Lauren McKeon

May 27, 2024 | torontolife.com | Lauren McKeon

With a population of only 2,600, Schomberg, Ontario, is so small that it can sustain no more than just about one of anything. There is one main street (called Main Street), one community hall, one Tim Hortons, one LCBO, one big-box grocery store. Technically, it qualifies as a village, one of several that make up the larger King Township, a patchwork of farmland and manufacturing plants roughly 70 kilometres north of Toronto. Though primarily white and wealthy, Schomberg isn’t fancy or exclusive.

Jan 29, 2024 | torontolife.com | Lauren McKeon

In the spring of 2017, I moved into a grubby basement apartment in the Beaches. When I went to view it, I could already tell that it would be perpetually damp—it smelled faintly of turned earth and musty sock. It was depressingly dark. There was no place for my desk, and I would have to store my cat’s litter box in the shower. Yet I was desperate to move out of the apartment I shared with my soon-to-be-ex-boyfriend, and I couldn’t afford much else on my freelancer income.

Oct 10, 2023 | canadianbusiness.com | Lauren McKeon

When they started out in the ’90s, David Sharpe and Natasha Hilfer were both both fiercely smart and exceedingly ambitious, with eyes on the finance sector. But both believed they had to overcome, as David once said, the implicit need-not-apply sign Bay Street hung to ward off anyone who was different. Natasha, who holds an MBA from the Rotman School of Management, had to battle the old boys’ club.

Aug 30, 2023 | torontolife.com | Lauren McKeon

In late 2018, John Di Nino became president of his condo board at Bellaria Residences, in Vaughan. At 52 years old, he was inching toward retirement from his leadership job at the Amalgamated Transit Union, and he wanted to get more involved. He and his wife, Doreen, had been living in the penthouse suite at Bellaria’s Tower II for a year, and they loved it. It was part of a leafy gated development at Jane and Rutherford that contained roughly 880 units spread over four lavishly decorated towers.

Jul 20, 2023 | msn.com | Lauren McKeon

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