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Inside a Hallmark-worthy wedding celebration at the Toronto Reference Library
Featuring custom cocktails, a rowdy dance party and a human skipping rope
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Culture
This writer is walking to every single branch of the Toronto Public Library in 10 days
Marci Stepak is doing the 300-kilometre walk as a fundraiser in honour of her late mother, who died of cancer last year
City News
This is the oldest artifact in the Toronto Public Library’s research collection
You can see it up close at the library's new handwriting exhibition
City News
The Toronto Reference Library’s new shopping bag exhibition is gloriously nostalgic
Today’s mundane minimalism could never
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City News
What went down at the 2025 Biblio Bash party
With appearances by Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Heather O’Neill and Mayor Olivia Chow
Memoir
“I dropped out of high school due to ADHD and depression. Public libraries saved my life—and now I’m getting my master’s degree”
Nancy Dutra found refuge in local libraries, self-teaching her way to a GED, a bachelor’s degree and now graduate school
City News
What went down at the 2024 Biblio Bash party
Authors Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, Carley Fortune and Joshua Knelman were in attendance
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Life
Real Weddings: Inside a sophisticated celebration at the Toronto Reference Library
The bride is a floral designer, and designed all the whimsical arrangements herself
Culture
The rarest records in the Toronto Reference Library’s colossal vinyl collection
We asked the keeper of the library's 15,000-record collection about some of its oldest and strangest titles
City News
The 10 biggest moments in Toronto architecture in the last 50 years
The public buildings, high-rises and private residences that mattered most
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Culture
Alessia Cara’s homecoming, a new play from two
Game of Thrones
stars and seven other things to do this week
What to do in Toronto during the week of January 11
Culture
An acrobatic apocalyptic spectacle, a Joanna Newsom show and six other things to do this week
What to do in Toronto during the week of December 14
Culture
Grimes’ album release show, a free Drake kitchen party and seven other things to do this week
What to do in Toronto during the week of November 16
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Culture
A chat with Margaret Atwood, a dazzling new ballet and seven other things to do this week
What to do in Toronto during the week of November 9
Culture
Relive Motown’s golden years, buy a bunch of books and seven other things to do this week
What to do in Toronto during the week of September 21
Culture
The Toronto Fringe, a Brian Wilson concert and six other things to do this week
See your childhood literary hero read from her new book for grown-ups Judy Blume’s kid-lit catalogue grapples with first periods...
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Food & Drink
Five things to do in Toronto on the weekend of January 31–February 2
In this edition of The Weekender, a frigid bike ride, a kimono exhibit and three other things to do in Toronto this...
Culture
U.S. author Gary Shteyngart aggravates Canada’s literary insecurity
Can a country whose most celebrated living writer just won a Nobel Prize still be anxious about its literary chops? The...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: Super Bowl XLVII Party, Tristan und Isolde and five other items on our to-do list
1. KUUMBA Harbourfront kicks off Black History Month with the 17th edition of its annual Kuumba festival (“kuumba” means...
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Food & Drink
Balzac’s Coffee almost set to open in the Toronto Reference Library
The head office at Balzac's Coffee has confirmed with The Dish that its newest location (hot on the heels of the recent Ryerson...
City News
Party Pages: The Trillium Awards, a rowdy affair for beflowered Ontario authors
The Trillium Awards, the annual ceremony for Ontario-based authors, took place, fittingly, at the Toronto Reference Library last...
Food & Drink
Weekly Eater: Toronto food events for April 16 to 22
Monday, April 16 Tuesday, April 17 Wednesday, April 18 Thursday, April 19 Friday, April 20 Saturday, April 21 Sunday, April 22
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City News
Quoted: Mike Del Grande on Playboy, public libraries and (imaginary) men in trench coats
That’s silver-tongued budget chief Mike Del Grande on the Toronto Public Library’s Playboy magazines and books (and those...
Food & Drink
The Weekender: Jane’s Walk, Toronto Comic Arts Festival and six other can’t-miss events
1. JANE’S WALK ( ) 2. KARDINAL OFFISHALL ( ) Kardi’s made some headway south of the border, signing with Akon ’s Konvict...
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Summer Camp Guide
City News
Summer Camp Directory 2026
Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages
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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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