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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.

Latest from Jean Grant

Three food-free cleanses you may or may not be ready for

Three food-free cleanses you may or may not be ready for

In the neverending quest for wellness, guzzling murky green concoctions—and nothing else—for days on end is standard...

Pop-Up Pick: shop 60 local brands under one roof at Toronto Urban Collective's summer market

Pop-Up Pick: shop 60 local brands under one roof at Toronto Urban Collective’s summer market

Appreciating the city's shopping scene is easy when you're strolling along Queen West—but it's even easier when all of the best...

The Detox Market has opened an outlet in Yorkville

The Detox Market has opened an outlet in Yorkville

After three years of being King West's all-natural beauty mecca, The Detox Market has opened a second Toronto location in...

Swallow Your Bliss: five fortifying teas, soups and sippable supplements

Swallow Your Bliss: five fortifying teas, soups and sippable supplements

In a city suddenly obsessed with wellness, age-old pick-me-ups are making a stylish comeback. Ancient remedies in pretty new...

Aussie skin care brand Aēsop arrives on Queen West

Queen West has a new sweet-smelling addition: Aēsop , a 28-year-old Australian skin care brand, has opened its first Canadian...

The Find: Brunswick and Co's brilliant beach bag

The Find: Brunswick and Co’s brilliant beach bag

Beach bags can be tricky: transporting anything leather around sand and water is risky, but a ragged cloth number can cause...

Indochino moves into permanent digs on King East

Indochino moves into permanent digs on King East

Indochino , maker of affordable custom suits, has finally planted roots in Toronto. After spending almost a year in a temporary...

Pop-Up Pick: all-natural skincare and on-point jewellery come together at Trinitae's downtown shop

Pop-Up Pick: all-natural skincare and on-point jewellery come together at Trinitae’s downtown shop

There are two essentials for nailing your summertime style: super-smooth skin and statement jewellery. Well, a three-day pop-up is...

The Find: celebrate Canada Day with 12 pieces of perfectly patriotic gear

The Find: celebrate Canada Day with 12 pieces of perfectly patriotic gear

Canada's a pretty awesome place to live (particularly Toronto). Though we may not chant as raucously as our neighbours to the...

Park and Province put a permanent shop on Queen West

Park and Province put a permanent shop on Queen West

Online menswear shop Park and Province has been selling well-made essentials (clothes, accessories, grooming products) to Toronto...

Street Style: teens, artists and super-fans show off boho looks at the MuchMusic Video Awards

Street Style: teens, artists and super-fans show off boho looks at the MuchMusic Video Awards

Last Sunday, teenage fans flocked to Queen and John for MuchMusic' s annual awards show. On top of a star-studded red carpet, the...

The Find: shop Virginia Johnson's sweet, summery designs (before they're gone)

The Find: shop Virginia Johnson’s sweet, summery designs (before they’re gone)

Local artist and textile designer Virginia Johnson' s colourful hand-painted prints have been a fixture of Toronto's shopping...

Montreal boutique Joshua David opens uptown

Montreal boutique Joshua David opens uptown

The Lawrence Park strip of Yonge Street is getting another dose of high fashion: Montreal boutique Joshua David has opened its...

Pop-Up Pick: shop Laura Siegel's ethically handmade apparel on the cheap at a sample sale

Pop-Up Pick: shop Laura Siegel’s ethically handmade apparel on the cheap at a sample sale

For three days starting today, Toronto shoppers will be able to snap up the ethically made works of Canadian designer Laura Siegel...

Tour a downtown apartment where everything's for sale

Tour a downtown apartment where everything’s for sale

There's something about visiting an impeccably decorated home that makes you rethink your own abode's style. Well, small-space...

Father's Day Gift Guide: 24 ways to wow dad this June

Father’s Day Gift Guide: 24 ways to wow dad this June

While treating mom on her day can be as simple as a booking a spa trip or making a brunch reservation, Father's Day presents a...

Reasons to Love Toronto Now: because we bleed purple

Reasons to Love Toronto Now: because we bleed purple

The Raptors are Toronto’s current great hope of sporting success. For the last two years, they’ve dominated their division and...

The Drake General Store's Union Station outpost is open

The Drake General Store’s Union Station outpost is open

Union Station' s long-anticipated re-vamp is finally coming together . In addition to getting a fancy new food court next...

Street Style: hip dads hang out with their cute kids at a Dundas West street fest

Street Style: hip dads hang out with their cute kids at a Dundas West street fest

Last weekend, dads were on duty at Dundas West Fest, the neighbourhood's annual street party. We spotted father figures dishing...

Store Guide: Rowan Homespun Market, a haven for antiquities and artisanal goods in the Beach

Store Guide: Rowan Homespun Market, a haven for antiquities and artisanal goods in the Beach

Name: Rowan Homespun Market Sells: Apothecary, wellness products, vintage finds, handmade goods Contact info: 2196 Queen...

The Find: a summer staple for the jumpsuit-obsessed

The Find: a summer staple for the jumpsuit-obsessed

Toronto designer Taessa Chorny' s first clothing line consists entirely of jumpsuits. The collection includes boho versions...

Store Guide: Saudade, a Dundas West shop that sells handmade goods from Portugal

Store Guide: Saudade, a Dundas West shop that sells handmade goods from Portugal

Name: Saudade Sells: Housewares, clothing, apothecary, toys and trinkets Contact info: 1191 Dundas St. W., 647-352-1191 Hours:...

Corktown's new suiting shop comes with a Garrison Bespoke pedigree

Corktown’s new suiting shop comes with a Garrison Bespoke pedigree

JS Vann , the former creative director for Garrison Bespoke (and one of our best-dressed Torontonians ) who's outfitted some of...

Store Guide: Studio D, an uptown footwear boutique devoted to niche European designers

Store Guide: Studio D, an uptown footwear boutique devoted to niche European designers

Name: Studio D Sells: Women's footwear and handbags Contact info: 2570 Yonge St., 416-486-7693 Hours: Monday–Wednesday, 10...

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