Real Estate News
Food & Drink
City News
Deep Dives
Culture
Style
Neighbourhoods
Newsletters
Membership
Subscribe
Sign in
Catherine Nugent
Style
Greta Constantine throws a raucous Parkdale dinner party to preview the fall 2013 collection
Greta Constantine designers Kirk Pickersgill and Stephen Wong once again opted out of fashion week for Fall 2013, instead feting...
Advertisement
Style
Toronto Fashion Week: Joe Fresh delivers a crisp spring/summer 2013 collection to his adoring fans
Toronto Fashion Week runs from October 22 to 26, in a large—and stylishly appointed—tent at David Pecaut Square. We’re...
Style
Toronto Fashion Week: Pink Tartan shows pink bustiers, pink butterflies and a model with pink hair
Toronto Fashion Week runs from October 22 to 26, in a large—and stylishly appointed—tent at David Pecaut Square . W e’re...
City News
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...
Advertisement
City News
THE SCENE: socialites and synchronized swimmers at Greta Constantine’s late-summer party
The closing days of summer are always a little dreary—thoughts of day drinking and cottage life shift back to work and...
City News
A look back at the Brazilian Ball, the annual black-tie extravaganza that taught Toronto to party
During its heyday, the Brazilian Ball was where you’d find drunken CEOs and socialites in a conga line with nearly naked...
Food & Drink
These Booths Were Made for Gawking: who sits where at La Société
The cuisine is supremely so-so, but the glitzy atmosphere and A-plus people-watching at La Société—the crown jewel of...
Advertisement
City News
The Rosens, the Nugents and other monied guests walked like Egyptians at the Fandango gala
Wannabe Cleopatras, pharaohs and sultans took over the Ritz-Carlton on Saturday night, causing the doorman to do a double-take as...
Shopping
We induct 13 city style icons into Toronto Life’s best-dressed hall of fame
Only a mighty few rock a signature look for a lifetime. Introducing, from our inaugural Stylebook, 13 entries into Toronto Life’...
City News
The Scene: Fashion Cares 25 launches without Elton John and Jeanne Beker
Last night at Charles Khabouth’ s La Société, Fashion Cares event co-chair Michael King and artistic director Philip Ing...
Advertisement
Style
Toronto Fashion Week’s best dressed: fall/winter 2012
We see so many people during Toronto Fashion Week, and while some people get all of their costume jewellery out for the...
Style
Pink Tartan shows a more expensive Joe Fresh at Toronto Fashion Week
Pink Tartan, Kimberley Newport-Mimran’ s label, showed separately from her husband Joe Mimran’ s for the first time ever last...
Style
Joe Fresh knocks it out of the park for ladies with his fall/winter 2012 collection, but what about the fellas?
It was a strange scene at last night’s Joe Fresh show. Not only was there no gargantuan lineup to get into the runway room, but...
Advertisement
Style
THE SCENE: check out the ups and downs on nights three and four of Toronto Fashion Week
Nights three and four of Toronto Fashion Week were completely packed with household names, like Canada’s Next Top Model walk...
Style
Pink Tartan crafts impeccable clothing for its very consistent spring/summer 2012 collection
The Pink Tartan runway show is always one of the season’s hottest tickets; maybe it’s because the whole affair is a big...
Style
Joe Freezy (also known as Joe Fresh, also known as Joe Mimran) creates exciting menswear for spring/summer 2012
We, just like everyone we know, have balked at Joe Fresh for being a grocery store brand at a fashion week—why are people...
Advertisement
Style
Greta Constantine draws a big crowd at Century Room (yes, that Century Room) for the kick-off to Rogue Fashion Week
Rogue Fashion Week is upon us, and Greta Constantine kicked it off last night with a show and after-party at King West’s Century...
Culture
Dream-casting The Real Housewives of Toronto: seven ideal stars for the Canada-bound reality show
We learned recently that the Real Housewives franchise is officially looking into a Canadian spinoff . No word for sure on which...
Style
David Dixon’s show gets standing ovation from Suzanne Rogers
The buzz around the Allstream Centre on Thursday was that over 1,600 people had RSVP'd for David Dixon' s two back-to-back...
Advertisement
Food & Drink
Million-dollar thrill: a peek inside the new Ritz-Carlton Hotel
We’ve been giddily watching the new Ritz-Carlton climb into the sky over downtown (with that lion-printed cover wrapped around...
Advertisement
Private School Guide
The Private and Independent School Directory Spring 2025
Big Stories
Deep Dives
Inside the rise and fall of the Vaulter Bandit, the 21st century’s most notorious bank robber
To fellow tourists he met around the world, Jeffery Shuman was a semi-retired developer with a bright smile, an even tan and a fat wallet. In truth, he was a legendary bank robber on the run from the Toronto police and the US Marshals
Deep Dives
Anchor Man: Fox News host John Roberts on Trump, the trade war and the American psyche
If Fox News seems an unlikely landing spot for a guy who got his start pumping out Platinum Blonde on MuchMusic, you probably haven’t heard his thoughts about joining the notorious network, the Canada–US relationship and what he misses most about Toronto
Deep Dives
Trump’s Loss, Toronto’s Gain: Meet the artists, professors, scientists and other luminaries ditching the US and moving north
They’re coming from Big Law, the Ivy League, arts institutes and beyond, brimming with smarts and energy and united by a common cause: avoiding the carnage of Donald Trump. True tales from the brain gain
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
Lady Parts: Inside Meredith MacNeill and Jennifer Whalen’s new show,
Small Achievable Goals
The
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?
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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?
Deep Dives
Almost
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
Deep Dives
“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
Buy Canadian
Food & Drink
“We felt disconnected from the outdoors before”: What St. Lawrence Market North vendors think of their new home
And what locally made and grown goods they’re selling
Food & Drink
Sort-of Secret: Amelia’s Market, a Geary Avenue grocer selling local goods and light lunches
Like lovely cheese plates paired with glasses of Ontario-made wine
Food & Drink
“There’s more attention now on shopping close to home”: How Broadfork Produce is connecting Toronto’s top chefs with Ontario farmers
And the west-end supplier is opening to the public soon
Food & Drink
The US tariffs are coming for your espresso martini
With Kahlúa no longer available at the LCBO, Toronto bartenders are getting creative