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Pimp your dorm room (on the cheap)

Decorating your dorm need not cost as much as your degree. Focus on decor items that you can take with you when you leave. Most schools do not permit painting or changes to the structure of the building, but there are plenty of decor ideas to make your dorm room pop. If you have any aspirations of college campus infamy, you will have to transform your dorm room from a pitifully penitentiary to a pimping palace. 1. Bright ideas: Lighting will immediately alter the atmosphere of your dorm ro

Summer time is patio season (Toronto edition)

Summer in Toronto is short and sweet and to take full advantage of its brief magnificence, bars and restaurants across the city set up camp on the sidewalk. Yup, it’s officially patio beer season and there are many bars and restaurants that reserve a tiny enclave of outside space for their summer patrons. We take a look at the very best patios Toronto has to offer. One This is the place to see and be seen in Toronto. Here you are most likely to encounter designer watches and outfits, fancy spo

Toronto's Cabbagetown - a hidden gem

Cabbagetown is one of Toronto’s oldest and most picturesque neighborhoods. Named for the stews of Irish immigrants that fled the potato famine of the 1840s, this gorgeous neighborhood is enjoying an unprecedented revival. Bordered in the south by Little India’s Gerrard Street and by Wellsley to the north, this quaint little patch is home to the largest collection of late Victorian homes in North America. Cabbagetown contains to two of the city’s oldest cemeteries, the St. James and the Necropol

Meet Canada’s Only Selfless Billionaire

I admit it—I sometimes roll my eyes when I read headlines about a super rich person being charitable. In my mind, it should be a given that those with lots of money (your Bill Gateses, your Warren Buffets) should give a significant portion of their money away. Furthermore, reporting on a super rich person being generous makes it “newsworthy” when I think it should be ordinary. Many Canadians give to charity, regardless of their financial situation (though, it should be noted that we give less th

Airbnb: My New Best Travel Friend

A little while ago, as you may recall, I took a trip to NYC. While I was mainly able to stay on budget while traveling, when I got home and looked at the numbers the most shocking part of my budget definitely went to accommodations. That’s not unusual, by any means, but it is something that made me feel wistful. Rather than resign myself to always paying over 50% of my travel budget to a bed for the night, I started looking into other options. A friend had mentioned the website Airbnb to me bef