Freelance lifestyle and entertainment journalist
Written for FLARE’s 9-5 series. … What does it mean to be a DJ? I’m the party captain. I have a crowd where some people are wasted, some people are sober, some people don’t want to be there but their friends dragged them out. It’s my job, within the first 10 minutes of my set, to […]
Written for FLARE‘s 9-5 series. … How has climate change affected the way you farm? Springs come in later and fall ends later, in general, but it’s kind of unpredictable. We’re seeing more and more where it won’t rain for two weeks and then it’ll be a downpour of like 30mm of rain in eight minutes—more […]
Written for FLARE‘s 9-5. When you started studying computer science at Dal, how many women were in your classes? Very few, sadly. It started out at around 17 percent but it dwindled over the years. That’s the unfortunate reality about being a woman in tech: it’s always a higher percentage when you start and then people […]
Written for FLARE‘s 9-5 series. … How did you get into documentary filmmaking? One of my professors at UBC, John Zaritsky, had won an Oscar for one of his documentaries, Just Another Missing Kid. I had always loved documentaries, but he was the one who really encouraged me to pursue it. He alerted me to the […]
Written for FLARE‘s 9-5 series. … What drew you to swimwear? When I moved to Vancouver, I realized that there was beach culture and saw that something that was lacking. It was a very youth-focused industry. I was faced with my own feelings of not wanting to wear something skimpy, like a string bikini, and on […]
Written for FLARE‘s 9-5 series. … What’s your favourite destination? Vancouver, because flying over Canada lets you see how beautiful this country is. The view from the cockpit is breathtaking and words can’t describe some of the things you see, especially when the sun is coming up or you see weather at a distance. Having a […]
Written for FLARE‘s 9-5 series. … What is the Tseshaht community like? We have over 1,100 members, however not all of them live in Port Alberni, B.C. on the Tseshaht reserve. A lot of them are off-reserve members. The Tseshaht community is really hard to explain if you’re not a part of it. The community is […]
Written fore FLARE‘s 9-5 series. … What is it about festivals that you love so much? If you’re going to a festival for the first time, it can be completely life-changing to step into an environment that doesn’t have the same amount of rules as general life. I think you discover things in yourself that you […]
Pitched and written fore FLARE. Reposted by Chatelaine. It was late at night in downtown Toronto and Aisha Addo hopped into a cab for the long trek back to her home in Mississauga. The driver started up a conversation but soon began making sexual comments and asking personal questions, like whether the Addo lived alone. “You know when […]
Ishani Nath 