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The Find: colourful Martone bikes are now for sale at The Room

The Find: colourful Martone bikes are now for sale at The Room

From now until August 10, Toronto cyclists can pick up a chic ride from Martone Cycling Co. at the brand's new pop-up in The Room...

Saks Fifth Avenue will be even more upscale when it comes to Canada

Saks Fifth Avenue will be even more upscale when it comes to Canada

Like it or not, Toronto is becoming a haven for international luxury labels: Yorkdale just announced five new brands, including...

The Torontification of Manhattan

Real Estate News

The Torontification of Manhattan

Three T.O.-based real estate power players, apparently not satisfied with the dandelion-like spread of skyscrapers in our...

Team Canada's sold-out toques are now going for $200 on eBay

Team Canada’s sold-out toques are now going for $200 on eBay

Late last week, news broke that Hudson Bay’s Team Canada toques were completely sold out—both online and in stores. The...

In a shocker move, the Bay sells its Queen and Yonge flagship to bring Saks downtown

In a shocker move, the Bay sells its Queen and Yonge flagship to bring Saks downtown

Bloor Street shoppers who were pumped for Saks Fifth Avenue to re-vamp The Bay's tired Yorkville space will have to put up with...

Saks Fifth Avenue is going to replace (and transform) The Bay at Yonge and Bloor

Saks Fifth Avenue is going to replace (and transform) The Bay at Yonge and Bloor

Watch out, Holts : another luxury department store is staking its claim on the Mink Mile. Saks Fifth Avenue —which was recently...

Brika—a curated, Toronto-based version of Etsy—opens a pop-up at Hudson’s Bay

Brika—a curated, Toronto-based version of Etsy—opens a pop-up at Hudson’s Bay

Even the most ardent advocate of handmade goods sometimes gets overwhelmed by the dizzying realm of Etsy. Enter Brika...

HBC buys Saks Fifth Avenue with plans to bring the upscale chain to Canada

HBC buys Saks Fifth Avenue with plans to bring the upscale chain to Canada

After weeks of negotiations and rumours of competing bids, Hudson’s Bay Company has finalized a $2.9-billion deal to buy and its...

Hudson’s Bay Company is looking at buying Saks Fifth Avenue

Hudson’s Bay Company is looking at buying Saks Fifth Avenue

In three months, HBC has promoted luxury guru Bonnie Brooks, opened Canada’s largest women’s shoe store, hinted it wants to...

Bonnie Brooks ends her five-year reign as HBC president

Bonnie Brooks ends her five-year reign as HBC president

Bonnie Brooks, the luxury retail whiz who led Hudson’s Bay’ s revamp from dowdy department store to high-flying retailer, is...

Hudson’s Bay Company’s U.S.-based owners are taking the company public

Hudson’s Bay Company’s U.S.-based owners are taking the company public

After months of rumours, the American owners of Hudson's Bay Company have officially announced that they're going public with...

There could be no more Zellers stores in Canada by next spring

More changes are afoot within Hudson’s Bay Company: the company has announced it will close the majority of the 64 remaining...

The Bay will open at Pearson Airport in October

The Bay will open at Pearson Airport in October

LS Travel Retail North America has announced plans to open the first-ever Hudson’s Bay Company airport store this October at...

Hudson’s Bay Company entertains the idea of an IPO

Hudson’s Bay Company entertains the idea of an IPO

Rumours are swirling about an initial public offering for Canadian icon Hudson’s Bay Company. Women’s Wear Daily is reporting...

Is Bloomingdale’s coming to Toronto?

The Globe and Mail recently reported that the Hudson’s Bay Company is currently talking with Bloomingdale’s to open a “store...

Target will be under federal review for its lack of CanCon prior to its arrival in 2013

Target will be under federal review for its lack of CanCon prior to its arrival in 2013

Before Target can land on Canadian soil next spring, the federal government has launched a review of the company’s practices to...

Chris Nuttall-Smith on Keriwa and Bannock, two restaurants riffing on Canadian culinary traditions

Chris Nuttall-Smith on Keriwa and Bannock, two restaurants riffing on Canadian culinary traditions

In the basement hallway of Keriwa Café, there’s a row of photographs showing an Ojibwa man dancing through Paris in feathered...

The Bay will host an intimate dinner with Madonna and the Weinstein Company during TIFF

The Bay will host an intimate dinner with Madonna and the Weinstein Company during TIFF

The TIFF 2011 invitations keep rolling in, and leave it to Madonna to draw the most buzz—oddly enough, the hype has nothing to...

Tommy Hilfiger, Jessica Stam and New York Ranger Brad Richards to attend a party at The Bay

Tommy Hilfiger, Jessica Stam and New York Ranger Brad Richards to attend a party at The Bay

The Bay has come up with the perfect angle to convince every heterosexual male in Toronto to visit its Toronto flagship on Queen...

VIDEO: Hudson’s Bay Company shows off its Topshop range, shoppers wear Ray-Bans

Some people think that a short journey to New York creates memories that couldn’t possibly be shared by Toronto locals...

Tenue de Nîmes taps Canadian cult denim brand Naked and Famous for a 24-piece exclusive

It isn’t every day that a Canadian brand teams up with an international boutique for a collaboration, and since the Hudson’s...

Inside the Bay’s scheme to steal the fashion crown from Holts

Inside the Bay’s scheme to steal the fashion crown from Holts

The sensible shoes and twin sets are gone, replaced by stilettos and crystal-encrusted gowns. There are valet parking and personal shoppers, and they’re serving champagne up on three. It’s all a part of the Bay’s scheme to win the loyalty of society shopaholics—and steal the fashion crown from Holts

Knocked off: the Hudson's Bay blanket's American look-alike

Knocked off: the Hudson’s Bay blanket’s American look-alike

Among our beloved symbols of Canadiana, like Tim Hortons, hockey and BeaverTails, the Hudson’s Bay point blanket ranks...

Jeanne Beker wears Hudson’s Bay coat to Paris fashion week

Last week, we wondered whether the Hudson's Bay Company would be able to maintain its buzzy status post–Olympic...

Summer Camp Guide

Summer Camp Directory 2026

Summer Camp Directory 2026

Discover our top-rated summer camps for kids of all ages

Wines of the World

Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from Toronto Life’s Best Restaurants

Wines of the World: Rediscover your favourites from Toronto Life’s Best Restaurants

From cabernet and merlot to icewine and chardonnay, these wines are primed to pair and delight

Big Stories

The Monster Cottages vs. the Resistance: Inside the ruthless battle for the future of Muskoka

The Monster Cottages vs. the Resistance: Inside the ruthless battle for the future of Muskoka

From Gravenhurst to Port Cockburn, the uber rich and powerful are buying up shoreline for private island compounds and sprawling mega-resorts, radically changing the face of Muskoka and infuriating environmentalists, locals and long-time cottagers

Dead Reckoning: The executor of their estate was supposed to divide it among their friends and family. Instead, he bankrupted it

Dead Reckoning: The executor of their estate was supposed to divide it among their friends and family. Instead, he bankrupted it

When Sami and June Suomalainen died, it fell to the executor of their wills, a lawyer they hardly knew, to sell their million-dollar midtown home and split the proceeds among their inheritors. Seven years and six lawsuits later, the beneficiaries haven’t seen a cent

These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2026

These are Toronto’s best new restaurants of 2026

This year’s list includes a 150-square-foot omakase counter, a Parisian brasserie in the Annex, Korean comfort food, Filipino karaoke and a Summerhill seafood spot that’s reinventing the raw bar

Hoop Dreams: Inside the making of the Toronto Tempo, the city’s newly assembled WNBA team

Hoop Dreams: Inside the making of the Toronto Tempo, the city’s newly assembled WNBA team

After years of false starts, months of nail-biting negotiations between the league and the players’ union, and an 11th-hour scramble to build a roster, Toronto finally has its own major-league women’s basketball team. Now it just has to live up to the hype

Live From New York: Inside the slay-or-be-slayed world of Studio 8H with SNL rookie Veronika Slowikowska

Live From New York: Inside the slay-or-be-slayed world of Studio 8H with SNL rookie Veronika Slowikowska

Slowikowska is the first Canadian to join the cast of Saturday Night Live in more than 25 years. She’s also this season’s breakout star. Now all she has to do is keep crushing it

Better Call Deepak: Meet drug lord Ryan Wedding’s self-styled cocaine lawyer

Better Call Deepak: Meet drug lord Ryan Wedding’s self-styled cocaine lawyer

The man who represented the infamous drug lord is unapologetically flashy—he has a Lamborghini and two Maseratis and wears $1,200 Louboutins. But did he become an accomplice to his client’s crimes? Deepak Paradkar says he was just doing his job. The FBI says he crossed a line

The Redemption Tour: The Blue Jays are back. Can they finish what they started?

The Redemption Tour: The Blue Jays are back. Can they finish what they started?

We’re not over it, but they are. Six months after that devastating defeat, the Jays take the field once more, bent more than ever on winning the World Series. Dispatches from the dugout

My Life as a True Crime Spectacle: My father’s crimes fractured our family. Then came the press

My Life as a True Crime Spectacle: My father’s crimes fractured our family. Then came the press

My dad was the infamous Rolex Killer. The news of his crimes nearly broke me. And ever since, my family has been hounded by reporters, podcasters and true crime fanatics—a whole new circle of hell

Robby on the Line: Out and about with Robby Hoffman, comedy’s equal opportunity assassin

Robby on the Line: Out and about with Robby Hoffman, comedy’s equal opportunity assassin

Larry David is the indisputable king of brutal honesty. But if anyone comes close, it’s Robby Hoffman, the suddenly everywhere comic from whom no group is safe

Notes on an Academic Scandal: Why did TMU demote a leading advocate of DEI?

Notes on an Academic Scandal: Why did TMU demote a leading advocate of DEI?

Pamela Sugiman, a former arts dean at Toronto Metropolitan University, was a key player in the school’s push for diversity, equity and inclusion. When the backlash against DEI arrived, she was demoted. The school says it was a coincidence. She disagrees

City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?

City of Renters: The dream of home ownership isn’t dead. Maybe it should be?

Scenes from the rent-for-life revolution

This generation was pummelled by Covid high school. Now the job market wants to replace them with AI

This generation was pummelled by Covid high school. Now the job market wants to replace them with AI

It’s hard out here for a 20-something

The High Price of Hope: Inside Toronto’s white-hot fertility market

The High Price of Hope: Inside Toronto’s white-hot fertility market

Desperate wannabe parents are betting their life savings on unproven treatments and false promises

Man vs. Machine: ChatGPT caused him to spiral into delusion. Now he’s suing OpenAI

Man vs. Machine: ChatGPT caused him to spiral into delusion. Now he’s suing OpenAI

Last spring, a chatbot convinced Allan Brooks that he had discovered a revolutionary mathematical theory. He says it nearly destroyed him

Smart City: 20 mind-blowing Toronto inventions that are changing the world

Smart City: 20 mind-blowing Toronto inventions that are changing the world

Homegrown innovations that will transform lives for the better

293 Days Without My Son: I gave up everything to rescue my kidnapped child from my abusive husband

293 Days Without My Son: I gave up everything to rescue my kidnapped child from my abusive husband

When Valentino was abducted, I knew three things: he’d been taken by his father, he was somewhere in India and I would not rest until I found him

The Violent Life of a Tow Truck Driver: How an unremarkable profession turned Toronto into a war zone

The Violent Life of a Tow Truck Driver: How an unremarkable profession turned Toronto into a war zone

The towing industry has been hijacked by criminals and kingpins who fleece customers, beat up dissenters and shoot their enemies. Inside the brutal turf war for the city’s wrecks

Just Listed

For Sale: 99 Lake Promenade

For Sale: 99 Lake Promenade

This classic Hamptons-style home by Chatsworth Fine Homes offers an exciting opportunity to customize a new dream home and build instant value - without the long wait of new construction

For Sale: 92 Arjay Crescent

For Sale: 92 Arjay Crescent

As luxury buyers become increasingly focused on wellness, privacy, and long-term livability, a new generation of custom homes is emerging – one defined less by excess and more by thoughtful design

For Sale: 171 Durant Ave

For Sale: 171 Durant Ave

This rare property features 2 houses on 1 lot

For Sale: 50 First Avenue

For Sale: 50 First Avenue

A testament to time presiding over one of Uxbridge's most storied streetscapes, this magnificently preserved circa 1880 residence commands its prominent corner lot with the quiet confidence of a true architectural landmark

For Sale: 7 Bentley Drive

For Sale: 7 Bentley Drive

A commanding architectural statement in prestigious Stonegate–Queensway, this newly completed custom residence by Bali Homes Group presents a refined interpretation of contemporary luxury living