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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...
View Article10 surprising (and not so surprising) facts about millennials
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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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Home ownership rates slide as more choose to rent, census shows
From afar, Calgary real estate may be looking like a good buy OTTAWA – Not everyone wants to own a home these days, Evan Siddall concedes – not even his own millennial-age son. For the head of the...
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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
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View ArticleMillennials, 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...
View ArticleThe 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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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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‘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...
View ArticleWhy 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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