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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

Street Style: mall-goers look surprisingly cool while “getting in and getting out” at the Eaton Centre

Street Style: mall-goers look surprisingly cool while “getting in and getting out” at the Eaton Centre

Looking stylish isn't usually a top priority for stressed-out mall shoppers. (As one man put it, “It's a get-in-and-get-out kind...

Magwood, the beloved Queen West vintage boutique, is closing for good this month

Magwood, the beloved Queen West vintage boutique, is closing for good this month

Magwood, the upscale vintage boutique on Queen West, will be closing its doors for good at the end of the month. The shop, which...

Pop-Up Pick: browse gifts for well-dressed guys at Park and Province's temporary Ossington shop

Pop-Up Pick: browse gifts for well-dressed guys at Park and Province’s temporary Ossington shop

Park and Province, the city's latest online purveyor of well-made menswear and grooming products, has opened a holiday pop-up on...

Street Style: visitors show off chunky knits and statement coats at the Distillery's Christmas Market

Street Style: visitors show off chunky knits and statement coats at the Distillery’s Christmas Market

The annual Christmas Market in the Distillery District—with its twinkling lights, enormous tree and old-fashioned...

The Find: a parka that manages to be incredibly warm and extremely stylish at the same time

The Find: a parka that manages to be incredibly warm and extremely stylish at the same time

For Toronto women, appearing even remotely stylish in the dead of winter usually involves a stiff trade-off: do you put comfort...

Lawrence Park has an unusually fashion-forward new boutique for kids

Lawrence Park has an unusually fashion-forward new boutique for kids

Chalk, a stylish new kids' store in Lawrence Park, is the latest addition to the increasingly posh strip of Yonge Street between...

Store Guide: Muji, the popular Japanese minimalist brand’s new Toronto home at Yonge and Dundas

Name: Muji Sells : Apparel and household products Contact info: Atrium on Bay, 20 Dundas...

Store Guide: Spacing, the independent city magazine's first Toronto-centric retail outlet

Store Guide: Spacing, the independent city magazine’s first Toronto-centric retail outlet

Name: Spacing Store Sells: Toronto-themed merchandise Contact info : 401 Richmond St. W., spacingstore.ca Hours: M-Fr 11-7, Sa...

Ossington has a whimsical new wedding boutique

Ossington has a whimsical new wedding boutique

Loversland, a new bridal boutique on Ossington, takes a refreshingly laid-back approach to the whole wedding concept. (For...

The Find: the 17 coolest items on offer at the Christmas 2014 One of a Kind Show

The Find: the 17 coolest items on offer at the Christmas 2014 One of a Kind Show

The One of a Kind Show , a twice-yearly shopping extravaganza dedicated to Canadian-made goods, kicks off its 40th anniversary...

HBC took out a very large mortgage on its Saks Fifth Avenue Manhattan flagship

—The value, in American dollars, of the 20-year mortgage taken out by Hudson's Bay Company on its Saks Fifth Avenue flagship in...

Store Guide: Elte Market, the trendier, more affordable offshoot of high-end home store Elte

Store Guide: Elte Market, the trendier, more affordable offshoot of high-end home store Elte

Name: Elte Market Sells: Furniture and home accessories Contact info: 1381 Castlefield Ave. , 416-789-0800, elte.com Hours: M-Sa...

The Find: sustainable, paper-like bins provide a new way to artfully organize household objects

The Find: sustainable, paper-like bins provide a new way to artfully organize household objects

Toronto-based company Toofifteen has created a beautiful new way to use Tyvek, a sustainable material used to make protective...

Toronto Holiday Gift Guide 2014

Toronto Holiday Gift Guide 2014

Holiday shopping doesn't have to be torture—not if you know where to go and what to get. We asked retail tastemakers across the...

Toronto Holiday Gift Guide 2014: Explorers

Toronto Holiday Gift Guide 2014: Explorers

We asked retail tastemakers across the city for holiday gift ideas. Here, 14 inspired suggestions for the travelers, adventurers...

Toronto Holiday Gift Guide 2014: Gifts Under $50

Toronto Holiday Gift Guide 2014: Gifts Under $50

We asked retail tastemakers across the city for holiday gift ideas. Here, 27 gifts that won't break the bank

Toronto Holiday Gift Guide 2014: Gifts $50–$150

Toronto Holiday Gift Guide 2014: Gifts $50–$150

We asked retail tastemakers across the city for holiday gift ideas. Here, 25 gifts priced between $50 and $150

Toronto Holiday Gift Guide 2014: Style Setters

Toronto Holiday Gift Guide 2014: Style Setters

We asked retail tastemakers across the city for holiday gift ideas. Here, 24 inspired suggestions for the style-conscious friends...

Toronto Holiday Gift Guide 2014: Gifts $150 and Over

Toronto Holiday Gift Guide 2014: Gifts $150 and Over

We asked retail tastemakers across the city for holiday gift ideas. Here, 28 gifts worth splurging on

Toronto Holiday Gift Guide 2014: See All Gifts

Toronto Holiday Gift Guide 2014: See All Gifts

We asked retail tastemakers across the city for holiday gift ideas. Here, 80 inspired suggestions

Toronto Holiday Gift Guide 2014: Kids

Toronto Holiday Gift Guide 2014: Kids

We asked retail tastemakers across the city for holiday gift ideas. Here, 12 inspired suggestions for the little ones on your list

Toronto Holiday Gift Guide 2014: Cooks

Toronto Holiday Gift Guide 2014: Cooks

We asked retail tastemakers across the city for holiday gift ideas. Here, 13 inspired suggestions for the dinner-party-throwers on...

Toronto Holiday Gift Guide 2014: Homebodies

Toronto Holiday Gift Guide 2014: Homebodies

We asked retail tastemakers across the city for holiday gift ideas. Here, 16 inspired suggestions for the home decorators (and...

Pop-Up Pick: snag bold, festive socks at Yo Sox's holiday shop

Pop-Up Pick: snag bold, festive socks at Yo Sox’s holiday shop

In terms of well-received stocking stuffers, you can't go wrong with a pair of playful socks. From today until the end of...

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