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The daily steal: Toronto museum passes, free

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Photo courtesy of The Textile Museum of Canada

I love soaking up my city’s cultural scene-especially when it’s free! While searching for local library hours, I discovered that my library card gives me access to not only books and back issues, but museums, galleries and historic sites too. A Sun Life Financial Museum and Arts Pass (borrowed from branches across Toronto, torontopubliclibrary.ca) admits one family for one free visit to culture spots that include The Textile Museum of Canada, the AGO, The Bata Shoe Museum and the Gardiner Museum. I’ll happily forgo my Saturday morning sleep-in to pick up a pass!


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Toronto: The outrageous heights of heels

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From left: BALENCIAGA Fall 2007, PRADA Spring 2008, CHANEL Fall 2009. Photography by Peter Stigter.

Like a shoe paparazzo, Toronto’s beloved Tommy Ton of Jak & Jil captures some of the world’s most beautiful heels in action. Zillions of women devotedly visit the site to catch glimpses of the worldly lives these shoes lead. If you are a footwear cyber-gawker you’ve probably noticed a new breed of heels has been on the streets over the last few years. Remember the gun heels by Chanel? The tea cup and Baroque heels from Miu Miu or the Balenciaga Sportiletto? Not only are the silhouettes outrageously sculptural, the new shoes have also reached obscene heights–last fall, Christian Louboutin told The Wall Street Journal that he was planning on releasing an 8-inch platform this year. Read more »


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