edition of The Weekender, a massive pillow fight, a festival of silent film and three more things to do in Toronto this...
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City News
Reminder: it’s New Year’s Eve, and the TTC is free to ride
TTC fares may be going up tomorrow, but New Year’s partiers won't need to worry about any of that tonight. That's because the...
Food & Drink
Five things to do in Toronto on the weekend of November 29-December 1
In this edition of The Weekender, a Canadian horror film festival, Christmas-themed family events and three other things to do...
City News
Could Toronto have free public Wi-Fi by the end of next year?
Something Milan and Taipei—and even Fredericton and Moose Jaw—have in common: free Internet hotspots in parks, squares and...
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City News
Rob Ford Crack-o-Meter: eager, new hires and money laundering
Rob Ford has skated through some humiliating situations and emerged relatively unscathed. The crack-smoking scandal, though, has...
Food & Drink
Hero Burger is going to run the new snack bar at Nathan Phillips Square
After a surprisingly contentious three-hour debate, city council has decided to give Hero Certified Burgers the contract for the...
Style
Street Style: 18 looks at the ice skaters at Nathan Phillips Square
For us, “ice skating outfit” conjures images of vintage muffs, skating dresses and Johnny Weir’ s outrageous get-ups. Even...
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Food & Drink
Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for October 22 to 28
Monday October 22 Tuesday October 23 Wednesday October 24 Thursday October 25 Friday October 26 Saturday October 27 Sunday October...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: Soupstock, Cat Power and six other events on our to-do list
1. SOUPSTOCK In the wake of last year’s wildly successful Foodstock, over 200 chefs from across Canada—among them, Susur...
Food & Drink
Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for October 8 to 14
Monday October 8 Wednesday October 10
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Food & Drink
Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for October 1 to 7
Monday, October 1 Tuesday, October 2 Wednesday, October 3 Thursday, October 4 Friday, October 5 Saturday, October 6...
Food & Drink
Nuit Blanche 2012 guide: our top 20 picks for Toronto’s seventh annual all-night art crawl
This Saturday, September 29, hordes of art lovers, all-purpose revellers and the generally curious will take to downtown for the...
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Summer Camp Guide
City News
Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
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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
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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