Sidelined
Rocked by eight concussions in five years, an athlete bids farewell to her dream and launches an organization to promote awareness about head injuries
Life, Legacy and Loss of the Mod Club Theatre
The closure of Toronto’s Mod Club Theatre will leave a gap is the city’s music scene
‘Blood in your veins, Egg coffee in ours’
A wartime invention out of scarcity becomes a regional delicacy, its secret passed from father to children
Queen Adrianna
After years of experimenting with gender and identity, Adrianna Exposée is a ruling queen in Ottawa’s drag scene
How hate inspired a career
By Jasmine Afnan Al-kholani Sarah Hussain, CEO and founder of Bridge HR, sits at her desk, tired from her long stream of meetings. Though her responsibilities are never-ending, she likes being in charge and having control over her day—a far cry from the shift that inspired her to launch her human resources company. Sarah Hussain,…
The View from the Sidelines
By Rachel Aversa Eva Di Nallo has always turned to her former coach from the Glen Shields Soccer Club, David Benning, for advice as she sees him as a mentor. She ended her soccer career playing for the North Toronto Futbol Club, after previously playing for Benning in the summer of 2017. (Supplied photo by…
A capital coronation
By Thomas Publow Adrianna Exposée stares into a vanity mirror as she applies glue to her eyebrows. Behind her, a rack of colourful outfits, some sheer and feathered, others satin and fringed, sit next to three shelves that hold white mannequin heads topped in wigs of different styles. The beige wig cap she wears is…
From high school graduate to Paris Fashion Week
By Trevor Carter Like most recent high-school graduates, Kieron Harper starts his day by checking his phone. But unlike most of his fellow teens, the Halifax native scrolls through his messages looking for casting calls like the one that put him on the runways of Paris Fashion Week and in the pages of the January/February…
From Digging in the Backyard to Excavating in the Holy Land
By David Warner The phone alarm buzzes. Ella Andrews flails her hand, scrambling to turn off her alarm; it’s 5 a.m. and she’s not a morning person. But the excitement of being in the heart of Jerusalem, Israel—in the centre of so much history—gets her out of bed. She steps out of her hotel and…
Desperate Times Call for Desperate Measures
By Carlos Rayman Giova Gallagher at her home in Hamilton, Ontario. (Brian Gallagher/T•) Thou Shalt Remember Thy Sabbath Day? A new meaning to the age-old commandment and how one mourner came to terms with a shuddered house of worship. On a bright spring morning in the suburban town of Burlington the bees buzzed, the tulips…