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Jean Grant

Jean Grant has been a freelance writer since 2015, covering a range of lifestyle topics like shopping, interiors, wellness and culture for publications like Maclean’s and Toronto Life. She also enjoys working with brands to develop custom content, and shares personal essays through her Substack newsletter, Nobody is Thinking About You.

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Inside Deloitte's 19-floor office, with treadmill desks, a spin studio and a full outdoor kitchen

Inside Deloitte’s 19-floor office, with treadmill desks, a spin studio and a full outdoor kitchen

A surprisingly social space for thousands of accountants

Toronto Vintage Clothing Show vendors tell the stories behind their favourite finds

Toronto Vintage Clothing Show vendors tell the stories behind their favourite finds

Including a custom-made fur coat that may have belonged to Lady Eaton

Inside Uniqlo's first Canadian store, at the Eaton Centre

Inside Uniqlo’s first Canadian store, at the Eaton Centre

Say hello to $150 down jackets and cashmere sweaters in every colour of the rainbow

Street Style: Evergreen Brick Works

Street Style: Evergreen Brick Works

Laid-back looks from Sunday morning kale-shoppers

The best fall Madewell essentials available at Toronto's new Nordstrom

The best fall Madewell essentials available at Toronto’s new Nordstrom

Everything you need for an effortless autumn

Inside Peace Collective's Ossington flagship, featuring plenty of 'Toronto vs. Everybody' tees

Inside Peace Collective’s Ossington flagship, featuring plenty of ‘Toronto vs. Everybody’ tees

With casual apparel and an over-the-top dessert bar

How Deciem makes beauty products, from start to finish, in a downtown warehouse

How Deciem makes beauty products, from start to finish, in a downtown warehouse

See, step-by-step, how the umbrella beauty brand makes its latest cleansing balm Sanskrit Saponins

Toronto's top three new stores for fall

Toronto’s top three new stores for fall

The most exciting store openings this season are imports

Fall Style Guide: The city's top trends, best buys and splashiest new stores this season

Fall Style Guide: The city’s top trends, best buys and splashiest new stores this season

The classic leather jacket gets a bespoke makeover on Dupont

The classic leather jacket gets a bespoke makeover on Dupont

If you order one next month, it'll be ready in time for those cool late-October evenings

The best red carpet looks from the final weekend of TIFF, featuring Gerard Butler and Michelle Rodriguez

The best red carpet looks from the final weekend of TIFF, featuring Gerard Butler and Michelle Rodriguez

Plus a very mature three-year-old

Inside the Eaton Centre's new Nordstrom, with a Madewell boutique and 24-hour concierge

Inside the Eaton Centre’s new Nordstrom, with a Madewell boutique and 24-hour concierge

Take a tour of the downtown mall's new three-floor department store

The best red carpet looks from day five of TIFF, featuring Justin Timberlake and Michelle Williams

The best red carpet looks from day five of TIFF, featuring Justin Timberlake and Michelle Williams

Stunning gowns and wearable frocks stole the show

The best red carpet looks from day four of TIFF, featuring Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone and Amy Adams

The best red carpet looks from day four of TIFF, featuring Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone and Amy Adams

Our hometown hero caused a stir in a suave suit

The best red carpet looks from TIFF's first weekend, featuring Pharrell, Lupita Nyong'o and Rooney Mara

The best red carpet looks from TIFF’s first weekend, featuring Pharrell, Lupita Nyong’o and Rooney Mara

Expect some seriously eye-catching jewel tones and lots of delicate florals

Real Weddings 2016: Inside a Midsummer Night's Dream -inspired affair at the Hart House

Real Weddings 2016: Inside a Midsummer Night’s Dream-inspired affair at the Hart House

Two artsy types host a stately bash at the University of Toronto

Inside Lululemon's enormous new Queen West concept shop, featuring a café, gallery and studio

Inside Lululemon’s enormous new Queen West concept shop, featuring a café, gallery and studio

There's a green juice–filled café, a video-equipped trailer and a practice studio

Toronto's Best Dressed 2016: Our annual list of the city's most stylish people

Toronto’s Best Dressed 2016: Our annual list of the city’s most stylish people

Our sixth annual Stylebook Best Dressed list features a Blue Jay, a doctor and a celebrity chef

Toronto’s Best Dressed: Brian A. Richards, potential future face of fashion in Toronto

Toronto’s Best Dressed: Brian A. Richards, potential future face of fashion in Toronto

Marketing maven with a penchant for unapologetic fashion faux-pas

Toronto’s Best Dressed: CanCon music mainstay Kardinal Offishall

Toronto’s Best Dressed: CanCon music mainstay Kardinal Offishall

Rapper, producer and avant-garde outfit aficionado

Toronto’s Best Dressed: Interior designer Colette Van den Thillart

Toronto’s Best Dressed: Interior designer Colette Van den Thillart

A soft spot for PJs, but you'll never catch her rocking normcore

Toronto’s Best Dressed: Extravagance-obsessed history buff Stella Alexandru

Toronto’s Best Dressed: Extravagance-obsessed history buff Stella Alexandru

Instagram star and personal shopper’s dream

Toronto’s Best Dressed: AGO board member and philanthropist Maxine Granovsky Gluskin

Toronto’s Best Dressed: AGO board member and philanthropist Maxine Granovsky Gluskin

Aesthete and ball gown–averse gala-goer

Inside Kids at Home, a children's furniture store with grown-up sensibilities in Leslieville

Inside Kids at Home, a children’s furniture store with grown-up sensibilities in Leslieville

Furnishings for tots that will seamlessly blend in with grown-up decor

Summer Camp Guide

Summer Camp Directory 2026

Summer Camp Directory 2026

Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages

Best New Restaurants

Toronto Life ’s Best Restaurants returns for its 10th-anniversary edition on June 8

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

These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2026

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

Hoop Dreams: Inside the making of the Toronto Tempo, the city’s newly assembled WNBA team

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

Live From New York: Inside the slay-or-be-slayed world of Studio 8H with SNL rookie Veronika Slowikowska

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

Better Call Deepak: Meet drug lord Ryan Wedding’s self-styled cocaine lawyer

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

The Redemption Tour: The Blue Jays are back. Can they finish what they started?

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

My Life as a True Crime Spectacle: My father’s crimes fractured our family. Then came the press

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

Robby on the Line: Out and about with Robby Hoffman, comedy’s equal opportunity assassin

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

Notes on an Academic Scandal: Why did TMU demote a leading advocate of DEI?

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

City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?

City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?

Scenes from the rent-for-life revolution

This generation was pummelled by Covid high school. Now the job market wants to replace them with AI

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

The High Price of Hope: Inside Toronto’s white-hot fertility market

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

Man vs. Machine: ChatGPT caused him to spiral into delusion. Now he’s suing OpenAI

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

Smart City: 20 mind-blowing Toronto inventions that are changing the world

Smart City: 20 mind-blowing Toronto inventions that are changing the world

Homegrown innovations that will transform lives for the better

293 Days Without My Son: I gave up everything to rescue my kidnapped child from my abusive husband

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

The Violent Life of a Tow Truck Driver: How an unremarkable profession turned Toronto into a war zone

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

Street Fight: Inside the battle raging over Toronto multiplexes

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!”

Young and Retired: Meet the super-savers quitting work decades before the average Canadian

Young and Retired: Meet the super-savers quitting work decades before the average Canadian

In the age of doomspending, these ultra-driven Torontonians give up their weekends, work multiple jobs and never, ever eat out. The upside: they’ll retire long before the rest of us

Just Listed

For Sale: 171 Durant Ave

For Sale: 171 Durant Ave

This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot

For Sale: 50 First Avenue

For Sale: 50 First Avenue

A testament to time presiding over one of Uxbridge's most storied streetscapes, this magnificently preserved circa 1880 residence commands its prominent corner lot with the quiet confidence of a true architectural landmark

For Sale: 7 Bentley Drive

For Sale: 7 Bentley Drive

A commanding architectural statement in prestigious Stonegate–Queensway, this newly completed custom residence by Bali Homes Group presents a refined interpretation of contemporary luxury living

For Sale: 75 Queen Street

For Sale: 75 Queen Street

Guelph is having a moment

For Sale: 112 Mildenhall Rd

For Sale: 112 Mildenhall Rd

A rare opportunity to own a custom-built masterpiece in the heart of Lawrence Park beautifully designed by Gray Smith and Arca Design for the most discerning buyer