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Anything Girls Can Do, I Can Do Better

Donald D'Haene | Posted 03.11.2013 | Canada Living
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Donald D'Haene

At 17 I just enjoyed reversing the gender stereotypes of my peers. I was raised in a hierarchal, conservative area (read: small-town Ontario) in the 1960s. I recall a girl sitting behind me in my Gr. 12 business class piping up, "Boys cannot be secretaries!" Personally, I thought, was she for real?

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When Life Gives You Apples, Make Applesauce

Meg Tilly | Posted 11.28.2011 | Canada Living
Read More: Applesauce, Apples, Bomb Girls, Hunger, Acting, Meg Tilly, Thanksgiving, Autumn, Fall, Childhood, Granny Smith, Canada Living News
Meg Tilly

I feel clever because I took something that an ordinary person would throw away, or eat and resent because the yellow/peach coloured apples were mealy. But as applesauce, those pathetic specimens are going to be so good that I might even lick the bowl, and because it's just me here, nobody will know the difference.

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