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Don’t Expect A 'Thank You' When You Compliment My New Body

Real Life Stories

Don’t Expect A 'Thank You' When You Compliment My New Body

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.

Ginella Massa

I Tried Calling My Mother Every Day For A Month

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I Tried Calling My Mother Every Day For A Month

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.

Megan Robinson

I Ditched My City Apartment For A Teeny Off-Grid Yurt

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I Ditched My City Apartment For A Teeny Off-Grid Yurt

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

as told to Danielle Groen

‘Every Time I Look At Myself, I Am Reminded Of What Cancer Took From Me’

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‘Every Time I Look At Myself, I Am Reminded Of What Cancer Took From Me’

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

Victoria Reid-DeJong

I Traded My Job For A Cannabis Start-Up

Real Life Stories

I Traded My Job For A Cannabis Start-Up

May Nazair, now 43, made a radical change in 2016 to leave a stable career and join a small cannabis start-up.

As told to Danielle Groen