Colourful Threads and Baskets
Taking custom embroidry orders from her bedroom and starting up a business, Aileen Ahmed looks to help struggling Muslims aound the world.
From dorm room to set
In 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, three friends sat nervously in a cramped room at Pitman Hall Residence at Toronto Metropolitan University, ready to pack up their lives and move back home. Dreams of making it big in the production world were quickly crushed by the looming threat of the global pandemic.
Student Startups
Starting a business is no easy feat, and it requires hard work and dedication to become successful. Three young entrepreneurs share their business ideas and how far they’ve come, which is contrasted against other stories of entrepreneurs who have made it big.
Queer Entrepreneurs Face Uphill Battle To Finance Business Ideas
By Abbie North On a summer’s day in June 2019 with just one month left to complete a two-year fashion diploma at Toronto Film School, Aman Gill found themselves lying in excruciating pain in their university classroom, on a makeshift bed of several chairs that fellow students had quickly assembled. Aman Gill, Creative Director of…
Cuteness overload: Puppies take over yoga studio
By Lily Han Sun shines through the large windows of the yoga studio, lighting up the room with rays of warmth. Colourful yoga mats are on the hardwood studio floor in a circle, all facing Echo Wang. Faintly, outside the room, there’s a noise of tiny nails scratching excitedly on the door. Students take their…
Getting off the bench
With female voices in the sports media industry being sparse, a group of women at Ryerson University created a sports journalism outlet to let their voices be heard.
Ditching Doubt and Claiming Confidence
Twenty-year-old female entrepreneur finds self-confidence through building a business
during the pandemic