BY: PAOLO JOVENTINO And just like that a 15-year friendship with a close friend was finished. We didn’t have a big fight. They didn’t backstab me or treat me horribly. But I knew it was time to move on because…
These female Japanese warriors are seriously badass
BY: CHARLOTTE LEFAVE The Onna-Bugeisha were women who knew how to kick ass and take names. Beautiful, powerful and terrifying, they stood heroes among men, commanding armies and striking fear in the hearts of anyone that dared to stand in…
A wave of driverless cars could hit the streets by 2018
BY: ROBERT AMOROSO “Logic will take you from A to B. Imagination will take you anywhere.” – Albert Einstein. Imagine, dream a little dream. It’s almost feels like you are in an episode of the Twilight Zone. A voice comes…
Gay dating app Grindr is pushing its users to vote this election for one very important reason
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP Grindr, a gay-dating app, is urging its American users to get out, get loud and vote. Before the huge presidential debate on September 26th, the app took a poll on their American users’ opinions on the upcoming election…
Living on $50 a day, we took our one-year-old daughter on a 6-month adventure across South America
BY: TIM O’NEAL It took several minutes to explain to the woman at the airline counter why we only had one way tickets, no long-term visa, and very little luggage. “What are your plans?” she asked. “We’re flying into Nicaragua…
Trump is using an old Clinton strategy to tear down women and it’s backfiring
BY: MIROSLAV TOMOSKI Nothing good has ever come of a brooding late-night rant on social media. It’s often the kind of thing that is exclusive to jilted ex-lovers and sudden revelations that were discovered at the bottom of a bottle.…
This is what it looks like to surgically repair your earlobes after years of stretching them
BY: ADAM THRUSH The creation of large holes in earlobes: an act some alternative, religious or tribal communities have done for centuries. Depending on the size of these holes, the end product of “spacing” or “gauging” your earlobes could be…
Top 8 apps for budget travelers
Doing research before traveling anywhere is obviously a must. You have to know where you’re going, what the exchange rate is, what the common language is, where the best places to eat are, and the list essentially never really ends.…
Tales of Migration: From Istanbul to Toronto
BY: AISHA ILYAD Mustafa was born in Afghanistan, but continued his studies in Istanbul, Turkey. When he was offered to continue his higher studies in the Toronto branch of his university, Mustafa was not sure whether he wanted to travel to…
Inspired by Cosby, California ends the statute of limitations on rape cases
BY: AISHA ILYAD California has officially dropped the statute of limitations on rape cases, effective from January 1st 2017. The law applies to: “rape, sodomy, lewd or lascivious acts, continuous sexual abuse of a child, oral copulation and sexual penetration” committed…
5 helpful tips to go on a road trip with your significant other (without killing each other)
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP It is possible. In fact I just completed my first road trip with my boyfriend and yes, we are still together. We decided to take travelling together to a new level by renting a mini van for…
Spherical treehouses let you camp under a blanket of greenery and stars all year round
BY: CHARLOTTE LEFAVE Forget about leaving treehouses in the fond memories of your childhood. Now, on Vancouver Island, you can rent spherical treehouses that take camping to entirely new heights. The creators of the Free Spirit Spheres Resort believe in…
Is it possible to power a country purely on renewable energy?
Scotland is a small country in the north of Europe with dreams of generating 100% of its gross annual electricity consumption from renewable energy by 2020. It may seem like an impossible ambition for any country to provide electricity in this…
This TED talk encourages bad feminism and you should too
By: Zoe Melnyk Somehow, along the way, society lost the meaning of what it really means to be a feminist. Just mentioning the word feminism will either send everyone into an uncomfortable silence or a lecture about “feminazis” hating on…
How ancient Egyptians paved the way for today’s beauty standards
BY: AISHA ILYAD Egypt – the land of magic and unknown ancient secrets, decorated with the greatest man-made structure of the ancient world, the great pyramid of Giza – is a land of many treasures. When Greek historian and philosopher, Herodotus,…
Australians cook up change with a new spin on potluck dinners
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP The tomato sauce that will reach its expiry date in a matter of days, the red onions that are beginning to wilt and the beef that you meant to cook last week, yet somehow forgot…these are the…
Why you should ditch the bachelor’s degree and become a mountaineer instead
By: Zoe Melnyk While traveling through the vast and beautiful Canadian Rockies this summer, a friend informed me that, “Oh yeah, you can take an expedition course and become a trainer in basically anything you could possibly want that involves the…
5 simple airline hacks that will let you see the world without going broke
Alright, let’s get down to brass tax. Unless you’re flying on your companies dollar (not likely), or you’re so rich that money isn’t an object, (although that would be nice, it’s also not likely) you want to travel the world,…
Watching the presidential debate from Canada’s largest cannabis lounge
BY: MIROSLAV TOMOSKI What a night for the Great American Bloodsport! And what better place to watch it than from behind a well secured border with the Detroit River between us? Hyped-up to the level of a heavyweight match the…
Is the rise of citizen reporting responsible for the death of journalism?
BY: AISHA ILYAD Explorations in today’s modern world, both in terms of quality and quantity is different – and preferable – than any other era in history. One example is the formation of the virtual world in parallel with the…