Community — Be a Villager

With our new location opening this week, we take a moment to sit down with Mason Studios, the award-winning interior design firm headed by Ashley Rumsey and Stanley Sun. In this Be a Villager, we learn how good interior design stands at the junction of art, graphics and technology. VJ: Five years ago, Mason Studios was born. What made you start your own company? SS: I think we wanted to challenge ourselves. There was so much potential in the city and we just wanted to break out of it. AR: When we first started, we didn’t take it too seriously. We...

As a teen girl, there’s a lot of pressure to look and act a certain way. According to the Canadian Women Foundation, a staggering 50 per cent of all girls in Canada say that they wish they were someone else. Whether it’s feeling too tall, too short, not smart enough or not at all beautiful, these negative feelings impact their self-confidence and their sense of identity. In this instalment of Be a Villager, we sit down with Dee Buryk, founder of Growing Goddesses, an after school program that helps girls navigate through these negative feelings and turn them into something...