NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Since 1905, the Toronto Santa Claus Parade has marched, floated and upside-down clowned its way through the downtown core, delighting hundreds of thousands of onlookers and kicking off the holiday season. In that time, there have been challenges: two world wars, the Great Depression and, now, the fallout from the pandemic, which has put a question mark on the parade’s future prospects. Earlier this month, the organization behind the tradition announced a $250,000 shortfall in its 2025 budget and launched a GoFundMe for public support. Clay Charters, the parade’s CEO, spoke to us about support from the feds, the realities of corporate sponsorship after the pandemic and the 2024 float most likely to wow.

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At No. 4 on our list of this year’s most influential Torontonians: Edward Rogers. Agreeing (in principle) to purchase Bell’s stake in MLSE is just the latest victory for the telecom scion, who turned a legal squabble with his sisters over control of the Rogers board into his coronation. Since assuming the executive chairman role, Rogers has been kneecapping the competition, nabbing the rights to HGTV and the Food Network from Corus on the heels of the $26-billion Shaw deal—the largest telecom takeover in Canadian history.

We rounded up more than 120 covetable items to give or get, from bargain-basement deals and steals to the splurgiest of splurges. Shop our 2024 gift guide by category, starting with the best gifts for culture aficionados.

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