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Dude, where’s my job?
It was only 18 months ago that the Wall Street Journal ran an article outlining the lavish demands of a new generation of workers, known collectively as Gen Y or Millennials or Net Gen. At the time,...
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Who’s hit hardest by the recession: young workers or the old?
Teaching has never held the promise of riches, but it’s always been thought of as a safe career choice—and with good reason. Aside from full benefits and an enviable pension, it’s a profession with a...
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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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Licence to text
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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Lotteries struggle to attract millennial players
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Richard Plume, File TORONTO – Millennials are saying “meh” to traditional lotteries with big money and long odds, but if they never jump into the game en masse, provinces could be...
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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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