Mark Mann

A new era of human fungi relations is dawning. Peter McCoy wants you to join the revolution.

Growing up in Tobago, Terry Dennis spent all his time outdoors. But after emigrating to Québec, he lost his close connection with nature, until a mentor helped him revive his spirit of exploration

Beau Miles sings the body exhausted. Aching, chafing, stinking, swelling, limping, bruising — these are the reliable landmarks of an adventure-filled life, and the popular Australian YouTuber knows them all intimately. At 41, he’s spent the better…

Ultra running changed Jeffrey Binney’s life. Now the plus-sized running influencer is helping others feel more confident, both on and off the trail. From BESIDE Issue 13 Jeffrey Binney’s first stage was a big metal livestock fence. He would straddle…

Recently I was sitting with my one-year-old son on the sofa in his bedroom as he looked out the window. He watched the street, and I watched him. At some point, I realized I was gazing at his expression with the same fascination that he bestowed on…

Forest bathing has long been a trending topic in the media, but if you bring it up casually among friends or family, the response is often skeptical. In my experience, people are more likely to be offended by the concept of forest bathing than…

This is part of the Dossier Black Lives, Green Spaces. Intersectional environmentalism is an idea whose time has finally come, and few people are doing more to popularize and advance the concept than Leah Thomas. “Social justice… is not an optional…

I started to pray when I learned my wife, Jocelyn, was pregnant. She did, too. We held hands every night and called down to the bottom of that deep, dark well where the little ember that would be our child clung. I had long ago given up praying to a…

Migration and innovation are closely linked. Ideas and innovators travel, and displacement plays a role in generating opportunities for the discovery of new ideas, resources, and relationships. Canada is uniquely blessed in terms of immigration and…

Some like to deny its existence, but it’s there. Systemic racism is embedded in every corner of our country. The policies and practices rooted in employment, education, law enforcement, medicine, and across countless other institutional systems, have…

At the recent annual meeting of the Pan-Canadian AI Strategy (AICan) in Montreal, where CIFAR announced its first cohort of artificial intelligence chairs, I met an AI researcher from the local ecosystem, and we fell to talking about the main subtext…

When Emmanuel Macron and Justin Trudeau took a break from the G7 in Italy last week to slip out for a sun-drenched seaside stroll, the bromantic moment inspired a torrent of sentimental conjecture on Twitter. But for many, the dreamy meet-cute was…

Kellie Leitch and Kevin O’Leary know a good thing when they see it. Donald Trump won the presidency with a mix of protectionist policy planks and vague, TV-friendly proclamations about how he’d restore the U.S. to glory. Now, these two aspirants to…

Since the summer of 2015, Danby CEO Jim Estill has brought 47 Syrian refugee families to Guelph, and more are on the way. This month, he received the Order of Ontario and was the subject of a Toronto Life feature. We asked him about his newfound fame…

Call center jobs are about to get a lot "friendlier," and maybe a lot more creepy too. If there was ever a real-life workplace dystopia, it is the modern call center. Employees spend their shifts interrupting strangers with surveys and sales pitches,…

Andre De Grasse, the 21-year-old sprinter from Markham, has thrilled the entire country with his wins in Rio: bronze in the men’s 100-metre dash, and, last night, a silver in the 200-metre. (His final event, the men’s 4×100-metre relay, is tonight.)…

When Lori Howard, the founder of Hope Designs, first visited this 105-year-old semi in Little Italy, she found a child’s paradise. “The house was well loved,” she said. “Everything was designed around the sellers’ little girl.” But while a…

Team Canada has been doing a lot of Instagramming from Rio, and looking at the shots it’s hard to discern any trace of the “state of public calamity” that the city declared just a few weeks prior to the opening ceremonies. Here, some pictures of…

The sellers of this four-bedroom home in the Beaches liked to travel to Southeast Asia, and they always returned from their trips with new artwork and souvenirs. By the time stager Red Barrinuevo arrived at the property to ready it for sale, the…

This century-old, two-bedroom bungalow in the Beaches sits on a lot that’s only 12.67 by 110 feet, making it one of the smallest detached homes in Toronto. Although it’s not much bigger than the average condo, it has a lot going for it: two bathrooms…