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THE SCENE: Legendary models and Toronto’s fashion elite at Joe Mimran’s bash at the ROM

THE SCENE: Legendary models and Toronto’s fashion elite at Joe Mimran’s bash at the ROM

Leave it to Joe Mimran to throw the ultimate pre-Fashion Week shindig. A private screening of Versailles ’73 at the ROM on...

What Toronto Needs Now: Richard Florida offers a manifesto for a new model of leadership

What Toronto Needs Now: Richard Florida offers a manifesto for a new model of leadership

The city’s great period of growth won’t continue if we don’t enlist the best and brightest minds from Bay Street, the...

Editor’s Letter (November 2012): Toronto’s glossy new global appeal

Editor’s Letter (November 2012): Toronto’s glossy new global appeal

The U.S. presidential race has been depressing to watch. The portrait of America that has emerged from the conventions and the...

Party Pages: Opera supporters dance to Nelly Furtado and The Arkells at this year’s Operanation gala

Party Pages: Opera supporters dance to Nelly Furtado and The Arkells at this year’s Operanation gala

Operanation, the annual party to benefit the Canadian Opera Company, is always one of the year’s biggest fetes (not least in...

Nine Toronto Halloween costumes, from Kevin O’Leary to a condo tower

Nine Toronto Halloween costumes, from Kevin O’Leary to a condo tower

Since Halloween falls on a Wednesday this year, most of the revelry will be this coming weekend—which means there’s only a few...

Inside the Latest Issue

The June issue of Toronto Life features the best new restaurants of 2026. Plus, our obsessive coverage of everything that matters now in the city.

Jesse Brown: How fame seekers finally figured out how to make a living on YouTube

Jesse Brown: How fame seekers finally figured out how to make a living on YouTube

Across the GTA, a new breed of entertainer is making a living and playing to audiences in the tens of millions. Welcome to the era...

Hudson’s Bay Company’s U.S.-based owners are taking the company public

Hudson’s Bay Company’s U.S.-based owners are taking the company public

After months of rumours, the American owners of Hudson's Bay Company have officially announced that they're going public with...

Are BlackBerrys embarrassing? The debate continues

Are BlackBerrys embarrassing? The debate continues

The New York Times started an online furor earlier this week with an article on the social shame of carrying a BlackBerry in a...

The Collector: How Ash Prakash became the preeminent art dealer for the country’s wealthiest families

The Collector: How Ash Prakash became the preeminent art dealer for the country’s wealthiest families

A look at the reclusive art collector renowned for his connections, his discretion, and his secret stash of multi-million-dollar masterpieces

The Moment: Dalton McGuinty’s emergency exit

The Moment: Dalton McGuinty’s emergency exit

During his nine years as premier, Dalton McGuinty displayed a magical ability to maintain the squeaky clean persona of Premier...

Reaction Roundup: Premier Dalton McGuinty steps down and adjourns the legislature

Reaction Roundup: Premier Dalton McGuinty steps down and adjourns the legislature

We’ve never really thought of Dalton McGuinty as a big-surprises kind of guy, but Premier Dad shocked the province last night by...

Best of Fall 2012: Guillaume Côté shows off his brilliant ballet moves with three starring roles

Best of Fall 2012: Guillaume Côté shows off his brilliant ballet moves with three starring roles

Guillaume Côté is this city’s biggest ballet star since Karen Kain and Rex Harrington, and the National Ballet is taking every...

Camera: Rob Ford cavorts with the city’s moneyed arts patrons at the Mayor’s Ball for the Arts

Camera: Rob Ford cavorts with the city’s moneyed arts patrons at the Mayor’s Ball for the Arts

Metro Toronto Convention Centre, October 15. The Mayor’s Ball for the Arts, an annual black-tie fundraiser founded by Mel...

Best of Fall 2012: Deepa Mehta’s dream project, a movie version of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children

Best of Fall 2012: Deepa Mehta’s dream project, a movie version of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children

When Salman Rushdie visited Toronto on a 2008 book tour, he dropped in on his old friend Deepa Mehta, whom he’d met when she was...

Best of Fall 2012: After years of playing the reclusive literary genius, Alice Munro is back with a new collection of stories

Best of Fall 2012: After years of playing the reclusive literary genius, Alice Munro is back with a new collection of stories

The 81-year-old Alice Munro has been publishing short stories for nearly half a century, and she keeps getting better, sharpening...

Roberta Bondar, Jamie Kennedy and seven others discuss The Art of the City at the latest Walrus Talk

Roberta Bondar, Jamie Kennedy and seven others discuss The Art of the City at the latest Walrus Talk

Last week at the AGO, the Walrus Foundation convened nine prominent Torontonians— Midnight’s Children director Deepha...

Reaction Roundup: Oxford’s $3-billion development proposal for Front Street (which includes a casino)

Reaction Roundup: Oxford’s $3-billion development proposal for Front Street (which includes a casino)

The city’s councillors and columnists are now debating the benefits and drawbacks of the second downtown mega-plan to be...

Best of Fall 2012: graphic novelist Seth on illustrating the autobiography of Lemony Snicket

Best of Fall 2012: graphic novelist Seth on illustrating the autobiography of Lemony Snicket

The stylishly retro graphic novelist Seth illustrates the fictional autobiography of kid lit superstar Lemony Snicket...

VIDEO: Rob Ford gets Gangnam Styled

Sure, this video is pure Internet silliness, but we couldn’t help but laugh at the awkwardness of Rob Ford trying to pretend not...

Best of Fall 2012: the season’s top five concerts, from Dan Deacon to Leonard Cohen

Best of Fall 2012: the season’s top five concerts, from Dan Deacon to Leonard Cohen

(Images: Bunnett by Getty Images; Deacon by Shawn Brackbill; Cohen courtesy of Leonard Cohen; Nagano by Felix Broede; Austra...

Cute dogs with mohawks, extensions and (temporary) tattoos at the third annual Paws for the Cause gala

Cute dogs with mohawks, extensions and (temporary) tattoos at the third annual Paws for the Cause gala

In an earlier, simpler time, puppies wearing cute outfits were enough to attract attention all by themselves. But with pet...

Best of Fall 2012: five of the season’s most anticipated blockbusters

Best of Fall 2012: five of the season’s most anticipated blockbusters

(Images: From top, courtesy of Alliance Films; Weinstein Co.; Warner Bros.; 20th Century Fox Film Corporation; and Newline)

Best of Fall 2012: opera-star-in-waiting Ambur Braid keeps audiences on their toes in Die Fledermaus

Best of Fall 2012: opera-star-in-waiting Ambur Braid keeps audiences on their toes in Die Fledermaus

Ambur Braid’s warm sheen of a voice, not to mention her sheer gorgeousness, have landed the young soprano a big, juicy part in...

Best of Fall 2012: Brandon Cronenberg’s Antiviral, a cold, hard and creepy look at celebrity worship

Best of Fall 2012: Brandon Cronenberg’s Antiviral, a cold, hard and creepy look at celebrity worship

Your movie is set in a futuristic society where people pay to have viruses implanted in them. Yeah, the main character, Syd...

Cost of Living

This 22-year-old venture capitalist is on track to make $180,000 this year. How does he spend it?

This 22-year-old venture capitalist is on track to make $180,000 this year. How does he spend it?

“I love a good bargain, so I shop at No Frills”

This globetrotting couple earns a combined $287,000 a year. How do they spend it?

This globetrotting couple earns a combined $287,000 a year. How do they spend it?

“Groceries are our biggest monthly expense after rent”

This Doctors Without Borders marketer earns $100,000 a year. How does she spend it?

This Doctors Without Borders marketer earns $100,000 a year. How does she spend it?

Manpreet Badyal moved from Delhi to Vancouver to Toronto in search of success

How a Gen Z finance enthusiast in Forest Hill spends her money

How a Gen Z finance enthusiast in Forest Hill spends her money

Business analyst and budding TikTok investment guru Chaeeun Lee hopes to visit 50 countries before she turns 30

This policy analyst and stand-up comedian makes $83,000 a year. How does she spend it?

This policy analyst and stand-up comedian makes $83,000 a year. How does she spend it?

“Investing in mental health is important. I have an unlimited membership at Othership in Yorkville”

This entrepreneur is on track to make $23,000 this year. How does she spend it?

This entrepreneur is on track to make $23,000 this year. How does she spend it?

“It was hard to accept financial aid from my parents, but it actually brought us closer together”

How an actor, influencer and amateur investor managed to earn a six-figure salary

How an actor, influencer and amateur investor managed to earn a six-figure salary

“My family taught me to invest. It’s probably the wisest advice they’ve ever given me”

Urban Diplomat

Dear Urban Diplomat: What’s the etiquette for EV charging?

Dear Urban Diplomat: What’s the etiquette for EV charging?

Dear Urban Diplomat , What’s the etiquette for EV charging? A few weeks ago, I finally found a spot in my neighbourhood to juice...

Dear Urban Diplomat: My husband thinks I'm a hoarder, but I'm a collector

Dear Urban Diplomat: My husband thinks I’m a hoarder, but I’m a collector

He’s started quoting Marie Kondo and insisting that I get rid of my “emotional support tchotchkes.” How can I get him to back off?

Dear Urban Diplomat: My condo building has zero tolerance for the slightest noise

Dear Urban Diplomat: My condo building has zero tolerance for the slightest noise

They’ve asked us not to shower after 11 p.m. because of “pipe whistling.” Is this normal?

Dear Urban Diplomat: My husband bought us a pass to skip the line at the ski hill. Why do I feel guilty for using it?

Dear Urban Diplomat: My husband bought us a pass to skip the line at the ski hill. Why do I feel guilty for using it?

I can’t help being embarrassed every time I sheepishly walk past the eye rollers in the regular queue

Dear Urban Diplomat: My brother is lying online about Dry January

Dear Urban Diplomat: My brother is lying online about Dry January

He’s preaching the virtues of sobriety on TikTok but still crushing six-packs every weekend, and the hypocrisy is getting on my nerves. Should I call him out?

Dear Urban Diplomat: My co-workers have forgotten how to behave in an office

Dear Urban Diplomat: My co-workers have forgotten how to behave in an office

I actually don’t mind the return-to-office mandate, but it seems like so much working from home has caused my fellow employees’ self-awareness to atrophy

Dear Urban Diplomat: My friends are getting into sober raves, and I just can't see the appeal

Dear Urban Diplomat: My friends are getting into sober raves, and I just can’t see the appeal

How does one cut loose in a well-lit room while the sun is shining and no one is even a little intoxicated?