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Skin SOS

1. The orange extract and gentle micro beads in Clarins’ One-Step Gentle Exfoliating Cleanser give bright results 2. With sunny days ahead, Jergens 3 Days to Glow Moisturizer enhances your skin with natural-looking colour in no time 3. Darphin’s Youthful Radiance Camellia mask boosts radiance, plumps lines and firms your complexion with a deliciously rich …

How To Stop Bully

Q: How does bullying impact one’s self-esteem? A: It’s not so much self-esteem but self-control. It’s how you see yourself relating to others. There are kids that think there’s no harm done — I didn’t hit anybody; all I did was tell them that if they don’t do this, I am going to come back …

The Modern Bard

Shane Koyczan walks onto a stage, his finger nudging the bridge of his eyeglasses up to the radix of his nose. Nervously he rubs his hands together, folding one palm over the other, forming a solitary handshake before an audience awash in a hazy blue light. He looks out to a gathering of attendees, who …

Rolling The Dice

Casinos: the flashing-light fantasy of cascading quarters, the thrill of chance dancing around a wheel, the ecstasy of hauling in newly won chips; the hunched backs of slot machine junkies, the dejection of “22, player busts,” the empty wallets of the down-on-their-luck. Two sides of the same coin, but it’s the former that gambling pushers …

Young At Heart

When I pulled up to the house, I was kind of nervous,” says Paul Mandarino. After the recent maelstrom of media reports focused on vulnerable kids being bullied, the 25-year-old Vaughan resident saw an opportunity to join the revolution of resolution. Knocking on a stranger’s door was his first move. After expressing interest in empowering …

Sarah’s Drive For Hope

Five-year-old Sarah Watkins of Thornhill has been living at Sick Children’s Hospital since last October when she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a serious form of childhood leukemia. Sarah, who’s already received 50 blood transfusions in the past few months, requires a stem cell transplant in order to beat this disease. Her family …

A Refuge from the Storm

A mighty whiteout that blanketed the GTA area with over 25 centimetres of snow on Feb. 8, 2013, resulted in flight cancellations and extreme road conditions. Getting to work and school proved difficult, with vehicles stuck in deep banks of snow, and neighbours and strangers coming to each other’s rescue a common sight throughout the …

Paul’s Boot Camp

It was June 2, 2010, when Lucy Addario made the decision that altered her life: she joined Paul’s Boot Camp (PBC). “I was tired of all the inhibitions that came with being overweight,” says Addario, a mother of two. She was 232 pounds when she first stepped into the calorie-searing atmosphere of PBC, with no …

Sarah’s Drive for Hope

Five-year-old Sarah Watkins of Thornhill has been living at Sick Children’s Hospital since last October when she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a serious form of childhood leukemia. Sarah, who’s already received 50 blood transfusions in the past few months, requires a stem cell transplant in order to beat this disease. Her family …

Undying Love for Zombies

Zombies — the lumbering, reanimated remains of the infected. Rotting, mindless, driven by voracious greed and a penchant for braaaiiinnnsss — they’re putrid beings, and yet television audiences fancy them over the most carrot-coloured New Jerseyan, the most vapid, superficial socialites and, yes, even Charlie Sheen. Case in point: The Walking Dead. With its decaying …