Memoir

“My first client was an 84-year-old grandma”: This yoga instructor teaches classes outside her clients’ windows

Ashley McEachern came up with her Covid-friendly fitness business in October

“After I dance, the world looks brighter to me”: How a daily Zoom dance party keeps this Toronto mom from losing it in lockdown

"When I shake my body, my emotions rise up to the surface. My dancing becomes joyful. And then I can look at my kids and notice that they’re cute again"

Toronto Life’s top 10 memoirs of 2020

A year of loss, upheaval and a little bit of hope

“It’s so rewarding to create joy in a time of isolation”: Meet the 22-year-old building skating rinks in backyards across the GTA

Noah Roelofsen has built hundreds of backyard skating pads through his family business—and this year, demand is soaring

Classroom confessional: “The kids are scared—not just of Covid itself but of another lockdown”

Laura Thomson, a Toronto middle school teacher, on what it's been like to be back in class during this turbulent time

The inside of an ICE detention centre is as horrific as you think. I know because I spent 45 days in one

My only salvation: voluntary deportation. Toronto became my home and my path to redemption

I’m a high school dropout. Here’s how I built an $8-million real estate portfolio

He DJ’d in Japan and worked for Canada Post

My father died on Flight 752. Here’s what I want you to know

“I was interrogated by police more than 50 times—all because I’m black”

From our 2015 piece about police carding: A memoir about being black in Toronto