Tag: Myths

The world of makeup is brimming with tips, tricks, and hacks, but not all of them are created equal. Some popular beliefs turn out to be complete myths, potentially hindering your makeup journey and even harming your skin. So, let’s grab our makeup removers and wipe away the misinformation! ...

Your City Council has taken steps to address the opioid epidemic at a municipal level, but we cannot solve the problem alone. I have advocated to the provincial and federal government to fund many proven treatments and harm-reduction measures like safe consumption sites, safe supply, mental hea...

An old wives’ tale refers to “spurious or superstitious claims.” It is not that the “old wives” intentionally lied about something. Rather, they believed that certain things, like running outside in the cold, caused you to get a cold. The “old wives&rdqu...

Deer are ubiquitous throughout most of North America. Growing up in the Midwest, I remember sometimes waking up on a bright winter morning and looking out the windows into our forested back yard. I’d see deer tracks, and sometimes even get a glimpse of a young buck looking back at us. He&rsquo...

There have been three censuses in my lifetime, and I’ve never been counted. Not in 1990, when I was just two years old and among the nearly two million children who went uncounted that year. Not in 2000, as the daughter of then undocumented immigrants in a mixed-status family. And not in ...

Imagine that Christianity lasts for another thousand years and that after the flourishing of the story of Jesus’s life, death, resurrection, and ascension for those three millennia, another religion replaces Christianity but only by adapting the key themes and presuppositions of that former re...