November

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Save your holiday cheer for the last month of the year

EIC November 23, 2015

[dropcap]W[/dropcap]alking to my neighbourhood Starbucks, I’m surrounded by elaborate light shows on either side of the street. The community seems to be engaged in a fashion showdown. “Jeff, you got Christmas lights on your garage? Well, I’ve got mine on my roof. Plus they’re LED.” “Mitch, please, you’re just trying to overcompensate for your lack of glow-in-the-dark lawn reindeer.” “Sorry, Jeff, I can’t seem to see your reindeer behind my six-foot-tall candy canes.” I finally enter the Starbucks, and I’m immediately greeted with the smells of pretentious coffee and the sounds of Bing Crosby singing “White Christmas.” I go up…

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This November, don’t grow a moustache because ‘it’s cool’

EIC November 9, 2015

How many of you have heard of Movember? No, not ‘no-shave-november,’ Movember. The purpose of it is to grow a moustache and raise money for prostate cancer research. Individuals who simply grow a moustache because ‘it’s no-shave-November’ completely miss the…

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