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Six fashion-forward trends you need to tap into this summer
Plus: What to expect from the epic Nordstrom Anniversary Sale
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Inside Nordstrom Rack, the luxury department store’s first discount outlet in Canada
Plus, a few of the best deals we found
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Downtown Toronto’s best holiday window displays, ranked
Ranked from "Fa-la-la-la fine" to "Ho, ho, holy moly"
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How NORDSTROM Personal Stylists turn a shopping trip into family fun day
Catherine Cachia and Lionel McDonald are having trouble remembering their first date. Not because it happened so long...
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Eight awesome umbrellas to properly protect you from all these spring showers
Stay dry out there
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Six of the best pop-up shops in Toronto this spring
Shop temporary boutiques from celebrity-approved labels
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The best boxing day sales in Toronto
Where to find everything from cozy parkas to strappy stilettos—at a steal
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The ten best Toronto store openings of 2016
Mega-retailers made their mark and local labels launched flagships for the first time
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Toronto’s department store holiday window displays, ranked
Toronto Life's very unofficial ranking of the city's best department-store holiday displays (plus one slightly sombre honourable mention)
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A sneak peek inside Yorkdale’s huge new wing, with Nordstrom, Uniqlo and a Canada Goose flagship
Check out the mall's new $331 million expansion
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The best fall Madewell essentials available at Toronto’s new Nordstrom
Everything you need for an effortless autumn
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Heel thyself in the season’s hottest new booties
This season’s statement heels are literally that: austere black booties that let their mirrored, metallic, sculptural platforms do the talking
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Toronto’s top three new stores for fall
The most exciting store openings this season are imports
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Inside the Eaton Centre’s new Nordstrom, with a Madewell boutique and 24-hour concierge
Take a tour of the downtown mall's new three-floor department store
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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...
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Nordstrom is taking over from Sears at Toronto Eaton Centre
Nordstrom is known for stocking a range of brands, from Valentino couture to Topshop, which operates standalone boutiques out of...
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Shop Talk: new stores and shopping websites from April 2013
Opened Yorkdale Mall, 3401 Dufferin St., 416-789-3261, ca.allsaints.com The latest arrival to the Ossington strip’s burgeoning...
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Yorkdale Mall is getting a Nordstrom store and another fancy new expansion
Less than five months after unveiling its swanky 145,000-square-foot expansion, Yorkdale Shopping Centre has announced plans for...
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Year in Review: international brands had a love affair with Toronto
Condo developers aren’t the only ones salivating over Toronto’s buoyant economy. A raft of international retailers set up shop...
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Holt Renfrew enters the off-price fray with hr2
Holt Renfrew isn’t taking the American retail invasion lightly. The luxury retailer has announced plans to open an off-price...
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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...
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Nordstrom confirms it will open four Canadian stores, including one in Toronto
As was rumoured earlier this summer, Nordstrom is indeed planning to open four department stores in Canada (meaning Canadians will...
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Nordstrom is rumoured to be coming to Canada
As Canadian retailers brace (and Canadian shoppers squeal) for the arrival of Target, another American department store is quietly...
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Is there a future for luxury sporting goods in Toronto? Sporting Life hopes so
Sporting Life , Ontario’s luxury sporting goods store (and $2,300 parka emporium), is considering a search for private investors...
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Private School Guide
The Private and Independent School Directory Spring 2025
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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
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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
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
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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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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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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
Food & Drink
Six Toronto restaurants serving up all-Canadian menus
With a trade war upon us, our city’s chefs are taking a stand