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Against all odds
Last month, Jillian Harris packed up her bags and moved house from Vancouver to Chicago to live with her fiancé, Ed Swiderski, whom she’d known all of nine weeks before giddily agreeing to marry him;...
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The men you should never marry
Getty Images If love is blind, “marriage is like a trip to the optometrist’s office,” warns an 81-year-old priest from New Jersey in a new book for women designed to help them evaluate whether the man...
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He’s not your type and that’s good
Illustration by Taylor Shute A checklist of requirements may be your biggest impediment to finding true love, says Toronto-born dating coach Andrea Syrtash in her new book He’s Just Not Your Type and...
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Odds are picking up
“If you strike out everywhere else, just come to the Mount,” says Cody Brown, a congenial second-year student at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax. The reason is simple: the Mount’s student...
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Odds are picking up
Getty Images “If you strike out everywhere else, just come to the Mount,” says Cody Brown, a congenial second-year student at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax. The reason is simple: the...
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How to feel happy as a single woman
Hulton Archive/Getty Images, iStock, Photo Illustration by Taylor Shute For one woman, the most lonely night of being single came when she had to drive herself to the emergency room. The doctor “asked...
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Date nights
Johnny Green/PA; M Neilson/Getty Images; Davidson/O'Neill/Rex Features Sept. 2001: Prince William and Kate Middleton enrol at the University of St. Andrews where they both study art history. William...
View ArticleDating in Australia? Head for the country
What’s a single city girl have to do to find love these days? If she’s in Australia, her best bet is to head for the country. Late last month, the first “Thank Goodness He’s A Country Boy” tour brought...
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Plan to marry a lawyer? This site should help.
Photo courtesy of Kelley Mari on Flickr DateMySchool.com wants you to know that, no, it’s not the same as Facebook and yes, it will come to Canada — eventually. That’s good news if your plan is to meet...
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When to reveal your insulin pump
Mark Hatfield/Istock Having diabetes is a full-time job that goes beyond balancing blood sugar levels, writes the author of The Smart Woman’s Guide to Diabetes. You have to worry about how to feel sexy...
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We’re losing the art of campus dating
Photo by dustinj on Flickr Only 15 per cent of married people met their spouses on campus, according to a 2004 study. It wasn’t always like this. Before 1955, 40 per cent of female college graduates...
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Is breaking the colour barrier the cure for loneliness?
Photograph by Andrew Tolson Is Canada the new mecca for single black American women? The topic crops up with increasing frequency on the Beyond Black & White blog run by Christelyn Karazin, a black...
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Use Kraft Dinner to analyze your relationship
anjrued/Flickr This first appeared in The Cascade, a student newspaper at the University of the Fraser Valley. I’ve taken a few psychology classes in my day. It’s a byproduct of a complete and total...
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Online dating and the search for true love — or loves
Peter Dazeley/GETTY IMAGES In 2003, a young Mark Zuckerberg sat in front of his computer and instant-messaged a friend. Back then, “the facebook thing” was still a rough idea, and 18-year-old...
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Note to St. Valentine: the media says love is dead
Bored now/Flickr It’s Valentine’s Day again, and what better way to celebrate then by reading dozens of articles about why love is probably dead. The reason, according to silver-haired columnists...
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Let them hook up. It’ll be educational.
Joe Raedle/Getty Images In 1925, when American anthropologist Margaret Mead was 23 years old, she travelled to the volcanic island of Tau, in eastern Samoa, to study a group of “primitive” teenage...
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Female students more likely to say ‘I’m happy’ with sex life
University of Guelph (Jessica Darmanin) Canadian university students are generally happy with their sex lives, but women appear happier than men, and there a differences in the ways men and women...
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This isn’t your high school dating scene
Shutterstock Nearly a third of university students (32 per cent) who filled out the biggest-ever survey of health on Canadian campuses earlier this year agreed that their intimate relationships had...
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Hook-up app Tinder catches fire on campus
“Hey babe, let’s meet up,” messages Brad after I swipe his hunk of a bod left across my iPhone screen. A few other hidden gems of Kelowna also received leftward swipes today on my new-found app. (Note:...
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The really all-new dating game
Photo by Blair Gable for Maclean’s Magazine After a recent speed-dating session, Lisa Zimmerman vented on Facebook. “Very awkward conversation for 2½ minutes,” she wrote. “Date ends. He turns to girls...
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I’m 29 and the only single person in my group of friends. That means I’m always the third wheel, or the fifth or the ninth. When Toronto went into lockdown, my friends quarantined with their partners...
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How these two Canadian men became stars on a Finnish reality dating show
Taru Erikkson had never been to Canada before she travelled to Margo, Sask. (pop. 90), where she had a much-anticipated one-on-one date with a potential future husband. For entertainment, the pair took...
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