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TIFF Bell Lightbox
Real Estate News
The Bell Lightbox is also a giant money box
The numbers are in. Not surprisingly, credit card spending was up in the Entertainment District, while Yorkville saw a slight...
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Food & Drink
The Weekender: TIFF Culture Days, Word on the Street and six other events on our to-do list
1. TIFF CULTURE DAYS No more random celebrity encounters? No more five-block lineups in our quest to see Black Swan ? No more...
Culture
David Cronenberg launches Bell Lightbox public programming on Thursday
The film festival may be over, but the action at TIFF's new home, the Bell Lightbox, has just started. This Thursday and...
Culture
Looking back at TIFF 2010: an Alliance Films VP gives her run down of this year’s fest
On Friday morning, Carrie Wolfe , the vice president of publicity and promotion for Alliance Films, was packing up her...
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Culture
Today at TIFF: A Beginner’s Guide to Endings, Janie Jones, Frankie Knuckles and more
Our daily roundup of opening galas, parties and screenings. • 6 p.m. Aftershock at Visa Screening Room (Elgin) • 6:30 p.m. A...
Culture
Spotted! Woody Harrelson, Ryan Phillippe, Harvey Weinstein and Bruce Springsteen
In the pre-TIFF weeks, everyone (ourselves included) wondered whether the new Bell Lightbox Theatre and a few shiny King Street...
Culture
Today at TIFF: Good Neighbours, The Debt, Edward Norton interviews Bruce Springsteen and more
Our daily roundup of opening galas, parties and screenings. • 6 p.m. Edward Norton interviews Bruce Springsteen at Bell Lightbox...
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Culture
TIFF PHOTO GALLERY: Peek inside TIFF’s new home, the Bell Lightbox
“Why are we here?” a young child asks his mother inside the freshly opened Bell Lightbox. What a poignant question. We had...
Culture
Today at TIFF: Black Swan, Miral, the Reel Canadian TIFF Party and more
Our daily roundup of opening galas, parties and screenings. • 6 p.m. Incendies North American premiere at Bell Lightbox • 6...
Culture
The swag series: RealTV is one of TIFF’s best lounges
What it is: RealTV Films' Social Media Lounge (vying for the longest gifting-lounge title this TIFF) has partnered with Chic...
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Culture
Today at TIFF: Lightbox block party, Barney’s Version, Hereafter, 127 Hours and more
Our daily roundup of opening galas, parties and screenings. • 11 a.m. Bell Lightbox Block Party at King and John Streets •...
Culture
Whoa, Nelly! Furtado not performing at Bell Lightbox block party on Sunday
Instead of Nelly Furtado, K'Naan is the surprise musical guest for the free launch party of the TIFF Bell Lightbox. (We hear it...
City News
Bell buys CTV; Toronto media momentarily distracted by non-TIFF news
The big news today isn’t how unflattering Nelly Furtado ’s dress was at the TIFF opening party (although it was pretty...
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Culture
Absolut’s parking lot shindig was totally the party of the night
When someone says “party in the parking lot,” it doesn’t exactly inspire confidence. That’s why we were so pleasantly...
Culture
TIFF PHOTO GALLERY: Dan Aykroyd, Jason Reitman at the dedication of Reitman Square
Yesterday wasn't quite TIFF, but it was the perfect occasion to get some buzz for a homegrown project before the celebrities...
Culture
The Toronto International Film Festival begins today. Here’s what you need to know
Woot! The 35th year of TIFF has begun. We'll be covering all the major parties, celebrity gossip, movie news, red carpet...
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Today in Toronto: TIFF, Kate Hilliard, Seamus Blake, David Hoffos
Toronto International Film Festival: The megawatt fall fest celebrates its new home at the Bell Lightbox with an extended ribbon...
Culture
King West city block named after Reitman family
Ivan Reitman and his sisters Agi Mandel and Susan Michaels might have been a little emotional when they handed over the...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: TIFF, Roald Dahl Festival, the Cake Boss and six other events on our to-do list
1. TIFF It’s that time again—the time of celeb stalking, party crashing, 4 a.m. tipples and maybe catching the occasional...
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Culture
The 75 must-know TIFF hot spots
From Yorkville to West Queen West, here are the 75 restaurants, bars, clubs, cinemas and party venues that every festival-goer...
Culture
It’s business time: TIFF outgrows relaxed vibe, prepares for major film deals
For most of us, TIFF is synonymous with glamorous parties and getting to see major films before the rest of the world, but for...
Culture
Bell Lightbox to host free street party, concerts by Polaris Prize nominees
Most star-struck Torontonians will be turned away from film festival parties by burly bouncers, but TIFF's Bell...
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Culture
Are the doomsayers right? Is it the end for Yorkville as TIFF epicentre?
With the Bell Lightbox TIFF headquarters at King and John finished, doomsayers have begun predicting the demise of Yorkville as...
City News
From the Archives: a look back on TIFF’s most memorable moments
Oh, Snap 1978 Festival judge Robbie Robertson orders the Plaza II Hotel’s entire stash of Dom Perignon within an hour of...
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Wines of the World
Food & Drink
Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from
Toronto Life’s
Best Restaurants
From cabernet and merlot to icewine and chardonnay, these wines are primed to pair and delight
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Deep Dives
The Monster Cottages vs. the Resistance: Inside the ruthless battle for the future of Muskoka
From Gravenhurst to Port Cockburn, the uber rich and powerful are buying up shoreline for private island compounds and sprawling mega-resorts, radically changing the face of Muskoka and infuriating environmentalists, locals and long-time cottagers
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
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