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Harry Barberian opened his steak house on Elm Street in 1959, in a row of Victorian houses behind Yonge Street, and it has outlasted most of what grew up around it - a dark room of oil paintings and charcoal-grilled beef with one of the deepest wine cellars in Canada dug out beneath it.

Alex Krizhevsky, Ilya Sutskever and Geoffrey Hinton submit a deep convolutional network to the ImageNet challenge as team SuperVision and win by a wide margin. The result turns GPU deep learning from a niche into an industry.

A downtown restaurant with seasonal Canadian menus and hospitality included in its menu prices.

Asian cooking with French influences from chef Nick Liu on College Street.

A seasonal tasting-menu restaurant on the third floor of a Spadina Avenue building.

Pixar's Turning Red debuted on Disney+ on 11 March 2022, about a 13-year-old who turns into a giant red panda when she feels strong emotion. Domee Shi directed, the first Pixar feature solely directed by a woman.

Alo Yoga's first international store opened at Bay and Bloor in Toronto, in the multi-level space where Gap used to trade.

Toronto locked up Vladimir Guerrero Jr. through 2039 with a no-deferral, 14-year, $500 million extension, the largest extension in MLB history and the third-largest contract overall.

The light rail line runs almost 11 kilometres from Finch West station on Line 1 at Keele Street west to Humber College Station, with 18 stops along the way. The TTC runs it day to day, with trains every six and a half minutes at rush hour.

Canada's first WNBA team lost its debut 68-65 to the Washington Mystics before a sold-out 8,210 at Toronto's Coca-Cola Coliseum.

The opening night of Bruno Mars' five-show Toronto stand, the most any artist has booked at Rogers Stadium on one tour, was called off for bad weather on 23 May and moved to 31 May.

Cyle Larin equalised with his first touch off the bench to give co-host Canada its first-ever World Cup point after Jovo Lukić had put Bosnia and Herzegovina ahead.

Substitute Brandon Thomas-Asante's cross set up Caleb Yirenkyi's stoppage-time winner as Ghana beat Panama 1-0 in Toronto in both sides' World Cup opener.

Substitute Deniz Undav scored twice, the winner in the fourth minute of stoppage time, as Germany came from behind to beat Côte d'Ivoire 2-1 and reach the Round of 32.

Substitute Ante Budimir scored nine minutes after coming on to give Croatia a 1-0 win at BMO Field in Group L, ending Panama's chances of reaching the round of 32.

Toronto’s complete unofficial count gives Olivia Chow 532,201 votes (54.16%), ahead of Brad Bradford’s 404,013 (41.11%). Certification is separate from this election-night result.

Toronto's Canadian International AutoShow returns to the Metro Toronto Convention Centre from 12 to 21 February 2027, after a record 374,678 visitors in 2026.

The 400,000-square-foot replacement for the Don Mills science centre is rising on Toronto's waterfront, pairing a mainland building with an integrated pod complex and a restored Cinesphere. Ontario's auditor general costed the move at roughly $1.4 billion against $1.3 billion to keep the old building, and shovels went in the ground in May 2026.

The 9.2-kilometre westward extension of Line 5 Eglinton adds seven stations - four underground, two elevated and one in an open trench - ending at a trenched terminal at Renforth beside the eastern end of the Mississauga Transitway. Construction was estimated in 2026 at CA$3.97 billion, up from CA$2.47 billion a decade earlier.

The 7.8-kilometre extension carries Line 2 Bloor-Danforth east from Kennedy station to three new stops - Lawrence and McCowan, Scarborough Centre and a terminal at McCowan and Sheppard - replacing the Line 3 RT shut in 2023, and is projected to carry about 105,000 trips a day. Infrastructure Ontario values the stations, rail and systems contract alone at $5.7 billion.