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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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Kit and Ace brings its café concept to Bloor Street

Kit and Ace brings its café concept to Bloor Street

This is the second Toronto location for the Vancouver-based brand, but the first to have an in-store Sorry Coffee Co.

TIFF attendees and insiders share their most memorable festival moments

TIFF attendees and insiders share their most memorable festival moments

TIFF-goers reminisce about broken projectors and Gyllenhaal sightings

Street Style: Torontonians—from Soho House hosts to Strombo—take on TIFF parties and premieres

Street Style: Torontonians—from Soho House hosts to Strombo—take on TIFF parties and premieres

A festival style survey

You decide: which male celeb dressed the best on the first weekend of TIFF?

You decide: which male celeb dressed the best on the first weekend of TIFF?

TIFF red carpet premieres, September 10–13: Demolition , Remember , Freeheld , The Martian and Equals . Ebert Tribute...

You decide: which female celeb dressed the best on the first weekend of TIFF?

You decide: which female celeb dressed the best on the first weekend of TIFF?

TIFF red carpet premieres, September 10—13: Demolition , Eye in the Sky, About Ray, Sicario, Freeheld, The Lobster, Miss You...

Street Style: OCAD students head back to school in effortlessly artsy attire

Street Style: OCAD students head back to school in effortlessly artsy attire

When you're studying topics like digital futures, interactive media design and animation, a typical back-to-school uniform of a...

You decide: who dressed the best at these parties from TIFF's opening week?

You decide: who dressed the best at these parties from TIFF’s opening week?

The Bay fêtes Stephanie Seymour, September 8: The retailer celebrated its newest campaign star with a formal dinner party in The...

Muddy George is Bloorcourt's new menswear boutique

Muddy George is Bloorcourt’s new menswear boutique

Muddy George , a new menswear addition to Bloor West, opened up a few weeks ago just east of Dovercourt. It's the passion project...

Muji makes moves in Mississauga

Muji makes moves in Mississauga

Torontonians flipped out when the insanely popular Japanese retailer Muji landed at Yonge and Dundas last year . Now, according to...

Street Style: Jays fans flaunt their boldest blue and white

Street Style: Jays fans flaunt their boldest blue and white

The newly unstoppable Blue Jays are hauling around their heaviest bandwagon since 1993. (If you just started paying attention, see...

See Idina Menzel in concert, meet Gillian Anderson and six other things to do this week

See Idina Menzel in concert, meet Gillian Anderson and six other things to do this week

Hear Idina Menzel belt “Let It Go” live Rent, Wicked, Enchanted, Glee —this American actress-musician has amassed an...

Toronto designer Laura Siegel shows us that ethical fashion doesn’t mean ugly hemp hippie clothes

Toronto designer Laura Siegel shows us that ethical fashion doesn’t mean ugly hemp hippie clothes

Most people hear “ethical fashion” and think fair-trade Birkenstocks. How do you combat that crunchy granola image? I focus on...

Street Style: Toronto Men's Fashion Week attendees sport their most sartorial looks

Street Style: Toronto Men’s Fashion Week attendees sport their most sartorial looks

Now in its third season, Toronto Men's Fashion Week (a.k.a. TOM*) has become known for celebrating both the classic and...

The Find: everything you need for the perfect bar cart

The Find: everything you need for the perfect bar cart

Ever since Mad Men made the martini cool again, home-owners and apartment dwellers alike have been obsessing over a single piece...

Street Style: beach bums show off breezy looks at Ashbridge's Bay

Street Style: beach bums show off breezy looks at Ashbridge’s Bay

Ashbridge's Bay , the east-end park that includes an expansive (if slightly pebbly) beach, is one of the best ways to escape...

Rosedale has a new (relatively) affordable boutique for people who like change

Rosedale has a new (relatively) affordable boutique for people who like change

Thursdays is a new boutique in Rosedale that's focused on immediate fashion: the store brings in new stock once every week (on...

The Find: 12 cute clutches to complete summer looks

The Find: 12 cute clutches to complete summer looks

On the hottest days of the year, hauling around anything larger than a hand-held fan can be a burden. Still, leaving the house...

Best of the City 2015: this year's guide to all things excellent

Best of the City 2015: this year’s guide to all things excellent

Toronto’s appetite for material delights has never been so voracious. Suddenly, we’re snacking on $35 tins of Spanish...

Weird Science: Hollywood-tested wellness treatments—and where to get them in Toronto

Weird Science: Hollywood-tested wellness treatments—and where to get them in Toronto

MAGNETIC THERAPY Electromagnetic frequencies are pulsed through the body to treat pain, anxiety and even bad moods. The Science...

Find colourful clothing and artwork at Nuvango's new Queen West concept shop

Find colourful clothing and artwork at Nuvango’s new Queen West concept shop

Nuvango got its start selling art-covered iPod cases (a.k.a. gelaskins) 10 years ago, and since then it's evolved into an urban...

The Find: twelve flattering sun hats for staying fashionably cool this summer

The Find: twelve flattering sun hats for staying fashionably cool this summer

Toronto's winters may be ruled by the toque, but summer's headwear options are far more exciting. (That said, they don't have to...

Pop-Up Pick: get crazy-soft cashmere at Kit and Ace's Muskoka shop (and then celebrate with tacos)

Pop-Up Pick: get crazy-soft cashmere at Kit and Ace’s Muskoka shop (and then celebrate with tacos)

Lucky Torontonians who get to spend their summers in Muskoka have something else to be thankful for: the shopping scene up north...

Street Style: city cyclists pause to pose with their two-wheeled steeds

Street Style: city cyclists pause to pose with their two-wheeled steeds

Come summer, the city's streets are slammed with cyclists. Whether it’s for exercise or an attempt to avoid the TTC for a whole...

Store Guide: Convey, a Queen West spot packed with seriously stylish Australian brands

Store Guide: Convey, a Queen West spot packed with seriously stylish Australian brands

Name: Convey Sells: International designer labels Contact info: 754 Queen St. W., 416-363-7676, shopconvey.com Hours:...

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