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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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A question for Midnight Madness attendees: what scares you the most?

A question for Midnight Madness attendees: what scares you the most?

TIFF's popular Midnight Madness program, which has been showing films of the frightening, strange and action-packed variety for...

Vogue declares Queen West the second coolest neighbourhood in the world

Vogue declares Queen West the second coolest neighbourhood in the world

Queen West is the geographical starlet of the summer: first, the New York Times declared it an area like no other , and now Vogue...

A wink from James Franco, a date with Douglas Booth and other fantasies from TIFF fans camped out in front of the Trump Tower

A wink from James Franco, a date with Douglas Booth and other fantasies from TIFF fans camped out in front of the Trump Tower

Provided you have the patience, one good star-spotting technique during TIFF is to camp out in front of one of the city's fanciest...

The Cure Apothecary brings all-natural perfumes and organic scalp oils to Queen West

The Cure Apothecary brings all-natural perfumes and organic scalp oils to Queen West

The Cure Apothecary, a new natural beauty boutique at Queen and Palmerston, is stocked with everything an eco-conscious product...

Four die-hard stargazers lament the celebrity that got away

Four die-hard stargazers lament the celebrity that got away

Getting the chance to come face-to-face with a favourite celebrity at a TIFF red-carpet gala usually involves camping out for...

Love TIFF or hate it? King Westers share their views on the film festival

Love TIFF or hate it? King Westers share their views on the film festival

TIFF started on Thursday, and King Street (from University to Peter) has been turned into a pedestrian-only walkway filled with...

Pop-Up Pick: Made Inland, a marketplace selling clothes and accessories from over 80 Canadian designers

Pop-Up Pick: Made Inland, a marketplace selling clothes and accessories from over 80 Canadian designers

For patriotic locals who'd like to escape the TIFF frenzy this weekend, there's Made Inland, an enormous marketplace at 99 Sudbury...

Good smells, big windows and 13 other things people love about the TTC's new streetcars

Good smells, big windows and 13 other things people love about the TTC’s new streetcars

The first two of the TTC's anticipated fleet of new streetcars—complete with low floors, bike racks, a new proof-of-payment...

Pop-Up Pick: eBay partners with local shops Crywolf and This Little Piggy

Pop-Up Pick: eBay partners with local shops Crywolf and This Little Piggy

In an effort to connect eBay fanatics with local boutiques across Canada, the website has launched Boutiques on eBay, a virtual...

Holt Renfrew is closing outlets in Ottawa and Quebec in favour of Toronto expansion

Holt Renfrew is closing outlets in Ottawa and Quebec in favour of Toronto expansion

While Holt Renfrew fans in Toronto have been enjoying the store's flashy new Yorkdale renovation (and anticipating a soon-to-open...

Luxury furniture destination Elte is opening a massive, market-style store aimed at younger shoppers

Luxury furniture destination Elte is opening a massive, market-style store aimed at younger shoppers

Toronto-based furniture store Elte , purveyor of $5,000 wing chairs , is bringing in a new brand to compete with its existing...

Polish makeup chain Inglot, creator of Freedom Systems, is coming to Toronto

Polish makeup chain Inglot, creator of Freedom Systems, is coming to Toronto

Inglot Cosmetics, a Polish makeup chain with an extensive colour collection (the range boasts over 1,500 different shades), is...

The Find: a glam take on a practical fall tote

The Find: a glam take on a practical fall tote

Opelle is a brand of beautifully handcrafted leather purses and totes by Toronto native Amy Malcolm. After five years of peddling...

Muji's Toronto location is confirmed

Muji’s Toronto location is confirmed

Japanese retailer Muji has decided on the location for its first Canadian store, according to Retail Insider —and no, it's not...

Pop-Up Pick: score conceptual shoes and chic sportswear at Y-3’s temporary Holt Renfrew shop

Pop-Up Pick: score conceptual shoes and chic sportswear at Y-3’s temporary Holt Renfrew shop

Following chic Parisian label Maison Kitsuné' s summer pop-up, Holt Renfrew' s Yorkdale location has landed another international...

The Find: 13 pairs of sweatpants you'll be proud to sport in public

The Find: 13 pairs of sweatpants you’ll be proud to sport in public

When summer draws to a close, it can be tough to transition from comfortable cottage wear to high-powered city...

Street Style: locavores hit up the Annex farmers' market for in-season corn and blueberries

Street Style: locavores hit up the Annex farmers’ market for in-season corn and blueberries

Sure, Toronto boasts large-scale farmers' markets like the St. Lawrence Market or Evergreen Brick Works. But come summer, smaller...

Shenae Grimes and her husband launched a clothing line that'll be available in Toronto next week

Shenae Grimes and her husband launched a clothing line that’ll be available in Toronto next week

Toronto-born actress Shenae Grimes-Beech, former teen queen of dramas like Degrassi and 90210, has launched a clothing line with...

Why are you eating that? (and other questions that came up inside the CNE food pavilion)

Why are you eating that? (and other questions that came up inside the CNE food pavilion)

Snacking at the CNE requires a sense of adventure and a stomach of steel. The food seems to get weirder every summer, with vendors...

The seven best looks presented at Toronto Men's Fashion Week

The seven best looks presented at Toronto Men’s Fashion Week

Toronto Men's Fashion Week launched last Tuesday with a flurry of media buzz (thanks in part to reports that one designer's...

Muji's first Toronto store is slated to open by Christmas

Muji’s first Toronto store is slated to open by Christmas

The Japanese retailer will open shop near Toronto Eaton Centre by mid-December, reports the Globe. The minimalist lifestyle brand...

Store Guide: Goodfolk, a charming vintage shop in South Riverdale packed with one-of-a-kind finds

Store Guide: Goodfolk, a charming vintage shop in South Riverdale packed with one-of-a-kind finds

Name: Goodfolk Sells: Vintage furniture, knick-knacks and handmade crafts Contact Info: 253 Broadview...

Preview: browse the entire lookbook for Target's new collaboration with Joseph Altuzarra

Preview: browse the entire lookbook for Target’s new collaboration with Joseph Altuzarra

Joseph Altuzarra is the latest high-profile designer to create a covetable, affordable collection for Target . (He follows in the...

Grassroots shuts the doors to its Annex location

Grassroots shuts the doors to its Annex location

Grassroots, a go-to Annex destination for sustainable lifestyle products, is closing. Apparently, with the recent sale of its...

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