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The Globe and Mail •

Is $1-million enough to buy this couple a spacious townhouse north of Toronto?

In 2017, Joni Cheung bought a one-bedroom-plus-den preconstruction condo in Richmond Hill, Ont., for $348,000. By the time it was completed, in December, 2021, she was in a relationship with Ryan Berard, now a 33-year-old technical sales lead, and the couple moved into the 565-square-foot condo together.

“It was on the squishier side,” Ms. Cheung says of their condo. Mr. Berard works from home while Ms. Cheung is on a hybrid work schedule, so they set up two workspaces, one of which had to be m...
The Globe and Mail •

Quebec mall redevelopment to take landscape-first approach

A new, repurposed mall in Gatineau, Que., is leading the charge of retail centre reinvention amid the rise of e-commerce and the changing ways Canadians are shopping.

The $1.3-billion project, named Espace Canevas, is redeveloping a 16-acre site with 192,000 square feet of retail space, 180,000 square feet of office and community space, and 2.4-million square feet of residential space, equivalent to about 2,600 units. Espace Canevas also includes 120,000 square feet of parks and public space, a...
Cottage Life •

Buy the Way: Parents and children pool their resources together to co-own a cottage

Sarah Cameron’s fondest childhood memories happened at her family’s cottage on Cordova Lake, near Havelock, Ont. “My parents bought it before I was born,” she says. “We would go up there and I would play in the woods.” Her cottage upbringing led Sarah to a love of camping and the outdoors—a trait she shares with her partner, Frankie Tarascio. So, after her parents sold the cottage in 2014, Sarah and Frankie began thinking about buying their own. “I really missed having a place that we could go,”...
Canadian Grocer •

Meet Kim Wiseman, the Montreal entrepreneur behind Kanel premium spices

Kim Wiseman’s connection to spices started early. “My parents spent years in India, so I grew up in a house with tons of spices,” she explains. Her love of spices carried into adulthood, when she began experimenting with her own blends while cooking.After going on maternity leave from her role as head of customer engagement at DavidsTea in 2015—and welcoming a second child in 2017—she found herself in need of simpler, more efficient ways to prepare meals. She went looking for mealtime shortcuts,...
Chatelaine •

Do You *Really* Need A Whole-Body Scan? - Chatelaine

In Canada, eligibility for medical screenings is based on factors like age, sex and family history. But privately owned, for-profit clinics across the country offer whole-body MRI scans that can purportedly catch and treat abnormalities earlier. The price tag? Anywhere from $3,000 to $3,500.Are these scans worth the steep cost? Two Canadian doctors weigh in.“The most common reason people do this is because they think it will find early-stage cancers,” says Dr. Lauren Lapointe-Shaw, an associate...
The Globe and Mail •

After delays hit his preconstruction Toronto condo, this solo buyer shifts gears to find a larger unit to host parents

In September, 2017, Sidharth Iyer moved from his native India to Canada. He owned a one-bedroom-plus-den condo in Mumbai, which he rented out after leaving the country, but wanted to become a property owner in his new hometown of Toronto. By May, 2019, he had purchased a one-bedroom, one-bath condo in the city’s Weston neighbourhood for $299,999.

Mr. Iyer, a 37-year-old director at an event technology startup, would host his parents for four to five months of the year whenever they visited from...
Toronto Life •

Four condo rooftops built for resort-level relaxation - Toronto Life

Where: Canary Landing
Developer: Dream Unlimited, Tricon Residential and Kilmer Group
Landscape architect: CCxA
Year opened: 2023
Amenities: Pool, community garden, kids’ play area, green roof, barbecue and lounge, covering 17,768 square feetCCxA, the architects behind Sugar Beach, Berczy Park and Love Park, among other downtown public spaces, brought a similar ethos to the design of the outdoor areas of Maple House at Canary Landing. “We approach amenities like parks,” says landscape architect...
Canada Media Fund •

Mittens & Pants makes live-action TV magic with real animals   | Canada Media Fund

Phil McCordic faced a steep learning curve in adapting to the unpredictable nature of filming live animals. But his show is now airing in 57 countries, spurring viral social media posts, and has inspired a Roblox game. 
In 2006 director, producer and kids’ TV host Phil McCordic was working on a show called Tumbletown Tales, which featured real hamsters and rodents, when he came up with the idea for his preschool TV show Mittens & Pants. “Ever since then I had always been thinking to myself, ‘It'...
Canadian Grocer •

These three women are on a mission to create clean, tasty snacks

In 2015, Tara Tomulka was burned out from her career in corporate communications. She quit her job and decided to study holistic nutrition, which sparked her interest in raw foods. That led her to develop the first raw vegan food course and vegetarian culinary arts courses at Toronto’s George Brown College, along with hosting culinary workshops, blogging and sharing recipes under the name Rawcology. But, she wanted to have a greater impact and thought of developing a line of consumer packaged fo...
Macleans.ca •

Faces of the Trade War

Donald Trump’s trade war is an existential threat for Canada’s small and medium-sized businesses. Every year, they export more than $200 billion worth of goods to the United States and import nearly $150 billion worth—including equipment, food, construction materials and other products they need to stay afloat. Now, as businesses contend with tariff-induced inflation, suppliers are disappearing, prices are skyrocketing and profit margins are shrinking or vanishing altogether. That puts small-bus...
Cottage Life •

Buy the Way: This family from Toronto lucked out and bought the cottage they were renting on Stoney Lake

In 2018, Stephanie and Mike Haas rented a friend’s cottage in Marmora, Ont., for a week with their young son Benjamin, who was five years old at the time; Mike’s sister; and his sister’s kids.“The kids being able to run around and hang out was fun,” says Stephanie.
After returning home to Toronto, Mike and Stephanie thought it’d be nice to buy a vacation property of their own someday. They planned to spend the next few years renting to experience different regions, lakes, and cottage layouts to...
Toronto Life •

This flight attendant makes $95,000 per year. How does he spend it? - Toronto Life

Charles Parreira is a 43-year-old flight attendant. He’s paid hourly and brings in roughly $95,000 a year. In 2010, he bought a one-plus-one-bedroom, one-bathroom starter condo at Lansdowne and Dupont for $189,000, which he later sold for $530,000. Breaking into the market that early helped him pay for his current condo—a two-bedroom, two- bathroom unit at Galleria on the Park in Wallace Emerson, which he purchased in November of 2019 for $705,000. He considers it his forever home and hopes to r...
The Globe and Mail •

This engaged expat couple seeks a starter home in Toronto under $950,000 – with room to grow

Chris Latham moved from Brisbane, Australia to Toronto in 2019 for a work opportunity at an international construction consulting company. He figured he’d spend a few years in the city.

Then, in 2022, he met Lucia England. She had just relocated to Toronto from the U.K. for a job at the same employer.

“I was introduced to the work expat group, and that’s how me and Chris met,” Ms. England says. “We’ve been together ever since.”

In January, 2023, the couple moved into an 1,100-square-foot rent...
The Globe and Mail •

Against the odds: Lessons in resilience from Canadian women business leaders

In 2022, Kristy Miller, chief executive officer of The Scented Market, a handmade candle and bodycare company based in Guelph, Ont., went on a surprise vacation with her husband for her 40th birthday to Nashville. On the last day of their trip, as Ms. Miller was packing up her bags to head home, she bent over and heard a pop. “All of a sudden, I had no feeling in my legs,” she recalls. “I could not stand up on my own. I was completely paralyzed from the waist down.”

Ms. Miller, with the help of...
The Globe and Mail •

How AI is infiltrating the hiring process for recruiters and job seekers

When Aamna Coskun first started her career as a recruiter more than a decade go, she recalls that the “post and pray” strategy was prevalent. “Networking wasn’t even that much of a thing,” she says.

Then, around 2017, applicant tracking systems (ATS) – software that helps hiring managers and recruiters post jobs, screen candidate resumes, schedule interviews and communicate with them – came into the fold.

When it came to reviewing resumes, ATSes used to require filters and Boolean search strin...
Toronto Life •

How a family transformed their dated Woodbridge townhouse into a moody delight - Toronto Life

A four-storey, 1,900-square-foot, three-bedroom, three-bathroom townhouse in Woodbridge.In 2021, a father and his two children were downsizing from an estate home in Uxbridge to this townhouse in Woodbridge. The kids, who both played competitive hockey, needed to be closer to their home arena and private school. But, during the purchase, the family found their new home dark and dated and knew that a proper renovation would be in order. So they hired Kristi Bullock, an interior designer at Emeral...
Chatelaine •

Do You Really Need All-Body Deodorant? - Chatelaine

You might have noticed some new items at the drugstore lately: all-body deodorant sprays, balms and creams touting their ability to reduce odours everywhere. But are they really necessary? Here’s what you need to know.“Deodorant is a product that helps mask odours that result from the breakdown of sweat by bacteria,” explains Dr. Monica Li, a Vancouver-based dermatologist. It does this using fragrance, as well as with ingredients like mandelic and lactic acid that help inhibit the growth of odou...
Cottage Life •

Bestselling author Bryn Turnbull's family cottage used to be covered in frog tchotchkes. Now, it's a Georgian Bay gem

Bryn Turnbull’s memory of her family’s 1920s-era cottage on Georgian Bay, Ont., clad in rugged stone and charming blue panelling, actually predates their ownership of it. “It was stiflingly hot, and the interior was green and covered head-to-toe in frog tchotchkes,” she says. “I mean every available surface, every door stopper, and every piece of art.”
Bryn’s maternal grandparents owned the cottage next door, where she spent her summer vacations as a young girl in the 1990s. When the neighbourin...
Canadian Grocer •

Inside the making of a booming Jamaican patty brand

Once COVID hit, Rowe needed to pivot from her original business idea and decided to sell direct to customers instead, delivering her products to people’s homes. “I just started promoting the patties on Facebook Marketplace,” Rowe explains. At its peak, she would make up to 500 patties a week by hand and deliver them across the GTA. “People were so happy to see you,” she recalls of the home deliveries. But, she recognized her business model wasn’t scalable. So, at the end of 2020, she took a six-...
Canadian Grocer •

Inside the making of a booming Jamaican patty brand

Once COVID hit, Rowe needed to pivot from her original business idea and decided to sell direct to customers instead, delivering her products to people’s homes. “I just started promoting the patties on Facebook Marketplace,” Rowe explains. At its peak, she would make up to 500 patties a week by hand and deliver them across the GTA. “People were so happy to see you,” she recalls of the home deliveries. But, she recognized her business model wasn’t scalable. So, at the end of 2020, she took a six-...

The Non-Retirement Plan: Meet Michael Eskin, the Rapping Scientist Who’s Still Going Strong at 83

We’re used to hearing about retirement as a finish line – a moment to step back, slow down, and fade quietly into leisure. But for a growing number of people, the prescribed retirement age isn’t a deadline, it’s a doorway. In this series, we’ll meet the people who are rewriting the script on aging – and ultimately proving that sometimes, the most meaningful work begins when everyone else thinks it’s time to stop.
Michael Eskin, 83
Distinguished professor at the University of Manitoba

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Cottage Life •

For the Sleeman family, the cottage isn't where they go to get away from it all—it's where their work begins

Quinn usually harvests enough bulrushes to fill two bags, leaving plenty for the frogs, birds, and other wildlife in the marsh. The family only harvests bulrushes at the cottage once they begin to die, around Labour Day, since they’re only useful once the stalks have dried out. Plus, it’s kinder for the environment to wait until the end of the growing season.
The Sleeman cottage, aside from being a good place to harvest bulrushes, has been an important family epicentre since John Sleeman and his...

The Non-Retirement Plan: At 84, Culinary Entrepreneur Myra Sable Says She Doesn’t Need an Exit Plan

We’re used to hearing about retirement as a finish line – a moment to step back, slow down, and fade quietly into leisure. But for a growing number of people, the prescribed retirement age isn’t a deadline, it’s a doorway. In this series, we’ll meet the people who are rewriting the script on aging – and ultimately proving that sometimes, the most meaningful work begins when everyone else thinks it’s time to stop.
Myra Sable, 84
Owner, Sable & Rosenfeld, a gourmet food company
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