Sarah Laing

4 weeks ago | thespec.com | Sarah Laing

When hockey player Emma Maltais — Toronto Sceptres team member, Olympic gold medal winner, three-time world champion — pauses to reflect on this moment in her life, “a little overwhelmed” is the phrase she uses. “It’s day-to-day survival,” says Maltais. When we speak with her, she’s at home in Toronto, freshly returned from a Sceptres away game in Minnesota and already packing to join Team Canada in the Czech Republic at the Women’s World Championship.

4 weeks ago | flamboroughreview.com | Sarah Laing

When hockey player Emma Maltais — Toronto Sceptres team member, Olympic gold medal winner, three-time world champion — pauses to reflect on this moment in her life, “a little overwhelmed” is the phrase she uses. “It’s day-to-day survival,” says Maltais. When we speak with her, she’s at home in Toronto, freshly returned from a Sceptres away game in Minnesota and already packing to join Team Canada in the Czech Republic at the Women’s World Championship.

4 weeks ago | thekit.ca | Sarah Laing

There’s a 20-year-old piece of paper taped to Diti Katona’s office wall that reads, “Front cover blonde girl,” a relic from her days working on the Holt Renfrew catalog in the early noughties. “That’s all they ever wanted.

4 weeks ago | thekit.ca | Sarah Laing

We reach Amanda Parris in Ghana, in a hotel room close enough to the Accra airport that the occasional plane taking off interrupts our conversation. It’s nearly midnight there, the end of a long day of filming for the second season of For The Culture, the CBC docuseries that Parris hosts and executive produces. Her passion for this project, which explores aspects of the modern Black experience and was nominated for four Canadian Screen Awards this year, is undimmed by jet lag or fatigue.

4 weeks ago | thekit.ca | Sarah Laing

A candle in the shape of delectably convincing fried chicken; a pair of yellow dish gloves embellished with a pearl ring and Battenburg lace trim; a chandelier designed to hold a dozen eggs: Nadia Gohar’s whimsical manifestations might have raised even Salvador Dali’s eyebrows. This assortment will be familiar to anyone who has lusted over the new arrivals selection at Gohar World, the cult “tablescape universe” that this Egyptian-Canadian artist founded with her sister Laila in 2020.