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The Art of Checking Out
“You can go on break now,” my manager says to me. I jog down to the break room, fish through my jacket pocket, and pull out my phone: Text message from the roomie, a couple Facebook notifications, a...
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The Best of the Fest
“Are you going to Field Trip?” “Did you get your tickets for Bestival?” “What about OVO Fest?” “WayHome?” “Veld?” “Digital Dreams?” Summer small talk usually involves at least one of these sentences....
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Capturing Consent in the City Streets
Who’s more likely to be attacked on their walk home—a woman in baggy jeans and sneakers or a woman in a mini skirt and heels? The answer shouldn’t be so obvious. Last weekend, dozens of Vancouverites...
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The Extinction of Us
Researchers say Mama Earth is entering a period of mass extinction. According to a scientific study by Berkeley, Princeton, and Stanford universities, the globe could be undergoing a phase that will...
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Athletes Bare All in ESPN Body Issue
For an athlete, the body is a temple. ESPN Magazine is giving praise to the power and grace of 24 professional competitors in its annual Body Issue. Athletes such as football player, Odell Beckham...
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Osheaga Bans Native Headdresses
Music festivals have always been about more than just the music. The art, the community, and most notably, the fashion, go down in festival history right alongside the acts that perform. Between saving...
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Local Talent meets….”Please Hold”
It isn’t so much the waiting that makes being put on hold so dreadful; it’s having to sit there for 10+ minutes while a solo clarinet hums awkwardly over a melancholic keyboard tune. Thankfully, the...
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Hello, my name is….
Earlier this week, I was at work when the extreme summer heat and echoes from my weekend pushed me out the back door for a breath of fresh air. I sat on a curb in the alleyway and raised my head to the...
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Curbing Student Debt, One Province at a Time
Would you believe me if I told you that there was once a time, long, long ago, when post-secondary graduation was a moment of happiness? A time when hanging up the diploma didn’t mean flushing away the...
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Anti-Feminist Blogger Has a Splash in Montreal
Roosh V, the self-acclaimed pick-up artist, got a splash of reality last weekend when he visited a bar in Montreal. The anti-feminist blogger took to Montreal in a wig after a petition to deny him...
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