By Jaya Dixit
Many of us are at a point in our lives when we are happy to be able to get through a grocery run with our chequing accounts intact and narrowly escaping the dreaded “insufficient funds” proclamation. Perhaps the timing isn’t entirely terrible, as the recent recession has inundated the Internet and popular media with “recessionista”… Continue reading No bread without some dough
By Jaya Dixit
Many an elder have argued that the best way to watch what you eat is by making it yourself. With the recent and prolific reactions to ethical eating discourse, however, it seems that perhaps the best way to watch what you eat is to grow it yourself as well. Once upon a time, food consumption… Continue reading Eating ethically is neither cheap nor easy
By Jaya Dixit
It’s the story of so many dates: a meal and a conversation at a restaurant located somewhere on the spectrum between dive and high-end, or somewhere between fast food and healthy. Increasingly, the choice of venue has led to a boiling, bubbling debate about what food choices reveal about those who make them. Whether your… Continue reading Apples and oranges, but not on the first date
By Jaya Dixit
Ball gown, bikini and birth control endorsement in hand, the newly-crowned Miss USA pageant winner has established two new benchmarks in the business of pageantry. First, she has become the first ever Lebanese-American to win the pageant. Also, she has somehow managed to locate a space within the narrow corridor of the pageant Q&A segment… Continue reading Online Exclusive: World peace, one bikini at a time
By Jaya Dixit
Living in a country where all signs point to hockey, it may come as a surprise to many Canadians that the winter Olympics’ marquee event has traditionally been women’s figure skating. You also might not know that as Canadians were “transformed” by the experience of hosting the 2010 winter games, we have, in our transformation,… Continue reading With glowing hearts…extinguished
By Jaya Dixit
In the 1980s it was suggested that we, “Walk like an Egyptian,” but in the new millennium, how about walking like an Italian? You could certainly walk a mile in the shoes of a wealthy New Yorker if it’s the infamous Italian leather shoes you crave, but this piece isn’t about fashionable Italian craftsmanship, but… Continue reading The bus of many feet
By Jaya Dixit
What if you could trade in Vicodin for Vivaldi or Ritalin for Radiohead? Imagine if you could generate healing through music, rather than modern medicines. The time to imagine has come and gone. The future of healing is here and it has made initiative of imagination, but if the use of music is a remedy… Continue reading The medicine of music: “Take two CDs and call me in the morning”
By Jaya Dixit
Like a kid in a candy store, journalists are salivating over Michelle Obama’s every utterance and action. From her championing of locally grown whole foods to her dual identities of mother and lawyer, the latest of the seemingly endless accolades are directed not at her brains or balanced life, but her biceps. The new first… Continue reading The female arm of the head of state
By Jaya Dixit
Whether the truth really is “out there” or whether we are all out to lunch, it seems that Canadians have reported a record number of UFO sightings in 2008. Ufology Research, the Winnipeg-based organization that released these findings, claims that this does not necessarily represent extra-terrestrial crafts, but that the rise in sightings of mysterious… Continue reading The truth is in the sky
By Jaya Dixit
The “veil of ignorance” is a phrase that most of us have come to know through the writings of contemporary philosopher John Rawls. Recently, it’s become somewhat analogous with the modern wedding, fraught with the trickery of sneaky vendors, more fine print than a constitutional amendment and all of the illusory and bogus pomp you… Continue reading I do, Inc.