No one really wants to go to the beach in the dead of winter, especially in Toronto, a capital city of cold. But this year, one of T-Dot’s resolutions is to fall back in love with the freezing season, and a collaboration of designers and artists are helping to make this happen — and it’s …
Teenage anxiety is more prevalent than ever these days. City Life Magazine finds out why Chloe* was just 12 when the chips in her young life began to fall. Alone in her mind, she felt burdened by excessive worry with each passing day, her inability to concentrate and growing irritability foiling her day-to-day life. Feelings …
We’ve sifted through our Twitter feeds to hand-pick the coolest bits of culture that are trending this season. Feast your eyes on rainbow-hued Torontonian structures, star-studded soirees, spectacular spectacles and other pieces of what’s happening now 1. 2015 MERCEDES BENZ COUPE SUV Look at all that horsepower (401, to be exact) just radiating from the …
Overflowing with family and friends, supporters and strangers, the Steeles Memorial Chapel was filled to capacity as mourners bound together at a service in honour of Sarah Watkin. The trembling voice of a heartbroken mother’s eulogy reached even those standing out in the foyer as she shared a poignant moment of finding a paper airplane …
An inside look into the working mind of plucky Sophie Kinsella The British charm of Sophie Kinsella is as bright as the hot pink sheath she wears as we sit across from each other in the bar area of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Toronto. The former financial journalist-turned New York Times bestselling author, who shot …
Homelessness, hunger and loneliness — these are but a few of words to describe the dire situations many individuals and families in our community struggle with each year. And with the holiday season upon us, it’s easy to see why giving back, whether financially or through one’s time, pops up in our minds. But are …
City Life chats with the om-believeable yoga sensation Rachel Brathen about eating raw, becoming famous, and living a one-way ticket kind of lifestyle Tomorrow, Rachel Brathen plans to teach some of her fellow Arubans how to strike intricate yoga poses while balancing on oversized surfboards in the middle of the Caribbean Sea. “It’s called S.U.P. …
THE WESTIN TRILLIUM HOUSE BLUE MOUNTAIN People-watching is all the better at 42 kilometres an hour. Westin Trillium boasts Ontario’s first mountain coaster, affording majestic views of Georgian Bay or skiers tackling the slopes of the Niagara Escarpment. And the lodging? A wellness haven of dark wood furnishings, touches of natural stone and gas fireplaces …
How to become the MVP of this year’s party scene The holidays are right around the corner and the party invitations have piled up like the snowbanks left by snowplows at the end of your driveway. You’re excited, but nervous. Especially after you had a few too many at last year’s neighbourhood soiree and turned …
How a perilous journey through the Northwest Passage brought reconciliation to a father and his children For the better part of the 18 hours I’d spent at the helm, we’d only made about five kilometres total. Ship-killing ice was moving down from the north, forcing us into a wall of equally dangerous ice to the …