50 Most Influential 2012: the 10 individuals and couples who throw Toronto’s most preeminent power parties
50 Most Influential 2012: the 10 individuals and couples who throw Toronto’s most preeminent power parties
By Toronto Life |
By Toronto Life |
Their parties are the year’s hottest tickets. To be invited is to be welcomed into the inner circles of the city’s most powerful. Our list of the 10 Toronto individuals and couples who have the most social currency among the city’s elite.
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- THE HOSTS<br /> <strong>Michael Budman,</strong> co-founder of Roots, and <strong>Diane Bald,</strong> architect, host Hollywood North at their Forest Hill home<br /> <br /> THE PARTIERS<br /> Martin Short, Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones, Dan Aykroyd and Donna Dixon, Robbie Robertson, Bill Murray
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- THE HOSTS<br /> <strong>Max Gotlieb,</strong> partner at Cassels Brock, and <strong>Heather Gotlieb</strong> play host to Bay Street and high society at their Forest Hill home<br /> <br /> THE PARTIERS<br /> Sheldon Inwentash and Lynn Factor, Catherine Nugent, Stacey Kimel, Geoff and Sandie Beattie
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- THE HOSTS <br /> <strong>Kate Alexander Daniels,</strong> publicist, and <strong>David Daniels,</strong> exec producer, Acting Up Stage Company, throw shindigs for arts patrons at their Casa Loma home <br /> <br /> THE PARTIERS<br /> Kim Cattrall, Barbara Amiel, Norman Jewison, Harry Rosen, Michael Cooper and Krystal Koo, Jeanne Beker, Nadir and Shabin Mohamed
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- THE HOSTS <br /> <strong>Rana Florida,</strong> head of Florida Inc., and <strong>Richard Florida,</strong> director of the Martin Prosperity Institute, play host to the creative class at their Rosedale home<br /> <br /> THE PARTIERS <br /> The Mulroney siblings, Don Tapscott, Joe Mimran and Kimberley Newport-Mimran, Joe Brennan, Toufik Sarwa, Jian Ghomeshi, Belinda Stronach
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- THE HOSTS <br /> <strong>Rudyard Griffiths</strong> and <strong>Patrick Luciani</strong> invite the intelligentsia to a Salon Speakers Series at Grano and to the Munk Debates at Roy Thomson Hall<br /> <br /> THE PARTIERS <br /> Justin Trudeau, Adrienne Clarkson, Margaret MacMillan, Joseph Rotman, Brian Mulroney, John Polanyi, Fred Eaton, Janice Stein, Rob Prichard, Jaime Watt, Allan Gotlieb, Tony Munk, George Jonas, Andrew Coyne
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- THE HOSTS <br /> <strong>David Cynamon,</strong> entrepreneur and former Argos co-owner, and <strong>Stacey Cynamon,</strong> philanthropist, welcome the hospital charity brigade to their Forest Hill home<br /> <br /> THE PARTIERS <br /> Barry and Honey Sherman, Howard Sokolowski and Linda Frum, Simona and Alex Shnaider, Nick Di Donato, Ian Greenberg
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- THE HOST<br /> <strong>Todd Halpern,</strong> president of Halpern Enterprises, runs Grand Cru, a festival for philanthropic oenophiles<br /> <br /> THE PARTIERS <br /> Joe Brennan, David and Kate Alexander Daniels, Rob and Cheryl McEwen, David and Angela Feldman
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- THE HOSTS<br /> <strong>Scott</strong> and <strong>Krystyne Griffin,</strong> philanthropists, host the Griffin Poetry Prize at the Stone Distillery<br /> <br /> THE PARTIERS <br /> Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson, Albert Schultz, Michael Ondaatje and Linda Spalding, Barbara Amiel and Conrad Black
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- THE HOST <br /> <strong>Jack Rabinovitch,</strong> philanthropist, hosts the Gillers at the Ritz-Carlton<br /> <br /> THE PARTIERS <br /> Bob Rae and Arlene Perly Rae, Adrienne Clarkson and John Ralston Saul, Michael Ondaatje and Linda Spalding
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- THE HOSTS <br /> <strong>Lina Gagliano,</strong> philanthropist, and <strong>Tony Gagliano,</strong> CEO of St. Joseph Communications, invite their art-loving circle to Luminato Festival parties<br /> <br /> THE PARTIERS <br /> Salah Bachir, Helen Burstyn, Lonti Ebers and Bruce Flatt, Michael and Sonja Koerner, Rob and Cheryl McEwen, Joe Mimran and Kimberley Newport-Mimran, David and Audrey Mirvish, Gordon and Janet Nixon, Larry and Judy Tanenbaum
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(Images: Daniel Ehrenworth, Vanessa Heins, Markian Lozowchuk, George Pimentel, Lee Towndrow, Raina and Wilson, BFA, CP Images, Getstock, Getty Images and Reuters)
Oh my, that Hitler moustache on Mr. Gotlieb. Yikes.
No dubstep at these gigs, that’s for sure!