Slow Down And Smell The Coffee – Exploring A More Mindful Way To Enjoy Your...
LOOK LOCAL – For billions of people around the world, the day doesn’t start until that first cup of coffee is poured. It has become an essential part of our morning routine – one so repetitive that we...
View ArticleKicking Axe And Taking Names – Have An Axe You’d Like To Grind?
LOOK LOCAL – When I walked in the door of Bullseye Axe Throwing with my husband and a group of five friends, we were greeted by a welcoming, booming voice – the perfect pitch for calling out...
View ArticleWant free university? Changes to OSAP, Canada Student Grants could help
MACLEAN’S – Alisha Gordon, an Indigenous undergraduate at the University of Calgary, will have less than $1,000 in student debt at the end of her four-year degree. Like many students in Canada, she’s...
View ArticleCanada’s Top School by Student Satisfaction 2018: Bishop’s University
MACLEAN’S – When Quebec native Jeremi Harrison-Lalande arrived at Bishop’s University for his tour, it was love at first sight. “I was shocked to see how beautiful and grandiose it was,” he says. “It...
View ArticleHazy Policies: How will Canadian universities handle legal marijuana?
MACLEAN’S – Heading into his third year of university, declining grades paired with a mounting workload were almost enough to convince Halifax student Stephen Trainer to drop out of his program. When...
View ArticleChoose your own adventure: how to choose between college and university in...
MACLEAN’S – Career coach Sarah Vermunt always loved writing. In her book, Careergasm: Find Your Way to Feel-Good Work, she describes how, when it came time to decide which career path to follow, a...
View ArticleRaising Children in the Social Media Age
LOOK LOCAL – Today’s generation of parents didn’t grow up scrolling through their Instagram feeds and capturing stories on SnapChat. They didn’t navigate their way through high school with a camera and...
View ArticleWomen In the Food Business: Life as a Female Restaurant Owner
LOOK LOCAL – Owning a restaurant is an exciting daydream for people who love to cook and entertain, or those who are unhappy in their corporate jobs. But the reality of running a successful restaurant...
View ArticleJoin the Makers Movement: Makers’ Markets Provide A Unique Opportunity
LOOK LOCAL – Ariane Griffiths first entered the maker scene in 2001 while caring for her newborn daughter. She began creating handmade soaps, and quickly found herself experimenting with various craft...
View ArticleWe Struggled to Conceive and I Found Myself Asking, “Why Me?”
MOTHERLY – I never knew how badly I wanted a baby of my own until my husband and I began struggling to conceive one. We got married at what I consider to be a young age (I was 25, he was 27), but that...
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