The Influentials 2024

Our annual ranking of the people whose courage, smarts and clout are changing the world as we know it

By Toronto Life

| November 13, 2024

Toronto in 2024 had all the hallmarks of a city in transition—and it wasn’t just the endless construction projects. The people ahead were the agents of that change. This year’s inductees made waves, large and small, across the GTA and beyond. They tackled the housing crisis, disrupted the health care sector and won high-profile court cases. The biggest players expanded their dominance in business, politics, pop culture chefdom, romance writing and more. But the year’s greatest development—the one that captured our imaginations and aspirations more than any other—was the story of women in pro sports. For blazing that trail (and giving this hockey-mad city a team to rally behind that isn’t the Leafs), the stars of the Toronto Sceptres earn the No. 1 spot.

The Stars of the Sceptres

Natalie Spooner, Sarah Nurse and Blayre Turnbull

Because they’re blazing a trail for women in pro sports

When the puck dropped on the Professional Women’s Hockey League last January 1, die-hard fans were cautiously optimistic. They’d been here before. Over the past two decades, similar leagues had come and gone, proving the prophets of doom—who insisted there wasn’t a market for women’s sports—right. But the PWHL scored big, despite not having team names, logos or home rinks. New faithful flocked to games, followed by the media and sponsors. Six weeks into the season, PWHL Toronto took over the 19,285-seat Scotiabank Arena for a face-off against Montreal, smashing attendance records. In April, the rivals met again at a sold-out Bell Centre in Montreal, North America’s hockey temple. Toronto’s players—including forwards Sarah Nurse, Natalie Spooner and Blayre Turnbull—have become household names, kicking off a new chapter for hockey and women’s sports in general. As Toronto prepares to welcome a professional women’s soccer team in 2025 and a WNBA expansion team in 2026, the timing couldn’t be better.

✽ Read our conversation with the PWHL superstars ✽

Tiff Macklem

Governor, Bank of Canada

Because he’s delivering on his promise of short-term pain for long-term gain

Two years ago, as post-pandemic inflation hit a 39-year record of 8.1 percent, the holder of Canada’s purse strings embarked on a series of interest rate hikes that tanked his popularity with purchasers of homes, stocks, bonds and everything else. But Macklem didn’t waver. Last December, he delivered yet another dose of fiscal real talk, explaining that the first part of the year “won’t feel good.” He was the stern parent that Canadians needed, if not the one they wanted. Now, his slow-and-steady approach is finally paying off. Inflation came down to a comfy 2.5 per cent in July, and Macklem went into cutting mode (four consecutive drops and counting). He says a recession is not on the horizon, and given his aversion to sugar-coating, we’ll take his word for it.

Up next:

With inflation under control, Macklem has turned his focus to the potential effects of AI on the labour force.

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Olivia Chow

Mayor

Because she’s the shrewd pragmatist Toronto needs at the helm

Chow’s first year as mayor was largely defined by level-headed brinkmanship. First, she made a deal with the province to download the Gardiner and the DVP, saving the city $7.6 billion over 10 years. Then, in February, she launched a painful 9.5 per cent property tax increase to raise desperately needed cash to tackle the budget deficit and allow her to address the city’s thorniest and most urgent problem: housing. Chow has had a few notable gaffes—namely the botched vacant home tax rollout in April—but overall she’s proven to be a savvy and pragmatic steward of the city, the kind of mayor who just might leave Toronto in better shape than she found it.

Up next:

She’s already engaged in consultations for next year’s budget, while fighting with the province about bike lanes and readying the city for the 2026 World Cup.

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Edward Rogers

Executive Chair, Rogers Communications

For presiding over our phone plans, sports teams and stadiums

Agreeing (in principle) to purchase Bell’s stake in MLSE is just the latest victory for the telecom scion who turned a legal squabble with his sisters over control of the Rogers board—a Succession-worthy power battle that ended up in the BC Supreme Court—into his coronation. Since assuming the executive chairman role over the summer, Rogers has been kneecapping the competition at every turn, nabbing the rights to HGTV and the Food Network from Corus on the heels of the $26-billion Shaw deal—the largest telecom takeover in Canadian history. Nationally, Rogers is expanding its footprint into Western Canada and remote parts of Newfoundland, while local flexes include a new one-year partnership as TIFF’s presenting sponsor and expanding 5G service throughout the subway.

Up next:

Getting the 50,000-capacity Rogers Stadium, a co-pro with Live Nation at the former Downsview site, up and running by June.

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Summer McIntosh

Swimmer, Olympic champion

For coming back from Paris rich with pool’s gold

The “Summer” Olympics, the Summer of Summer—double entendres abounded for the seasonally named swimmer who put in one record-smashing performance after another in Paris: becoming the first Canadian athlete to win three gold medals in a single Games, breaking her own previously held records and contributing to an overall medal count that earned Canada its best Olympic showing ever. McIntosh was already one of her sport’s brightest lights before her medal sweep. Now she’s in contention for the title of Canada’s greatest athlete, full stop, and an inspiration to a whole new generation of swimmers. It’s a good thing Toronto is finally updating its ancient online booking system for recreation programs.

Friends in high places:

Justin Trudeau sang her praises, writing the blurb for McIntosh’s inclusion in the Time 100 list.

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Matty Matheson

Chef, producer, actor, screenwriter

Because his world is now one big “Yes, Chef!”

In the latest season of FX’s The Bear, Matheson was a triple threat, acting, executive producing and screen-writing: Carmy’s tortuous season-three arc was very much informed by Matheson’s first-hand knowledge of the quest for perfection among high-level chefs. A shower of Emmy wins was proof that his efforts had paid off. And he’s maintained a Fak-tastic level of intensity off the red carpet: this spring, Matheson Food Company mac and cheese launched in grocery stores across Canada, and a partnership with Crocs has him hilariously hawking his kitchen footwear of choice.

Side gigs:

Promoting his new cookbook, Soups, Salads, Sandwiches, which landed in late October.

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Shai Gilgeous-Alexander

Basketball player

Because he’s the NBA’s first million-dollar-per-game baller

He’s being called the greatest Canadian ever to dribble a ball, and for good reason. Gilgeous-Alexander led the national team to its first Olympic qualification in more than two decades (and first advancement to the knockout rounds since 2000). And his performance in Paris came on the heels of a Western Conference–clinching season with the Oklahoma City Thunder in which he averaged more than 30 points per game, set a record for steals and came this close to winning MVP. In other words, our man was robbed, but he’s probably not crying in his cornflakes—he’s eligible for a supermax contract that would net him nearly $1 million per game.

Side gigs:

A renowned fashion plate, SGA signed a brand ambassador deal with Canada Goose in January to co-design a jacket for the company.

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Geoffrey Hinton

Master of machine learning

For attaining official genius status

Last year, the godfather of AI retired from his gig at Google and began to speak out about the dangerous, potentially ruinous implications of the technology he helped to develop. This year, a committee of Nobel brainiacs gave Hinton’s historical import the ultimate seal of approval. The chief adviser to U of T’s Vector Institute shared the Nobel Prize for Physics, in part for his work developing back propagation—the method that allows neural networks to learn. Although, given post-prize comments about how AI could “take over” and make humans “irrelevant,” it’s possible his legacy is still a work in progress.

Charity circuit:

Last spring, the province rejected Hinton’s offer of $1 million to help restore the Science Centre, and he used his Nobel publicity tour to slam the Ford government every chance he got. He also plans to donate his share of the $1.45 million in Nobel Prize money to causes supporting employment opportunities for neurodiverse young adults.

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Larry Tanenbaum

WNBA franchisee

For bringing professional basketball to Toronto—again

Thirty years ago, Tanenbaum spearheaded the bid to bring the NBA to Canada with the Toronto Raptors. Now, he’s levelling the court for women athletes. In May, Tanenbaum’s Kilmer Sports Group made a winning bid for the WNBA’s first Canadian franchise, which will play out of Toronto’s Coca-Cola Coliseum starting in 2026. It wasn’t an easy path to victory: he originally pursued the deal through MLSE, but Edward Rogers nixed that option in 2023. The WNBA’s first Toronto exhibition game in May was a raucous proof of concept that sold out the Scotiabank Arena. She the North, indeed.

Up next:

He’s co-chairing the World Cup 2026 Champions Table alongside Mayor Olivia Chow, a fundraising effort that will off set event costs and fund programming across the city.

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Jenni Byrne

Political strategist

For paving Poilievre’s path to popularity

Last year, she was the strategist who successfully transformed Pierre Poilievre from a nerdy backbencher to a slightly less nerdy front runner. Now, with anti-Trudeau sentiment at an all-time high and the PC party dominating in the polls, she’s steering her spectacle-free candidate’s upward trajectory. Poilievre’s lead got even bigger after his recent proposal to tie immigration targets to housing construction—a move that has Byrne’s PhD in voter psyche all over it. Would it work? That’s debatable. But it taps into millennial and Gen Z discontent, Average Joe economic anxiety, and beneath-the-surface nationalism. And it’s resonating with Liberal fence-sitters: it polled so well that Team Trudeau has embraced the idea.

Up next:

Softening some of her candidate’s rougher edges following some very public grudge matches.

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Party Animals

Pierre Poilievre’s GTA posse

Jamil Jivani

Conservative MP, Durham

Jivani is many things: a staffer-turned-enemy of the Ford government, a crusader against “woke ideology,” a former radio show host allegedly fired over his political views, a law school buddy of Trump running mate J. D. Vance and, since March, one of Poilievre’s MPs.

Don Stewart

Conservative MP, Toronto–St. Paul’s

Stewart’s June by-election victory handed midtown Toronto to the Conservatives for the first time in 31 years, a major shock to the reigning Liberals. A finance guy, Stewart has held directorships at BMO and Morgan Stanley. He also serves as a reservist in the Armed Forces.

Melissa Lantsman

Conservative MP, Thornhill

As the co-deputy leader of the CPC, the Thornhill MP is the second-loudest voice in the party after Poilievre. And with her particular passion for national security and immigration issues, she seems destined for a major ministerial position should her party form government.

Parm Gill

Conservative candidate, Milton

The former Harper MP left federal politics in 2015 and soon found a home in Doug Ford’s government as minister of citizenship and multiculturalism. Last January, after being shuffled to “red tape reduction minister,” he resigned to run for Poilievre’s Conservatives in the future Milton East–Halton Hills riding.

Jamil Jivani

Conservative MP, Durham

Don Stewart

Conservative MP, Toronto–St. Paul’s

Melissa Lantsman

Conservative MP, Thornhill

Parm Gill

Conservative candidate, Milton

Jamil Jivani

Conservative MP, Durham

Don Stewart

Conservative MP, Toronto–St. Paul’s

Melissa Lantsman

Conservative MP, Thornhill

Parm Gill

Conservative candidate, Milton

Jamil Jivani

Conservative MP, Durham

Don Stewart

Conservative MP, Toronto–St. Paul’s

Melissa Lantsman

Conservative MP, Thornhill

Parm Gill

Conservative candidate, Milton

Carley Fortune

Romance writer

For turning up the heat on the beach-read scene

Fortune continues her conquest of the romance genre, bringing hot, hot cottage days to readers worldwide. Last year, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle bought the rights to her second novel, Meet Me at the Lake, for a Netflix series. This year, her debut novel, Every Summer After, was ordered for a series adaptation by Amazon Prime Video, with the author set to executive produce. Fortune’s latest, This Summer Will Be Different, released last May, is a PEI-set forbidden romance caper that, as predictably as the would-be lovers’ inevitable embrace, got gushing reviews from readers and critics.

Up next:

Coming in 2025 is One Golden Summer, a return to the setting of her first novel, a lake in Barry’s Bay, where a photographer finds herself smitten with her subject.

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Aidan Gomez

Cohere co-founder

Because this AI whiz is building our robot future

With Cohere, which he co-founded in 2019, Gomez is knee-deep into making generative AI models to tackle a variety of tasks for companies (chatbots, product recommendations, copywriting) in a bid to fundamentally transform the way they operate. Unlike many of his cohort, Gomez is optimistic about the possibilities of our robot future—he dismisses AI doomerism as “absurd.” And his take has contributed to Cohere’s success: it’s backed by tech juggernaut Nvidia, recently earned a $5-billion valuation and is now one of the biggest rivals to industry leader OpenAI.

Friends in high places:

Gomez was Hinton’s intern back at Google Brain.

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Cameron Bailey

TIFF CEO

For leading the festival’s comeback

In early September, Bailey declared that TIFF was “back in a big way.” It may sound like an un-humble brag, but it’s also a fact. After a series of brutal setbacks—the pandemic, the actors’ and writers’ strikes, the departure of the festival’s deep-pocketed title sponsor—Bailey restored TIFF to full-force glitz this year. He deserves credit for securing Rogers as the festival’s new lead sponsor (even if only for a year) and for increasing the number of corporate backers by 25 per cent. He also secured the return of TIFF’s other big (okay, main) draw: star-watching. A-listers like Amy Adams,Florence Pugh and Lupita Nyong’o all walked the red carpet in September, and Bill Murray was spotted deejaying with Diplo. Ben Stiller’s new film, Nutcrackers, opened the festival, and buzzy releases such as The Last Showgirl (featuring Canadian icon Pamela Anderson), Nightbitch and Queer each got a big Toronto screening.

Up next:

Bailey will use a $23-million funding injection from the feds to launch TIFF’s own official content market in 2026.

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Romance Industrial Complex

Bawdy language experts

Lily Chu

Her rom-coms take strong Asian-Canadian women, set them in Toronto, introduce them to devilishly attractive men and let the sparks fly. It’s a winning formula: Chu’s debut, The Stand In, received book club acclaim from Target, Amazon and Apple.

Uzma Jalaluddin

Two of her steamy stories about Muslim Canadians finding love in Toronto have been optioned for film: Hana Khan Carries On will be produced by Mindy Kaling’s company, and the Pride and Prejudice–inspired Ayesha at Last by Pascal Pictures.

Farah Heron

Heron is known for her off-beat plot lines, and her latest romance is no exception: Just Playing House centres on a personal stylist who scores a big celebrity client—only to be stuck at home with him while recovering from a double-mastectomy.

Jackie Lau

A self-described purveyor of “soft, steamy romance,” Lau has written more than 20 such novels since exiting her career as a geophysicist. Each is set in Toronto, and their covers tend to feature muscular Asian-Canadian men set against the (ever phallic) CN Tower.

Marissa Stapley

Stapley released two books this fall. The Lightning Bottles follows a grunge rocker searching for her disappeared creative partner. In The Holiday Honeymoon Switch, which she wrote under pen name Julia McKay, two friends swap vacations and find romance.

Lily Chu

Uzma Jalaluddin

Farah Heron

Jackie Lau

Marissa Stapley

Lily Chu

Uzma Jalaluddin

Farah Heron

Jackie Lau

Marissa Stapley

Lily Chu

Uzma Jalaluddin

Farah Heron

Jackie Lau

Marissa Stapley

Drake

Rapper

For bringing Toronto into the rap beef of the year

His feud with Kendrick Lamar has dominated headlines all year. And while he’s losing in the battle of public opinion, he may be winning the war. In June, Drake blew past Taylor Swift to become the first artist ever to hit 100 billion streams on Spotify. That achievement was significantly hastened by the release of a slew of new diss tracks. “Family Matters,” in which Drake suggests that Lamar’s son was fathered by a different rapper, hit 75 million streams. Lamar responded with “Meet the Grahams,” accusing Drake of hiding an 11-year-old daughter. Drake fired back with “The Heart Part 6,” claiming that the hidden daughter rumour was a plant to make the other guy look stupid. Confusing? Yes. Staged? Possibly. But one thing is clear: it’s been enormously profitable for both of them.

Side gigs:

Drake is a paid spokesperson for the online gambling site Stake, where even his losing bets make headlines.

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Doug Ford

Premier

Because he’s still seemingly made of Teflon

For a brief moment, this year, it looked like Ford’s various scandals might topple him. There was the ongoing RCMP investigation into the Greenbelt, the wildly unpopular shuttering of the Science Centre, the continued fallout from the mega spa at Ontario Place and, most recently, the shutdown of half of Toronto’s safe consumption sites amid an opioid epidemic that killed 2,500 people in Ontario last year. When critics mocked the timing of the latter announcement, noting that it coincided with the green-lighting of booze sales in convenience stores across the province, Ford scoffed at the negativity. And despite the chorus of derision, he’s back up in the polls.

Up next:

Ford is moving ahead with Highway 413 and cracking down on bike lanes, among other “game-changing” attempts to ease congestion.

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Kristin Cochrane

Penguin Random House CEO

For being totally lit

Cochrane remains the biggest name in Canadian publishing. This year, she delivered Penguin Random House two of the five titles shortlisted for the Booker Prize, eight authors who made the Giller Prize longlist and three Amazon Canada First Novel Award nominees, including winner Alicia Elliott for her debut novel And Then She Fell—more tangible proof of Cochrane’s eye for talent.

Up next:

Her children’s publishing division, Tundra, is putting out a picture book by Sophie Grégoire Trudeau in 2025.

Farah Nosh

Scottie Barnes

Basketball player

For becoming the official face of the Raptors

The 23-year-old set career highs across the board last season—an average of 19.9 points, 8.2 rebounds and 6.1 assists per game—and made his all-star debut. Still, Barnes’s biggest 2024 victory took place in the off-season, when he signed a five-year extension deal that could net him as much as $270 million, making him the highest-paid Raptor in history. The pressure is on to improve that three pointer, but the newly anointed team leader has made his objective for this season clear: “All this rebuild talk, it’s whatever, but I want to go out there and win games,” he said just hours after signing his new contract.

Side gigs:

Barnes is collaborating with Toronto-based developer Originate on the forthcoming Reside on Richmond building and hyping the latest Subway sandwiches.

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Catherine O’Hara

Actor

Because the O’Haraissance is real

She probably didn’t plan to outshine both a Gen Z (Jenna Ortega) and a Gen X (Winona Ryder) icon at the premiere for the hugely anticipated Beetlejuice sequel. But such was the power of Canada’s comedic high priestess when she appeared alongside her co-stars on the Venice Film Festival red carpet in a custom goth black-leather garden-trellis dress by Oscar de la Renta. The movie got a nearly four-minute standing O and later became the second-highest-earning September launch, raking in $110 million on its opening weekend. Of course, these things are collective efforts, but O’Hara does have a knack for killing it in all the right groups, from SCTV to the Christopher Guestiverse to Schitt’s Creek.

Up next:

She has a top-secret role on the new season of The Last of Us, HBO’s killer-fungi zombie drama, and will be part of the main cast in Seth Rogan’s new series, The Studio.

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Magda Grace

Prime Video Canada head

For bringing the NHL to the cable-cutters

She’s the reason Monday Night Hockey now has Prime at the front of its title: regular-season games made the jump from cable to the streaming network this fall and will stay there through 2026 following a landmark deal. For Rogers (which licensed out the exclusive rights), it’s an attempt to broaden its audience by meeting viewers where they are. For cable TV, it’s a death knell—live sports viewers being among the last reliable markets. And for Grace, who heads up Prime Canada, New Zealand and Australia from her Toronto office, it’s yet another shrewd play. Netflix is still the top streamer in Canada, but Grace is helping to tighten the margin.

Up next:

The Sticky, a comedic dramatization of a real-life multi-million-dollar maple syrup heist that co-stars awards-season magnet Jamie Lee Curtis.

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Orville Peck

Musician

For broadening country music’s horizons

We still haven’t seen his mug, but Canada’s masked cowboy is changing the face of country music, championing progressive values and inclusivity in a genre that has often been unwelcoming to outsiders. Look no further than the recent rise of “bro country,” a MAGA-adjacent strain of artists writing “real” country music about small-town values (namely: trucks, guns and white nationalism). Peck has emerged as a potent antidote, and he’s got some powerful friends backing him up. His 2024 release, Stampede, includes duets with Kylie Minogue, Diplo, Elton John and Willie Nelson, who sings with Peck on the album’s first single: “Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly Fond of Each Other.” It really doesn’t get much flex-ier than recording a gay country anthem with one of the genre’s indisputable icons.

Up next:

From Grand Ole Opry to Great White Way—word is that Peck is in the earliest stages of work on a Broadway musical.

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Teresa Resch

WNBA president

For leading the charge of women’s pro sports

This past May, Teresa Resch got the call she’d been waiting for her entire life. MLSE chairman Larry Tanenbaum intended to bankroll the WNBA’s expansion into Canada—and he wanted her to run Toronto’s franchise. Resch, who spent a decade as one of the Raptors’ most powerful behind-the-scenes execs in her role as VP of basketball operations, has lots to do before the new team’s first tip-off in 2026. For starters, she’s in charge of overseeing the franchise’s $40 million in private investment, hiring staff, and picking the team’s name and colours.

Side gig:

Resch has long championed the value of women’s sports, producing two white papers on the topic for the advocacy group Canadian Women and Sport.

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William Cheng

Restaurateur

For building a culinary dream team

The high-rolling bon-vivant launched a bold (and expensive) new restaurant venture this year: LSL, which has not one but three celebrity chefs at the helm. In addition, Cheng’s long-running collaboration with chef Masaki Saito yielded a third location, MSSM Ossington, billed as a more affordable alternative to the $680-a-head meals at the chef’s other tables. This is all on top of Cheng’s many other business ventures—in manufacturing, entertainment, advertising and real estate, not to mention his family’s candle-making conglomerate (which sells a line of signature scents by Drake, among other celebrity collabs).

Charity circuit:

Cheng sits on the board of Sunnybrook Hospital Foundation, where he spearheads the annual Chef’s Table fundraising dinner—a swanky gathering that has raked in more than $1.7 million for the hospital since 2020.

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Jagmeet Singh

Politician

For positioning the NDP to own the Liberals

In 2021, Singh struck a deal with the federal Liberals, shielding them from a potentially government-toppling non- confidence vote in exchange for pharmacare and a national dental program, among other NDP initiatives. Now that Singh has pulled the plug early, he’s kicked off a de facto campaign season. If he captures the official Opposition, it will be only the second time in history that the NDP has managed the feat.

Up next:

Singh has just taken a stand on protecting abortion access, in an election-ready attack on what the NDP calls the creep of anti-choice efforts by the Conservatives.

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Noah Segal and Laurie May

Elevation Pictures co-presidents

For filling movie screens with top-tier talent

Elevations Pictures’ footprint at TIFF this year included 13 titles: the Nicole Kidman erotic thriller Babygirl, Palme d’Or–winning drama Anora and The End, a post-apocalyptic musical starring Tilda Swinton, and more. After 11 years on the job, Laurie May and Noah Segal have turned Elevation into Canada’s premier independent film production and distribution company. This year alone, BlackBerry broke the record for Canadian Screen Awards; the all-too-realistic American dystopian drama Civil War broke box office records; and Immaculate, starring Sydney Sweeney, became the company’s biggest opening weekend yet, raking in more than $7 million.

Up next:

A highly anticipated doc about Lilith Fair, Sarah McLachlan’s iconic late-’90s touring festival, from director Ally Pankiw and producer Dan Levy.

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The Beaches

Rock band

For writing a break-up song for the ages

It’s been a rock star ride for the Beaches, whose single “Blame Brett”—about lead singer Jordan Miller’s break-up—went viral on TikTok late last year. The infectious clip of Miller proclaiming she’ll now date only actors and “tall boys in the Raptors” quickly amassed more than three million views, becoming the anthem for fed-up exes everywhere. The internet fame propelled the band, which includes Miller’s sister Kylie (guitar and backup vocals), Leandra Earl (guitar) and Eliza Enman-McDaniel (drums), onto the world stage. Their first big stop: a late-night debut on Jimmy Kimmel Live in February. A month later, the Junos named them group of the year. The band capped off their triumphant tour with a Polaris nomination—their first—for their sophomore album, Blame My Ex, plus a sold-out show at Budweiser Stage and a win for group of the year at Billboard Canada’s Women in Music awards.

Friends in high places:

Sir Elton John counts himself as a fan, and this year the group opened for the Rolling Stones and Greta Van Fleet.

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Chris Abraham and Sherrie Johnson

Directors, Crow's Theatre

For turning Tolstoy and infrastructure debacles into great theatre

Crow’s was the city’s coolest theatre this year, in large part because of artistic director Chris Abraham and executive director Sherrie Johnson. Their production of Michael Healey’s The Master Plan, a satire of Google’s Sidewalk Labs waterfront debacle, shared the Toronto Theatre Critics’ Award for best new play (tying with Soulpepper’s Casey and Diana) and received two Dora awards. Their real coup, however, was Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812, a smash-hit musical based on Tolstoy’s War and Peace that played a company record of 123 shows and won four Doras.

Up next:

Bringing The Master Plan to Soulpepper and taking Great Comet for an even bigger run on the Mirvish stage.

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Sanja Fidler

AI researcher

For proving the market value of AI

Fidler has been carrying the torch of the artificial intelligence revolution since 2021. That’s when the Slovenian-born computer scientist was named the head of the Toronto AI research lab run by Nvidia, the global computer-chip juggernaut whose pivot to AI briefly made it the world’s most valuable company. Fidler’s task: make the tech to justify the hype, which has meant training AI to do things like drive cars—helping Nvidia break into the potentially $400-billion autonomous vehicle market—and generate made-to-order virtual reality worlds. In short, the projects that make tech investors drool. Praised as both a brilliant researcher and a great boss, Fidler is bringing a human touch—and the dividends—to the robot revolution.

Up next:

Refining the mind-blowing AI tech that can already convert text prompts into 3-D objects almost instantly.

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Nader Hasan

Lawyer

For proving innocence against all odds

It was the buzziest criminal trial of the year: Umar Zameer, accused of murdering an on-duty police officer by running him over in an underground parking garage, was publicly condemned by Doug Ford and then–chief of police James Ramer before his day in court. “I promise in due time the truth will emerge,” Hasan told the media gathered on the eve of the trial. The legal veteran made good on his word, unleashing an inspired and inscrutable defence that included 3-D digital modelling to demonstrate how his client couldn’t have possibly seen the officer behind his car. The jury acquitted Zameer of all charges, and the presiding judge offered her “deepest apologies.”

Up next:

Hasan is representing the kids suing the government of Ontario for its climate change plan.

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Tanya Talaga

Journalist

For bringing Indigenous stories to light

As a journalist and author, Talaga had already established herself as one of Canada’s most powerful voices on Indigenous issues. This year, she released her third bestselling book, The Knowing, which is simultaneously a hunt to uncover the fate of her long-lost great-grandmother and an incisive retelling of Canadian history from an Indigenous perspective. It’s painstakingly researched and poignantly delivered, and its reach was amplified by an accompanying doc, which premiered at TIFF before heading to CBC’s streaming platform.

Charity circuit:

Talaga’s media company runs the Spirit to Soar Fund, which brings elders together with communities and high school kids.

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Marit Stiles

Ontario NDP leader

For shining a spotlight on Doug Ford’s failings

Rumour has it, the premier refuses to use her name in his public remarks. That hasn’t stopped the leader of Ontario’s official Opposition from hammering the incumbent on his record at every opportunity (and there have been a few). Stiles even called Ford “corrupt” on the floor of the House and then dared him to sue her if she was wrong. “Bring it” was her message back when it looked like there might be a snap fall election, for which the Ontario NDP party raised a record-setting $1.1 million over the summer. As a relative newbie on the main stage, Stiles’s key weakness has been a lack of broad name recognition among Ontario voters, but with her war chest filled, she’s primed for a fight.

Up next:

Doubling down on her quest to save Ontario Place from Ford’s mega spa, she has filed a complaint with the Integrity Commissioner.

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The Philanthropists

The year’s big-time donors

The Olympic Helpfuls

Adrian Rocca and Moez Kassam

Rocca and Kassam donate to multiple pet causes, but this year they focused their largesse on Olympians. Their Great to Gold initiative doled out $1 million to 52 athletes, helping to deliver 10 of Canada’s 27 medals.

The Mental-Health Protector

Gary Slaight

In June, the Slaight Family Foundation started its newest philanthropic arm, donating $30 million toward dementia care. The funds will be split among seven organizations, including Sunnybrook and CAMH.

The MRI Accelerators

Cator family

This past January, Cardinal Meats president Brent Cator and his wife, Jodie, donated $10 million to Trillium Health’s diagnostic imaging program—allowing the hospital group to expand services and reduce MRI wait times.

Philanthropists Bob Barrett and Francine Rouleau-Barrett

The Wealth Spreaders

Barrett Family Foundation

The foundation created by husband and wife Bob Barrett and Francine Rouleau-Barrett donated $10 million to the YMCA of Greater Toronto—the largest the Y has ever received—followed by a landmark $15 million to the TSO.

The Arts Endowment

Lind family

The late Phil Lind was one of Ted Rogers’s advisers for nearly 40 years. In September, Lind’s children, Jed and Sarah, donated his art collection to the AGO—with many of the works featured in an exhibit on display in November.

The Olympic Helpfuls

Adrian Rocca and Moez Kassam

The Mental-Health Protector

Gary Slaight

The MRI Accelerators

Cator family

The Wealth Spreaders

Barrett Family Foundation

The Arts Endowment

Lind family

The Olympic Helpfuls

Adrian Rocca and Moez Kassam

The Mental-Health Protector

Gary Slaight

The MRI Accelerators

Cator family

The Wealth Spreaders

Barrett Family Foundation

The Arts Endowment

Lind family

The Olympic Helpfuls

Adrian Rocca and Moez Kassam

The Mental-Health Protector

Gary Slaight

The MRI Accelerators

Cator family

The Wealth Spreaders

Barrett Family Foundation

The Arts Endowment

Lind family

Jeffrey Remedios

Universal Music Canada CEO

For expanding Toronto’s global music takeover

Remedios continues to rack up wins as the head of Universal Music Canada, whose artists include relentless chart-toppers like the Weeknd and Drake. Those two have been trading places at the top of Spotify’s billion-streams list—the Weeknd recently had a record 18th song rack up 10-digit listens. This year, Remedios signed Canadian Punjabi rapper AP Dhillon and CCMA-winning country boy Owen Riegling. Meanwhile, UMC put out “Get Back Again,” a 35-year-old never-released Tragically Hip song, giving the band their first number-one radio hit in 15 years.

Side gigs:

Remedios is chair of the board at TIFF as well as a board member at the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.

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Andrea Robin Skinner

Activist

For inspiring survivors to break the silence

In July, Alice Munro’s daughter wrote a devastating article in the Toronto Star about the childhood sexual abuse she endured at the hands of her stepfather, Gerald Fremlin—and her mother’s decades-long role in keeping it quiet. The essay, which Skinner published two months after Munro’s death, reframed her mother’s legacy, ignited a crucial conversation about the secretive world of CanLit and inspired other survivors to come forward.

Side gigs:

Skinner facilitates meditations at the Gatehouse, a non-profit that helps those affected by childhood sexual abuse.

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Jamie Salter

Authentic Brands CEO

For being the go-to branding guru

The CEO and founder of Authentic Brands has a knack for making the lacklustre cool again. His company snaps up struggling—or, as Salter prefers to call them, “undervalued”—brands and boosts their popularity back to must-have status. When Authentic started in 2010, its roster hit about $100 million in retail sales. Now, that number is over $32 billion. This year, Authentic closed its second-largest brand acquisition with the purchase of Champion and successfully continued its quest to rescue Brooks Brothers from dad dorkdom, with several celebrities donning the apparel at the Oscars.

Friends in high places:

Salter often hosts celebrities, such as pals Shaq and David Beckham, at his Muskoka cottage.

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Francis Leo

Archbishop of Toronto

For being Toronto’s man in Rome

After years serving in the diplomatic corps of the Holy See and occupying high-ranking positions in his hometown of Montreal, Leo got the surprise call in 2023 to lead the Archdiocese of Toronto. Pope Francis upped the stakes again this past October, when he announced that Leo will be joining the College of Cardinals, the red-hatted men in charge of advising the Pope and electing his successor. The Pope, who turns 88 in December, has made it clear he has no intention of retiring any time soon. But, when he does, Leo and his cohort will be the most powerful voting bloc in the Catholic world.

Charity circuit:

As Archbishop of Toronto, Leo hosts an annual fundraising dinner attended by Olivia Chow, Doug Ford and others, in support of charities that include the Catholic Children’s Aid Foundation, Good Shepherd Ministries and Journey Home Hospice.

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George Zegarac

Waterfront Toronto President and CEO

For helping create a waterfront worthy of envy

Since he took the job in 2019, Zegarac has been overseeing the massive, $1.4-billion project to divert the Don River and allow for the redevelopment of the Port Lands. The end result will give Toronto much-needed protection from severe flooding, plus an expansive new park and a brand new neighbourhood with 3,000 affordable housing units. Back when he was deputy minister for infrastructure in Kathleen Wynne’s provincial government, Zegarac negotiated the deal that paid for the project, and with the Lower Don trail on track to open in 2025, anyone enjoying it will have him to thank.

Up next:

Navigating the choppy waters of the Villiers Island development, already mired in debates over density and air pollution from a nearby power plant.

Tassie Cameron

Showrunner, Law & Order Toronto

For giving us a “dun-dun” to call our own

Law & Order’s Toronto spin-off was many years in the making: a big swing (and big spend) for Rogers. Cameron, a veteran of televised Canadian crime, came onboard as showrunner and head writer and committed to setting the series in familiar territory. Her pilot script about the murder of a Bitcoin billionaire (with an RCYC membership) got the green light from TV true-crime franchise overlord Dick Wolf. Would Canadian audiences tune in? The answer was a resounding yes, your honour. Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent was the number-one scripted drama of the season and CityTV’s top primetime scripted premiere ever. The first season was so successful that two more were ordered concurrently, a rarity in Canadian TV.

Friends in high places:

Canadian soccer personality Craig Forrest is a close pal. He started his Footy Prime podcast in her garage during the pandemic.

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Tajon Buchanan

Soccer player

For shutting down the Canadian soccer doubters

Before his stratospheric rise this year, the 25-year-old Brampton-born midfielder was already a certified fan favourite in Canada—but now the world is cheering his name. In January, powerhouse team Inter Milan shelled out $10.3 million to scoop Buchanan from Belgium’s Club Brugge. One month later, Buchanan officially became the first Canadian ever to play in a Serie A game. Not long after that, he scored his first goal for the team, helping Inter Milan go on to win its 20th league title in April. This summer, Buchanan was set to rally the Canadian men’s team at its Copa America debut, but he had to leave the tournament early after suffering a broken tibia.

Up next:

As of the fall, Buchanan was back to light training with the team, earlier than anticipated, which is a good indicator that he’ll be returning to the pitch to bolster Inter Milan’s domination.

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Gina Kingsbury

General Manager of the Toronto Sceptres

For doubling Toronto’s chances at a champion hockey team

As a hockey player, Kingsbury was impressive—during her on-ice career, she helped the national team bring home gold at two Olympics and three world championships. And as a behind-the-scenes force, she’s even more formidable. Last September, she left a stable vice-presidency at Hockey Canada to join the embryonic PWHL as Toronto’s GM and push professional women’s hockey into the national spotlight. Within weeks, Kingsbury, head coach Troy Ryan and their roster had won over the city’s hockey fans and played record-selling nail biters against forever-rival Montreal.

Up next:

Taking the Sceptres all the way in this season’s championship and prepping the national team—which Kingsbury also manages—to defend gold in Italy in 2026.

Hockey Canada

Michael Katchen

Wealthsimple CEO

For a decade of disrupting the finance world

In September, Katchen celebrated the 10th anniversary of his company, Wealthsimple. The not-a-bank has been growing since it shuttered its struggling UK and US operations to focus full-time on Canada. It now manages more than $50 billion in assets from more than three million Canadian users. Almost half of those assets were deposited this past year alone—indicatng a sharp rise in Wealthsimple’s business. The online investing platform has become ubiquitous, with one in every five Canadians under the age of 40 using it. Katchen also finally disclosed this year that the private company is profitable and has been since last year—with an 88 per cent jump in year-over-year revenue.

Up next:

Katchen has repeatedly said that Wealthsimple is committed to an independent path, but this year he suggested that an IPO could be in the cards.

Wealthsimple

Megan Savard

Lawyer

Toronto’s new celebrity defender

Savard is not here to convince you that her high-profile clients are good guys. Her focus is ensuring a healthy democracy, where everyone gets high-quality legal representation. In the process, she’s joined the ranks of Marie Henein and Brian Greenspan as one of the go-to lawyers of the famous and accused. In July, she successfully argued that delays in the sexual assault trial of disgraced megachurch pastor Bruxy Cavey violated his right to timely justice. Last month, her long-time client Jacob Hoggard was found not guilty of sexual assault in one of his cases.

Up next:

In a trial scheduled for next fall, Savard will represent Carter Hart, one of the ex–World Juniors hockey players charged with sexual assault.

New Gigs

Six people stepping into powerful new roles

Nicole MacIntyre

EIC of the Toronto Star

MacIntyre started as a Star intern in 2003 and officially replaced Anne Marie Owens as the paper’s editorial boss this past July. She now has the gargantuan task of leading the paper in the age of AI.

Clayton Campbell

President of the Toronto Police Association

Campbell was elected to the top union spot in the midst of a contract negotiation breakdown between the TPA and the Police Services Board. An officer for 25 years, he was most recently a director of field services for the TPA.

Nicole Winstanley

President and publisher of Simon and Schuster Canada

In March, S&S poached Winstanley from rival publisher Penguin Random House Canada, where she was most recently its publisher and VP—and the editor of several bestsellers.

Craig Berube

Leafs head coach

Berube knows a thing or two about Stanley Cup droughts. He snagged the holy grail for St. Louis in 2019—the team’s first since joining the league in 1967. Fans have high hopes that he’ll finally take the Leafs all the way.

Rui Mateus Amaral

Artistic director of MOCA

Amaral joined MOCA in 2019, curating some of the museum’s most high-profile exhibitions, including Carlos Bunga’s first in Canada. He was promoted this past May and plans to bring more playful projects into the building.

Christina Litz

President of Northern Super League

Starting in April, Canada will have its own women’s soccer league, headed up by Litz, who brings her experience as an exec with the CFL and the Winnipeg Jets’ parent company.

Nicole MacIntyre

EIC of the Toronto Star

Clayton Campbell

President of the Toronto Police Association

Nicole Winstanley

President and publisher of Simon and Schuster Canada

In March, S&S poached Winstanley from rival publisher Penguin Random House Canada, where she was most recently its publisher and VP—and the editor of several bestsellers.

Craig Berube

Leafs head coach

Rui Mateus Amaral

Artistic director of MOCA

Christina Litz

President of Northern Super League

Starting in April, Canada will have its own women’s soccer league, headed up by Litz, who brings her experience as an exec with the CFL and the Winnipeg Jets’ parent company.

Nicole MacIntyre

EIC of the Toronto Star

Clayton Campbell

President of the Toronto Police Association

Nicole Winstanley

President and publisher of Simon and Schuster Canada

In March, S&S poached Winstanley from rival publisher Penguin Random House Canada, where she was most recently its publisher and VP—and the editor of several bestsellers.

Craig Berube

Leafs head coach

Rui Mateus Amaral

Artistic director of MOCA

Christina Litz

President of Northern Super League

Starting in April, Canada will have its own women’s soccer league, headed up by Litz, who brings her experience as an exec with the CFL and the Winnipeg Jets’ parent company.

Nicole MacIntyre

EIC of the Toronto Star

Clayton Campbell

President of the Toronto Police Association

Nicole Winstanley

President and publisher of Simon and Schuster Canada

In March, S&S poached Winstanley from rival publisher Penguin Random House Canada, where she was most recently its publisher and VP—and the editor of several bestsellers.

Craig Berube

Leafs head coach

Rui Mateus Amaral

Artistic director of MOCA

Christina Litz

President of Northern Super League

Starting in April, Canada will have its own women’s soccer league, headed up by Litz, who brings her experience as an exec with the CFL and the Winnipeg Jets’ parent company.

Andrew Boozary

Doctor and social medicine pioneer

For making housing a part of health care

Five years ago, as the director of the University Health Network’s Gattuso Centre for Social Medicine, Boozary gave a speech to the organization’s top brass, calling for an approach to addressing homelessness as a health care issue. (At UHN, 100 patients without stable housing accounted for more than 4,500 ER visits in a single year.) That philosophy is at the root of the newly opened Dunn House, a hospital-led supportive housing initiative. Located on the grounds of a former UHN parking lot in Parkdale (leased to the city for $1), its 51 studio apartments will provide shelter, stability and dignity to marginalized Torontonians, along with social services, mental health support, harm reduction and assistance navigating the justice system. The project is a win-win for both a city where housing is increasingly out of reach and a province with a disastrously overburdened health care system.

Up next:

Boozary recently made the case for replicating his concept on a national scale. He’ll act as medical director while working toward expansion.

Chris Young/Canadian Press

Keith Pelley

MLSE president and CEO

For giving sports fans new hope

As the new head of Canada’s largest sports company, Pelley has ultimate sway over the Leafs, Raptors and Toronto FC. He’s using his power to promise some big wins for fans. At a press conference in May, Pelley vowed to focus on turning around the Leafs’ heartbreaking record. “Nothing else matters,” he said. “And no doubt you’ve heard that before, but I am 1,000 per cent committed to it.” In October, he swore the same for TFC fans, indicating a complete overhaul after four years of playoff failures. But, while Pelley is hell-bent on celebrating some championships under his reign, he also wants fans to just enjoy the vibes. This fall, he announced that he’s bringing back the Raptors’ open practices—and starting a similar program for the Leafs.

Friends in high places:

When Pelley left his CEO role with golf’s DP World Tour, he received shout-outs from the likes of Rory McIlroy and Thomas Bjørn.

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Michelle Mama

Gay Agenda production company co-founder

For making LGBTQ+ advocacy her business model

The award-winning triple threat (producer, writer, director) rarely misses an opportunity to mix politics and art. As a panellist at this year’s Banff World Media Festival, she stressed the importance of meaningful queer representation over tokenism. And when she co-launched Gay Agenda, her Toronto-based production company, this past spring, the ideology was baked in: they’re on a mission to support and amplify the next gen of queer story tellers. Gay Agenda is in post production on AntiDiva, a doc about punk provocateur Carole Pope that Mama wrote and directed.

Friends in high places:

She directed her long-time pal Mae Martin in a 2024 episode of The Nature of Things about the science of gender and sexual fluidity.

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Jennifer Podemski

Redcloud Studios CEO and president

For leading the Indigenous film industy to new heights

The Anishinaabe and Jewish actor, producer and showrunner has long been a champion of Indigenous voices in the Canadian film industry—recently vowing never to work on a set where she was the only Indigenous person. This year, her hard work paid off: Little Bird, her 2023 Sixties Scoop tale, won 13 Canadian Screen Awards, and Podemski was named 2024 Woman of the Year by ACTRA National. Her various accolades have hailed her as one of the leading Indigenous producers in Canada, a critical darling and a living inspiration for the entertainment industry writ large.

Up next:

Through her not-for-profit, the Shine Network Institute, she’s launching Rematriate the Lens, a four-episode Paramount Plus roundtable series focusing on Indigenous women on screen.

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Randy Boyagoda

U of T's head of civil discourse

For promoting discussion and tolerance in an era of hostility

In this divisive and chaotic age, how can we disagree with one another without losing our cool and retreating to our poles? That’s the question Boyagoda, a U of T English professor, author and press freedom advocate, was tasked to explore when he was made the school’s first-ever special adviser on civil discourse earlier this year. So far, this has meant forming a working group to actually define “civil discourse” and hosting panel discussions between students, university leaders and visiting luminaries—small steps in a monumental enterprise that requires immense patience and a lot of resolve.

Up next:

Launching a consultation drive to hear from U of T’s 100,000-plus students, faculty and staff before delivering his working group’s recommendations.

The University of Toronto

Kristen Burke

Warner Music Canada CEO

For opening the floodgates to the Punjabi wave

Burke took over as head of Warner Music Canada in 2021 and has since nearly tripled the number of women in leadership roles. She also oversaw the monumental task of relocating the company to new offices at the Well. And this year, she signed Brampton-born star producer Eli Brown (check out his work on Drake’s “Drew a Picasso”), whose label, Loophole Records, came with the deal. Meanwhile, Warner’s breakout star Karan Aujla became the first South Asian artist to win the Juno Fan Choice Award. Burke also continued to expand the roster of 91 North Records, a label partnership with Warner Music India dedicated to the burgeoning Punjabi music scene, bringing the sounds of the GTA—and Burke’s influence—to the world.

Friends in high places:

Burke is a long-time colleague of neo-grunge godfather Jonathan Simkin, who followed her to WMC in 2022 along with his label, the 604 Group, and its artists Chad Kroeger and Carly Rae Jepsen.

Warner Music Canada

Lana Payne

Unifor National President

For winning the year’s biggest labour battles

Payne successfully brought 2023’s big strike energy into 2024, following up huge wins for her constituents against the likes of Pearson, Metro and Canada’s auto giants by racking up another impressive set of victories. In May, she led more than 450 workers at Toronto’s Nestlé plant on a three-week strike that ended in the ratification of a new contract. And in September, she celebrated back-to-back wins—one against General Motors (again) and another, significantly, against Walmart: a group of workers at the company’s Mississauga warehouse became the first ever to unionize in Canada.

Up next:

Payne is calling on the feds to protect and promote Canadian EV jobs in response to China’s growing EV dominance.

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Queen Priyanka

Drag superstar

For ensuring the world knows her name

The former kids’ TV host cemented her place in Canadian drag history as the victor of the inaugural season of Canada’s Drag Race and has been serving up success ever since. As a lead on the most recent season of HBO’s We’re Here, Priyanka visited small-town USA to stage pop-up drag shows. As a feature correspondent on Etalk, she was nominated for a 2024 Canadian Screen Award. And as a burgeoning pop star, she’s on her way to global domination, currently supporting her debut album, Devastatia, on a world tour (Canada, the US, Europe and South America) that touches down in Toronto at the end of November.

Up next:

A role in Netflix’s holiday romance Meet Me Next Christmas and her own show on Crave called Drag Brunch Saved My Life.

Nick Wong

Andrew Oliver

CEO, Oliver and Bonacini

Because even food courts deserve a visionary

Hospitality baron Andrew Oliver woke from a deep pandemic depression with a bold idea: his father’s conglomerate, Oliver and Bonacini Hospitality, would rent every available restaurant space at the Well—so long as he could turn the penthouse office into a world-class restaurant. Now, that 38th-floor suite is home to Aera, a luxury steakhouse with panoramic views of the city. Meanwhile, O&B has transformed the Eaton Centre’s below-grade food court into a gourmet food hall inspired by London’s King’s Cross Station. Oliver now has command over both the upper and lower echelons of the Toronto food scene.

Up next:

Catering KingSett Capital’s new luxury event space on the top floor of Scotia Tower.

Oliver and Bonacini Hospitality

Angelica Lisk-Hann

Stunt coordinator

Because she’s Toronto’s most badass barrier-busting stunt person

This year, thanks to the combined power of The Fall Guy and Ryan Gosling’s abs, stunt performers are finally getting the credit they deserve—and Lisk-Hann is at the top of the adrenalin-fuelled list. As a Black woman in an industry dominated by white men, she has been a vocal advocate for diversity. Over her nearly 30 years in the business, she has accumulated more than 200 film and TV credits as a stunt coordinator and performer, including the GTHA-shot Umbrella Academy, the latest addition to the Transformers franchise and this year’s Cross. Behind the scenes, she’s successfully lobbied for better pay for her fellow stunt performers and taken steps to change the controversial practice of “painting down” white performers (exactly as gross as it sounds). She was also the driving force behind the creation of the CSA’s new stunt coordination award.

Side gig:

Through her company, the Collective Action Group, Lisk-Hann mentors young stunt performers, with a focus on Black women.

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