All the latest about Toronto this week
September 29, 2023

In today’s edition of This City: 15 host gift ideas we love for party season, four commercial real estate execs on how to get employees back to the office, and more. Visit torontolife.com for all our city coverage.

Our top stories

Thumbnail

Party Favours

Good etiquette dictates that you should never arrive at a dinner party empty-handed. Flowers or a bottle of wine are always trusty standbys, but if you want to get a little more creative, consider showing up to your next get-together with an artisanal gift set, sweet treat or cute decor item to say thanks. Here, 15 extra-special host gifts.

The Questionnaire

We asked commercial real estate execs about their favourite downtown buildings, the ideal office-to-WFH ratio and the cause of Toronto’s high vacancy rates. “The really good offices actually have low vacancy rates,” says Gordon Wadley, COO of Dream Office REIT. “It’s the less good ones that are empty.”

Advertisement

What to read, watch and listen to in September

Thumbnail

Seven veils

“I always try to see Atom Egoyan’s work, whether it’s on a stage or a screen. Seven Veils is a meta opera-cum-film inspired by Egoyan’s passion for Strauss’s opera Salome, which Egoyan first directed for the Canadian Opera Company in 1996. The film follows a fictional opera director as she remounts the famous work.”
—Recommended by Alan Dilworth, artistic director, Necessary Angel Theatre Company

Our current issue:

Next Story

TL Insider presents

Toronto Life, October, The Inside Job

October 2023: The Inside Job

Robert Konashewych was a police officer with expensive tastes, two girlfriends and a mountain of debt. Heinz Sommerfeld was recently deceased with a large unclaimed estate. In our October issue, read the story of a crooked cop, a dead man and an $800,000 estate fraud. Plus, the general contractor from hell, Toronto’s best farm-to-table chefs, a Q&A with new Raptors coach Darko Rajaković, and more. Still not receiving Toronto Life at home? Subscribe today.