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Events | Why I’m challenging myself with Adidas Canada & the #runmore 10K

There are so many moments in my life when I stop and look at myself in the mirror. For no particular reason other than to remind myself that actions speak louder than words. I think that all too often people say that they’re going to do something, and when the time comes, procrastinate or just forget. It can be as little as not cancelling plans you make because you “don’t feel like it” or setting a goal for yourself to clean the office and sticking to it.

I had one of those moments as I sat on the Adidas Canada #runmore 10k website staring at the registration screen for race happening in Toronto on November 1. I’ve been talking about training and getting fit for a year now and every time I start, “something” comes up.

Not this time. *Click* I’m registered. Let’s do this. Continue reading “Events | Why I’m challenging myself with Adidas Canada & the #runmore 10K”

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Events | Celebrating WE Day Toronto & a whole new way you can answer the #CallForChange!

Have you ever been running so fast that you trip, fall and need a minute to get back up? This is kind of what happened to me last week when all of a sudden I got so sick I couldn’t get out of bed and had a busy schedule come to a screeching halt. Unfortunately, this meant that I had to miss the opportunity to attend WE Day Toronto with some media friends and about 20,000 deserving youth. Now that I’m rested and back to my old self, I’m excited to share with you all the excitement from WE Day and a new way that YOU can make a huge difference in the world with me. Continue reading “Events | Celebrating WE Day Toronto & a whole new way you can answer the #CallForChange!”

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Food & Wine | Texture by Next Issue is now available in Canada!

I don’t read magazines very often, especially fashion ones (Sorry, Julio!) Once I’m finished I’m always left feeling fat, ugly, that all my make-up sucks (and consequently needs to be thrown out) and that I’m in desperate need of new clothes.

The same goes for Décor magazines (my apartment is ugly) Food (my dinner looks depressing) and Travel (I’m too poor to go anywhere, ever)

I think the root of this; for me at least, boils down to the advertising. The constant bombardment of aspirational clothing, housing, nourishment and lifestyle leaves me feeling insecure and distracted from the articles at hand. Which is too bad, because it took me 4x longer than it should have to read Zadie Smiths fascinating short story, Moonlit Landscape with Bridge, in the New Yorker. I couldn’t appreciate the beautiful lattice pastry in Bon Appetit because the ads for Kitchen Aid mixers made me envious (They come in Pistachio now!) and when Lena Dunham was the Vogue cover girl last year I was so body shamed by the time I got to the article that I had to read it twice. Continue reading “Food & Wine | Texture by Next Issue is now available in Canada!”

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Events | CBC launches CBC Arts in SIX exciting ways

A fun fact that many of you might not know about me is that I have always had a dream of working for the CBC. There is something so quintessentially Canadian about it and I hold it in the highest respects when it comes to media outlets. Be it my childhood memories of a Sunday night Disney movie, watching Road to Avonlea with my family (best. show. ever.) or the list of endless successful Canadian programs that have evolved out of this empire over the decades. Recently launched, CBC Arts is the newest addition to the family and in six exciting ways, they’re ready for us. Come and see how! Continue reading “Events | CBC launches CBC Arts in SIX exciting ways”