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Melissa Grelo leaves CTV's 'The Social' as the talk show becomes a video podcast: 'Time to move on'

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Vinay Menon: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are making the wrong move — they should live in Toronto

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John Semley: Yes, we can still read. But too many of us are willingly giving up our literacy bit by bit

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How these Stratford Festival actors learned one of the most difficult English dialects

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Toronto Star bestsellers: Jen Agg tells a tale of love and restaurants in 'Table Boss'

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BTS is set to play Rogers Stadium in days, and Toronto's fans have a special surprise planned. Here's the latest

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Vinay Menon: Trump aide Natalie Harp is America's real first lady. Melania, watch out

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Melissa Grelo departs 'The Social' as CTV daytime show becomes a video podcast

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Nova Scotia musician Ashley MacIsaac pulls Google defamation lawsuit

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One of Toronto's most important theatres has languished since the pandemic. Its new artistic director has plans to fix it

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Shaw Festival 2026: Your complete guide to all the shows this season

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Shaw Festival's revival of 'Amadeus,' a riveting play about mediocrity, is itself surprisingly mediocre

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The theatre shows to watch on Toronto stages right now

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'Ohio State Murders' at the Shaw Festival is an almost too clinical look at the rot of racism in America

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This beloved Toronto music venue was saved from demolition years ago and now hosts concerts by Peaches and Sloan

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Going to the BTS shows? 4 incredible North York spots to eat on your way to Rogers Stadium

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Vinay Menon: Katy Perry films Justin Trudeau dancing with a toilet plunger as Canada is clogged in a trade war

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How Toronto's BTS fans are bonding ahead of the Arirang tour, from a tall-ship party to special chocolates

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Toronto author Téa Mutonji on racism, broken friendships and the ambiguous ending of 'My Person'

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The Toronto author of 'Becalming' on her dream coffee date and which novelist should be more widely read

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Toronto Star bestsellers: Tears for Fears' Roland Orzabal hits with his new memoir

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James Ellroy's brazen investigator Freddy Otash returns — with Playboy's Hugh Hefner — in new novel

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'Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma' director on casting childhood crush Gillian Anderson and thriving on rejection

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Toronto's Matt Johnson made 'Tony,' one of the year's most acclaimed movies. Here's why the Anthony Bourdain biopic didn't come easy

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Talking, texting and feet on seats: Have Torontonians forgotten how to behave at the movies?

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Vinay Menon: Ariana Grande is taking a break. If only she could get a break from the endless body scrutiny

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Toronto rents skyrocketed in recent years. Here's how filmmakers are tackling the absurdity of finding an apartment

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I saw 'Jaws' as a pubescent teen in summer 1975. It made me fear sharks in Lake Simcoe as much as life's real unknowns

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Producer Taylor Sheridan once asked Elizaveta Neretin, 'Why did I kill you?' Now she's in his spy series, 'Lioness'

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'Lioness' creator Taylor Sheridan, a quintessentially American TV producer, has a thing for Canada

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Cats and their owners have long been ridiculed. Now they're taking their rightful place in the pop culture spotlight

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'Heated Rivalry' adds Emily Hampshire and Priyanka to cast, and the show's Dylan Walsh addresses his viral controversy

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Drowning in bills, 2 sisters were about to close their landmark Toronto restaurant. Then Food Network called

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Beaver sculptures that welcomed FIFA fans in Toronto up for auction

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Banned from U of T darkrooms, these American women built their own Toronto photography scene

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Young Japanese artists turn school blackboards into a hit medium for creativity

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How corporate investment is advancing the future of Canadian women's tennis

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Enjoying a shared experience

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A new take on an ancient myth

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The art of being a theatre critic at the Shaw Festival

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Getting into the soccer spirit

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Advocating for the arts

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The National Bank Open is back with more to see and do than ever before

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A play, a meal and conversation

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Quebec singer Charlotte Cardin cancels performances in France over vocal cord injury

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'I wish it could have gone forever': Gord Sinclair remembers the Tragically Hip's final tour

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Canada took away his permanent residency after nearly 30 years. Why this ex-refugee's deportation could become a landmark case

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He was once Toronto's condo king. Now he's living in an abandoned knitting mill. What happened?

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Justin Ling: Mark Carney's best move in trade negotiations with Donald Trump is so simple it fits on a bumper sticker

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Why is the U.S.-based Steelworkers union sticking up for Canada against Donald Trump? I went to Pittsburgh to find out

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He's the dangerous, modern face of the Hells Angels in Canada. Here's how a $900,000 betrayal led to his arrest

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