Every Saturday, from the ages five to 13, I spent my mornings at school. Monday through Friday I was earning teacher’s praise and good marks but come Saturday I was the illiterate badass. My parents sent to Chinese school in an attempt to salvage the relationship I had with my estranged maternal language. In Grade [...]
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It took Ken Ferguson four and a half years to follow up on a high school whim. One week after writing his final exam at McMaster University, and three days after Christmas, Ferguson flew to Japan to find a job teaching English. “I loved the geological processes—earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes—that went [...]
PHOTO: Swap, Don’t Shop Shopping has become a dirty word—at least for Hope Sinclair, owner of a vintage clothing business and organizer of Swap, Don’t Shop, a monthly clothing exchange in Toronto. Sinclair, 29, held her first event last October by inviting women and men to bring their unwanted clothes and take [...] |
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