Rebecca Tucker
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Toronto, ON, Canada
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Past articles by Rebecca:
This Is How We Get Laid Off Now. At Home, Alone
It's always been terrible to lose your job. With many of us being sent home because of COVID-19, and then laid off over Zoom or email, it feels even worse. → Read More
It’s Time to Rethink Farm-to-Table, and the Future of 'Good' Food
In her new book 'A Matter of Taste' Toronto journalist Rebecca Tucker evaluates the future of being a moral eater. → Read More
Scott Moir and Tessa Virtue Are Just Too Hot for Each Other to Be a Real Long-Term Couple
The inevitable backlash begins now—with this article. → Read More
Scott Moir And Tessa Virtue Are Just Too Hot For Each Other to be a Real Long-Term Couple
The inevitable backlash begins now—with this article. → Read More
I Tried to Eat Thrown Out Food for a Week
Two new apps want to be UberEATS meets dumpster diving, so I tested them out. → Read More
I Tried to Eat Thrown Out Food For a Week
Two new apps want to be Ubereats meets dumpster diving, so I tested them out. → Read More
There’s a Food Security Crisis in Canada and It’s Worse Than You Think
Millions of Canadians are food insecure, but there is a startling lack of data and government awareness of the problem. → Read More
Why the Internet is the perfect medium for hoaxes
It's often either the case that we're seeing something that we want to believe, or something so abhorrent that we just can't suppress the outrage → Read More
No pain, no bargain: Black Friday and the psychology of a deal
Shown a sale price, the brain’s nucleus ambens — otherwise known as the pleasure centre — lights up. Sales, in other words, make us happy → Read More
True Plateriot Love
Chris Johns and Derek Dammann answer the question before I even get the whole thing out. Johns offers a clipped “no way” as Dammann leans back and repeats the word “no” five or six times. “It would be impossible to do,” Johns doubles down. “It just can’t be done.” The pair, in Toronto last week promoting their new cookbook, True North, have obviously been asked the question before, and it’s no… → Read More
Forget all the hand-wringing over ‘sexy’ costumes this Halloween
October 2008 was the last time I put any real effort into a Halloween costume. I think I stopped after that year because the outfit I engineered was so simple, so cheap, and so perfect, it couldn’t be topped: I bought leaf bags from Canadian Tire, cut armholes in one of them, slipped it over my head, and boom: Paper Bag Princess. The logistics of the costume weren’t exactly well-considered,… → Read More
Cancer or no, is it really all that controversial to say you shouldn’t gorge yourself on bacon and hot dogs?
On Monday, the World Health Organization delivered a wallop on the unsuspecting general public: hot dogs cause cancer → Read More
Group of Seven painter Lawren Harris gets an unlikely champion down south – Steve Martin
An exhibition of Harris’s work co-curated by Martin will open at Los Angeles’ Hammer Museum. His stated goal: To get Americans to love Harris too → Read More
He Named Me Malala filmmaker Davis Guggenheim says doc is ‘father-daughter story’
'People think they know her story, but I don't think she wants to be known that way' → Read More
The Week in Nopes and Yasses: Deep-fried pumpkin spice, Papal pretzels and more
Welcome back to The Week in Nopes and Yasses, a weekly roundup of the worst and best people, places and things making splashes across the World Wide Web → Read More
Star Wars actor reveals another side of his artistry
Billy Dee Williams has always been a painter. Of course, he’s not known primarily as a visual artist. Williams — also an actor and singer — is probably best known for his role as Lando Calrissian in the original Star Wars films. But while Williams has been in showbusiness since, he says, he was around six years old, he ramped up his acting work to help fund his love for painting. So while he’s… → Read More
The eight-glass myth: We don’t really need to be drinking all that water
But if eight glasses a day is not what the doctor ordered, who did? → Read More
TIFF 2015: Sensorium turns eating a meal into a full blown art installation
Conceptually, Sensorium — the Stella Artois-sponsored dinner series taking place in Toronto this week — seems equal parts innovative and obvious → Read More
TIFF installation allows film buffs to watch movie with voyeurism theme — and its audience — through peepholes
Filmmaker Solomon Nagler points out an interesting benefit to mounting an art instalation on the busy stretch of Festival Street during the Toronto International Film Festival → Read More
Canadian start-up Provender, where tech meets ethical eating, launches in the U.S.
On Tuesday, Provender co-founder Caithrin Rintoul said the company was about to face a "real test." → Read More