#Kyne Santos is TikTok’s reigning math queen

#Kyne Santos is TikTok’s reigning math queen

One and a half million math converts have flocked to Santos’s @onlinekyne account for camp explanations of quadratic equations and square roots Kyne Santos’s introduction to math was highly practical. His late father, a Filipino immigrant who worked as an engineer for Toyota in Cambridge, Ontario, told his young son that excelling in the subject…

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#Montreal’s Gabriel Diallo is a tennis giant in the making

#Montreal’s Gabriel Diallo is a tennis giant in the making

At 22 (and six-foot-eight), Diallo is a towering presence at the net, drawing comparisons to another Canadian upstart: Milos Raonic (Photography by Richmond Lam) Gabriel Diallo’s pre-teen party trick was to recount, in near-perfect detail, the marathon match between Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic that capped off the 2012 Australian Open. He still keeps a…

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#How Calgary’s Kablusiak made Inuit art pop 

#How Calgary’s Kablusiak made Inuit art pop 

The Inuvialuk artist’s oeuvre—complete with Furbies, soapstone tampons and satirical selfie backgrounds—has garnered plenty of attention, a bit of outrage and even a Sobey Art Award (Photography by Allison Seto) Artists run wild in Kablusiak’s family, on both sides. Their childhood homes in Yellowknife, and later Edmonton, were filled with relatives’ creations, including a painting…

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#Canadian pop newcomer Jessia is rising to new heights

#Canadian pop newcomer Jessia is rising to new heights

“Canadian pop newcomer Jessia is rising to new heights” Her motivational melodies are winning over fans across the country—and some of the industry’s biggest names Jessia’s rise to fame is a classic Cinderella story—with a modern, TikTokky twist. Last year was a particularly rough time for the Vancouver-based vocalist. She’d lost her serving job—and all…

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#Is Shaedon Sharpe the NBA’s next Canadian star?

#Is Shaedon Sharpe the NBA’s next Canadian star?

“Is Shaedon Sharpe the NBA’s next Canadian star?” Sharpe became one of the most sought-after prospects and a projected top-10 pick in this week’s NBA draft—without playing a minute of college basketball It took a football injury for Shaedon Sharpe to get serious about basketball. Sharpe, who grew up in London, Ontario, spent years juggling…

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