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Toronto Life Magazine - August 2025

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In this issue

FROM OLYMPIC PRODIGY TO DRUG LORD: THE RYAN WEDDING STORY
THE CURIOUS LIFE OF ELON MUSK’S GRANDFATHER
I GAVE UP A SIX-FIGURE JOB TO MOVE BACK IN WITH MY PARENTS

Big Trouble in Cottage Country
Short-term renters have taken over, locals are mad as
hell and town councils from Muskoka to Tiny Township
are making everything worse

Doctor Strange
Elon Musk’s grandfather was many things: prairie
farmer, chiropractor, conspiracy theorist, thrill-seeking
aviator. His wackiest vocation? Leader of the Canadian
technocracy movement

Becoming El Jefe
How Ryan Wedding went from bright-eyed Olympic
snowboarder to one of the world’s most ruthless drug
lords

Tech Support

Newly minted Minister of AI Evan Solomon has accepted a precarious portfolio: promoting the power of AI without letting it annihilate us all

3 mins

Making Moves

How a bureaucrat turned barista spends her money

1 mins

Launch Pad

This bachelor wanted to be free from roommates. He found his new place just down the street

2 mins

BIG TROUBLE IN COTTAGE COUNTRY

SHORT-TERM RENTERS HAVE TAKEN OVER, LOCALS ARE MAD AS HELL AND TOWN COUNCILS FROM MUSKOKA TO TINY TOWNSHIP ARE MAKING EVERYTHING WORSE

10+ mins

Doctor Strange

Elon Musk's grandfather was many things: prairie farmer, chiropractor, conspiracy theorist, thrill-seeking aviator. His wackiest vocation? Leader of the Canadian technocracy movement

10+ mins

BECOMING EL JEFF

Before Ryan Wedding landed on the FBI's Most Wanted list as a high-level associate of El Chapo, he was a bright-eyed kid from Thunder Bay. The inside story of how an Olympic snowboarding prodigy became one of the world's most dangerous and powerful drug lords

10+ mins

THE GREAT FRENCH FRY MYSTERY

When an A&W takeout bag appeared on my neighbour’s porch in the middle of the night—followed by another, then another—I became obsessed with solving a fast food whodunit that was as baffling as it was beguiling