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1 week ago |
torontolife.com | Stéphanie Verge
Last June, Toronto’s Loft Entertainment and the US-based Oak View Group acquired Canadian Music Week, sparking curiosity and concern about the fate of the long-standing music festival. The event’s new owners have made significant tweaks to CMW’s DNA by adding comedy, art and technology to the lineup—this year’s edition has chef Matty Matheson, the creators of the comedy podcast How Did This Get Made?
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3 weeks ago |
torontolife.com | Stéphanie Verge
Who: Mark Williams, 45, chief executive officer, TSOKnown for: Bringing classical music to the peopleMoved from: Cleveland Orchestra in April of 2022When Trump installed himself as chair of the Kennedy Center this past February, his hostile takeover sent a chill through the American performing arts community. The move was unprecedented, and it crystallized the growing concern that no institution was safe, not even long-standing bipartisan ones.
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3 weeks ago |
torontolife.com | Stéphanie Verge
Who: Sean Cleary, 52, chair of general surgery, University of Toronto, and hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgeon, Toronto General HospitalKnown for: Working to expand robotic surgery in CanadaMoved from: Mayo Clinic in July of 2023You left Canada for the US during the first Trump administration. What prompted the move?
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Nov 13, 2024 |
torontolife.com | Stéphanie Verge
When the puck dropped on the Professional Women’s Hockey League last January 1, diehard fans were cautiously optimistic. They’d been here before. Over the past two decades, similar leagues had come and gone, proving the prophets of doom—who insisted there wasn’t a market for women’s sports—right. But the PWHL scored big, despite not having team names, logos or home rinks. New faithful flocked to games, followed by the media and sponsors.
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Oct 16, 2024 |
magazine.utoronto.ca | Stéphanie Verge
It took moving 10,000 kilometres – from Libreville, Gabon, to the Toronto area – for Yannis Davy Guibinga to realize that home would never be far from his mind. When he started at U of T Mississauga in 2013, Guibinga found out just how few people could locate Gabon, a former French colony in central Africa, on a map.
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