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Royal Agricultural Winter Fair
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Royal Winter Flair: The faces of Toronto’s annual agricultural extravaganza
For more than a century, the Royal has brought country grit—loud, proud and, yes, a little bit stinky—to the big city
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Life
Here are some animals we met at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair
The fair continues through this weekend
Food & Drink
Five things to do in Toronto on the weekend of November 1–3
In this edition of The Weekender, the annual Royal Agricultural fair opens, the TIFF Bell Lightbox mounts an eerie David...
Food & Drink
Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for November 5 to 11
Monday November 5 Tuesday November 6 Wednesday November 7 Thursday November 8 Friday November 9 Saturday November 10 Sunday...
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Food & Drink
The Weekender: Crystal Castles, The War of the Worlds and six other events on our to-do list
1. ROYAL AGRICULTURAL WINTER FAIR Canada’s biggest horse and agriculture show celebrates 90 years of bringing the country to the...
City News
How a small group of farmers and wealthy weekenders made the Melancthon mega-quarry protest a cause célèbre
An unexpected casualty of Toronto’s building boom is the sleepy southern Ontario township of Melancthon, where an American hedge...
Food & Drink
Running a restaurant? With TouchBistro, there’s an app for that
A Toronto-based software developer is trying to make scrawled order tickets a thing of the past with TouchBistro, an iOS app that...
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Food & Drink
GALLERY: at this month’s TBD dining series, Acadia’s Matt Blondin let loose
TBD is a monthly dining series that brings some of the city’s top chefs together with one of the foodie world’s current...
The Weekender: Don Giovanni, Literary Death Match and six other events on our to-do list
1. LITERARY DEATH MATCH TORONTO In this singularly silly lit event, four authors ( Grace O’Connell, Carolyn Black, Rebecca...
Today in Toronto: Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, Gord Downie, Rendevous With Madness Film Festival
Royal Agricultural Winter Fair Gussied-up horses may be the main attraction, but there are plenty of other weird and wonderful...
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Food & Drink
The Weekender: Royal Winter Fair, Day of the Dead Festival and six other events on our to-do list
1. CAPTURE THE FLAG The suit-filled streets of the financial district get a Newmindspace make-over during this huge game of...
City News
Tony Clement had final say on where to put federal culture money
A while back, we mentioned that the Conservative government, either to stoke its base or simply avoid embarrassing photo-ops , had...
City News
Base instincts: Are the Tories playing to their core supporters in cutting off funding to Toronto Pride?
Who can forget last summer, when then–tourism minister Diane Ablonczy , surrounded by drag queens , handed nearly half a million...
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Food & Drink
Meet the “Claudia Schiffer of cows,” Canada’s $1.2-million superbovine
Popular Mechanics has provided a thorough analysis of why Missy, a P.E.I.-bred supercow alternately known as the Claudia Schiffer...
Food & Drink
Sarah Palin invokes God while defending meat eating, Timothy’s World Coffee sold, the $1-million cow
• Sarah Palin takes aim at vegetarians in her highly anticipated memoir, Going Rogue . The moose-hunting former governor's...
Food & Drink
Five reasons to hit the Royal Winter Fair
The Royal Agricultural Winter Fair starts today, and since we can only spend so much time gawking at horses and Prince Charles, we...
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Summer Camp Guide
City News
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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