DECEMBER 20, 2024

Tyson Fillier met Gordon Nicholson on a dating app in the summer of 2020. The next year, they moved in together, then they bought a house in Fergus the year after that. Gordon proposed to Tyson on a trip to Newfoundland, and the couple was wed in a ceremony at Elora Mill this past September. Here’s how it all came together.

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Emily Peelar, a 20-year-old aerospace engineering student at TMU, got hooked on gliding—flying a plane with no engine—after trying it once. “I get up there almost every weekend,” she says. “Somehow, being in the sky helps me feel connected to the earth below.” Read her memoir in our ultimate 2025 bucket list here.

At No. 13 on our list of the year’s most influential Torontonians: Cameron Bailey. In September, Bailey declared that TIFF was “back in a big way.” It may sound like an un-humble brag, but it’s also a fact. After a series of brutal setbacks, Bailey restored TIFF to full-force glitz this year. He secured Rogers as the festival’s new lead sponsor and increased the number of corporate backers by 25 per cent. He also secured the return of TIFF’s other big (okay, main) draw: star-watching. Amy Adams, Florence Pugh and Lupita Nyong’o all walked the red carpet.

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