Real Life Stories

Heather Clark, author of Elephant In The Sky, recounts how her youngest sibling came to be diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

Happy birthday to the bra! It’s been 100 years since women were freed from the constraints of the corset and converted to the liberating (and risqué) brassiere. This simple, but architecturally complex, innovation has allowed us to hoist, separate, smooth and enhance. What’s next? Cooling systems, built-in GPS and a whole new way of measuring the girls

In this series called Cosmopolis Toronto, Colin Boyd Shafer takes photos of Torontonians and shares their stories.

Imagine having 85 of your closest kin over for dinner. Terrifying, isn’t it? But not for Hudson’s Bay boss Bonnie Brooks. We got behind the scenes at her family reunion —  turns out it’s as easy as (homemade) pie

Cathy Gildiner knew something was terribly wrong when one of her high school friends stopped posting on Facebook.