Ali Amad
Writer and Journalist at Freelance
Freelance writer/journalist based in Tdot. Lover of all things film and Kubrick. Bylines: @torontolife @ReadersDigestCA @macleans @ViceCanada
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3 days ago |
torontolife.com | Ali Amad
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is officially the best thing to happen to Canadian basketball since Steve Nash. On Sunday night, the Toronto-born, Hamilton-raised baller capped off one of the most dominant seasons by an individual athlete in NBA history, leading the Oklahoma City Thunder to a Game 7 victory over the Indiana Pacers and taking home the NBA Finals MVP award—the first Canadian to ever do so. The 26-year-old logged 29 points and 12 assists in the deciding game.
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1 week ago |
bccpa.ca | Gary Parkinson |Aliya Goldan |Jack Blackwell |Ali Amad
Canadian businesses have spent the last few months pivoting on-the-fly as U.S. President Trump’s tariffs were proposed, rescinded, implemented and threatened yet again. Trump’s inconsistent approach to tariffs has left business owners scrambling to make prudent, growth-oriented decisions in a chaotic and unstable economic environment.
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2 weeks ago |
torontolife.com | Ali Amad
Who: M. J. Shimaka, 25What she does: Surrealist painter and illustrator, and restaurant host at a downtown steakhouseWhat she makes: $40,000 per year from wages, plus $12,000 in tips and $4,000 from artistic projectsWhere she lives: A three-bedroom apartment in Forest Hill North, shared with two roommates. Regular ExpensesRent: $1,180 a month. “I share 1,300 square feet with two roommates.
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2 weeks ago |
torontolife.com | Ali Amad
As Pride Toronto ramps up, Toronto’s real estate industry has just announced a first for the city’s queer community. The city is now home to Canada’s first Rainbow Registered residential rental, a new complex from Hazelview Properties that will rise a couple of blocks northeast of Yonge and Eglinton.
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3 weeks ago |
canadianbusiness.com | Ali Amad
Once considered outdated or overly cutesy, brand mascots are enjoying a renaissance. In just the past year, Domino’s Pizza unveiled Mac Scott—a seven-foot-tall penne-shaped character promoting its pasta offerings—while Hotels.com announced Bellboy, an anthropomorphic hotel desk bell. Japanese candy maker Hi-Chew debuted Chewbie, its first-ever official mascot.
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Most important interview I've done in a while. Ontario's auditor general reveals what went wrong with Doug Ford's removal of 7,400 acres of Greenbelt land and how developers could profit $8.3 billion from a process that gave them preferential treatment: https://t.co/fTrwi3N2QS
Toronto (and Canada as a whole) is going through a terrible housing crisis right now. Instead of dwelling on the problems, I asked housing and homelessness experts for their solutions to this crisis. Read their big ideas here: https://t.co/edcng1ORZ9