30 h. ago You can visit a museum featuring hundreds of vintage TVs for Doors Open Toronto

Toronto is home to the world's largest museum dedicated to television, and you can explore it for free this month as part of Doors Open Toronto. The MZTV Museum of Television features the world's most comprehensive collection of television receivers for the formative sixty-year period from the 1920s to the 1980s.The museum, located at the ZoomerPlex in Liberty Village, also offers specialized displays devoted to receiver design, to TV signals in space, and to its signature Philco Predicta line of sets. Together with original papers, toys, discs, books, magazines, and other pop culture artifacts, the collection offers over 10,000 objects to explore, along with a plethora of rare items. The museum is home to celebrity sets from Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley, the 1939 Worlds' Fair RCA Phantom Teleceiver ( the rarest television on the planet), Felix The Cat (the first star of television), and special tributes to John Logie...

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69 h. ago Total Home Windows and Doors Unveils TotalSeal™ UltraSlim Series: A Game

TORONTO — Total Home Windows and Doors proudly announces the launch of its groundbreaking TotalSeal™ UltraSlim Series—a revolutionary advancement in vinyl window technology that seamlessly combines minimalist aesthetics with superior performance. Bulky frames, ugly gaskets, less glass — the issues vinyl windows are known for. The TotalSeal™ UltraSlim Series from Total Home solves them all. […]

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6 d. ago Doors Open Toronto 2025 brings back fan favourites for first time in 6 years

Doors Open Toronto officially kicks off in less than three weeks, and you'll be able to visit two fan-favourite sites for the first time since 2019. On Monday, the City of Toronto unveiled the exciting lineup of buildings, walking tours, and special programming for this year's citywide event, which takes place on Saturday, May 24 and Sunday, May 25. For two days only, you'll be able to explore over 150 of Toronto's architectural, historical, cultural, and socially significant buildings completely free of charge, including the Aga Khan Museum, Evergreen Brick Works, the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, The ZoomerPlex, and the Archives of Ontario. New additions this year include Ubisoft Toronto, Spin Master Headquarters, St. Lawrence Market North, the YZD Experience Centre, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto, to name a few, as well as returning favourites like Old City Hall and the historic Don Jail at Hennick Bridgepoint Hospital, both...

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2 w. ago Hudson’s Bay liquidation begins at final stores with markdowns of up to 70%

TORONTO — When the flagship Hudson’s Bay store in Toronto opened Friday morning, customers burst through the doors on a mission to find one thing: deals. Some jogged through the 675,700-square-foot store on Yonge Street in hopes of getting first pick of the company’s famed stripes merchandise. Others made a beeline for the jewelry department, […]

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2 w. ago Doors Open Toronto returns for 2025 with more than 150 places to explore for free

There's so much to explore in Toronto, and you've been meaning to get out and learn a little more about our city, Doors Open is the time to do so. The initiative opens hundreds of buildings that are usually closed to the public across Ontario and Toronto for an entire weekend, free of charge.In Ontario, Doors Open kicks off in Guelph on April 26, but here in Toronto, the Doors Open weekend runs one month later, starting on May 24 until May 25 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m."Explore Toronto's architectural, historical, cultural and socially significant buildings for free during the Doors Open weekend. For Doors Open 2025, we will be exploring the many sides of our playful city — for kids of all ages," shares Doors Open Ontario."From sports to music to theatre, Doors Open sites and programming will explore the joyful, irreverent and sometimes serious times of play."For the 2025 rendition, there are 157 sites to explore in Toronto. Some notable buildings yo...

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4 w. ago 5 new Chinese restaurants in Toronto you need to try at least once

New Chinese restaurants in Toronto are serving up a multitude of diverse regional dishes, flavours and creative spins on cuisine from across China.If I were any good at poetry, I'd write an ode to Toronto's legion of exceptional Chinese restaurants, but I'm not, so you'll have to settle for this: Toronto does a really great job at Chinese food, and I'll never get tired of eating it. It's great news, then, that new Chinese restaurants in Toronto seem to open their doors every time the wind blows, and some particularly great spots have recently arrived on the scene.Here are my picks for the new Chinese restaurants in Toronto that you need to check out.

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