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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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Cutler and Gross opens a sleek new eyewear shop on Queen West

Cutler and Gross opens a sleek new eyewear shop on Queen West

Fans of British eyewear expert Cutler and Gross have a new Toronto flagship to frequent. (Sadly, the brand had to relocate from...

Canadian designer Lida Baday is going out of business—and having a massive closing sale

Canadian designer Lida Baday is going out of business—and having a massive closing sale

Toronto-based designer Lida Baday, who has been designing her eponymous fashion label since 1987, is going out of business. A...

The Find: a new board game based on Google's often hilarious search predictions

The Find: a new board game based on Google’s often hilarious search predictions

People have a tendency to ask the internet some pretty weird questions, which is why Google' s autocomplete technology sometimes...

This new online boutique offers same-day bicycle delivery throughout the GTA

This new online boutique offers same-day bicycle delivery throughout the GTA

Urbane Conviction is a new online shopping site from a group of U of T students and recent grads. Like other e-boutiques, it sells...

Pop-Up Pick: score a Prada dress for under $100 at Magwood's summer vintage sale

Pop-Up Pick: score a Prada dress for under $100 at Magwood’s summer vintage sale

Toronto’s retail pop-up scene is gaining momentum, with new shopping opportunities emerging (and then disappearing) all the...

See 25 designers preview their collections at the world's only Philippine Fashion Week

See 25 designers preview their collections at the world’s only Philippine Fashion Week

For the second year, Toronto is hosting the world’s only Philippine Fashion Week . In support of the Kol Hope Foundation for...

Father's Day Gift Guide: 16 thoughtful things to give your dad on June 15

Father’s Day Gift Guide: 16 thoughtful things to give your dad on June 15

Sure, some fathers are obsessed with golf and barbecues. For dads with a few other interests (and a sufficient number of...

At this Gladstone auction, guests can bid on original artwork and accessories by over 50 Canadian creators

At this Gladstone auction, guests can bid on original artwork and accessories by over 50 Canadian creators

The Gladstone is hosting a silent auction next Tuesday, where winning bidders will be rewarded Until June 10. Gladstone...

The Find: 10 flat sandals that are perfectly on-trend

The Find: 10 flat sandals that are perfectly on-trend

The strappy stiletto and towering espadrille have taken backseat this summer to a new footwear star: 90s-style “Ugly Sandals,”...

Brooks Brothers goes posh with a fancy new flagship on Bloor Street

Brooks Brothers goes posh with a fancy new flagship on Bloor Street

Brooks Brothers, well-known purveyor of preppy dad-clothes, recently opened a fancy new flagship on Toronto's Mink Mile, just east...

Pop-Up Pick: a one-time chance to shop Toronto designer Cara Cheung's daring designs

Pop-Up Pick: a one-time chance to shop Toronto designer Cara Cheung’s daring designs

Fashion-conscious Torontonians probably know the name Cara Cheung from her strong collection at Fashion Week last fall. Since...

Store Guide: Parloque, a new Queen West boutique stocked with hard-to-find international labels

Store Guide: Parloque, a new Queen West boutique stocked with hard-to-find international labels

Name: Parloque Sells: Designer labels and street wear for men and women Contact Info: 1093 Queen St. W., parloque.com Hours: M-F...

Street Style: 12 boldly individual looks from Pacific Mall in Markham

Street Style: 12 boldly individual looks from Pacific Mall in Markham

Pacific Mall is North America's largest indoor Asian shopping centre. The huge warehouse space is packed with hundreds of kiosks...

The Find: an unusually stylish pair of swim trunks

The Find: an unusually stylish pair of swim trunks

When summer arrives, men have to face a grim choice: bare an excessive amount of man-thigh in miniature trunks, or shroud the area...

The Find: 11 exceptionally pretty knee-grazing skirts for spring

The Find: 11 exceptionally pretty knee-grazing skirts for spring

The midi skirt may be the best thing to come out of this season's ladylike trend . Our favourite mid-length looks feature paint...

The Find: a cool, Toronto-made fire pit for anyone with $3,000 to spare

The Find: a cool, Toronto-made fire pit for anyone with $3,000 to spare

Paloform, 74 Stafford St., 888-823-8883, paloform.com Update: This post originally stated that outdoor fires are prohibited...

The Find: nine fresh takes on the classic white button-down

The Find: nine fresh takes on the classic white button-down

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The Find: Muttonhead's new line of outdoorsy apparel for the sartorially-minded

The Find: Muttonhead’s new line of outdoorsy apparel for the sartorially-minded

Now that the temperature is getting tolerable, this summer's outdoor adventures--be they northern canoeing expeditions or lakeside...

Pop-up Pick: Local purveyors of luxe natural beauty products team up for Green and Good’s Gladstone debut

Pop-up Pick: Local purveyors of luxe natural beauty products team up for Green and Good’s Gladstone debut

Toronto’s retail pop-up scene is gaining momentum, with new shopping opportunities emerging (and then disappearing) all the...

The Find: an adorable rain cape that’s practical, too

The Find: an adorable rain cape that’s practical, too

The Find: 11 incredibly stylish pairs of sneakers for spring

The Find: 11 incredibly stylish pairs of sneakers for spring

The running shoe is enjoying a renaissance. Sporty, heelless footwear has shown up all over this spring, on high-fashion runways...

Pop-up Pick: Holt Renfrew celebrates India with a colourful new shop-within-a-shop

Pop-up Pick: Holt Renfrew celebrates India with a colourful new shop-within-a-shop

Toronto’s retail pop-up scene is gaining momentum, with new shopping opportunities emerging (and then disappearing) all the...

The Find: Monocle's five-piece menswear line for the sophisticated gentleman-traveller

The Find: Monocle’s five-piece menswear line for the sophisticated gentleman-traveller

Monocle, the creators of the Guide to Better Living, have launched a simple, sophisticated menswear line aimed at the jet-setting...

Fashion trucks are on the move in Toronto

Fashion trucks are on the move in Toronto

Move over food trucks: this spring, the fashion industry is venturing into roving-retail territory. It's not a new concept—...

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