Toronto Life – December 2018

16 toronto life December 2018

december 2018

vol. 52 no. 12

navigator

113 | Gift Guide 2018 The

year’s most desirable loot,

from bargain-basement

stocking stuffers to the

ultimate big-ticket splurges

food & drink

129 | Flavour of the Month

Pie vs. pie: from pumpkin to

pecan, tourtière to turkey-

cranberry, a roundup of the

city’s best pies—savoury

and sweet

culture

137 | The top things to see, do,

hear and read this month,

including School of Rock—the

Musical, new dystopian

feminist theatrical trilogy

The Philospher’s Wife, and a

festive look at seasonal

Messiah Madness

148 | memoir

I spent 13 years sanding and

grinding mussel shells to

create my art. I had no idea

they were slowly killing me

By Gillian Genser

features

53 | The 50 Most Influential 2018

This year’s No. 1? Doug Ford, of course, the bull-

headed new premier who came out of the win on a

mission and—objections be damned—followed

through with everything he said he’d do (and a few

things he didn’t). Plus, the other power wielders

who run the city, including the new condo kings,

cannabis titans, waterfront czars and Hollywood

North moguls

102 | Confessions of a Rebel Chef

In Toronto in the 1980s, I cooked in some the city’s

best restaurants—Emilio’s, Stelle, China Blues— and

got hooked on the fame and the glamour before

crashing spectacularly in a blaze of booze, coke and

heroin By Greg Couillard

Bean and Baker’s

scrumptious sour-

cherry pie, p. 129

on the cover: photograph by Markian Lozowchuk; grooming

by Claudine Baltazar/Plutino Group

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the conversation

25 | What you loved and

loathed last month

editor’s letter

32 | Premier concerns

this city

35 | The Moment Legalization

day in the Big Smoke

36 | Q&A Zaib Shaikh, the

Little Mosque actor turned

Consul General, on

promoting Canada in

La La Land

38 | Ego Meter What’s making

and shaking the city’s

self-image

40 | Camera The month’s

best parties

42 | Cost of Living What

Torontonians make and how

they spend it

44 | The Audit A penny-by-

penny reckoning of the

month in money

46 | The Upstart A look at

who’s shaking up the

Toronto tech sector

49 | Urban Diplomat Advice

on how to be a civilized

Torontonian

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