Featured Stories

Queer Logo: Q&A with Philip Wong

Paul Gallant Wednesday, February 17, 2010

How activist Philip Wong discovered that a strong brand is critical to building a strong charity when the venerable Lesbian and Gay Community Appeal relaunched as Community One.

City Building, Diversity

Church & Wellesley - Yorkville - Annex

Play leads to innovation at Toronto Hacklab

Ivor Tossell Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Part workshop, part tree house, and part revolutionary lair, the Toronto Hacklab is a home for geeks that mixes the urge to create with the ideals of a venerable movement. Also, there's a laser in the bathroom that plays the theme from Super Mario Brothers.

Design, Research and Innovation

Kensington Market - Little Italy - Little Portugal

Locally made and fairly traded.

Carla Lucchetta Wednesday, February 10, 2010

A Q&A and photo tour of the Fair Trade Jewellery Company where faith, integrity and a family legacy are the forces behind this local ethical business.

Design, Sustainability

Old fashioned glamour on the Bloor West runway

Rea McNamara Wednesday, February 03, 2010

Lola & Gigi is changing the way we think about fashion and weight while serving a style-savvy niche market.

Design

Bloor West Village

Handsome Clothing

Julia Belluz Wednesday, February 03, 2010

How young, Toronto-bred entrepreneurs got creative and mastered social media to win a global audience and influence buyers with messages of positivity and peace.

Design

Q&A with Lubo Brezina: Breathing new life into old growth

Paul Gallant Wednesday, February 03, 2010

Furniture-maker Lubo Brezina is busy turning other people's junk into functional art and furniture on Dundas West.

Design, Sustainability

Kensington Market - Little Italy - Little Portugal

Creating affordable housing out of thin air

Paul Gallant Wednesday, January 27, 2010

The Artscape Triangle Lofts turned a messy situation into an opportunity for artists as well as Queen Street West's arty reputation.

City Building

Queen/King West

Welcoming back Toronto's top talent

Tasleem Thawar Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Why do Torontonians live and work abroad, and why is it so difficult to get them to come back? Toronto Homecoming is answering these questions, and putting plans in motion to make it easier for them to come home.

Diversity

Putting Parkdale's artists to work for shelter

Heidi McKenzie Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Design Hope Toronto is raising funds for Parkdale Activity-Recreation Centre's new supportive housing complex, Edmond Place, with a grassroots art auction.

City Building, Design

Parkdale

The Sumptuous 905

Sarah Barmak Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Fresh live eels, sushi, and BBQ duck are among the temptations of the Olympic-sized T & T Supermarket that, along with other Asian markets in the GTA, are challenging our stereotypes of the suburbs.

Diversity

Vaughan

The Little Nano that Could

Piali Roy Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Vive Nano, a start-up born in a University of Toronto chemistry lab, is part of a new and confident class of innovation-based firms in the city. But is it possible to save the world with nanotechnology and stay local at the same time?

Diversity, Research and Innovation

Financial District

Colin Henderson & Duarte Da Silva of Community Lend

Peer to peer lending: taking the bank out of banking

Carla Lucchetta Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Two forward thinking entrepreneurs and their small team at CommunityLend may change the rules of banking with the launch of Canada's first peer-to-peer lending model. Borrowers put their loans up for auction, it's all done online and there is no need to dress up for that formal bank loan interview.

Research and Innovation

Entertainment District

Toronto's Art Aura

Carla Lucchetta Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Aura Collective, a new Toronto company, offers a way for artists to increase sales of their work and charities to bring in more cash. The online fine arts and crafts store performs the unique function of promoting and selling the work of Canadian artists and simultaneously supporting Canadian charities.

Starting Fresh

Paul Gallant Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Web-based billing company Freshbooks recovers from a false start with pluck, focus and global aspirations. The online brower-based application helps people manage their client lists and invoices and has 1.25 million users.

Research and Innovation