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Ashley Callingbull Says No To Appropriation At This Year’s Miss Universe Canada The former pageant winner wants the organization to do better. Callingbull, the first First Nations woman to win the Miss Universe Canada title in 2024, was co-hosting this year’s competition in Windsor, Ont., when she used an unexpected pause in the show to speak about something that had happened at an event earlier in the week.

We interrupted our morning meeting for an important scientific experiment: Could we get up from the floor without using our hands? You've probably seen the sit-to-stand challenge making the rounds online: sit down, cross your legs and stand back up without using your hands. Sounds simple enough—until you’re suddenly negotiating with your knees. After a few very serious attempts (and a couple of questionable techniques), only a couple of members of Team Chatelaine managed to pull it off... sort of.

We Tried McDonald’s New Red Bull Summer Energizers Red Bull has traded its wings for the Golden arches. Red Bull is stepping out the can with a McDonald’s makeover. The energy drink giant’s new Dragonberry and Tropicberry Energizers combine Red Bull with flavoured syrups, fruit toppings and plenty of ice. Team Chatelaine got sipping to find out if they were worth the mid-day crash and potential heart palpitations. Here’s what we thought.

Lululemon Just Launched The Biggest Tote Bag We’ve Ever Seen It’s the definition of ludicrously capacious. Giant totes are having a moment. I, for one, could not be happier to see the world embrace roomy maximalism after years of teeny-tiny belt bags and impractical baguette silhouettes that barely accommodate a credit card and a lip balm.

12 Frozen and Iced Recipes To Beat The Heat Snow cones, granitas, slushies and more—when the mercury goes up, it's time to put dessert on ice. Made with crushed ice and pink rhubarb syrup, these snow cones are a step up from your usual red and blue flavours. Get this snow cone recipe. This tangy, slightly boozy granita makes a bright and puckery contrast to vanilla ice cream.

This Is Summer’s Biggest Sunglasses Trend All the cool girls are wearing colourful tinted lenses. This season, eyewear is going bold with technicolour lenses. From pink to green to amber, sunglasses with tinted lenses are an effortless way to make a statement. Take a page out of the cool-girl playbook with a pair of ’70s-inspired, yellow-coloured aviators or embrace a cheerful outlook with rosy cat-eye frames.

This week focus on how you react. There will be a solar eclipse in your sign on August 12: it marks an important time for your emotional welfare, your personal life and your innermost psyche. You are likely to feel blocked as you come up against very real limitations and frustrations in your life. Your reactions—and your response to those reactions—are not the things you are reacting to themselves.

KitchenAid’s Biggest Stand Mixer Revamp In 70 Years Is More Expensive—And It’s Worth It I tested this revamped model of the brand’s iconic stand mixer for months. I was skeptical at first—and happy to be proven wrong. There are only a handful of tools that have stayed with me in the almost two decades I’ve had a kitchen of my own.

Love Is Blind Is Coming To Canada (Photo: Courtesy Netflix) Is love truly blind? If the success rate of Netflix’s smash TV hit, Love is Blind, is any indication, probably not. But the streaming service is giving Canadians a chance to come to their own conclusions on the matter, officially casting north of the border for the first time since the series launched in 2020.

Heated Rivalry Creator To Fans: Please Be Chill Maybe turn the heat down to a mild simmer? Tierney, who is in Toronto along with the series’ stars filming the second season of the pop culture sensation, implied things were getting a little OTT when he posted the modest request to fans on his Instagram this week.