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THE CONVERSATION

EDITOR’S LETTER

Bound for Glory • Toronto plays home base for North America’s surging women’s sports scene

Q&A Hot Water • Therme Group CEO Robert Hanea says misunderstandings are driving opposition to his proposed spa at Ontario Place. The skeptics aren’t so sure

Ego Meter • WHAT’S MAKING AND SHAKING THE CITY’S SELF-IMAGE

Cost of Living • What Torontonians make and how they spend it

The Audit • AN APPRAISAL OF THE MONTH IN MONEY

Food, Politics, Real Estate, Culture.

Party Faithful • Toronto’s new socialites are more diverse, ubiquitous and glam than ever

MIXED MEDIA • Toronto’s top YouTube stars on how they made the leap to TV

Urban Diplomat

The Best Places to Live • A semi-scientific ranking of Toronto’s 158 neighbourhoods

THE NEW FACE • Blame Zoom, AI filters, TikTok. Facial alteration has become one of the fastest-growing segments of the $16-billion medical spa market. Toronto providers have never been busier, and their clients have never been younger

MERCHANT OF DEATH • After Kenneth Law lost his job as a low-level cook at the Royal York hotel, he found another way to make money: peddling suicide kits on the internet. Inside the shadowy online network that helps people die

Renowned and emerging artists in the spotlight at Art Toronto • Canada’s leading art fair is back with groundbreaking new programming

Revival Time • How one couple transformed an old church into a polychromatic playhouse

Salah Bachir • What the city’s most stylish philanthropist is coveting in home decor right now

Down to the Wire • After being told to vacate their midtown rental, this couple raced to find a new home in Durham

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Up Market • Toronto’s fancy new convenience stores have some of what you need—and everything you want

Tiers of Joy • Five ways to be shellfish this holiday season

Umami Dearest • The city’s newest cocktails are savoury, salty and sometimes even soupy

THE PERKS OF BEING AN INSIDER • Toronto Life’s membership program hosts a series of exclusive events

A non-fiction debut about the human cost of war

DANCE • A new ballet inspired by a seminal French novel

Catastrophic Impact • During my first year of med school, I suffered a traumatic brain injury. Doctors said I might never walk or talk again. I found a way to get better