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Photo by Kourosh Keshiri This summer, Sarah Mohammed is going on a road trip. She and three of her friends plan to drive from Montreal, where they live, to the Okanagan Valley. “We’re going to work on...
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Fred Penner came back, the very next decade
Evolve Music and Awareness Festival (Moe C) Emily Slofstra, 24, is one-fourth of the Tra La Las, a band of Wilfrid Laurier University graduates who sing about the environment, income inequality and...
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Solving the quarter-life crisis, one twentysomething at a time
Tom Merton/Getty There is no shortage of secrets to solving the quarter-life crisis, and a budding industry of survivors is selling them from the other side of the meltdown. Over the eight years Kirk...
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Solving the quarter-life crisis
Tom Merton/Getty By Sonya Bell There is no shortage of secrets to solving the quarter-life crisis, and a budding industry of survivors is selling them from the other side of the meltdown. Over the...
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Campus crisis: the broken generation
Sándor Fizli In late August, as the first leaves changed from green to red and gold, university ghost towns were coming back to life. Residences were dusted out. Classrooms were readied. Textbooks...
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Consumerism on display at the University of B.C.
Fora do Eixo/Flickr In a famous scene from the 1995 film Clueless, protagonist Cher Horowitz is robbed but, though scared out of her wits, refuses to get on the dirty ground. “Oh, no. You don’t...
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Life lessons for Generation ‘Why’
BaerBel Schmidt/Getty Images The news has two objectives: to report what’s just happened and to rehash, in the most sensational terms, what is apparently always happening. There’s the obesity beat, the...
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Colbert, Arianna & Michelle address Class of 2013
Colbert (University of Virginia/YouTube) It’s commencement season. For many Canadian students and their families, that means sitting in stuffy rooms listening long-winded speeches from important people...
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Life lessons for Generation ‘Why’
BaerBel Schmidt/Getty Images The news has two objectives: to report what’s just happened and to rehash, in the most sensational terms, what is apparently always happening. There’s the obesity beat, the...
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Get ready for Generation Z
Jack Andraka created a pancreas cancer test (Ethan Hill/Redux) Last February, 16-year-old Ann Makosinski drew applause and gasps when she appeared on The Jimmy Fallon Show. The Victoria native was...
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Millennials don’t think they’re doomed
Photograph by Derek Mortensen They’ve been called Generation Screwed. Born in the wake of the demographics-dominating Baby Boomers, the much-mythologized Generation X, and Gen Y (whatever that is), the...
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Is it time for the Millennial discount?
It’s Friday (and it’s May!) so time to shake off the week’s doldrums and look instead to the big questions you can mull over the weekend and the month ahead, from the history of subprime loans in...
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Scott Feschuk: How to get a slice of that Millennial pie
Photo illustration by Sarah MacKinnon and Richard Redditt Pity today’s corporations: They keep trying to win over the Millennial generation, but most aren’t getting very far. No matter how persistent...
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One photo, less than 1,000 words: On Hillary’s selfie sea
image via Twitter/ Barbara Kinney Just before noon Sunday, Hillary Clinton staffer Victor Ng posted a photo to Twitter. It had been taken a few days earlier, at an event in Orlando, Fla., by Barbara...
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Rewind: Why are cassette tapes coming back?
The Dupe Shop in Toronto. Photo via Facebook. On Oct. 5, 1969, just beyond the classifieds, section 13 of the New York Times was devoted to hi-fi and recordings. “Lo, the tiny cassette! Will it,...
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Donald Trump, America’s first Millennial president
(Photo illustration by Sarah MacKinnon and Gerrit De Jonge) Remember when Toni Morrison called Bill Clinton “our first black president?” In 1998, the noted African-American novelist provocatively...
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B.C. boomers have lost their moral authority to judge Millennials
People shout slogans for social housing as they attend an anti-Olympics rally in central Vancouver, BC, Canada on February 12, 2010. (Yuri Kadobnov/AFP/Getty Images) For years, we have been hearing...
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Millennials in the workplace aren’t coddled—bosses are just jerks
This post was first published at Canadian Business. Recently, the University of British Columbia’s faculty of medicine circulated a video meant to make its instructors aware of “student mistreatment.”...
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In the Millennial job market, a Bachelor’s degree isn’t enough
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick This article originally appeared at Flare. Despite the fact that millennials—and now Gen Z—are the generation of the side hustle (because most of us need to work...
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The rise of millennial, urban-dwelling birders
Ian Harland, a 16-year-old birding enthusiast, snapped this Gray Jay flying into the hand of his brother on a trail near Vancouver (Ian Harland) It was evening on a Thursday and Nolan Pelland, a...
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Millennials are begrudgingly making way for Generation Z
(Sergey Filimonov/Stocksy) Move over Millennials, there’s a new generation of kids in the workplace. Employers have spent the past few years trying to figure out what the cohort born in the 1980s and...
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Not your mother’s wage gap: How millennials experience pay inequality
NDP MP Laurin Liu speaks to reporters during a post-election news conference in Montreal, Tuesday, May 3, 2011, as fellow MPs Pierre Nantel and Thomas Mulcair, right, look on. (Graham Hughes/CP) Laurin...
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How Tim Hortons lost its way
Corey Mintz is a food reporter who has written for the Globe and Mail, TVO and The Walrus. His focus is the intersection between food with labour, politics, and culture. It’s Saturday morning and my...
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Millennials, it’s time to side with Gen Z
In October, the phrase “OK boomer,” which got its origins from a TikTok video, went viral. In the split-screen video, an unidentified 60-something male harps on millennials and members of Generation Z...
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The end of the oven
Like most millennials, I am something of a ruthless murderer. No sacred touchstone of polite society is spared from our heathenish clutches—not box springs nor top sheets; not department stores nor...
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Who are baby boomers, Gen X, millennials and Gen Z?
Boomers Born: 1946-1964 Fun fact: Women had an average of 3.7 kids during the baby boom period Watched: The moon landing What’s for dinner? Meatloaf Brag about: Electing Pierre Trudeau; getting a...
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‘Self-sufficient and unassuming’: What it means to be Gen X
This essay is from the February 2020 issue of Maclean’s magazine, which charts the current conflict between boomers and millennials—one of the defining struggles of our age. The issue has two...
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Why intergenerational warfare is a mug’s game
This article is from the February 2020 issue of Maclean’s magazine, which charts the current conflict between boomers and millennials—one of the defining struggles of our age. The issue has two...
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‘Don’t you see yourself in us?’: What it means to be Gen Z
This essay is from the February 2020 issue of Maclean’s magazine, which charts the current conflict between boomers and millennials—one of the defining struggles of our age. The issue has two...
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‘We had good intentions but we fell short’: What it means to be a baby boomer
This essay is from the February 2020 issue of Maclean’s magazine, which charts the current conflict between boomers and millennials—one of the defining struggles of our age. The issue has two...
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‘Directionless and lost’: What it means to be a millennial
This essay is from the February 2020 issue of Maclean’s magazine, which charts the current conflict between boomers and millennials—one of the defining struggles of our age. The issue has two...
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Why this month’s Maclean’s magazine has two covers
“Each generation thinks it invented sex; each generation is totally mistaken,” science fiction author Robert Heinlein wrote in 1980. The always perceptive Heinlein is correct, of course, if somewhat...
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What defines your generation? 16 Canadians weigh in
Arlene Dickinson (George Pimentel/Getty Images) Arlene Dickinson 63, baby boomer, general partner of District Ventures Capital and judge on Dragons’ Den, from Calgary I really have never defined myself...
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Inside the corrosive new generational blame game
The kid with the green mohawk declines to say much about “EAT THE RICH,” the bolded slogan on the piece of cardboard the huddle of teenagers are holding aloft. “We don’t really have an explanation,” he...
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Millennial and Gen Z francophones don’t value Quebec nationalism
The co-authors of this article are Donald Abelson (Brian Mulroney Institute of Government), Colleen Collins (Canada West Foundation), Charles Breton (Centre of Excellence on the Canadian Federation),...
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Flower gowns, anyone? These trends are giving floristry new life
Joezel Yumul is wavering between angel wings and monarch butterfly wings. Angel wings made of masses of white baby’s breath would be more ethereal, but butterfly wings of orange chrysanthemums would be...
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How miniaturists are making tiny design dreams come true
Like so many city-dwelling renters, artist Wei Xu was bored of the plain walls she was unable to paint in her Toronto apartment. She daydreamed of millennial pink paired with emerald-green velvet, and...
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Study confirms Millennials are “Generation Me”
Photo by ABRAHAMY2K2 on Flickr Millennials—those born after Jan. 1, 1982—are much more likely than Baby Boomers (now aged 50+) to value money, image and fame than things like self-acceptance, community...
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Can’t afford kids or a house in your 20s?
Photo by Zach Klein on Flickr. You’re young, in debt, not making as much money as you’d expected and the world keeps getting more expensive. In many ways, our parents had it better: more jobs, cheap...
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