Author Archives: Jill Duke

This week, the Royal Canadian Mint announced that they had printed (pressed? Made?*) the last Canadian penny ever. This followed an earlier announcement that the…

So, this is pretty awesome: Forbes recently did the math on which fictional characters are the richest, and then Buzzfeed made the list easier to…

Vancouver’s DIY scene is a pretty awesome one, and it gets stronger with every passing year. That doesn’t mean, however, that we can’t celebrate the…

If you’re anything like me, the notion of attempting to get your personal finances in order is scary as scary can be. Like many young…

Today the open source news media outlet OpenFile reported that the cities of the future will be more bike-friendly (yay!) and that, more importantly for…

Lately it seems like everyone out there has something they want me to help them pay for, be it an album, a film, an art…

Any beer drinker worth his or her salt knows that all brews are not created equal. BC has long been associated with a healthy—any maybe…

If you live in Vancouver, as I do, chances are you spend a good percentage of your time talking to other Vancouverites about how expensive…

As mentioned in my previous post, I’m on vacation in New York. This means I’m having tons of fun, but it also means I’m messing…