Culture & Capital

Businesses we love, products and ideas shaping everyday life, and signals worth noticing across work, motherhood, money, and culture.
Shay Mitchell built a $210 million luggage brand. Here’s what we can learn from it.
Shay Mitchell built a $210 million luggage brand. Here’s what we can learn from it.
Shay Mitchell built BÉIS out of one frustration: she couldn't find luggage that was stylish, functional, and affordable. Eight years later, Samsonite is acquiring 85% of the company at a... Read more...
Mexico City in five days: an itinerary for the whole family
Mexico City in five days: an itinerary for the whole family
Five days in Mexico City, built for families who want pyramids in the morning and lucha libre at night. Where to sleep in Condesa, a day-by-day itinerary through Xochimilco, Teotihuacán,... Read more...
The Matilda effect: when brilliant women disappear from the record.
The Matilda effect: when brilliant women disappear from the record.
Women have been doing the work for centuries. Too often, someone else got the credit. From Lise Meitner and Rosalind Franklin to Roberta Bondar and Donna Strickland, the Matilda Effect... Read more...
Top 5 women-owned clothing boutiques in Toronto
Top 5 women-owned clothing boutiques in Toronto
Toronto's best shopping isn't at the mall. It's in the neighbourhoods — Summerhill, Queen West, Ossington, Stackt Market — run by women who actually care about what they're selling. Here... Read more...
The woman behind Ontario's most controversial deal
The woman behind Ontario's most controversial deal
For four years, the Ontario Place debate has dominated headlines. Most people know the project.Few know the woman behind it. For more than 30 years, Leslie Noble has quietly built influence... Read more...
Canadian Women are quietly changing the economy
Canadian Women are quietly changing the economy
Canadian women are quietly reshaping the economy. They now earn the majority of post-secondary credentials, own a growing share of Canadian businesses, create nearly one million jobs, and contribute more... Read more...
5 girl-coded Toronto experiences to book with your besties
5 girl-coded Toronto experiences to book with your besties
Looking for a girls' day out in Toronto that goes beyond brunch? From custom lipstick and perfume workshops to cake decorating and floral design, these girl-coded Toronto experiences are worth... Read more...
Uber came for Toronto, but Beck Taxi's Gail Beck-Souter and Kristine Hubbard are still running the meter
Uber came for Toronto, but Beck Taxi's Gail Beck-Souter and Kristine Hubbard are still running the meter
Uber arrived with billions in funding, a global brand, and a strategy built on disrupting local transportation. Most taxi companies folded, sold, or faded. Beck Taxi did something else: it... Read more...
Women are about to control more money than ever before. Will they control more power?
Women are about to control more money than ever before. Will they control more power?
Women are expected to control trillions of dollars over the next decade as the largest wealth transfer in history accelerates. But inheriting wealth and building wealth are two different skills.... Read more...
Before influencers, there was Martha Stewart
Before influencers, there was Martha Stewart
Chai Lifeline Canada has spent twenty years doing the quiet, structural work of holding families together through pediatric illness. Last night they marked the milestone with Martha Stewart in conversation... Read more...
Why Gen Z and Millennial women are drinking less — and what it means for the liquor industry
Why Gen Z and Millennial women are drinking less — and what it means for the liquor industry
Gen Z and millennials are drinking less, cutting alcohol sales by 1.6% in Canada’s sharpest drop in 20 years. Health, cost, and new social norms are driving the shift, while... Read more...
The GTA cooking classes women are booking instead of brunch.
The GTA cooking classes women are booking instead of brunch.
Brunch had a good run. Now women are spending their Saturdays elbow-deep in dough, wine in hand, leaving with dinner and a skill. These 7 GTA cooking classes are the... Read more...