This modern nomad has worked everywhere from Manhattan to Madagascar

BY: LAURA ROJAS Marianne Cantwell, as you may know is the liberated world traveler behind Free Range Humans– a project dedicated to helping people escape their unsatisfying careers for a more unshackling lifestyle. The idea of free-ranging is exactly what…

Facebook Offers Employees Up to $20,000 to Freeze Their Eggs And Postpone Pregnancy

BY: PILGRIM Facebook and Apple have decided to foot the bill for any female staff that would like to freeze their eggs. This procedure allows one to have children in their later years, without gambling with the increasing risks of…

This Guy Turned His House Into A Concert Venue To Revive The Starving All-Ages Music Scene

BY: ALEX DOWNHAM After a “slump” in London, Ontario’s music scene, local Preston Ell has morphed his own house into Satan’s Cove, the city’s smallest all-ages venue. Inspired by the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) movement, Ell’s bungalow – home to three others…

Introducing Raw Chicken Alcohol… And You Thought Bacon Vodka Was Disgusting?

BY: SINÉAD MULHERN Prepare your stomachs: Pechuga Mezcal is giving meat lovers and tequila worm warriors a whole new kind of party-challenge. This Mexican spirit is somewhat similar to tequila in that the agave plant is a primary ingredient in…

We Carve Pumpkins At Halloween Because Of A Guy Who Hung Out With Satan

BY: AL DONATO At some point in your life, you might find yourself arms-deep in pumpkin guts, seeds falling out of your hair and resisting the urge to carve something phallic into the offending squash. The tradition of carving jack-o’-lanterns…

My First Time In A Sensory Deprivation Tank

BY: DANIEL KORN I’m on the phone with Jesse Ratner-Decle, the owner of Float Toronto, a sensory-deprivation-tank centre on the west end of the city. Customers pay to go into an enclosed, pitch-black, completely soundproof tank and float on their…

NBOMes: Legal Synthetic Hallucinogens Are 10 Times Stronger Than LSD and 10 Times More Deadly.

BY EMMA MCINTOSH A new class of synthetic drugs similar to LSD has arrived on the market, and they’re called NBOMes. Originally synthesized in 2003, NBOMes were created to aid in the mapping of serotonin receptors in the brain. However,…

Medical Tourism: Why Millions Each Year Are Trading Bikinis For Hospital Gowns.

BY: SARAH HOWELL The stigma of traveling to a foreign country to receive medical care is long plagued by urban myths of straw hut clinics, rusty surgical tools and Freddy Krueger plastic surgery results. In recent years it seems that…

Learning To Pull The Strings Of A Stranger’s Subconscious: NLP

BY: TED BARNABY Neuro-Linguistic Programing (NLP), in short, is the method of performing mild hypnosis through conversation for the purpose of persuasion. By using certain verbal and non-verbal language patterns, an NLP master can trigger specific responses in their subject’s…

The Death Of Fact In Online Journalism. Bye-Bye Fact Checkers, Hello Gullibility.

BY: RYAN BOLTON “Whoa, Banksy just got arrested!” my co-worker, Eugene, yells out, astonished. Two minutes later, the story popped up on my Facebook feed. We couldn’t believe it. The elusive street artist wasn’t so elusive anymore. But we didn’t…

Is Your Lifestyle Eco-Friendly or Ego-Friendly? Understanding “Greenwashing”.

BY: KESTREL In the age of mass media, ideas are stripped to their bare bones and forced to dance for the global marketing puppet show. Brand managers and market analysts, the new navigators of the twenty-first century, map currents of…

Growing Up Gay In A Military Family

BY: CHRISTINE CELIS “Law enforcement and the military are both boys’ clubs,” said Carlos*, 22, as he sat down in front of me. “No matter where you go, those two fields are always full of manly men. Of course, there…

Romance Tourism: Kenya is Now a Love Fantasy Land for Middle-Aged Women

European travellers deserted Kenya’s beaches long ago, but, in recent years, you may encounter a new, increasingly familiar sight: mature white women surrounded by muscular Kenyan men. During a work trip to Mombasa, Kenya, Danish photographer Sofie Amalie Klougart accidentally…

Why do Artists Have to be Poor and Fucked Up? A Portrait of Author Andrew Kaufman

BY: AYA TSINTZIRAS Andrew Kaufman writes in a notebook, seated at a tiny circular table in a courtyard. The tiles below him are stone, and the building above him is beige stucco. It’s a mere façade, though, standing above a…

Redefining Home On Native Land: Inside British Columbia’s Fight For Aboriginal Territory

BY: KELSEY ROLFE No British Columbia premier has ever met with the Tsilhqot’in Nation on their home turf. Nor had one ever sat down with aboriginal titleholders as equals. Christy Clark, B.C.’s current premier, was the first to do both…

This Band Practices Weekly But Has Never Met In Person: Second Life’s Avatar Orchestra

BY: DANIEL KORN You make your way to the concert hall and take your seat. The performance space is a grassy field in the middle of a mountainous enclosure, surrounded on all sides by a baby blue sky filled with…

Comedian Chris Turner: Your Parents Might Be Disappointed, But You’ll Get The Last Laugh

BY: PILGRIM Don’t be discouraged by the look of disappointment you’ll receive from your parents when you tell them you’ve figured out what you want to do with your life; stand-up comedy is an optimal career choice for a twenty-something.…

This Photographer Captures The First Surfers To Ride Sub-Zero Arctic Swells

BY: ROB HOFFMAN Chris Burkard’s photography is a call to action for the traveler who refuses to see the world from the inside of a five-star resort, or overtop the latest edition of “Lonely Planet”. His catalogue of surfing, adventure,…

NoFap: The Twenty-First Century Abstinence Movement

BY: KARMUN KHOO The Ancient Egyptians believed that the world is a product of masturbation—an act committed by the god Atum. Early Indians wrote in the Kama Sutra that men should “churn [their] instrument with a lion’s pounce.” And if…

I moved to a remote cabin in Alaska. It was the best decision I’ve ever made

BY: HANNAH WRIGHT  Some people shudder at the thought of living in the woods. For me, it was a gateway to another realm. In a society that bleeds technology, instant gratification, and convenience, many of us are left craving challenge…