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Everything is expensive. You already know this. You feel it at the grocery store, at the gas pump, when your insurance renews, when a casual dinner out requires an actual cost-benefit analysis. The baseline cost of ordinary life in Canada has shifted upward and it has not shifted back. Inflation may …
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Seventy-one thousand war films have been made. Make that seventy-one thousand and one, with the addition of this Lucky Strike film review. The majority concern World War II, a conflict close enough in history to keep reminding us that genuine, unadulterated evil is not fiction. Hitler's Nazi regime …
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I'm invested in women's health research, because like most women who have navigated our health care system, I have a story. I waited eight years for a hysterectomy. Eight years of being told to try one thing, then another, then another, and my personal favourite: what if you want more children? I …
Sometimes you just want to look cute without spending an hour wrestling with your inner radical. You want a sweater. Not a moral reckoning. Not a supply chain audit. A sweater. And yet here we are in 2026, where buying from Canadian clothing brands, or deciding not to, comes loaded with enough …
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I came to coffee late. Forty-four years old, fully formed opinions about most things, and somehow I'd never developed the habit. And then I did, and like everyone else who discovers it, I never once stopped to think about where it came from, or what separates ethical coffee brands in Canada from the …
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