Toronto Life – December 2018

photographs: lennox, constand, gilgan by

getty images;

cochrane

courtesy of penguin random house; salm, kimel by

steven lee

82 toronto life December 2018

while much of traditional broadcast

media retrenches, Lennox, the shot-caller at

Canada’s media giant, has gone on a spending

spree. He snapped up a stake in Pinewood

Studios and Just for Laughs, partnered with

Lionsgate to bring the premium pay TV

service Starz to Canada and, when Rogers

dumped Vice, scooped up the Viceland

library. He also launched the BNN Bloom-

berg channel and welcomed Michael

Bloomberg to Toronto for the festivities.

Lennox was one of the primary forces

behind the Martin Scorsese–directed SCTV

retrospective, which will air in 2019. friends

in high places: Bono, Sting, Shawn Mendes

and Kiefer Sutherland.

in june, when Brad Martin ceded the

role of CEO to Cochrane, she became the

uncontested top name in Canadian publish-

ing. With the publication of Jordan Peter-

son’s 12 Rules for Life—two million copies

sold and counting—she can take credit for

the most commercially successful title in

recent history, and award-winners Brother

by David Chariandy and Bellevue Square

by Michael Redhill cement her artistic cred.

up next: Publishing Michelle Obama’s

memoir, Becoming.

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Randy Lennox

President,

Bell Media

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Kristin Cochrane

CeO,

Penguin randOM HOuse

michael kimel

& steven salm

Co-founders, Chase

Hospitality Group

Over the cOurse of five years, the dream team of Kimel and Salm has

created five superlative restaurants in the Chase, the Chase Fish and

Oyster, Colette Grand Cafe, Planta and Kasa Moto. They’ve kept the

streak alive with Palm Lane salad bar in Yorkville, another Planta (in

Miami Beach) and Arthur’s, an American-inspired restaurant at Yonge

and St. Clair. They also became the hospitality partner of Holt Renfrew.

UP NexT: Rolling out an official franchise of the insanely popular first-

person video game league, Overwatch. Kimel is the principal owner of

Toronto’s franchise, which cost roughly $46 million.

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the former Temple

University staffer went public

with her accusations of sexual

assault against Bill Cosby long

before the #metoo movement

even existed. Her courage

prompted 60 others to come

forward, a deluge no court

could ignore. Finally, this fall,

14 years after the assault,

Cosby was found guilty and

sentenced to up to 10 years in prison. Today, Constand works

as a massage therapist and lives quietly in Toronto. Her bravery

resonates. up next: Pursuing a defamation case against former

prosecutor Bruce Castor, Jr., who depicted her as a liar in a state-

ment to the press after electing not to prosecute Cosby.

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andrea constand

Trailblazer

this year, gilgan bought

up an 1,100-hectare slice of

Florida to build 7,800 homes,

making his company,

Mattamy Homes, the largest

privately owned home-

builder in North America.

In 2018, the company made

$3.4 billion in revenue, and

he used a tiny portion of his

$3.5-billion personal fortune

to buy the Four Seasons

penthouse, the most expensive condo in Canada, for $31 mil-

lion. charity^ circuit: Gilgan raised $3.75 million for CAMH

through 2018’s Tour de Bleu, an annual philanthropic bike

ride from Muskoka with pals Victor Dodig and John Ruffolo.

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peter gilgan

CEO, Mattamy Homes

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