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Pride Toronto
Culture
What to see, do, read and hear in Toronto this June
A retrospective of playful Canadian art, a raucous music festival for Pride, a memoir of a year without sex, and more
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City News
Two more corporate sponsors have abandoned Pride Toronto—and it’s giving anti-DEI
Someone pass the premium-grade power hose: Home Depot is washing off the pink
City News
The wildest outfits from Pride weekend
There was a lot of glitter and plenty of dapper dogs
Things To Do
A drag ball with Brooke Lynn Hytes, a sidesplitting stand-up show and six other best bets for Pride Week
Everything worth seeing and doing at this year's Pride festival
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City News
Q&A: Pride Toronto director Olivia Nuamah on the politics of parades
She'll have to manage the desires and demands of BLMTO, councillors, police and countless revellers. Things could get complicated
Style
Where to get Justin Trudeau’s pastel-hued, Pride parade–friendly linen shirts (or ones just like them)
Would you guess that the PM shops at Old Navy?
City News
Q&A: Selwyn Pieters, the only black member of Justin Trudeau’s Pride delegation, on Black Lives Matter
The lawyer and activist reflects on the most controversial Pride parade in recent memory
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Life
The 10 biggest moments in LGBT Toronto in the last 50 years
The milestones, raids and parades that mattered most
City News
Pride Toronto executive director Mathieu Chantelois on the Orlando murders
"Nothing could have prepared me for June 12"
Style
Street Style: Pride Month kick-off party at the AGO
Featuring Christmas pajamas and
Memoirs of a Geisha
—inspired kimonos
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Life
Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #48, Mathieu Chantelois
Pride’s fresh-faced francophone executive director has the diplomatic skills and savoir-faire for the gig
Culture
Show your Pride, listen to some jazz and eight other things to do this week
Listen to Spoon’s cultish indie rock Ask any music nerd to name the most consistent indie band of the past two decades, and...
City News
Reaction Roundup: the nine top responses to Rob Ford’s refusal to attend Toronto’s World Pride event
“I’m not going to go to the Pride parade. I’ve never gone to a Pride parade. So I’m not going to change the way I am.”...
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Slideshow: the wittiest signs, jazziest costumes and proudest marchers at the 2013 Pride Parade
Toronto’s 33rd annual Pride Parade had all the elements of a great party: sunshine, water guns, loud music, rainbow flags, Rob...
City News
Dear Urban Diplomat: Can I stop my neighbours from renting out their front yards as parking spots?
Dear Urban Diplomat, I moved near the Gay Village last year and noticed many of my neighbours renting out their front yards as...
Style
Year in Review: the 15 best street-style looks of 2012
Every two weeks, we go to a different neighbourhood, seeking Toronto’s best-dressed denizens and examining the diverse style...
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City News
Ford Fest 2012 will have police, pony rides and a Pride parade
Despite the fact that Ford Fest is open to anyone who cares to schlep over to Rob Ford’ s mom’s house in Etobicoke, every year...
Style
Street Style: 33 looks at the men and women of the Village during Toronto Pride 2012
Toronto Pride conjures a multitude of iconic images: leather-clad “daddy” types with their vested “sons,” drag queens clad...
City News
GALLERY: the liveliest revellers at the 2012 Toronto Pride Parade
The 2012 Toronto Pride parade brought out a lot of different feelings: confusion (as to why GO Transit was there, and how its bear...
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Shopping
The Find: a tank top to keep you fresh through sizzling, sweaty Pride
The Pride Parade is this weekend, and while there are many old standards to choose from—a feather boa, a latex onesie or a jock...
Food & Drink
The Long Weekender: Fireworks, That’s So Gay and six other items on our to-do list
1. CANADA DAY FIREWORKS In the interest of easing the decision-making process, here’s a round-up of the ideal spots to catch...
City News
Rob Ford’s vague plans keep him from the raising of the rainbow flag. Again.
Though his likeness made an appearance, Rob Ford himself was “unavailable” for the raising of the Pride flag at city hall...
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City News
Parade battleground: Rob Ford considers a big Canada Day event for the same weekend as Pride
On his last Newstalk 1010 show until September, Rob Ford entertained the idea of a big, celebratory parade held in Toronto on July...
City News
The yearly debate over Pride funding ends in a truce, and a condemnation
After hemming and hawing (once again) over whether to fund Pride if Queers Against Israeli Apartheid marches, council ultimately...
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Canada Day Bar Cart
Food & Drink
Canada Day Bar Cart: Summer sips
Make the most of this momentous occasion with these easy sippers, including wines, brews, spirits and low-alcohol bevs
Best New Restaurants
Food & Drink
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2025
This year’s list includes a Korean Ecuadorian diner, a supper club that showcases regional Chinese dishes tweaked with seasonal Canadian ingredients and a Parkdale chaat house that makes a mean Pakistani Sloppy Joe. It’s official: fusion is in
Big Stories
Deep Dives
Sex worker and
Anora
consultant Andrea Werhun’s journey from strip clubs to Hollywood
Andrea Werhun’s dream was to be a writer, but there was a lot more money in sex work. She told herself she’d quit soon, then spent years working as a stripper. In 2022, Sean Baker hired her as a consultant on his Oscar-sweeping film. Now she’s stepping into her own spotlight
Deep Dives
Game Over: Inside fallen Toronto Raptor Jontay Porter’s sports betting scandal
As the pivotal member of a notorious betting ring, Porter was playing for another team. The story of a cheater, his bookmakers and the wager that brought them all down
Deep Dives
Megan Savard for the Defence: Meet the lawyer representing a player at the centre of the Hockey Canada trial
She’s fierce, shrewd and relentless. And she doesn’t just want to win—she wants to dismantle the prison system altogether
Food & Drink
These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2025
This year’s list includes a Korean Ecuadorian diner, a supper club that showcases regional Chinese dishes tweaked with seasonal Canadian ingredients and a Parkdale chaat house that makes a mean Pakistani Sloppy Joe. It’s official: fusion is in
Deep Dives
Inside the rise and fall of the Vaulter Bandit, the 21st century’s most notorious bank robber
To fellow tourists he met around the world, Jeffery Shuman was a semi-retired developer with a bright smile, an even tan and a fat wallet. In truth, he was a legendary bank robber on the run from the Toronto police and the US Marshals
Deep Dives
Anchor Man: Fox News host John Roberts on Trump, the trade war and the American psyche
If Fox News seems an unlikely landing spot for a guy who got his start pumping out Platinum Blonde on MuchMusic, you probably haven’t heard his thoughts about joining the notorious network, the Canada–US relationship and what he misses most about Toronto
Deep Dives
Trump’s Loss, Toronto’s Gain: Meet the artists, professors, scientists and other luminaries ditching the US and moving north
They’re coming from Big Law, the Ivy League, arts institutes and beyond, brimming with smarts and energy and united by a common cause: avoiding the carnage of Donald Trump. True tales from the brain gain
Deep Dives
Dancing Queens: Patrons, staff and performers share their wildest memories of Crews and Tangos, Toronto’s most storied drag bar
Crews and Tangos has been enforcing the rules of the Village for more than 30 years: wear what you want, kiss who you want, but don’t forget to tip the drag queens. With a condo development looming, we asked around for tales from the iconic spot
Deep Dives
The Joy of Sex with Strangers: A Toronto hotwife’s adventures in ethical non-monogamy
Three months ago, I was a suburban mom in a monogamous relationship. Now I’m sleeping with people I meet online—with my husband’s blessing—and we’ve never been happier. Don’t judge us until you’ve read our story
Deep Dives
The Scandal, the Firing and the Fallout: Anatomy of a Bay Street fiasco at RBC
Nadine Ahn was a high-ranking executive at the bank. Ken Mason, her subordinate, was rapidly promoted. Then someone claimed to see them canoodling at the Royal York, tipped off HR and triggered an inquisition
Deep Dives
Edward the Conqueror: The unlikely ascent of Canada’s telecom king
Edward Rogers was dismissed as a meddling nepo baby—until he muscled out his siblings, acquired his competitors, cornered the telecom market and became the dominant force in Canadian sports
Deep Dives
Lady Parts: Inside Meredith MacNeill and Jennifer Whalen’s new show,
Small Achievable Goals
The
Baroness von Sketch Show
alumnae have elevated joking about women’s issues to an art. Their new show takes aim at menopause. How funny is that?
Deep Dives
Murder in the Blue Mountains: The story behind the killing of Ashley Schwalm
Ashley and James Schwalm had what seemed like a fairy tale life—two wonderful children, fulfilling careers and a gorgeous home close to the private ski club where they’d fallen in love. Then Ashley’s remains turned up in a burned-out car at the bottom of a ditch, and all signs pointed to her husband
Deep Dives
Dark Horse: Inside the fall of Eric Lamaze, Canada’s most famous equestrian
For years, Lamaze was the world’s top-ranked show jumper, living an enviable life filled with fancy cars, international travel and adoring fans—the kind of life a person might do anything to protect
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Food & Drink
An all-Canadian wine festival is coming to Fort York
Elbows Up aims to make it easier (and cheaper) to buy Canadian-made bottles
Food & Drink
This Toronto Italian restaurant is launching a pasta tasting menu made with all-Canadian ingredients
It’s Amano Trattoria’s elbows-up moment
City News
A high-tech greenhouse in King City is sticking it to Trump’s tariffs
How to reduce our reliance on American farmers? Rely on robot ones instead
Food & Drink
“We felt disconnected from the outdoors before”: What St. Lawrence Market North vendors think of their new home
And what locally made and grown goods they’re selling