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It's FAT Week - Fashion Art Toronto 2012 Preview

Fashion Art Toronto [http://fashionarttoronto.ca/] is a fantastic extravaganza where art meets fashion. Arts & Fashion Week launches its 7th year from April 24th to April 28th 2012. This year, the 200 participating designers have chosen the theme of FashionSCAPES: land+city+body+future. FAT Week, formerly Alternative Fashion Week, features not only stunning designs by cutting edge designers, but also signers, visual artists and performers, photography exhibits, live music performances and so muc

How to start a personal finance group

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 Canadians, I never learned about the nuances of finance in school (side note: shouldn’t we be teaching our kids this? I would like to see a personal finance class overtake those stupid CAPP career classes we were all subjected to in high school. I took about ten personality tests that all said, “writer/teacher/creative-type” when I could have used some lessons abo

The best dates in Toronto - what to do on a Saturday night

Bored with dinner and a show? Is bowling and brunch passé? Spruce up your dating life this spring with wildly adventurous dates that are sure to amuse the object of your adoration. Adventure dating need not be expensive, but it does require imagination, a flare for the extraordinary and occasionally, a spare pair of pants. Circus Act Take a fantastic flying trapeze class at the Toronto School of Circus Arts [http://www.torontocircus.com/index.php?id=16]. Here, every Friday brave couples take t

The Canadian Mint makes a glow in the dark dinosaur coin

That headline is serious. As pictured above, the Royal Canadian Mint is going retro… VERY retro. The new, special edition, quarter features a (super tough to spell) pachyrhinosaurus lakustai dino – which was found near Grand Prairie, Alberta in the early 1970s. When the light goes out, the dino’s bones will glow. They’re only making 25,000 of these, so keep your eyes peeled and on the look out for this first run. Rumour has it, there will be another two runs of the coin. Want to get your hand

How Does the Average Canadian Household Spend its Earnings? You Might be Surprised!

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 it is to live in the city. Not a week goes by that I don’t have some version of the “I’m going to move to Montreal if I keep having to spend most of my paycheck on my rent…” conversation. And it’s not just blowing smoke, either: a recent survey found that Vancouver is the most expensive city in North America [http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Vancouver+Nor