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Canada Millenials

There's a Time to Text and a Time to Talk

Nancy A. Shenker | Posted 05.16.2013 | Canada Living
Read More: Cell Phone Etiquette, Social Media, Etiquette and Advice, Women-Communication-Tips, Millenials, Typewriters, Emily Post, Job Hunting, Careers, Etiquette, Communication Skills, Millennial Generation, Business Etiquette, Gratitude, Manners, Texting, Canada Living News
Nancy A. Shenker

So many people are hiding these days behind their devices, using efficiency and speed as just one of the many excuses to avoid direct communication. I don't purport to be the Emily Post of digital etiquette, but the following are times when some form of more intimate and potentially interactive communication may be preferable to their smart phone or tablet equivalent.

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Five Reasons To Start Your Own Business Right Now

AskMen | Posted 05.16.2013 | Canada Business
Read More: Money, Entrepreneurship, Career, Business, Millenials, Starting a Business Canada, Starting a Business, How to Start a Business, Entrepreneur, How to Start Your Own Business, Canada Business News
AskMen

Just about everyone I know has designs on or at least daydreams of starting a business, which I think is normal. And yet, while no one ever says, "I want to be a cog in a giant, multinational machine when I grow up," that's usually what happens. I can't give you advice on how to create a successful business, but I can hopefully give you the nudge you need to at least try.

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More And More Millennials Are Going Under The Knife

The Huffington Post Canada | Carly Thomas | Posted 12.18.2012 | Canada Style
Read More: Teen Plastic Surgery, Video, Canada Millenials, Generation Y Canada, Canada Style News, Generation Y Plastic Surgery, Millennials, Plastic Surgery, Generation-Y, Generation Y Attitudes, Generation Y, Canada Style News

At 14, Sonia Van Burgsteden was unhappy with her body. She would look enviously at her sister’s generous bust and dream about curves of her own. Whe...

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Gen Y Politically Engaged? #GiveMeABreak

Daniel Alexandre Portoraro | Posted 02.05.2013 | Canada Politics
Read More: Reddit, Cdn Poli, Social Media, Millenials, Gen Y, Obama, Generation Y, Romney, Harper, Canadian Politics, Millennials and Politics, Asking Y, Millennials and Political Engagement, Canada Politics News
Daniel Alexandre Portoraro

2012-11-19-slavkoaskingybanner.jpg We've mistaken being politically opinionated for being politically engaged. We simply give off the appearance of being so, by "sharing" and "publishing" articles from the New Yorker, Harper's, The Atlantic, Foreign Policy -- look at me, this is what I read! Aren't I an intellectual treat? An opinion doesn't mean a thing -- but a vote does. The sooner that we stop pretending that 140-character messages makes us politically engaged the better off our generation will be.

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When Asking Y, Do We Ask the Right Questions?

Kevin Elliott | Posted 01.29.2013 | Canada
Read More: Asking Y, Canada News, Young Canadian Adults, Millenials, Generation X, Generation Y, David Macdonald, Generation Y Statistics, Generation Y Lazy, Canada News
Kevin Elliott

2012-11-19-slavkoaskingybanner.jpg Many analyses of Gen Y seem to merely entrap themselves in the dichotomy between labelling young people as "lazy" or claiming that young people have an opportunity to reshape the world in which they live. As young people, we can either decide to conform to or alter the content of our society, or we can go a step further and assume the courage to discuss ways in which the form of our society may be what is holding us back.

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Gen Y Feeling Stress? Get a Grip

JD Halperin | Posted 01.23.2013 | Canada
Read More: Ivan Denisovich, Varlam Shalamov, Young Canadian Adults, Mordecai Richler, Millenials, Asking Y, Solzehnitsyn, Generation Y Canada, Generation Y Complain, Generation Y, Video, Canada News
JD Halperin

2012-11-19-slavkoaskingybanner.jpgWe're lucky to have the time to worry about the self-esteem of our children or the discrepancy between the size of our childhood fantasy home and our current urban shanty. While of course we calibrate our problems and react to them according to the world we actually occupy there's something to be said for perspective.

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