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That’s hot!

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Jessica Stewin
Fat was once sexy. A full figure meant you could afford to eat and was thus a symbol of wealth. You likely wouldn’t imagine a plus-size person as a mainstream symbol of sexiness today....
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Bringing home the bacon

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Jessica Stewin
Just hearing the word pig, we draw up images of mud-covered little oinkers making a mess on a farm somewhere. We likely would not think of a pink little pig sitting in the lap...
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The Christmas push

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Jessica Stewin
Christmas seems to come earlier and earlier every year. Maybe it’s the looming credit card debt, the need to start shopping, the list of gifts that keeps growing or mentally preparing for awkward moments...
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Text this!

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Jessica Stewin
Ontario is the most recent province to implement laws to prevent drivers from texting, dialing or talking on their mobile phone while driving. The new hands-free law in Ontario took effect Oct. 26, and...
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Stuck in a pit of pessimism

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Jessica Stewin
In Judith Timson’s review of Bright-sided by Barbara Ehrenreich for the Globe and Mail, she describes the book as a slamming of persistent promotion of positive thinking. I can’t comment on the accuracy of...
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Well isn’t that neat!

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Jessica Stewin
The clear liquor you sipped from your water bottle in high school is more versatile than you thought! Just Google “uses for vodka” and you will come up with lists and lists of websites...
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