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THE CONVERSATION

Spend It or Save It? • When I was a student at U of T, my go-to restaurant was a gas station. Specifically, the Esso at Dupont and Davenport, where I’d source micro waveable butter chicken—easy, quick and wouldn’t kill me, at least not quickly. But I wasn’t exclusive: I regularly mixed things up with beer and chicken wings at the pub next door. My priorities were convenience and speed, not financial good sense (or, for that matter, nutrition). In other words, the opposite of the subjects of our cover story, “Young and Retired” (page 22).

Supersize Me • Are bigger units the answer to the condo crash?

The Diplomat • Canada’s new UN envoy, David Lametti, is a Liberal vet and one of Mark Carney’s oldest friends. How a son of Port Colborne found himself repping Canada on the biggest stage

Number Cruncher • How a Gen Z finance enthusiast in Forest Hill spends her money

Power Play • How this hockey head beat the market

Food. Politics. Real estate. Culture.

Urban Diplomat

One nation-building project.

YOUNG & RETIRED • In the age of doomspending, these ultra-driven Torontonians give up their weekends, work multiple jobs and never, ever eat out. THE UPSIDE: they’re scrimping and saving their way into retiring decades before the average Canadian

PINCHING PENNIES • MONEY HACKS FROM SOME OF TORONTO’S BEST SAVERS

STREET FIGHT • If this city stands any chance of solving the housing crisis, it will need multiplexes in residential neighbourhoods—a move that has many residents saying, “Anywhere but here!”

THE VIOLENT LIFE OF A TOW TRUCK DRIVER • The tow truck industry is dominated by criminals and kingpins who fleece customers, beat up dissenters and shoot their enemies. How an unremarkable profession turned Toronto into a war zone

293 DAYS WITHOUT MY SON • WHEN VALENTINO WAS ABDUCTED, I KNEW THREE THINGS : HE’D BEEN TAKEN BY HIS FATHER, HE WAS SOME WHERE IN INDIA AND I WOULD NOT REST UNTIL I FOUND HIM

FASHION

A Winter Hater’s Guide to Loving Winter • Twenty-one ways to beat the blahs and make February fun

Souvankham Thammavongsa’s Entertainment District • The Giller-winning author takes us on a tour of her go-to spots

The best things to see, do, read and hear this month in Toronto

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Raising Hope • My daughter was born with a disease so rare that it took seven years to get a diagnosis