Colleen Lynch & Rob Campbell
Antiques and collectibles add beauty and individuality to today’s interiors. It’s no secret that old furniture appreciates in value, while contemporary pieces decline. But most importantly, investment grade antiques command respect as they symbolize a great man or family’s connection with history and culture.
Colleen Lynch is the designer behind Dovetail Décor. [...]

Cynthia Cheng
Recently, FastLane, JCI an a few other young professionals’ organizations got together at CLUB V in Toronto’s hip Yorkville district for an amazing holiday party.  Dubbed the Apres Work Holiday MegaSchmooze, this was one of very few times which several of Toronto’s young networking societies got together for a single event.

The venue, CLUB V [...]

K. Lau
Webitor’s Note: This is a continuation of K. Lau’s Medieval Portugal series.
Porto has been occupied for at least 3000 years. The Romans built a harbour here at Portus, while the settlement on the south bank, where all the Port houses are, was called Cale. These two towns gave their names to the county [...]

T U Dawood
The Canadian Association of New York Foundation recently held its annual black-tie fundraising gala Maple Leaf Ball at The Plaza Hotel.

The swanky affair brought out the crème de la crème of the Canadian community of New York with a VIP dinner followed by a cocktail dance party and ultimately an after party at [...]

TU Dawood
If you want to change the world, there was no more inspiring place to be this past Saturday than at the Changing the World Conference at University of Toronto.

Conference Speakers
Sponsored by IBM, Starbucks, Microsoft, and Queen’s University, the conference featured some of the world’s greatest visionaries, each given 18 minutes to motivate the audience to [...]

K. Lau
Lisbon was founded by Phoenicians who landed on their seaborne travels in 1200 BC. It then became a regular stop on the route to northern Europe for traders from the Mediterranean: Greeks, Carthaginians and eventually Romans, who conquered the city in 138 AD. When under Arab rule in 714 it was named Lissabona. And [...]

Cynthia Cheng
History was made on November 4, with the election of Barack Obama as the President of the United States.  Being the first US President of African descent, this was something that was not even in anyone’s imagination even ten years ago, let alone during the Civil Rights era of the 1960s.  But the question remains: How will [...]

Cynthia Cheng
The fifth annual Opernation was held at the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts on Friday, October 24.   The event, which was organized by the Canadian Opera Company (COC), was created as a fundraiser for the COC’s education programs. The theme of the evening was La Vie Bohème, celebrating Puccini’s famous opera, La [...]

Cynthia Cheng
The Conservatives have won again. This time, their seat numbers increased, but not enough to form a majority government. This election was a little different from 2006 - the campaign period was short, and a lot went on between when the election was announced in early September and election day. For example, no [...]