For the best experience, read our newsletter in your browser → All the latest about Toronto this week |
---|
|
---|
In today’s edition of This City: how one couple renovated their camper van for $45,000. Plus, a breakdown of the crack mayor episode of Law & Order Toronto; a Q&A with doomsday expert Joanna Beaven-Desjardins, the executive director of Toronto Emergency Management; and more. Visit torontolife.com for all our city coverage. |
---|
|
---|
Dan Fletcher and Emily Langer bought a 2014 Ram ProMaster on Kijiji in 2022. It was filthy and completely empty, but with some help from friends and YouTube tutorials, the couple renovated it themselves, cutting out new windows and installing plumbing. Then they lived in it for six weeks while road-tripping across the western US. Here, they tell us about their DIY van conversion and how they make their relationship work in close quarters. |
---|
|
---|
| This week on Law & Order Toronto—the long-rumoured, eagerly anticipated Rob Ford episode that was hinted at in an early series trailer. “People kept tagging me on Twitter when that came out,” says Robyn Doolittle, the former Toronto Star investigative journalist who uncovered the crack smoking video with her colleague Kevin Donovan. She joins us for this week’s recap. |
---|
|
---|
| When calamity strikes, the City of Toronto needs to work quickly and efficiently with firefighters, police, paramedics, transit workers and others. That’s where Joanna Beaven-Desjardins, the executive director of Toronto Emergency Management, comes in. It’s her job to help Toronto avoid disasters—or at least survive them. |
---|
|
---|
What to see, do and read this month |
---|
|
---|
| Before the 19th century, the European canon considered art an almost exclusively male pursuit. But, of course, there were women artists, and as a new AGO exhibition shows, they made prolific contributions across many mediums. Making Her Mark, a collaboration with the Baltimore Museum of Art, covers four centuries of art and artifacts made by women, including bronze work, ceramics, painting and more. AGO, March 27 to July 1 |
---|
|
---|
| Toronto Life’s iconic Best Restaurants event, presented by Uber Eats, is back on May 13 at Evergreen Brick Works. Save the date and prepare your appetite for an immersive culinary experience featuring talented chefs and the restaurants that make up the June Where to Eat Now issue, celebrating the best places to eat in Toronto. Get tickets here. |
---|
|
---|
| In the latest issue: an optimist’s guide to surviving every doomsday scenario imaginable. Plus, obsessed with Barbie (and other weird collections), a harrowing memoir about postpartum psychosis, the best places to eat in the burbs, and more. Still not receiving Toronto Life at home? Subscribe today. |
---|
|
---|
Follow us for the latest from Toronto Life Copyright ©2024. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part strictly prohibited. Toronto Life is a registered trademark of SJC Media 15 Benton Rd. Toronto, M6M 3G2 You're receiving this email because you signed up for a Toronto Life newsletter. Unsubscribe. |
---|
|
---|
|
|