Plus, how a painter and restaurant host making $56,000 a year spends her money
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After leaving MLSE to found Oak View Group, which builds and runs big venues around the world, Leiweke has returned to the GTHA. He comes dangling promises of shiny arenas, good jobs and billions in private investment. “I’d love for Hamilton to have a PWHL team one day,” he says. “Toronto can’t satisfy all this demand for entertainment with one arena.” |
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M. J. Shimaka, 25, earns $40,000 per year from wages plus $12,000 in tips and $4,000 from artistic projects. She pays $1,180 a month for her portion of a three-bedroom apartment in Forest Hill North, which she shares with two roommates. Shimaka is currently saving $25 a month for a trip to Kenya to connect with her roots. “It’s not much, but it’s starting to add up,” she says. |
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Fifty goats will spend today noshing all-you-can-eat-style at the Don Valley Brick Works Park. After a successful pilot project last summer, the hoofed heroes are back, heading up the city’s counter-attack against invasive plant species. But, first, we have questions. |
Toronto’s real estate industry has announced a first for the queer community. The city is now home to Canada’s first Rainbow Registered residential rental, a new complex from Hazelview Properties near Yonge and Eglinton. Created by Canada’s 2SLGBTQI+ Chamber of Commerce, the Rainbow accreditation means that future residents, employees and partners will be trained to ensure that everyone—regardless of identity—feels welcome. |
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Last weekend, Toronto socialites, artists and business moguls headed to the countryside for art collector and patron Bruce Bailey’s annual Canadian Fête Champêtre. Notable guests—including Suzanne Rogers, Jeanne Beker and a green-haired Margaret Atwood—brought out fantastical outfits for the gala’s masquerade theme, “Un ballo in maschera.” Here are the event’s most delightfully extra ensembles. |
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