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Mandle Cheung will guest conduct London, England’s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra this summer
The amateur conductor paid a reported half-million dollars to lead a Toronto Symphony Orchestra performance last year
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Culture
The best things to see, do, read and hear in Toronto this April
Including a John Williams soundtrack symphony, a hands-on exhibition of historic Japanese art and a mystery novel that revolves around Cherry Beach
Deep Dives
The DIY Maestro: How a millionaire paid to lead the Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Tech CEO Mandle Cheung was willing to hand over big money to conduct a symphony. The TSO said yes. Its musicians said,
Seriously?
A story about outsized ambitions, cash-strapped arts organizations and the limits of wish fulfillment
Culture
Every Toronto location in the fourth season of
The Boys
Spoilers ahead
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City News
Where to spot celebrities during NBA All-Star Weekend in Toronto
A field guide to the weekend's famous (and semi-famous) visitors
Culture
A bohemian solstice carnival, a Christmas cocktail cruise and nine other festive things to do this holiday season
What to do in Toronto during the 2015 holiday season
Culture
A Bahamas show, a supper for Syria and six other things to do this week
What to do in Toronto during the week of November 23
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Grimes’ album release show, a free Drake kitchen party and seven other things to do this week
What to do in Toronto during the week of November 16
Culture
A Blue Hill dinner, Chris Hadfield’s variety show and six other things to do this week
What to do in Toronto on the week of October 26
Culture
A new Weyni Mengesha play, a
Back to the Future
screening and nine other things to do this week
What to do in Toronto during the week of October 19
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Culture
Your star-spotting guide for the weekend of Saturday, September 12 and Sunday, September 13
This weekend is a dream come true for die-hard star-spotters, as TIFF parties ramp up and A-listers swarm the city for premieres...
Culture
Your star-spotting guide for Friday, September 11
As TIFF ramps up, so do the number of celebs at parties all over the city—and this year's festival is drawing some serious star...
Culture
See Rush for the last time, survive NXNE and eight other things to do this week
Go on a late-night sampling spree The twinkly Stop Night Market returns for its fourth annual carnival of sno-cones and small...
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See a guitar master, go to an indie-pop festival and six other things to do this week
Watch one of Toronto’s greatest rock bands in the room they were born to play They may be products of the late-’90s southern...
Food & Drink
Listen to the sound of old meeting new, with pianists Emanuel Ax and Jan Lisiecki
Age difference aside, the international piano superstar Emanuel Ax and Calgary-born teen sensation Jan Lisiecki have a lot in...
Culture
Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Duvall open the festival with
The Judge
Stargazers got their first taste of TIFF 2014’s celebrity megatonnage at the opening-gala presentation for The Judge Thursday...
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City News
Best of Fall 2013: six Toronto concerts that are totally worth the lineup
By Andrew D’Cruz, Sue Carter Flinn, Emily Landau, Alison Mah, Jason McBride, Courtney Shea, Stéphanie Verge, Chris Webster and...
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Mother’s Day Guide: 10 ways to treat your mom to a memorable day out
Your mom loves you, so she’ll no doubt coo over a standard Mother’s Day bouquet. However, you can really show the depth of...
Today in Toronto: And Slowly Beauty and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
And Slowly Beaut y After an unassuming desk drone goes to see Chekhov’s Three Sisters, elements of the play—its...
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Today in Toronto: La Clemenza di Tito, Ladysmith Black Mambazo and more
La Clemenza di Tito Mozart’s final opera, set in ancient Rome, is a heady brew of conflicting loves and loyalties, plots and...
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Five things to do in Toronto on the weekend of February 22 to 24
In this edition of The Weekender: a legendary South African musical group, a double bill from hot young playwright Hannah...
Five things to do in Toronto on Family Day weekend
In this edition of The Weekender: Family Day fun at the Lightbox, an indie-rock music festival and three more things to do in...
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Today in Toronto: Beethoven’s Ninth
Beethoven’s Ninth The ninth is the kind of classical staple you just assume you never have to hear again—until you do, and...
City News
The Argument: why the stakes are so high for Ben Heppner’s return to the Canadian Opera Company
A controversial production. A hugely difficult role. A star with a reputation for choking onstage. The stakes are high for Ben...
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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
Best New Restaurants
TL Events
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
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!”
Deep Dives
Young and Retired: Meet the super-savers quitting work decades before the average Canadian
In the age of doomspending, these ultra-driven Torontonians give up their weekends, work multiple jobs and never, ever eat out. The upside: they’ll retire long before the rest of us
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