A little more than a year ago, I watched a movie on Netflix, quite by accident. It was a documentary called The Magic Pill and it was about diet, specifically the ketogenic way of eating. Here’s the...
Most people agree that finding love is no easy mission, and for the many people who spend most of their waking hours working, the office may serve as the perfect setting for a romantic relationship. It’s...
Is it safe anywhere anymore? That’s the question we keep asking ourselves and each other. No place seems to be safe from homicidal craziness, and the massacre in Las Vegas has only helped to worsen people’s growing unease. Over the past...
By now you’ve probably heard about the woman who filmed a man repeatedly hitting the back of her reclined seat on an American Airlines flight from New Orleans to Charlotte. The video has gone viral, as...
The first request came two weeks ago. My friend from university wrote in our group chat that her daughter’s middle school choir was hosting a fundraiser. (Wait! Didn’t school just start?) She informed us – or...
Our flight to Las Vegas was scheduled to depart early in the morning on what was forecast to be a miserable day in Nova Scotia, weather-wise, with that dreaded term no one traveling in February wants to hear –...
If you, like me, have been reading about this era of high tech surveillance (and how can you not, considering the news these days), you can’t help but get a little paranoid about what might be spying on us. I...
It takes but a quick glance at the news to find more proof (as if we needed it) that our dependence on technology is overwhelming and our addiction to social media can be potentially toxic. Prenuptial agreements with a social...
Let me see if I can take some of the 40-plus readers back to elementary school. Gone are the days when almost all the teachers were women, when we had religion class every Thursday morning, when altar servers were excused...
Why do I even follow the news anymore? Politicians always bicker, but this past few years has been so, so much worse. Instead of arguing about ideology and policy, they make it personal. And while Canada is no stranger to...




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