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Cover story preview: Get ready for Gen Z
Last February, 16-year-old Ann Makosinski drew applause and gasps when she appeared on The Jimmy Fallon Show. The Victoria native was showing off her invention—a flashlight powered by the heat of a...
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Get ready for Generation Z
Jack Andraka created a pancreas cancer test (Ethan Hill/Redux) Last February, 16-year-old Ann Makosinski drew applause and gasps when she appeared on The Jimmy Fallon Show. The Victoria native was...
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Letters: In favour of ‘some positive words for Generation Z’
Future Leader Ann Makosinski,16,invented a body-heat powered flashlight using four electrical components and inspiration from a friend in the Philippines who didn’t have electricity. She placed second...
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Canada’s teenagers are world beaters
(iStock) “What are the kids up to these days?” It’s more than just a polite inquiry from family and friends. Today the accomplishments and abilities of Canada’s teenaged generation have become a...
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Millennials are begrudgingly making way for Generation Z
(Sergey Filimonov/Stocksy) Move over Millennials, there’s a new generation of kids in the workplace. Employers have spent the past few years trying to figure out what the cohort born in the 1980s and...
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Millennials, it’s time to side with Gen Z
In October, the phrase “OK boomer,” which got its origins from a TikTok video, went viral. In the split-screen video, an unidentified 60-something male harps on millennials and members of Generation Z...
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Who are baby boomers, Gen X, millennials and Gen Z?
Boomers Born: 1946-1964 Fun fact: Women had an average of 3.7 kids during the baby boom period Watched: The moon landing What’s for dinner? Meatloaf Brag about: Electing Pierre Trudeau; getting a...
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‘Self-sufficient and unassuming’: What it means to be Gen X
This essay is from the February 2020 issue of Maclean’s magazine, which charts the current conflict between boomers and millennials—one of the defining struggles of our age. The issue has two...
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Why intergenerational warfare is a mug’s game
This article is from the February 2020 issue of Maclean’s magazine, which charts the current conflict between boomers and millennials—one of the defining struggles of our age. The issue has two...
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‘Don’t you see yourself in us?’: What it means to be Gen Z
This essay is from the February 2020 issue of Maclean’s magazine, which charts the current conflict between boomers and millennials—one of the defining struggles of our age. The issue has two...
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‘We had good intentions but we fell short’: What it means to be a baby boomer
This essay is from the February 2020 issue of Maclean’s magazine, which charts the current conflict between boomers and millennials—one of the defining struggles of our age. The issue has two...
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‘Directionless and lost’: What it means to be a millennial
This essay is from the February 2020 issue of Maclean’s magazine, which charts the current conflict between boomers and millennials—one of the defining struggles of our age. The issue has two...
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Why this month’s Maclean’s magazine has two covers
“Each generation thinks it invented sex; each generation is totally mistaken,” science fiction author Robert Heinlein wrote in 1980. The always perceptive Heinlein is correct, of course, if somewhat...
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What defines your generation? 16 Canadians weigh in
Arlene Dickinson (George Pimentel/Getty Images) Arlene Dickinson 63, baby boomer, general partner of District Ventures Capital and judge on Dragons’ Den, from Calgary I really have never defined myself...
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Inside the corrosive new generational blame game
The kid with the green mohawk declines to say much about “EAT THE RICH,” the bolded slogan on the piece of cardboard the huddle of teenagers are holding aloft. “We don’t really have an explanation,” he...
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What lockdown looks like for a Gen Z
Jenniffer Meng is an 18-year-old grade-12 student living in Toronto. Once a week, my three closest friends and I set aside time for a lunch date. We get some snacks, change out of our sweats into...
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