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A Majid Jordan show, a debate with Salman Rushdie and five other things to see, do, hear and read this week
What to do in Toronto during the week of April 2
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A Lana Del Rey concert, the Interior Design Show and six other things to see, do, hear and read this week
What to do in Toronto during the week of January 15
Culture
The Santa Claus Parade, a Simon and Garfunkel tribute show and seven other things to do this week
What to do in Toronto during the week of November 13
Culture
A Toronto-shot Star Trek premiere, JFL42 and eight other things to see, do, hear and read this week
What to do in Toronto during the week of September 18
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Play pinball, drink beer for charity and eight other things to do this week
Dive into Iris Apfel’s closet Iris Apfel is a 94-year-old fashion starlet, with a flash of dove-white hair, scarlet lipstick and...
Today in Toronto: Diana Krall and Mozart Requiem
Diana Krall There’s still something freshly girl next door about this frequent Grammy and Juno Award winner— must be the...
The Weekender: Sing-Along Messiah, Wildlife and five other events on our to-do list
1. SING-ALONG MESSIAH That only-used-in-the-shower voice deserves to be heard, so why not join your fellow shower-belters in some...
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Primer: how to choose between Toronto’s big holiday shows
It’s time to suspend your cynicism and surrender to one of the city’s big, gooey, hurt-your-teeth-sweet holiday...
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Today in Toronto: Annie Lennox and Angélique Kidjo, Mozart’s World and more
Annie Lennox and Angélique Kidjo Nelson Mandela inspired the former Eurythmics singer to help people in Africa affected by...
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Today in Toronto: Bella Napoli, Joanne Tod and more
Bella Napoli For these concerts, Tafelmusik joins forces with Vesuvius Ensemble, a local group devoted to preserving and...
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Today in Toronto: Aspects of Oscar and Brandenburg Concertos
Aspects of Oscar Award-winning bassist and composer Dave Young won accolades from jazz genius Oscar Peterson. Find out more »...
Today in Toronto: Brandenburg Concertos, Tribute to John Coltrane and more
Brandenburg Concertos For these concerts, Tafelmusik performs the odd-numbered selections from Bach’s series of instrumental...
City News
Reasons to Love Toronto: No. 15, because baroque rocks
This is the 30th anniversary of Jeanne Lamon’s leadership of Tafelmusik, the orchestra of obsessively period-perfect baroque...
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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...
Today in Toronto: House of Dreams and The Rhubarb Festival
House of Dreams Like its recent production The Galileo Project, this is one of Tafelmusik’s imaginative multimedia...
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...
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Today in Toronto: Fronteras Americanas, Mozart’s Great Mass in C Minor, The Shape of a Girl and more
Forest of Reading Festival of Trees Canada’s largest lit fest for kids is back to spoil young bibliophiles with...
Today in Toronto: Angela Gheorghiu, James Lahey and Tafelmusik
Angela Gheorghiu Beautiful, glamorous and awesomely talented (her singing reportedly reduced flinty conductor Georg Solti to...
Today in Toronto: Jean Cocteau, More Fine Girls, New Creations Festival and Tafelmusik
La Voix Humaine When Jean Cocteau completed this play in 1927, he thought of it as both a present and a punishment for his leading...
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Today in Toronto: Mass in B Minor
Mass in B Minor Completed when Bach was almost blind and near death, this monumental work is something of a summation of the...
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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
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
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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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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