Influencer Highlights

Canadian Lifestyle Influencers to Watch

Katie’s take on life can be summed up easily: it’s simple, clean, and breathtakingly gorgeous. Her classically styled Montreal home is a representation of her feed and her 70K-plus followers have come to enjoy her timeless approach to anything she takes on. She navigates the line between a time-forgotten and the “now,” making her audience feel like we’re currently living in better days. It’s a hard feat, but Katie does it beautifully. We love her for her beauty, fashion, and décor content, not to mention her simple but sophisticated ways of positioning food and recipes on her gorgeously curated feeds. Plus, she has amazing Montreal restaurant  recommendations for any budget or palate!

Ashkan manages something seemingly impossible in his Instagram feed: he blends traditional charm and aesthetic with modern thinking. What culminates here is quite simply one of the most stunning Instagram channels we’ve seen in some time, and we know his 90K followers agree! He’s sophisticated but never stuffy, and his Toronto-based feed easily goes from Walmart to premium whisky – and it works. (We’re calling out his Toronto home base here because his photos will definitely having your thinking Europe!) While visually stunning, this photographic storyteller succeeds at getting attention from all our senses.

We don’t know how Kelsi does it! She’s parenting active young twins and still turns out consistently creative content on her Instagram and blog. A former pro-athlete, Kelsi talks health in all forms and doesn’t shy away from conversations about mental health, self-care, and embracing diversity. She’s bright and fun, and her feed is a shining example of how living a good life can take many forms – so long as it includes fabulous food and drink.

Lisa Colalillo is such a bright pop of energy and colour in our feeds that we cannot stop recommending her to those looking for upbeat real life parenting lifestyle content. She tells it like it is, but in a way that keeps us nodding along and laughing no matter the subject matter, which spans home, work, food and drink, and modern mom-ing. She’s also a busy real estate agent and she’s been featured as property expert in HGTV Canada’s Critical Listing as well as in The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, Toronto Life Magazine, City Life Magazine, and others. Lisa’s humourous videos about thriving in the suburbs is unique and fun in a way that is never “just suburban.”

The scenery and sights on Joelle’s Instagram feed will hook you instantly – and that’s before you even get to the food! She’s a raw vegan baker and chef who can do things with ingredients those without the limits of living in a van could hardly manage. (Yes! She lives in her gorgeous modified van and she’s lovin’ it!) There’s no way to aptly describe the beauty of her baking creations without having a peek yourself. Who’d have thought photos of the stunning British Columbian landscape could be challenged by incredible raw confections? But no need to make the choice between them here, as Joelle serves up both in ample portions.

“Mr. Benfield” has an audience of over 100K followers on his Instagram channel – and he has a smile posted for every single one! His rapidly-growing group followers loves Matt for the same reasons we do, namely his sunny and optimistic approach to all he does in food, drink, pets, and personal care. You can’t help but feel the “fun” in his shares of daily life in downtown Toronto with partner Omar, loyal sidekick pup Yvie, and his forest of gorgeous house plants. Matt’s feed is a definite (and much-needed) “positivity follow” and his co-owned Tiktok with Omar has over 500K followers worldwide.