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National Ballet of Canada
Culture
Chill with Drake, stuff yourself for a good cause and eight other things to do this week
Get seduced by Lana Del Rey In the summer of 2011, Lana Del Rey broke the Internet with the sultry, cinematic ballad “ Video...
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Culture
See the National Ballet’s biggest hit, catch Molly Parker onstage and eight more things to do this week
1. Revisit the National Ballet's exhilarating Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Karen Kain's supreme achievement in her tenure as...
City News
The naked ambition of National Ballet artistic director Karen Kain
Beneath her poised veneer is an exacting perfectionist, a tenacious fundraiser and a total control freak. Which explains how she turned the floundering National Ballet of Canada into one of the world’s premiere arts organizations
Watch a former Bolshoi dancer stretch her boundaries with the National Ballet
Until last year, the doe-eyed ballerina Svetlana Lunkina was a principal dancer at Moscow’s world-famous Bolshoi Ballet, where...
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Five things to do in Toronto on the weekend of March 21–23
In this edition of The Weekender, a midnight market, a vintage clothing fair and three more things to do in Toronto this...
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Five things to do in Toronto on the weekend of March 7–9
In this edition of The Weekender, comic book buffs gather, a classic ballet comes back and three more things to do in Toronto this...
Five things to do in Toronto on the weekend of January 3–5
In this edition of The Weekender, a last chance to see the National Ballet perform a Christmas classic, a strip spelling bee and...
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City News
How National Ballet dancer Heather Ogden would spend a perfect Saturday in Leslieville
“I’m not one for sleeping in, but I do like lounging in bed. My husband, Guillaume, is a coffee addict. That’s the first...
City News
Primer: how to choose between Toronto’s big holiday shows
It’s time to suspend your cynicism and surrender to one of the city’s big, gooey, hurt-your-teeth-sweet holiday...
Culture
Behind the Scenes: the National Ballet of Canada rehearses for Giselle
The National Ballet’ s remount of their acclaimed production of Giselle opens tonight at the Four Seasons Centre, with Greta...
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The Weekender: A Christmas Carol, The Brothers Grimm and six other events on our to-do list
1. A CHRISTMAS CAROL For the sixth time in his Soulpepper career, founding member Joseph Ziegler steps into Scrooge’s shoes in...
City News
Current Obsession: Desmond Heeley spins dollar store dross into gold with his National Ballet costumes
Desmond Heeley is stage royalty. The 81-year-old designer has created sets and costumes for major theatre, ballet and opera...
The Weekender: Dan Deacon, Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland and six other events on our to-do list
1. ROYAL WOOD With a name as smooth as his voice, Canadian crooner Royal Wood brings his signature debonair persona to his upbeat...
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The Weekender: Rogers Cup, Caribbean Carnival and five other items on our to-do list
1. SCOTIABANK CARIBBEAN CARNIVAL Technically, this Caribbean cultural extravaganza runs for over three weeks, but everyone knows...
City News
Party Pages: the Diamond Gala was packed with society types and tutus (many tutus)
Anyone wondering where moneyed Toronto arts patrons were on Wednesday night should have checked the Four Seasons Centre, where the...
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The Weekender: North by Northeast, Russell Peters and six other items on our to-do list
To June 17. $25–$50 (events at Yonge-Dundas Square are free). Various locations, 416-863-6963, . 875 Dufferin...
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The Weekender: Sleeping Beauty, Canada Blooms and six other items on our to-do list
1. THE SLEEPING BEAUTY This classic ballet, adapted by legendary dancer and choreographer Rudolf Nureyev, is based on Marius...
Culture
Watch National Ballet of Canada hottie Guillaume Côté ripple, jeté, pirouette and glisten
When was the last time someone described male ballet dancers as studly? Taut, maybe. Focused, surely. Poised, definitely. Studly...
City News
Date of Rob Ford’s cameo in The Nutcracker revealed
Get your tickets right now: this Saturday at 2 p.m., Mayor Rob Ford will dress up in a ridiculous clown costume for the National...
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Weekend Reading List: top stories from our sister sites, from ballet stars to wine bars
Every weekend we round up the highlights from the other websites in the St. Joseph Media family. Check them out, after the...
The Pick: Romeo and Juliet, a ballet where the drama lives up to the dancing
Romeo and Juliet might seem all played out, but the tired story comes roaring back to life with sensational vigor in the National...
City News
Rob Ford chosen to cameo in The Nutcracker ballet (cue last-minute cottage vacation)
Every year the National Ballet of Canada works a celebrity cameo into its performance of The Nutcracker, and this Christmas, Rob...
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VIDEO: Watch two hot, sculpted Toronto men having a sword fight
More and more, the National Ballet of Canada knows its marketing. They have just released a video of two of the company's...
City News
Best of Fall #5: How the National Ballet’s Elena Lobsanova is preparing for her big debut in Romeo and Juliet
Elena Lobsanova knows disappointment. The Moscow-born dancer began training at the National Ballet School in 1996, when she was...
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Summer Camp Directory 2026
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Wines of the World
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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
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
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
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