Sarah Laing
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- Oct 1, 2026
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- Aug 7, 2026
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When going viral doesn’t stick: How Canadian small businesses are navigating social media (opens the original)
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Three months after she launched her clothing brand Reborn Club, Tova Vaginshtein went viral, garnering 1.2 million views on TikTok practically overnight. “It was a silly little TikTok of me just trying on a bunch of hoodies,” says the Toronto-based entrepreneur and content creator. “I got so many customers – from Europe, Australia, the U.S., everywhere. It was such a surreal feeling.” Over the past five years, Ms. Vaginshtein has been able to grow Reborn Club through organic marketing via TikTok
How tech lessons are liberating seniors from the ‘wilderness’ of scams and frustration (opens the original)
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Brenda Davis-White, 76, calls herself “a bit of a Luddite.” She says that as a retired operating room nurse, she had a career that required the use of specialized medical equipment, but not much computer use. “My career and my life never gave me the opportunity to explore that,” says Davis-White, who lives in Sidney, B.C. “I didn’t have a cellphone for years and then finally acquiesced.” She says that lack of experience resulted in challenges when she was trying to use her mobile phone and table
A trailblazer at TIFF and beyond: Clement Virgo’s stories of tenderness and desire (opens the original)
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As the 51st Toronto International Film Festival takes over the city Sept. 10-20, this series of articles examines some of the Canadian directors whose lives and careers have been shaped by TIFF. The setting is Toronto, sometime in the mid-90s. Garvia Bailey – now a veteran broadcaster and arts journalist – was part of a collective of artists and musicians who all hung out on Queen Street West. A friend introduced her to an acquaintance. “They said, ‘This is Clement Virgo. He’s a filmmaker. Do yo
More than two decades later, The Gruffalo is back (opens the original)
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“He has terrible tusks, and terrible claws and terrible teeth in…” If you can finish this line – and the odds are good if you’re under 25 or you’ve spent time reading to a child in the last quarter-century – you’ll be thrilled to hear that there’s a new member of the Gruffalo family hitting bookshelves. The answer, by the way, is “terrible jaws.” Bonus points if you know who the true scariest creature in those deep dark woods is. Hint: It’s not the knobbly kneed, turned-out-toed furry creature w
‘Always unapologetically herself’: Sarah Polley’s long history with TIFF (opens the original)
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As the 51st Toronto International Film Festival takes over the city Sept. 10-20, this series of articles examines some of the Canadian directors whose lives and careers have been shaped by TIFF. In 2006, a debut film by a 27-year-old Canadian director was the talk of TIFF. Liz Braun, now a semi-retired arts journalist, was one of a group of Canadian entertainment writers who saw Sarah Polley’s Away from Her before the world descended on Toronto. The film was about a long-married couple grappling
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