by Denise Balkissoon

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Weeeeeee-Vibe

It’s a business story, ok? In Canadian Business, I tell you all about the We-Vibe, a couples vibrator developed in Ottawa that now outsells other erotic buzzers three to one.

Fuck Yeah Susan Lucci

This Is What a One-Year-Old Hamburger Looks Like

For Open File, I visited the Aboriginal Youth Community Kitchen run by the TDSB and FoodShare. During the four-week after-school program, high school students learn to make tasty, healthy meals, and also get scared out of eating junk food by gross things like the weirdly preserved McDonald’s meal seen here, which is two years old and has never been refrigerated.

Hairy White People

I am extremely proud of the last two issues of the Ethnic Aisle, a blog about race and ethnicity in the GTA that I co-founded last year.

In February, we did the White Issue, which saw white Toronto writers get honest and real about race. It was smart and courageous and terrific reading, too.

In March, we did the Hair Issue, which touched on some serious topics about confidence, acceptance and internalized racism. It also made people laugh.

We celebrate our first anniversary in May. There should be a party, right?

Sleep, Wake Up, Sleep

From the Globe, a piece on bi-modal sleeping. Is two-phase sleeping always insomnia? Or is it the way nature meant us to snooze?

Houses for Half a Milly

From the Grid, houses selling at the city’s average price of $499,000.