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Former Writer in Residence @Torontolibrary 📝 Journalist for @bbcnews @TorontoStar @RecordingAcad Writing coach for journalists, creative writers
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Lasers, drones and AI: The future of weeding

Lasers, drones and AI: The future of weeding

BBC — No-one likes weeding, but new technology is helping farmers around the world tackle weeds in a more efficient and environmentally friendly way. Deanna Kovar from US farming equipment giant John Deere says that the company's new tractor-pulled weed sprayer can reduce herbicide use by two thirds.
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How fashion designers are adding Braille to their clothing lines

How fashion designers are adding Braille to their clothing lines

Fast Company — What you need to know about burgeoning fashion designers who are catering their lines to the visually impaired community by layering Braille to their shirts, pants and handbags.
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Revealing the pain of Partition through fact and fiction - Concordia University

Revealing the pain of Partition through fact and fiction - Concordia University

Concordia Alumni Magazine — In 2013, while on sabbatical from her graduate program in studio arts at Concordia, Aanchal Malhotra, MFA 15, went back to her hometown of New Delhi, India. It was a trip that would change the trajectory of her artistic career. Then studying to be a traditional printmaker, Malhotra visited her maternal granduncle.
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6 of the most romantic bars and restaurants in the Annex

6 of the most romantic bars and restaurants in the Annex

torontoverse.com — David Silverberg compiles the most romantic dinner spots to check out in the Annex area of Toronto.
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The director of Oscar-nominated 'Turning Red' shares how she moved up through the ranks at Pixar ...

The director of Oscar-nominated 'Turning Red' shares how she moved up through the ranks at Pixar ...

Business Insider — Domee Shi is the VP of creative at Pixar and the director of "Turning Red" and "Bao." She started in the industry as an animation student and interned at Pixar before getting hired full-time. Now she decides which projects to green light and liaises with directors on how to tell their story.
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How has this champion barista of Bulldog Coffee survived - and thrived - competition, constructio...

How has this champion barista of Bulldog Coffee survived - and thrived - competition, constructio...

The Toronto Star — Stuart Ross gets giddy when he prepares his signature drink, the Triple Chocolate Maple Passion, which earned him the top spot at the 2005 Central Region Canadian Barista Championship, the Olympics of the industry. After infusing an espresso blend with maple syrup, chocolate syrup, cayenne pepper and dry milk foam, he tops it with shaved chocolate.
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Jackie Brown: When Elmore Leonard Met Tarantino by David Silverberg - Layered Butter

Jackie Brown: When Elmore Leonard Met Tarantino by David Silverberg - Layered Butter

Layered Butter — When I first read a book by the late Elmore Leonard-one of the best-known crime authors in the world-I was 12 years old and fresh off a Clive Barker binge. I needed a change of pace. When I finished reading Rum Punch, about an airline stewardess caught in a money-couriering scheme, I instantly thought, "Someone better make a movie of this book."
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He got the beat: From a warehouse in Scarborough, Kiyoshi Nagata has been blasting the sound of t...

He got the beat: From a warehouse in Scarborough, Kiyoshi Nagata has been blasting the sound of t...

The Toronto Star — On the industrial strip of Hymus Road in Scarborough, booming and rhythmic drumming reverberates in the air. In a practice space outside a warehouse, seven musicians bang on taiko drums. Some of the instruments are balanced on stands, while others are held between the feet of players in a sit-up position.
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Farmgate program in BC aims to support rural and Indigenous cannabis growers

Farmgate program in BC aims to support rural and Indigenous cannabis growers

Leafly — British Columbia recently announced it's joining other provinces in allowing cannabis producers to sell products on-site, while also potentially opening the door to product sampling and on-site consumption starting at the end of November. Under the new regulation, cultivators who are interested can apply for Producer Retail Store (PRS) licences that let them sell their own cannabis at their production sites.
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Grad's film premieres at TIFF, celebrates trans life

Grad's film premieres at TIFF, celebrates trans life

Toronto Metropolitan University alumni magazine — TMU grad interviews one of the rising stars in Canadian filmmaking whose new film starring a trans character is both refreshing and enlightening.
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High Park Amphitheatre, a home for the Bard since 1983, has opened its stage to musicians and oth...

High Park Amphitheatre, a home for the Bard since 1983, has opened its stage to musicians and oth...

The Toronto Star — It's a warm summernight and I'm sitting in a lawn chair behind the hill of High Park Amphitheatre, watching an unusual sight: a production that isn't a Shakespeare play on the venerable stage that has been home to Bard classics since 1983.
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One Doctor's Quest to Demolish Health Care's Racist Barriers

One Doctor's Quest to Demolish Health Care's Racist Barriers

The Daily Beast — In 2005, Marcella Alsan earned a master's in public health from Harvard. Before heading back to school to earn her medical degree, she went Tijuana, Mexico, to tutor at an orphanage for a year. She ended up providing physical therapy to a young boy with hydrocephalus, a condition where fluid builds up in the brain.
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I'm a Frontier pilot. The commute and unruly passengers are a challenge, but I love that I get pa...

I'm a Frontier pilot. The commute and unruly passengers are a challenge, but I love that I get pa...

Business Insider — Ron Fishman is a commercial pilot for Frontier Airlines with more than 17 years of experience. He gets tested regularly on flying and says getting to travel is the best part of the job. He adds he has no problem grounding a flight for unruly passengers.
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Digital repression across borders is on the rise

Digital repression across borders is on the rise

MIT Technology Review — Activists who flee repression increasingly face zero-click software hacks and other digital threats
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Should firms have to put carbon labels on all products?

Should firms have to put carbon labels on all products?

BBC — Lou Palmer-Masterton, the owner of three vegan restaurants, says it was a logical progression to add carbon labelling to the menus. All three branches of her Stem & Glory mini-chain were already using only renewable energy, and participating in reusable lunchbox and cup schemes, but she wanted to go one step further.
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And Now I Spill the UConn Secrets | UConn Magazine

And Now I Spill the UConn Secrets | UConn Magazine

UConn Magazine — "At UConn, I was writing essays about my mother and bipolar disorder, so this book has been on my mind for years," says Kimball. "I remember writing one essay in particular about the manic episode my mom had when I was around 16, the one where she threw water at me.
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