This season, make your gift-giving truly meaningful with our 2025 Holiday Gift Guide. Thoughtfully curated and handpicked, this collection offers a variety of treasures to delight your loved ones. Whether you're looking for luxurious treats or heartfelt tokens, discover gifts that bring joy, warmth, and a touch of magic to the holidays. Let us inspire your celebrations with presents that create lasting memories for every special person in your life!
Read MoreThis season, make your gift-giving truly meaningful with our 2025 Holiday Gift Guide. Thoughtfully curated and handpicked, this collection offers a variety of treasures to delight your loved ones. Whether you're looking for luxurious treats or heartfelt tokens, discover gifts that bring joy, warmth, and a touch of magic to the holidays. Let us inspire your celebrations with presents that create lasting memories for every special person in your life!
Read MoreThis season, make your gift-giving truly meaningful with our 2025 Holiday Gift Guide. Thoughtfully curated and handpicked, this collection offers a variety of treasures to delight your loved ones. Whether you're looking for luxurious treats or heartfelt tokens, discover gifts that bring joy, warmth, and a touch of magic to the holidays. Let us inspire your celebrations with presents that create lasting memories for every special person in your life!
Read MoreMarkham Stouffville Hospital Foundation hosted its fourth annual Fortune Ball on November 22, 2025, at the Hilton Toronto Markham Suites. Presented by TD, the event raised critical funds in support of Oak Valley Health’s Markham Stouffville Hospital (MSH). The gala highlighted the rich traditions of Chinese-Canadian culture through exquisite cuisine, vibrant entertainment, and a shared commitment to community and philanthropy.
Read MoreEvery special moment deserves a look that feels effortless, stylish, and a little unforgettable. From sun-drenched garden parties to sparkling evening soirées, this chapter brings you curated outfits, accessories, and styling tips to help you shine with confidence. Think romantic florals, bold statement pieces, and modern twists on classic elegance: each look designed to celebrate the occasion, the season, and, most importantly, your own unique style.
Read MoreIn the skilled hands of Master Hui Ka Hung, paper transforms into vibrant, lifelike creations embodying Hong Kong’s cultural heritage.
Hong Kong is a fast-paced city filled with innovation and potential. Among its towering skyscrapers are streets alive with people rushing to their next destination. Beyond the urban chaos lie alleys steeped in history and tradition. It is here that artisans preserve Hong Kong’s cultural heritage through traditional skills passed down for generations. Among them is Master Hui Ka Hung, whose workshop, Hung C Lau, has become synonymous with the art of paper craft.
Read MoreKejie Lin’s transformation from a landscape architect to a contemporary gongbi painting artist is as deliberate and precise as the strokes in her paintings. For over twenty years, Kejie designed gardens, orchestrating nature into harmonious compositions that invited reflection and calm. Today, she cultivates these same principles on paper, transforming the ancient, meticulous technique of gongbi, known for its fine lines and detailed brushwork, into a contemporary practice that speaks of her own journey.
Her latest exhibition, A Garden of My Own, at the Varley Art Gallery, extends this creative world and draws audiences from the moment they step inside.
Read MoreBrimming with talent, Vancouver-based fashion designer Ou Ma is making waves on the west coast with her exquisitely tailored creations. Intrinsically artistic and vividly expressive Ou Ma, is the Beijing-born, Fashion Institute of Technology educated, couture-trained, passionate force at OUMA. The tactile and artistic mediums of illustration and painting found Ma at an early age while growing up in Beijing. This innate talent inspired her to shift from the canvas to physical expression, where movement, intent, and emotion can come to life in the space between fabric, form, culture, and the human experience to create something of deep emotional resonance.
Read MoreThe number one young female sushi master to watch, in Japan - and one of a perilously few in an industry that remains obstinately male-dominated - the 36-year-old (who is also a trained sommelier!) was in Canada for the first time. A two-day whirl at the oh-so-wonderful Sushi Yugen on York Street.
Read MoreThis October, Louis Vuitton brought Chengdu to life with an immersive experience blending urban discovery, scent, and gastronomy. Marking the debut of the updated Louis Vuitton Chengdu City Guide, the “Chengdu Chill” pop-up at Regular Park invited visitors to explore the city’s vibrant culture.
Read MoreHong Kong, a city of neon lights and whispered histories, hums endlessly at the intersection of the ancient and the modern, the East and the West. It is a place of contradictions – a city that carries within it the echoes of temples, quiet in incense smoke, juxtaposed against the bustle of crowded, cosmopolitan streets. Within this labyrinth of cultural dualities and layered identities, the contemplative sculptures of Danny Lee Chin-Fai emerge – shaped by and, in turn, shaping the identity of the city itself.
Read MoreI held my daughter’s hands as she steadily walked a wooden spoon of water to the foot of the King Camphor Tree. “King Tree,” she delightfully whispered as she poured the well water as an offering, with reverence and childlike wonder. The camphor tree stood in the heart of the central courtyard, the largest and most majestic of the ten thousand trees at Amanyangyun, with a weight of 80 tonnes and a trunk so thick, its circumference would take at least a dozen people to join hands in a circle to offer a full embrace. The King Tree has borne witness to time well before ours; estimated to be at least 1000 years old, it was alive when the Ming and Qing emperors ruled, and lived through regimes and changes that we can only read about in history books.
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