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THE CONVERSATION
Lights, Camera, Action • How a new state-of-the-art interventional radiology suite is helping doctors at Markham Stouffville Hospital send patients home more quickly.
A Comeback Story • As far as ideas go, driving from Keele and Lawrence to King and Spadina at rush hour during TIFF was an objectively bad one. There were three of us, all colleagues, and I was at the wheel. The distance was 13 kilometres; the duration, as it turned out, was one hour and 10 minutes. At that pace, even a semi-fit runner would have beaten us. Horrendous, right? Except somehow—scout’s honour—it wasn’t.
Victory Dance • Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam prepares for its premiere
Q&A Book Smarts • New Indigo CEO Peter Ruis has plans—some big, some small, some weird—to bring the retailer back to profitability. The multimillion-dollar question: Will they work?
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
The Questionnaire
Redeem Team • A bandwagon jumper’s guide to the Canadian men’s soccer team
Urban Diplomat
Hollywood North
THE HOME-COMING CLUB • They traded Toronto for more square footage outside the city. Then what? In a nutshell, they hated it—and they’re moving back.
THE FERRARI FUGITIVE
Novel Ideas • John Irving’s latest—and longest—book reflects a lifetime of thinking on love, family and sexual politics. At 80, he still has plenty left to say: about Trump, about abortion, about tattoos, about everything
Modern Family • How one couple transformed a mid-century North York backsplit into their own private paradise
Neighbourhood Watch • This couple toured Etobicoke’s Sunnylea district before finding their ideal starter home
THE PERKS OF BEING AN INSIDER • Toronto Life’s membership program hosts a series of exclusive events
Food & Drink • Why cook when you can outsource the prep (and the dishes) to a pro? Here are six private chefs to bring home for the holidays
Season of the ’Wich • Frank Ranalli’s opened up just before a certain hit series had people craving its Chicago-style Italian beef sandwiches
Culture • Our picks for the best things to see, do, read and hear this month in Toronto
The Kindness of Strangers • As a child, I found out I had a rare disease and would need a four-organ transplant. Fifteen years later, my son had the same life-saving surgery