Real Life Stories

This election, I realized on a very personal level that privilege is all but invisible to those who have it.

After surgery, CityNews reporter Ginella Massa lost 40 pounds—but she has mixed feelings about friends and relatives telling her how amazing she looks now.

Our monthly calls were becoming more like run-throughs of our schedules rather than connecting. It was time I got to know my mother—adult to adult.

Three years ago, Annie Agnone left her apartment to live off the grid in a yurt. ‘There’s a lightness to doing this.’

Which is why I want to mark the end of my cancer treatment in a powerful way. I want to get a mastectomy tattoo.