An open letter to Allan Hawco

Dear Allan, I’m writing to congratulate you on the recent finish to season four of your hit TV series Republic of Doyle. What a treat it has been to tune in the last…

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HAPPY FRIDAY: Cats that look like male models

Thanks to “Des Hommes et des Chatons” we’re all going to have a very unproductive Friday afternoon. This website obviously needs to exist because it combines two of the internet earth’s most precious and…

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Woman of the Week: Helen Ziegler

At Helen Ziegler and Associates, located on the 24th floor on Dundas Street West, is a painted portrait of a nurse with her face turned away. What is interesting about this piece is…

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Protect your smile with Sensodyne

One in three Canadians lives with tooth hypersensitivity. Are you one of them? First noted in a medical journal in 1870, dentine hypersensitivity is a “short sharp pain in response to stimuli.” Anything,…

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Emotional poverty

In Canada the law around sexual assault is designed to protect women from “secondary wounding” that can escalate when the accused holds a position of power and influence. Secondary wounding occurs when people…

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Women of the Week: Shauna Podruzny

“True success happens when you pave your own path, not by riding on the coat-tails of others.” Many years before she would give me that advice, when she was 25, Shauna Podruzny was…

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