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The Weekender: TIFF, Lewis Black and five other events on our to-do list
1. LEWIS BLACK: RUNNING ON EMPTY If Lewis Black comes across as a shouting man more than a funny man, that’s because there just...
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Today in Toronto: Death of a Salesman
Death of a Salesman The terrific Nancy Palk and Joseph Ziegler reprise the roles of Linda and Willy Loman, the tragic centres of...
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The List: 10 things Juno-winning jazz singer Sophie Milman can’t live without
1| My childhood toy I grew up in Russia when it was hard to get children’s toys. I had one plastic doll, a couple of blocks and...
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Editor’s Letter (June 2012): Sarah Fulford on the reasons to love Toronto
Last winter, on a week-long escape to Florida, I noticed something surprising: TD and Royal Bank signs along the highway near...
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Today in Toronto: Ron Sexsmith, Kim’s Convenience and more
Evgeny Kissin If anyone can breathe new life into Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor, it’s the renowned Russian pianist with...
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The List: 10 things award-winning theatre director Weyni Mengesha can’t live without
Mengesha’s production of Kim’s Convenience is on at Soulpepper this month 1| My djembe I grew up around drums, and I’ve...
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The Loaded List: we catalogue the astronomical salaries of Toronto’s ruling class
It’s not particularly polite to ask rich people what they earn. But tact is overrated, and we wanted to know, so we asked...
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North York’s Cara Ricketts’s inner strength ignites Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming this summer at Stratford
It took an old chestnut—a raisin, actually—for Toronto theatregoers to appreciate Cara Ricketts’ ability to breathe new life...
Today in Toronto: Beaches Jazz Festival, Carmen, Keith Cole and Andrew Harwood and The Kreutzer Sonata
Beaches International Jazz Festival The Beaches’ annual celebration of everything from big band to R&B to Afro-Cuban to funk has...
The Weekender: Wishful Drinking, Festival of India and six other events on our to do list
1. NIGHT IT UP! Follow your nose: that, um, pungent smell that’s filling the air at this annual Asian cultural...
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Today in Toronto: ROM Walks, The Glass Menagerie and The Toronto Fringe Festival
ROM Walks Rediscover the city’s past through a series of guided walks led by those in the know, who helpfully pinpoint the...
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50 Reasons To Love Toronto: No. 12, Louise Pitre’s musical theatre renaissance
It takes a special kind of singer to inspire pathos with ABBA. That’s exactly what Louise Pitre did at the Royal Alex in...
The Weekender: Cinderella, Christy Turlington Burns and six other events on our to-do list
1. FESTIVAL OF IDEAS AND CREATION ( ) CanStage’s annual Festival of Ideas and Creation is all about supporting artists and...
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The Weekender: Onegin, Canada Blooms and six other events on our to-do list
1. CANADA BLOOMS Walking through the grounds of this huge flower-focused festival is like bypassing the last weekend of winter and...
Today in Toronto: Kalanidhi Fine Arts of Canada, Spin and The Time of Your Life
Kalanidhi Fine Arts of Canada Dedicated to preserving traditional Indian dance, this company also hosts festivals and symposia...
Today in Toronto: Katharine Harvey and Oleanna
Katharine Harvey This Toronto artist channels the quintessentially urban experience of driving through the downtown: her paintings...
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New artist collective devoted to Canadian musicals launches
While Toronto is the undisputed hotbed of Canadian theatre, we wouldn’t be the first to point out that there’s a shortage of...
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Stratford veteran Peter Donaldson dies at 57
The versatile and prolific screen and stage actor Peter Donaldson died this weekend at the age of 57 after a two-year battle with...
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The Weekender: How the Grinch Stole Christmas (the musical), Toronto’s Biggest Messiah and six other items on our to-do list
1. AN INDIGO CHRISTMAS... KWANZAA LITANIES The first performance in the Nathaniel Dett Chorale’s three-show season at Glenn...
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Gruff Love: the ups and downs of Nicholas Campbell (a.k.a. Da Vinci)
Nicholas Campbell was deep in debt and floundering after the cancellation of his TV series. Now one small, brilliant theatre...
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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An all-Canadian wine festival is coming to Fort York
Elbows Up aims to make it easier (and cheaper) to buy Canadian-made bottles
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This Toronto Italian restaurant is launching a pasta tasting menu made with all-Canadian ingredients
It’s Amano Trattoria’s elbows-up moment
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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
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“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