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Great Spaces: Three tricked-out basements for next-level lounging
Including a boldly designed den and an elevated teen hangout
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The best holiday gifts for kids
Including a Marvel best-friend necklace, a Hijabi plushie and an ear-wiggling, always-giggling Furby
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Multipurpose furniture to maximize small spaces
A disappearing bed, invisible storage and other pieces that seem to defy the laws of physics
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This designer transformed an under-stair storage space into a kids’ play wonderland
Kindergarten teacher Vanessa Silva knows how much kids love nooks, so when it came time to renovate her basement, she jumped at the chance to create a dedicated space for her two children
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Top Shelf: Four drool-worthy home libraries
Featuring a 22-foot-tall statement bookshelf (with a 10-foot ladder), an art deco lit haven, a treasure trove of travel tomes and more
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Ten outdoor chairs for stylish summer lounging
Including a luxurious bouclé chaise, a mid-century modern throne and a design-forward Roly Poly armchair
Real Estate News
Inside Toronto’s swankiest condo lobbies
Gone are the days of a lone concierge sitting behind a sad desk. Today’s best condo lobbies are lounges, bars, cafés and workspaces all rolled into one
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What
Top Chef Canada
host Eden Grinshpan is coveting in home decor
Featuring stylish spice mills, a ’70s-inspired sofa and a sexy walnut-stained nightstand
Get lost in the Gladstone’s annual art takeover
Every year, as part of the alt-design event Come Up To My Room, the Gladstone Hotel lets artist loose on its quirky rooms and...
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Slideshow: the 21 coolest home products on display at the Interior Design Show 2014
Industry professionals and earnest homemakers congregate this weekend at the Interior Design Show, the annual fair devoted to the...
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Proposed logos for Canada’s sesquicentennial look like they were designed in the nineties
Canada will celebrate its sesquicentennial in 2017 (that's a 150th anniversary, for those without without dictionary-level...
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Shopping List: 37 must-have home decor products from Toronto’s top design pros
Toronto has countless furniture stores, art galleries and showrooms selling everything from custom light fixtures to handmade...
Style
House Style: a pair of clothing entrepreneurs’ kid-friendly apartment in Forest Hill
Carly and her husband, Jesse, are professionally laid-back. They started a line of high-end sweats and hoodies in 2007 before...
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Six of Toronto’s most inspiring home decor blogs
Toronto has its share of home-grown decor blogs. Here, to separate the frou-frou from the fabulous, six of our...
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Store Guide: Quebec mini-chain Artemano brings its ethically-sourced wood furniture to Toronto
Name: Artemano Sells: Furniture, lighting and decor accessories Contact info: 698 Caledonia Rd., 416-548-7818, artemano.ca Hours:...
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Great Spaces: a look inside the lodgings of Drake Hotel owner Jeff Stober
Jeff Stober is known for his exacting taste. In fact, as the owner of the Drake Hotel and the new Financial District restaurant...
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Great Spaces: Jamie Metrick of the Elte clan raided the store’s showroom to decorate his condo
Jamie Metrick loves rugs. As the head of the rugs department at the venerable furniture store Elte—which his great-grandfather...
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Great Spaces: five garage conversions to swoon over
Torontonians don’t like compromise. We want to live in the city, and we also want guest rooms, art studios and dens. The answer?...
Real Estate News
Photo: the new design for the Mirvish-Gehry condo complex on King West
The second wave of plans are in for the hugely ambitious Frank Gehry -designed, David Mirvish -financed condo complex on the block...
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Five things to do in Toronto on the weekend of May 24-26
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Slideshow: the iconic, crazy cool shoes at the Bata Shoe Museum’s new sneaker exhibition
Out of the Box: The Rise of Sneaker Culture is the first exhibition in North America to trace the sneaker’s journey from...
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Great Spaces: a Yonge and Eglinton home that’s designed to age gracefully
Farzad and Connie started thinking about building a house five years ago when they were living in Cambridge, England. Farzad was...
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Chloé Comme Parris changes its name to Beaufille
Sisters, designers and Francophiles Chloé and Parris Gordon have unexpectedly changed the name of their eponymous line from...
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Extreme Makeover: a dated beauty salon gets a second life as a yoga studio
For years, Antje Bulthaup, an architectural designer, had her eye on a house with a fusty beauty salon on the ground floor and a...
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The Private and Independent School Directory Spring 2025
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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
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
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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
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
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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?
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
Deep Dives
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
“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
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