Joshua Ostroff
Intrepid Travel
Toronto, ON, Canada
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8 things you need to know before your Arctic Expedition
So you wanna go on a polar expedition? First thing you need to know is that it will change your life. Now here's what to pack and more. → Read More
The true north uncovered: Visiting the Canadian Arctic, as a Canadian
In all my travels I’d never made it to the north of my own country, and, well, my 17-day trip wasn’t long enough. I need to go back, and bring my family along this time. → Read More
Parents Tell Us the Shit They Wish They Knew Before They Had a Kid
Don’t let the multi-billion-dollar parent-industrial complex get ya. → Read More
Gord Downie Was Canada's Most Honest Historian
He shone his lyrical light on figures ranging from residential school escapees and wrongfully convicted prisoners, to hockey players and Nazi-punching Jews. → Read More
Gord Downie Was Canada's Most Honest Historian
He shone his lyrical light on figures ranging from residential school escapees and wrongfully convicted prisoners, to hockey players and Nazi-punching Jews. → Read More
Colonial Canada Had Slavery For More Than 200 Years. And Yes, It Still Matters Today
"Slavery was the context in which current race relations were created." → Read More
Geeky Father's Day Gifts For Geeky Dads
Perfect for dads who are really just grown-up kids. → Read More
Emmanuel Jal, A Child Soldier-Turned-Entrepreneur, Explains How Refugees Help Canada
"People forget the resilience; are human beings that have survived." → Read More
A History Of Wonder Woman's Most Wonderful Moments Over The Past 76 Years
From Diana's 1941 all-star debut to becoming a feminist icon in the 1970s and coming out as queer in 2016 → Read More
The Crisis Goes Beyond Toronto Life's 'We Bought A Crack House' Couple
While the couple is being mocked mercilessly online, they merely set themselves up as symbols of gentrification by writing the piece and are only a small part of the problem. In fact, gentrification isn't the problem, either - just the unbridled kind. → Read More
Wonder Woman Will Help Defeat Geek Culture Sexism
Geek culture has a sexism (and, yep, racism) problem that it has been unable to shed despite growing into our era's dominant form of pop culture. This subcultural sexism has been a roadblock for female geeks over the years. But times are changing, and movies like Wonder Woman are speeding up that process. → Read More
Broken Social Scene's Concert Helped Manchester Heal After Suicide Bombing
Their song choice was perfect. → Read More
Chris Cornell's Suicide Is Sadly Familiar To Gen-Xers
Death was an omnipresent part of the alt-era, something we just took for granted at the time. It was something to live through at the time, but which we never questioned. It just was. And yet in hindsight so many deaths of so many young people seems unfathomable. And they didn't stop. And now Chris Cornell of suicide by hanging. It is an unimaginable tragedy for those who loved him personally --… → Read More
Emerging Indigenous Voices Literary Award Is The Perfect Response To 'Appropriation Prize' Controversy
"I didn't want to take up space arguing." → Read More
Dear White People, Cultural Appropriation Exists Even If You Don't Believe In It
Cultural appropriation has become one of those Trump-era terms that gets people literally all a-twitter. But there's one thing you may notice when the topic hits your feeds and timelines - the people who are dismissing it as a joke are, well, white folks. → Read More
She's Singing To Save The Language Her Residential School Tried To Destroy
"It's very healing when you know your language." → Read More
Anti-Vaccination Arguments Haven't Changed In A Century
The early 20th century anti-vax argument was about freedom, conspiracies, pseudoscience and parental anxiety while nowadays... → Read More
Trudeau's Hypocrisy On Pot Pardons Is Ruining Lives
If Trudeau says something shouldn't be criminal in a year, then people shouldn't be getting criminal records for it now - especially when most of those people are folks who don't enjoy his family's privileges of being white and wealthy. A criminal record traps people in the country and traps them in poverty. Almost every job does background checks, even volunteer organizations. It deeply impacts… → Read More
These Next-Gen Food Banks Do Much More Than Hand Out Cans
It's not just giving at the door. → Read More
Restaurants Should Ban Bad Parents, Not Punish Good Kids
Our son, age seven, at Momofuku Daishō.Long before we had Trump to fight each other about, the Internet went to war over children -- specifically the banning of children from public spaces like restau... → Read More