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Rainbow-coloured fins provide solar shading for the west façade of Friends of Ruby Home, a housing and support facility for LGBTQI2S-identifying youth. Photo courtesy Friends of Ruby To write about a building you...

DrinkBox is quite a prolific video game developer. Since 2008, the Toronto-based indie studio has tackled three distinct genres: the side-scrolling platformer in two Tales from Space games, the ‘Metroidvania’ with...

Maria Cichosz is a rare mind. At once a novelist and literary theorist, her work across forms and registers engages everything from sensory experience and allegorical interpretation to revelatory drug trips and...

Lockdown protocols are ever-shifting, and with public gatherings limited, annual hanami or cherry blossom celebrations are once again beaming into homes across the globe. Here are some of the live-streams available to...

  Alchemy is setting out to transform the future of cannabis with the opening of Canada’s first highly immersive retail store in the heart of downtown Toronto. Designed by Paolo Ferrari, Alchemy’s innovative...

A glass elevator tube is just one of the unusual features at this sprawling Toronto loft, located inside a converted train factory in the Corso Italia neighbourhood, close to The Junction. The three-bedroom...

After premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2020, Netflix is bringing the father-son drama Concrete Cowboy to the streaming service in April. The first Concrete Cowboy trailer has arrived, setting up...

Last month I wrote a post introducing the One Delisle video series. Well, in case you missed it, the next two episodes in the series are now out, which you can watch over here. My personal favorite (so far) is episode...

Overview: Van Der Hout Jewelry was founded by Karen Van Der Hout who honed her craft in fine jewelry as a second generation New York City industry veteran. In creating Van Der Hout Jewelry, Karen passionately wanted to...

Waterfront Toronto is seeking a new development partner for its 12-acre Quayside site. This comes almost a year after a partnership with Alphabet-owned Sidewalk Labs to develop a smart neighbourhood in the area was...

© Alchemy Canna Co. / Photography: Joel Esposito There’s no denying, Canada‘s forward Cannabis Act is a gift that keeps on giving, and we mean that strictly from a design point of view. The new law may have...

© Alchemy Canna Co. / Photography: Joel Esposito There’s no denying, Canada‘s forward Cannabis Act is a gift that keeps on giving, and we mean that strictly from a design point of view. The new law may have...

Global design practice Perkins and Will has raised the bar for sustainable campus design with the award-winning Daphne Cockwell Health Sciences Complex, a Ryerson University facility designed to achieve LEED Gold...

Pinterest has announced plans to expand its Toronto office and open a new engineering hub in the city. The company says it plans to hire 50 new employees in 2021, including first-time roles in engineering, sales,...

The sentiment around downtown/urban condos has completely changed over the last month or so. This is happening in Toronto and, from what I hear, it’s happening in many other cities as well. Carolyn Ireland published...

Some of the most popular video games are created in Canada. On the AAA side, you have behemoths like the Mass Effect trilogy (BioWare Edmonton), FIFA (EA Vancouver) and Assassin’s Creed (Ubisoft Montreal), while...