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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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Toronto's African Fashion Week returns this August

Toronto’s African Fashion Week returns this August

Fans of African-inspired trends this season (think: statement chokers, bold prints and colourful headpieces) may be interested in...

Giorgio Armani's first Canadian outlet store is opening in Toronto

Giorgio Armani’s first Canadian outlet store is opening in Toronto

Toronto shoppers will soon be able to acquire the refined, polished look of Giorgio Armani at a fraction of the cost. Retail...

The Find: an abstract streetcar print for the Toronto transit lover

The Find: an abstract streetcar print for the Toronto transit lover

This week, the TTC launched a new online shop for transit-themed merchandise. The selection is pretty slim at the moment (just six...

Browse vintage Gucci and hard-to-find international labels at this new boutique on Queen

Browse vintage Gucci and hard-to-find international labels at this new boutique on Queen

Collab Collections is a new fashion boutique on Queen West stocked with cute summery clothes and vintage designer...

Pop-Up Pick: rugged menswear label 18 Waits sets up temporary shop on Queen

Pop-Up Pick: rugged menswear label 18 Waits sets up temporary shop on Queen

For three days this week, Toronto menswear brand 18 Waits will host a dedicated pop-up shop on Queen West. Although the ruggedly...

Street Style: Brazilian fans show their World Cup pride, despite a rough loss

Street Style: Brazilian fans show their World Cup pride, despite a rough loss

As we're sure you already know (it was, after all, the most tweeted-about sports event in history ), Brazil took a beating from...

There's a cool new place to shop for intimates on Roncesvalles

There’s a cool new place to shop for intimates on Roncesvalles

For The Girls is a new lingerie shop on Roncesvalles run by Patricia Welbourn , one half of the husband-and-wife team behind...

The Find: colourful Martone bikes are now for sale at The Room

The Find: colourful Martone bikes are now for sale at The Room

From now until August 10, Toronto cyclists can pick up a chic ride from Martone Cycling Co. at the brand's new pop-up in The Room...

Preview: a politically charged fashion exhibit from the Design Exchange and Jeanne Beker

Preview: a politically charged fashion exhibit from the Design Exchange and Jeanne Beker

Come September, visitors to the Design Exchange will be able to check out Politics of Fashion, an exhibit featuring 200 of...

Pop-Up Pick: snag $50 samples from homegrown designers Jeremy Laing and Calla Haynes

Pop-Up Pick: snag $50 samples from homegrown designers Jeremy Laing and Calla Haynes

Jeremy Laing, one of the city's best homegrown design talents, is hosting a sample sale this weekend along with three other chic...

Ten couples, ten stories: portraits from a WorldPride mass wedding

Ten couples, ten stories: portraits from a WorldPride mass wedding

To celebrate WorldPride , over one hundred LGBTQ couples gathered at the fairytale-like Casa Loma on Thursday to tie the knot in a...

Street Style: WorldPride brings daytime revellers and hardworking volunteers to the Village

Street Style: WorldPride brings daytime revellers and hardworking volunteers to the Village

For ten days every June, the Church-Wellesley Village, usually a pretty lively neighbourhood anyway, transforms into a...

The Find: nine stylishly subtle ways to flaunt your patriotic pride

The Find: nine stylishly subtle ways to flaunt your patriotic pride

With the wealth of international shopping options in Toronto, it can be easy to forget about the innovative designers north of the...

Get ready for Juicy Couture's Canadian comeback

Get ready for Juicy Couture’s Canadian comeback

Some Canadians rejoiced when it was reported that Juicy Couture would be closing all of its North American stores, shutting the...

A Toronto start-up has invented Tinder for fashion

A Toronto start-up has invented Tinder for fashion

Blynk, a Toronto-based start-up, has developed a new app that uses Tinder’ s addictive swipe technology to help those in need of...

Toronto will become the eighth city in the world to launch a Men's Fashion Week

Toronto will become the eighth city in the world to launch a Men’s Fashion Week

Stylish Toronto guys, take note: this summer, the city will launch the eighth fashion week in the world devoted solely to...

The Find: eight stylish ways to cheer on your World Cup team

The Find: eight stylish ways to cheer on your World Cup team

The World Cup is in full swing, and while some football fans prefer to sport a painted face and traditional soccer jersey, others...

Store Guide: a high-end accessories boutique in the Distillery from Kristen Stewart's stylist

Store Guide: a high-end accessories boutique in the Distillery from Kristen Stewart’s stylist

Name: Gilding the Lily Sells: Fine jewellery, accessories, gifts Contact Info: 47 Tank House Ln., 416-360-5459, gildingthelily.la...

Pop-Up Pick: snag Pride-themed paraphernalia at this all-Canadian collaboration

Pop-Up Pick: snag Pride-themed paraphernalia at this all-Canadian collaboration

Drake General Store and the Bay, two of Toronto's most devoted peddlers of Canadiana gear, have come together to create a themed...

Street Style: nude beachers, full-moon partiers and local celebs come ashore at Hanlan's Point

Street Style: nude beachers, full-moon partiers and local celebs come ashore at Hanlan’s Point

Hanlan's Point, the part of the Toronto Island where you can find the city's only clothing-optional beach, is accessed by an...

Saks Fifth Avenue will be even more upscale when it comes to Canada

Saks Fifth Avenue will be even more upscale when it comes to Canada

Like it or not, Toronto is becoming a haven for international luxury labels: Yorkdale just announced five new brands, including...

Pricey lingerie label Agent Provocateur is opening shop on Bloor Street

Pricey lingerie label Agent Provocateur is opening shop on Bloor Street

Bloor Street's Mink Mile will soon add another international purveyor of luxury goods to its roster: Agent Provocateur, the...

VIDEO: Target Canada employees apologize for disappointing shoppers

VIDEO: Target Canada employees apologize for disappointing shoppers

In a desperate attempt to win back frustrated shoppers, Target Canada, clearly in full crisis-management mode, has created a...

Target debuts a cute new collaboration with Canadian design blogger Poppytalk

Target debuts a cute new collaboration with Canadian design blogger Poppytalk

Despite embarrassing stories of empty shelves and rumours of closure , Target Canada isn't mailing it in just yet. Case in point:...

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