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In hers, Megan Hunt offers up a new critique of fast fashion and how it's hurting plus-size people. We also have a profile of Nations Skate Youth by Ayesha Habib, who reports on the ways in which skateboarding is helping Indigenous youth to connect with themselves, and an interview with Nour Abi-Nakhoul about her new book.
How vaping companies appeal to today’s teens - This Magazine
Feb 19, 2020 · Roughly 4.9 million Canadians are smokers and vape companies position themselves as a safer alternative to cigarettes. “ JUUL is for adult smokers only who are looking to switch off combustible cigarettes,” says Lisa Hutniak, director of communications, JUUL Labs Canada. “Vaping products, including JUUL, are not intended for youth or non ...
How to write the perfect book inscription - This Magazine
Mar 29, 2017 · Don’t rush an inscription. Treat it as its own little story, and let it brew inside your head like a piece of fiction. Most importantly, write it somewhere other than the book first, in case you hate it. But don’t make it carry too much weight for you either—presumably you’re not being shot into space after you gift the book to your ...
Q&A: Award-winning Indigenous artist Shelley Niro - This Magazine
Apr 3, 2017 · Shelley Niro’s visual art and film have explored a borderless continent, power and pop culture, life on First Nations reserves, and much more – never without a sense of self. Niro, born in 1954 in Niagara Falls, New York, is a Mohawk artist from the Six Nations Reserve near Brantford, Ont. Living in Brantford, she works in film, photography ...
The trouble with (white) feminism - This Magazine
Mar 11, 2015 · White feminism, essentially, fails to acknowledge the intersections of race and gender. For example: it’s commonly lamented that women—as in all women—make about 77–82 cents for every dollar that a man makes. But that’s only white women. Black and Hispanic women make even less, 69 cents and 60 cents, respectively, for every dollar ...
Inside the battle for taxpayer-funded multicultural television
Nov 8, 2018 · But the Quebecor group and Rogers Media are two for-profit corporations that have been awarded 9 (1) (h) licences to air as a broadcasting distribution undertaking (BDU)—meaning Canadians pay a certain fee for TV or digital media services for a certain number of TV channels. As a result, these channels are considered taxpayer-funded.
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What it means to be a Canadian living without ID - This Magazine
Mar 31, 2017 · Depending on the province, some identification cards can cost up to $75, while a five-year passport will cost upwards of $120. “If you have the necessary financial means, it’s not really an issue,” says Mary Ann Proulx, who helped develop an ID clinic in York Region, Ont., to assist people living without identification.
This Magazine → When it comes to representations of OCD in …
Jul 26, 2018 · Of those with clinical OCD, more than 90 percent have both obsessions and compulsions, but pop culture portrayals focus only on the latter. Portrayals are also often exaggerated, with OCD depicted as being performed in a specific way (often counting) or as a character’s defining personality trait. These negative portrayals not only diminish ...
Gender Block: on taking up space - This Magazine
Oct 20, 2014 · Then there’s the physical space. The perfect example of “public assertions of privilege,” is the blog, Men Taking Up Too Much Space on the Train, a collection of guys enjoying extra space, despite packed public transportation vehicles. Women are supposed to take up so little space, that even our bodies must be thin.