An accent becomes the focus when a room is adorned with a Luke Irwin rug. The bespoke products speak to the true art form of traditional hand-knotted rugs — not to mention admirable ethical practices. Q. Where did your interest in rugs come from and when did you decide to make them your career? A. …
Spanning six Canadian cities, the sixth edition of the Italian Contemporary Film Festival honoured some of the biggest talents in new Italian and international cinema from June 8-16. Tony Nardi, two-time winner of the Genie Award for Best Actor, won the Special Achievement Award for Best Actor in the film La Sarrasine (The Saracen Women), …
Rover Parking is an online and mobile-phone service that allows homeowners to rent out their driveways for customers to park their vehicles in. It’s rooted in a participatory business model where homeowners can be both the entrepreneur and the customer when they are out and need to park somewhere. “People love it,” founder Grant Brigden …
Haute Couture Academy of Fashion, Fine Arts & Design held its Annual Fashion & Art Show Gala on July 5 at Chateau Le Jardin in Woodbridge. The event is Haute Couture’s year-end event, showcasing the school’s talented students and their magnificent work in fashion, fine arts and design. Fashion students design and model their own …
City Life brings you the hottest in furniture and fashion to keep the summer sizzle going. 1. Making sense with HomeSense: Dine in style with this chic HomeSense collection www.homesense.ca 2. Orange Ottoman: The Firth Rectangular Ottoman with a button-tufted velvet seat and gold-finished metal base www.wayfair.ca 3. Bee Waffle Bathrobes: Get your R&R started …
A night filled with comedy and cuisine: the Villa Leonardo Gambin Charity held its first annual Pasta & Paisans comedy fundraiser on June 3. Pasta and laughter were served up in bulk that evening, as Giuseppe the MC, Sandra Battaglini and headliner Frank Spadone supplied the comedy and entertainment. The event, which generates money for …
For more than four decades, instructors at Northern Karate Schools have been imparting the life skills of self-defence and self-improvement to thousands of martial arts students throughout Toronto and the GTA. Founded in 1972 by Hanshi Cezar Borkowski, Northern Karate Schools has remained a pillar in improving the confidence and self-discipline of its students. The …
When the current director of Turo Canada, Cedric Mathieu, joined the company in September 2014, he did so because he saw a “massive opportunity” to put non-occupied cars to better use. “People around the world spend about $80 billion a year on car rentals. The thing is, there are more than a billion cars on …
Forget factory farms and chasing bigger and bigger yields year after year. The New Farm is all about values and stewardship and keeping your eyes on the prize. It does well by doing good. Brent Preston doesn’t have the luxury of enjoying a hot or cold beverage and putting his feet up while he talks …
Sensing a trend to healthy eating decades ago turned Beretta Farms from a 100-acre property to a Canada-wide movement of 40 ranchers embracing organic farming — for the betterment of us all. Twenty-five years ago in 1992, few people were as curious about where their food came from as they are today, but two who …