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Good For Her, a woman-focused sex shop in downtown Toronto, I is not your average erotic emporium, if only because it serves tea. Tucked away in a cozy converted Victorian, […]

'Stardate 2009: Lady Gaga has been sent to earth to infiltrate human culture one sequin at a time. Activate camera probe.' So begins every kitschy, pulsating episode of Transmission Gagavision, [...]

In a recent interview, fashion doyenne Donatella Versace identified Barack Obama as the inspiration for her spring 2009 men's collection, describing his style as that of 'a relaxed man who [...]

For almost three decades, the Arrowsmith School, a small Toronto private school housed in a converted mansion on the edge of Forest Hill, has been treating kids with learning disabilities. [...]

For a man who scandalized a billion people, Edison Chen is a surprisingly sympathetic character. On Feb. 21, the 27-year-old, Vancouver-born pop star-and the protagonist of the biggest celebrity sex [...]

Without a doubt, the best part about working at Chatelaine (besides the fact that, even as I write this, someone is handing me a slice of cheesecake from the test [...]

They're fit. And rich. Mary Hart would say they positively glow. They're never strained for time or help, and their kids look like they're out of a Polo ad. They […]

Peter Gatien has installed himself at the head of an enormous table in a private dining room at a 'restrolounge' called 8, and he's surveying the room like the don [...]

This month, Ottawa kicks off a year-long, coast-to-coast celebration of Canada's 150th. There will be music, family skating parties, epic fireworks displays and gorgeous artistic performances influenced by cultures all [...]

One of the big recurring themes of the holidays--aside from family togetherness, decadent feasts and a heightened generosity of spirit--is endurance. Every December, we encounter a flurry of articles on [...]

In 1979, Chatelaine introduced its very first Woman of the Year: Diane Jones-Konihowski, a champion pentathlete and, according to this magazine, 'something of a folk heroine embodying the best aspirations [...]

Most business leaders are quick to identify risk taking as essential to success. So are most career counsellors, high school softball coaches and celebrities delivering commencement speeches. 'You can't win [...]

In my early 20s, when my career path was still in flux, a very helpful friend gave me a vintage board game called What Shall I Be? The Exciting Game [...]

Recently, I took a weekend trip with five friends I've known since grade school to celebrate the fact that we all turn 40 this year. It was next to impossible [...]

Summer is about relaxing and having fun--and that's a lot of pressure. In theory, the next 60-odd days are meant for lazing, splashing, sipping and rejuvenation, but flipping the switch [...]

This month, we set out to explore the endlessly fascinating and complex relationship that women--and, let's face it, the whole world--have with our breasts. It may sound like a frivolous [...]

When Justice William B. Horkins, the judge in the infamous Jian Ghomeshi sexual assault trial, delivered his hour-long verdict in Toronto on March 24, one message came across loud and [...]

In Eligible, Curtis Sittenfeld, author of the blockbuster coming-of-age novel Prep, recreates Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice in modernday Cincinnati. She uses the classic book as a vehicle to explore [...]

Chatelaine's relationship (some might say love affair) with the Trudeau family extends back to 1968, when a beaming, newly elected Pierre Trudeau, then a bachelor, was featured on the cover [...]

Where your keys live or how you store your shoes may seem like a trivial thing. But organization is about so much more than putting the right objects into the [...]

Over the years, Shaquille O'Neal has deemed his penetrating post-game insights worthy of some of Western civilization's greatest philosophers, specifically Aristotle and Friedrich Nietzsche. Of course, everything about Shaq-a seven-foot-one, […]

The northern countryside of North Carolina is tobacco country. In the Piedmont Triad, named for the three bordering cities of Winston-Salem, Greensboro, and High Point, the farmland is interrupted only [...]

Let's face it, debt never was our friend, even though it pretended to be (No money down. Don t pay 'til spring!). We wanted to believe it, and did, to [...]

Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz, his yarmulke safely tucked under a gauzy hairnet, trundles through the halls of Manischewitz's mammoth New Jersey production facility. A round, affable man with a long, wiry [...]

Joanne Jacyk, a 31-year-old Toronto-based environmental engineer, was all of five weeks pregnant with her first child when she picked up the phone to call a midwife--only to find that [...]

Q Do you believe insomnia is becoming more widespread? A: I do. Partly because our working cycles have become globalized. I'm often working to U.K. deadlines and in Auckland, where [...]

The industrial-chic offices of Brad J. Lamb Realty are located downtown along Toronto's busy King Street West corridor where, after a spotty gentrification process, the city's most exclusive restaurants, interior […]

Not much has remained constant over the 90-year history of Chatelaine, but a few things never change: the virtues of baking with butter, the versatility of a black shift dress, [...]

Several years ago, for my birthday, I was given a copy of Angela Liddon's vegan cookbook Oh She Glows (by someone who'd clearly forgotten how much cheese I eat). The [...]

Two things we take very seriously at Chatelaine: championing women and eating great food. Back in October, we found a way to do both simultaneously at Chatelaine: The Big Dish, [...]

'The only way to get sexism out of politics is to get more women into politics.' This according to Hillary Clinton, who knows a little something about the subject, at [...]

Maybe since forever, researchers have been trying to decipher what makes a good mother. Even as we put the finishing touches on this issue, there's a cartoonish number of good-mom/bad-mom [...]

Earlier this year, the British journalist Peter York unveiled Dictator Style, a coffee-table book in which he exposed the appalling home decor choices of the world's greatest tyrants. Deposed Iraqi [...]

Seven years ago, on the eve of his 23rd birthday, Adrian Grenier, the preternaturally laid-back star of the HBO series Entourage, decided to set up a camera outside Yankee Stadium [...]

In the mid-'50s, it occurred to Adel Rootstein, a South African window dresser employed in the fashionable boutiques of London, that display mannequins were doing a terrible job of representing [...]

Dave is a charming new hire at a fast-growing high-tech firm. He is handsome and confident, with an impressive list of credentials, and he mixes easily with colleagues and superiors [...]

The gruesome murders of a southern Alberta couple and their 8-year-old son in their home last month--allegedly perpetrated by the couple's 12year-old daughter and her 23-year-old boyfriend--have escalated concern in [...]

IN LATE NOVEMBER, Women Fully Clothed, an all-female sketch comedy show led by Saturday Night Live and SCTV alumna Robin Duke, will begin its second run at Toronto's Winter Garden [...]