Sexplanations: Using the Right Words
“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names can never hurt me”: a school yard chant I said many times growing up. I now know that names can hurt, they can ...
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WR & Howe: Managing Waste in KW Condos and Apartments
Given all the fuss to get people to use the green bin, you might wonder why you’re throwing your apple core and kitty litter into the garbage at your apartment ...
TCE Fiction: A Home That Works
The soft light of the lantern flickered faintly. Its reservoir of vegetable oil was running low, but Marta hardly noticed. She was bent over the kitchen table, ...
Easy Being Green: Addressing Misconceptions Surrounding Electric Cars
Last month I talked about how range anxiety (or as I’d prefer to refer to it: the misalignment between driver’s needs and electric car (EVs) availability and in...
Mental Matters: Finding Acceptance
Most people I meet seem to think that practicing acceptance will make you either a guilty bystander who colludes with injustice, or a slack-jawed couch potato w...
The Side Hustle: Eddie Stannard & White Cap Co.
If you’re looking for Eddie Stannard, you can find him studying at hair school, and later at Spearhead Barber and Supply in Waterloo, where he works as an appre...
TCE Fiction: A City By The Sea
There is a city I know of, a city by the sea, whose walls look out westward over the water. Wherever one goes in that city, the sound of the waves is near. At o...
Sexplanations: Under-Valued Work and Doing it Anyway
I have worked extensively in the community as a sexual health educator for well over a decade. I have remained passionate about the work I do and think it is es...
Easy Being Green: Electric Car Range Anxiety
How electric cars should not cause driver's anxiety about making it between charging points
Our Ink, Our Stories: Using His Son’s Art As a Way to Connect
Kitchener resident Craig Sears’ entire arm is covered in his seven-year-old son Parker’s drawings. This isn’t a case of a child on the loose with permanent mark...