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50 Most Influential 2015
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Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #1, Drake
Today, as far as the rest of the world is concerned, Drake is Toronto
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Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #2, John Tory
John Tory has taken the first steps toward defining his legacy
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Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #3, Kathleen Wynne
It's been a rocky year for the premier
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Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #4, George Cope
Cope is the head of Canada’s largest telecommunications company
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Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #5, Gerald Butts
Butts is now the most powerful non-elected person on Parliament Hill
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Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #6, Guy Laurence
Laurence is now entering year three of his attempted turnaround of Rogers
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Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #7, Ian Black
Black is the regional head of a global corporate scofflaw
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Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #8, Jennifer Keesmaat
Keesmaat is Toronto's defiant, outspoken chief planner
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Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #9, Larry Tanenbaum
Tanenbaum is the city’s most powerful sports figure
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Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #10, Naomi Klein
Klein is one of the world's leading critics of capitalism
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Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #11, Katie Telford
Telford led Justin Trudeau's ground campaign
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Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #12, José Bautista
Bautista's three-run homer elevated him from star slugger to cult hero
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Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #13, Patrick Brown
Brown is the second most powerful person in Queen’s Park
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Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #14, Piers Handling and Cameron Bailey
Handling and Bailey rep the most important movie marketplace not named Cannes
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Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #15, Randy Lennox
Lennox has domain over Bell's original and in-house television productions
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Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #16, John Ruffolo
Ruffolo commands one of Bay Street’s largest private venture capital firms
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Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #17, Nick Kouvalis
Kouvalis is the ultimate guy behind the guy
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Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #18, The Weeknd
This was the year The Weeknd achieved monster commercial success
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Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #19, Brendan Shanahan
Shanahan is the man responsible for returning the most hallowed franchise in hockey to greatness
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Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #20, Ted Livingston
Livingston suddenly finds himself in the upper echelons of the mobile start-up world
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Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #21, Ratna Omidvar
Omidvar is one of the city’s staunchest champions of diversity
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Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #22, David Thomson
Thomson is the public face, however reluctantly, of his family’s $30.7-billion fortune
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Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #23, Mark Saunders
Saunders heads up the country’s largest municipal police force
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Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #24, Galen Weston
Weston has redefined grocery shopping for the 21st century
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Dancing Queens: Patrons, staff and performers share their wildest memories of Crews and Tangos, Toronto’s most storied drag bar
Crews and Tangos has been enforcing the rules of the Village for more than 30 years: wear what you want, kiss who you want, but don’t forget to tip the drag queens. With a condo development looming, we asked around for tales from the iconic spot
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The Joy of Sex with Strangers: A Toronto hotwife’s adventures in ethical non-monogamy
Three months ago, I was a suburban mom in a monogamous relationship. Now I’m sleeping with people I meet online—with my husband’s blessing—and we’ve never been happier. Don’t judge us until you’ve read our story
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The Scandal, the Firing and the Fallout: Anatomy of a Bay Street fiasco at RBC
Nadine Ahn was a high-ranking executive at the bank. Ken Mason, her subordinate, was rapidly promoted. Then someone claimed to see them canoodling at the Royal York, tipped off HR and triggered an inquisition
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Edward the Conqueror: The unlikely ascent of Canada’s telecom king
Edward Rogers was dismissed as a meddling nepo baby—until he muscled out his siblings, acquired his competitors, cornered the telecom market and became the dominant force in Canadian sports
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Lady Parts: Inside Meredith MacNeill and Jennifer Whalen’s new show,
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Baroness von Sketch Show
alumnae have elevated joking about women’s issues to an art. Their new show takes aim at menopause. How funny is that?
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Murder in the Blue Mountains: The story behind the killing of Ashley Schwalm
Ashley and James Schwalm had what seemed like a fairy tale life—two wonderful children, fulfilling careers and a gorgeous home close to the private ski club where they’d fallen in love. Then Ashley’s remains turned up in a burned-out car at the bottom of a ditch, and all signs pointed to her husband
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Dark Horse: Inside the fall of Eric Lamaze, Canada’s most famous equestrian
For years, Lamaze was the world’s top-ranked show jumper, living an enviable life filled with fancy cars, international travel and adoring fans—the kind of life a person might do anything to protect
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Dividing Line: How the Bloor Street bike lane turned the city into a battlefield
A few kilometres along Bloor has become Toronto’s most contested strip of concrete, igniting fights over congestion, safety and the future of downtown
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The Chosen One: At just 23, Scottie Barnes is the new face of the Raptors—and the team’s best chance of salvation
Barnes is shouldering the weight of an impatient, basketball-mad city, a hit-and-miss team, and his own colossal ambitions. Does he look worried?
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Famous: Inside the Beaches’ rise to rock stardom
A viral earworm about a breakup turned the Beaches into Toronto’s hottest export. Now, the panty-throwing, stage-diving, all-girl rock band is seducing fans around the world
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“I was nearly beaten to death by my partner. The case was dismissed because it took too long to get to trial”
How an overburdened justice system is failing survivors of intimate partner violence
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Brave New Year: The ultimate try-anything-once bucket list for 2025
For inspiration on wonderful, wild and even some slightly reckless experiences to enjoy in the year ahead
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The stars of the PWHL’s Toronto Sceptres on finally having a league of their own
After kicking off a new chapter for hockey with the PWHL, Natalie Spooner, Sarah Nurse and Blayre Turnbull are blazing a trail for women in sports
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The 50 Most Influential Torontonians of 2024
Our annual ranking of the people whose courage, smarts and clout are changing the world as we know it
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Food & Drink
The US tariffs are coming for your espresso martini
With Kahlúa no longer available at the LCBO, Toronto bartenders are getting creative
Food & Drink
These Ontario-made booze collaborations are coming to a restaurant near you
Toronto bars and restaurants are partnering with their favourite distillers, winemakers and brewers to produce custom-made drinks. Here, nine crushable new concoctions
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“We have over 100 cases of American wine trapped at the LCBO”: Toronto’s Grape Witches on what it’s like to run a bottle shop during a trade war
It’s not as simple as taking sides when you’re a small business
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Six Toronto restaurants serving up all-Canadian menus
With a trade war upon us, our city’s chefs are taking a stand