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Essay

Learning the Long Goodbye

Losing my mother to Alzheimer’s.

Essay

8 of Our Favourite Personal Essays From 2022

From painful family history to Vancouver’s cruelest weather to a summer camp for adults.

Book of Chad, Melissa Paget

Community

The Mystery of Vancouver’s Book of Chad

A briefcase abandoned in a dumpster tells the story of an exotic dancer who lived life in the fast lane. But who was Chad, and what happened to him?

Essay

Digital Filters Are Changing How We See Our Own Faces

In a facetuned world, can we heal from filter dysmorphia?

Style

Turning 40 Made Me Feel Invisible. It Also Set My Style Free

Choosing what to look like when nobody is looking.

Essay

A Love Letter to the Underappreciated Women of Rock and Roll

Universal soldiers.

The story of rock and roll would seem to belong to men. But that’s simply not the case.

Travel

Finding a Warm Welcome in One of Europe’s Least Welcoming Countries

On a trip to meet her girlfriend’s parents, a traveller discovers the hidden warmth of Poland.

Jen Sookfong Lee

Beauty

Inclusive Makeup Tutorials Helped Me Love My Asian Eyelids

Finding the right brushes, techniques, and foundation suited to my skin.

Essay

The Beauty of Keeping a Journal

“My dad was the storyteller in the family, my mom the archivist. I became a combination of the two.”

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