Briony Smith

3 days ago | thespec.com | Briony Smith

I’ve played drums in bands since high school and toured around North America in my 20s. These days, I enjoy life in the city and spend most weekends checking out shows that are a bit off-the-beaten path. I’m also branching out into composing music for short films. I stay active with skateboarding and yoga, and have recently taken up playing chess, just to see if I can get good at it. I like to explore obscure corners of the city, and generally blend in wherever I go.

2 weeks ago | thespec.com | Briony Smith

A glamazon brunette with curves, I’m an artist and renaissance woman. How would I describe my personality? I asked my brother and he said “effervescent.” Ha! I’d say I’m friendly, open, self-aware, gregarious, patient and funny, but also a little neurospicy with a quiet house-sloth side. I moved to Toronto a year ago from a small island on the west coast. Because I’ve lived in so many different places, I have an openness to variety that makes me a little different.

1 month ago | thekit.ca | Briony Smith |Leanne Delap

Locked within many of us is a list. A list of everything we’ve ever dreamed of doing—or having done to us. You know: a sex list. Yet most people will never experience any of it, whether it’s a matter of timing or shame, monogamy, fear or inertia. And so the check-boxes go unfilled, the list growing dustier every year. Molly Kochan’s own list had gone unchecked. But one day, she learned a single fact that would change her life. Or, rather, end it. Her cancer had returned and she was going to die. Soon.

1 month ago | thekit.ca | Briony Smith |Sarah Laing

Last Saturday, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau appeared as the “honorary guest of inspiration” at a Toronto event called the Soulful Divorcée, where she spoke to an audience of dozens of women during a fireside chat. Canada’s former “unofficial first lady” and the author of Closer Together: Knowing Ourselves, Loving Each Other shared her thoughts on topics ranging from parenting to sexual liberation to the pressure on women to change their faces and bodies.

1 month ago | thespec.com | Briony Smith

Last Saturday, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau appeared as the “honorary guest of inspiration” at a Toronto event called the Soulful Divorcée, where she spoke to an audience of dozens of women during a fireside chat.