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Every new title coming to Netflix Canada in January
Including a new season of
Black Mirror
, Jack Black as
The Polka King
and the accidental LGBT icon
The Babadook
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Culture
Rachel McAdams charms everyone at the Spotlight after-party
Soho House was packed for last night's Spotlight afterparty. There was barely room to move as guests crammed into the...
Culture
Nerd’s Eye View: the stupefying surge of mainstream geekery
Geek culture, that smorgasbord of sci-fi and fantasy fandoms, was, until recently, relegated to the fringes of society. Now the...
City News
Toronto’s biggest video stars: a who’s who of the new Internet fame factory
Eight years ago, an unsullied Justin Bieber posted his first YouTube video, kick-starting a global pandemic (Bieber Fever) and the...
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Culture
Comic Book Special: Toronto graphic novelists sketch themselves
Hundreds of graphic novelists will squeeze into the Reference Library on May 9 and 10 for the Toronto Comic Arts Festival. We...
Culture
Comic Book Special: inside Toronto’s best-connected comics workshop
In 2004, a group of illustrators founded RAID Studio in a tiny workshop above a GoodLife Fitness Club on College Street. Now...
Culture
Spotlight: Joseph Boyden’s new novel is an epic story of blood and butchery in early Canada
Through a weird twist of cultural fate, Canada’s best-known native writer is a white guy from Willowdale. Joseph Boyden, who was...
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City News
Spotlight: Serena Ryder shakes off the blues and scores the biggest hit of her career
For nearly a decade, Serena Ryder has been the kind of singer who racks up Juno awards and Q appearances as consolation for...
Culture
Spotlight: an adventurous opera company brings a Mozart classic to Queen West
Weddings never go out of style— not even Figaro’s. Mozart’s comedy of manners and erotic power-brokering is more than two...
City News
Spotlight: former teen heartthrob Jason Priestley stars in David Mamet’s theatrical scorcher Race
Jason Priestley spent the ’90s playing the unimpeachably noble high schooler Brandon Walsh on the ur–teen drama Beverly...
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City News
Spotlight: soulful pop rockers the Arkells trade in Hamilton dive bars for the ACC
In this post-Bieber era, when any bedroom singer with a YouTube account and a good hook can become a global pop star...
City News
Spotlight: Kristen Thomson depicts a marriage gone pear-shaped in her powerful new play Someone Else
Over a decade ago, Kristen Thomson collaborated with director Chris Abraham to create I, Claudia, the now-classic work about a...
City News
Spotlight: Stephen Amell stars as a seriously ripped superhero in Arrow
In the new action series Arrow, Stephen Amell plays Oliver Queen, a rich, spoiled playboy who gets stranded alone on a remote...
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Spotlight: Crystal Castles, Toronto’s supremely anti-social techno-punk duo
Alice Glass and Ethan Kath are grade A shit disturbers. As Crystal Castles, the two former Torontonians (they currently live on...
City News
Spotlight: Patrick J. Adams gets his breakout role as a bogus lawyer on the hit series Suits
Before Suits debuted last year on the tiny USA Network, it sounded like every other legal dramedy with impossibly good-looking...
City News
Spotlight: Tanis Rideout’s debut novel is the season’s most buzzed-about book
Tanis Rideout has been in a kind of knock-wood daze since last fall, when her debut novel, Above All Things, sparked a bidding war...
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Spotlight: angsty synthpop band Metric has one foot on Ossington and one in Hollywood
Synthpop quartet Metric aims for the horizon with a new album and a high-profile gig writing music for David Cronenberg Ever since...
City News
Spotlight: John Irving’s new novel In One Person is an epic tale of bisexual bawdiness
John Irving writes big, blustery novels full of larger-than-life characters and sex in all its acrobatic and often scandalous...
City News
Spotlight: theatrical virtuoso Daniel MacIvor exposes a bitterly funny slice of life in Was Spring
In Toronto’s occasionally precious theatre scene, Daniel MacIvor is like a pit bull in a Japanese paper shop, joyfully shredding...
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Spotlight: the National Ballet’s newest prima ballerina leaps from playing the chicken to dancing the lead
Jillian Vanstone is the kind of person who, when asked to name her flaws, responds that she’s too precise in her movements—a...
City News
Spotlight: Dallas Green has evolved from hardcore rocker to sensitive troubadour who fills soft-seat theatres
For most of the last decade , Dallas Green was best known as the guitarist and co-frontman of Alexisonfire. The group played an...
City News
Spotlight: Sebastian Pigott beats the Canadian Idol curse on Being Erica and Bomb Girls
Quick: name a Canadian Idol winner. Unless you’re one of those people who fell for Kalan Porter’s curls or Ryan Malcolm’s...
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Spotlight: Sarah Gadon is a model of restraint in David Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method
Cinderella stories are among Hollywood’s most clichéd and hollow myths. Yet they keep happening, both onscreen and off. Sarah...
City News
Spotlight: Actress Blythe Wilson brings brassiness and a big voice to Mary Poppins at the Princess of Wales Theatre
In a world of instant stars and stunt casting, Blythe Wilson is a throwback to the brassy belters and hoofers of theatre’s...
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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
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
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!”
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As luxury buyers become increasingly focused on wellness, privacy, and long-term livability, a new generation of custom homes is emerging – one defined less by excess and more by thoughtful design
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This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot
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A testament to time presiding over one of Uxbridge's most storied streetscapes, this magnificently preserved circa 1880 residence commands its prominent corner lot with the quiet confidence of a true architectural landmark
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A commanding architectural statement in prestigious Stonegate–Queensway, this newly completed custom residence by Bali Homes Group presents a refined interpretation of contemporary luxury living
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