Shut Up, Canice
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Project 52 Titles: Read one book a week
A few months ago, I started a new job at the Toronto Star as a photo editor (leaving my old post as online editor at Metro). I now work four days a week, leaving me with lots of time to putter around the house, eat bonbons, watch Oprah and paint my toenails. Also, I no…
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How to Piss Off Toronto Police 101
(via @markdelete) I realize this is like, two months late. I’M BUSY. Like a lot of other Torontonians, I was pretty pissed off about the G20 — pissed off at the indignity of having to march next to Black Bloc at the main march on the Saturday; pissed off at the Black Bloc during the…
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On douches, douchebag advertisers, and selling uncleanliness to women
Just last night I was watching Killing Us Softly 3, a documentary (really, a videotaped speech before a college audience) by media/advertising activist Jean Kilbourne in which she breaks down the messages, trends and symbolism in beauty, clothing, alcohol and cigarette advertisements geared towards women — specifically, under-30 women. It was made in the early…
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Berry foraging, and Peach-Mulberry Boy Bait
I love fruit. I also love fruit-picking, and I especially love it when both of these things are free. It’s my second year as a volunteer for Not Far From the Tree, a wonderful group that seeks to share the bounty of the many backyard fruit trees within downtown Toronto. My experience with them has…
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Things I believed in when I was 12 — but no longer do
Writing a feminist column, I got the occasional irate reader. Most of them are nitpicky and miss the point, while others are straight up incomprehensible. Up until this point, my favourite one was a rambling, angsty Facebook message from a first-year male, white, university student from Calgary, who said there should be men’s studies if…
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