09 Feb 2015

10 Minutes with Lina Policaro

Lina Policaro, general manager of the Policaro Automotive Family, on working in a family business, leadership and giving back Q The Policaro Automotive Family has been a business institution in Brampton for 35 years. How have you managed to stay...
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09 Feb 2015

A Pilot’s Emergency

At 12:46 p.m. yesterday, with my body gushing full of adrenaline like I’ve never experienced in my life, I squeezed the push-to-talk trigger on the control stick of my high-performance, aerobatic two-seater aircraft and emphatically announced the three words that...
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02 Dec 2014

Sophie Kinsella – Confessions of Author

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...
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02 Dec 2014

Trapped in the Arctic’s Killing Ice

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...
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10 Oct 2014

Sarah’s Hope

How a young girl’s heroic fight against cancer has become her legacy This is a story of a child’s losing battle with cancer. It’s also a story about how I failed her. On a grey September evening, the rain softly...
By Simona Panetta-Kerr
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10 Oct 2014

A Walk with Daniel DeVito – Meet the 28-year-old IT consultant who wants to be the next mayor of Vaughan

The municipal election is just around the corner and the people of Vaughan will once again head back to the polls to decide who will lead the city as mayor. You’ll see some familiar names on the ballot, such as...
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10 Oct 2014

Political War Stories

Former provincial politician Greg Sorbara gives City Life early access to his memoir The Battlefield of Ontario Politics and reflects on his time on the frontlines The darkest hour of Greg Sorbara’s political career came swiftly and without warning. It...
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08 Aug 2014

Setting the Bar – Vivian Risi

There’s nothing Vivian Risi does that is done the ordinary way. Her manner of philanthropy especially goes beyond the commonplace, motioning a special kind of collective awe from the public and her peers. From raising millions for society’s most vulnerable,...
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06 Aug 2014

Woodbridge Art School and Gallery

Twenty years ago, Catherine Sgro began teaching art classes from her home in Vaughan as a side project. Today, her Woodbridge Art School has grown not only into an award-winning fine arts academy, but York Region’s largest and most renowned....
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