Toronto Life Magazine - May, 2008

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Features

Baby Wars
Hipster parents are clogging cafés with their king-size strollers and inflicting their unruly toddlers on the childless masses. Is grown-up space a thing of the past? A not entirely impartial report on the battle for downtown By Katrina Onstad

Death of a City Block
The fire on Queen Street destroyed six businesses, left 30 people without homes and caused $10 million in damage. What else was lost? By Don Gillmor

The Cult of Measha
The city’s biggest opera star is more famous for her bubbly personality and gastric bypass surgery than for her voice. How Toronto went gaga for Measha Brueggergosman By Gerald Hannon

This City

Claudia Dey goes from drama queen to lit chick • Bill Clinton’s latest Hogtown hoedown • The freaky proliferation of entrepreneurial twins • How College Street turned into Clubland • A brief history of Jim Flaherty’s Toronto blood lust

COLUMNS

MEDIA
Boob Tube
The CBC thinks it knows what you want to watch: flashy American-style shows with a Canadian twist. But its most shamelessly commercial effort—a series about oversexed hockey wives—was canned after two months. What now? By Douglas Bell

SPORTS
Super Agent
Don Meehan represents some of the biggest names in hockey. He’s a tough negotiator and seasoned deal maker with a knack for finding young talent. In other words, just the kind of guy who could save the Leafs By Gare Joyce