Many of the popular resources available on cosmetic products and toxic ingredients come from the United States. They include some useful databases and backgrounders, but their conclusions seem at times periphery to us Canadians. Up here, we regulate our cosmetics differently!
You may be happy to then know that FemmeToxic, a Montreal-based campaign [...]
It’s official, you no longer need to leave the comfort of your own home to enjoy one on one yoga instruction. The technology: virtual yoga offered via your webcam.
India based Divine Wellness is the first site to offer the services. For the cost of just $20 you can experience live one on one yoga instruction [...]
University students are experts at abusing their bodies. They work hard, drink hard, play hard, and run off coffee after pulling repeated all nighters. They tend to get away with it because usually they’re relatively young and healthy. However every body needs some TLC. That’s where yoga comes in.
“We all know that students are quite [...]
If you’ve managed to find a meaningful relationship, you’ve probably realized that looks aren’t everything.
That sentiment holds true on Plenty Of Fish, a Vancouver-based online dating service that The New York Times dubbed “visually painful.”
It’s below-average looks haven’t stopped it from becoming one of the world’s largest dating websites.
I joined Plenty Of Fish to analyze [...]
Canada’s e-business industry attracts big money, according to Statistics Canada. Entrepreneurs, small businesses and large corporations alike all want their piece of the multi-billion dollar pie.
Professor Ron Cenfetelli teaches MBA students about e-business at UBC’s Sauder School of Business. He sat down with me to discuss the major pitfalls associated with online business endeavors.
In order, [...]
Every female hockey fan battles with being mistaken for a puck bunny. Girls are not always taken for loyal fans of the game. Instead they’re seen as groupies waiting for what goes on after the game.
“They’re groupies,” said Matt Krause, who referees recreational games and used to play hockey in the minor leagues. “They congregate [...]
From outside the pub the smell French fries and burgers grilling saturate the senses.
Voices from the television can be heard from the doorway. Fans watching the Canucks game from GM Place can be heard cheering in the background, as fans at the pub watch from booths with beers and burgers.
A group of guys laugh, sipping [...]
I have been involved in a few protests the past four or five years, and although there have been many discussions and fights over, say, tactics of peace and violence, there has been, from the perspective of this music geek, a definitive lack of discussion on the music at these events. Unfortunately, aggressively egalitarian anarcho-politics [...]
Statistics Canada predicts that visible minorities are going to form a new majority in various cities of Canada by 2031. Does that mean current members of visible minorities could truly evolve as a major part of this nation? Not just in numbers but in social, economical and political contexts? Having lived in Vancouver for the last [...]
It is hard to walk by one block in Vancouver without spotting an Asian, Persian, Indian or any other kind of visible minorities.
This morning’s edition of Globe and Mail had pictures of three visible minorities looking sharp and proud. The headline read, “as minority population booms, a visible majority emerges.” Statistics Canada predicted by [...]
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