Toronto Life: Toronto Life Magazine

June 2008

Features

The Young Professionals
What they spend, what they save, and how much they need to live well in Toronto

Cheap Thrills
For skinflints and recession-phobes, our highly selective guide to fiscally restrained fun

How to Piss Off a Billionaire
Alex Shnaider has been accused of bribery, slander and strong-arming with hired thugs. He’s taking it personally By Jay Teitel

Furnished Room, Cable Incl., $22/Night
They’re a booming industry in the burbs. Some are run like mini-hotels; others are badly renovated death traps. Inside an illegal rooming house By Alexandra Shimo

The Trader’s Revenge
David Berry was raking in $15 million a year when Scotia Capital fired him. Some say the CEOs were jealous of his earnings. Others say he was a renegade trader. His wrongful dismissal suit has become Bay Street’s most talked about scandal By Derek Finkle

This City

Cheri DiNovo’s kooky-hippie-lefty credo • Mike Myers’ shameless hometown plugging • Ryerson’s hostile takeover of Yonge Street • Plotting the Susur Effect

Columns

POLITICS
All the Rage
The tension between drivers and cyclists has escalated to swearing, punching, bird-flipping hysteria. City hall thinks additional bike lanes will calm everybody down. What if they’re wrong? By Philip Preville

ARTS
Who’s Afraid of Des McAnuff?
With a flamboyant Tony-winning director as its artistic heir apparent, the sleepy Stratford Festival just got a whole lot more interesting By Alec Scott