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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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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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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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