By Aalia Adam You don’t have to swipe very far to find a filter that will thin your nose, sharpen your cheekbones, widen your eyes, smoothen and, in some cases, even lighten your skin, helping to achieve that airbrushed look once reserved for magazine models and Hollywood stars. “That, like…

By Aalia Adam The Backstreet Boys are playing sold-out shows across Canada this week and their latest album DNA topped the charts when it dropped earlier this year. The recent release of both live-action versions of The Lion King and Aladdin took many millennials on strolls down memory lane. READ…

By Laura Hensley, National Online Journalist The bachelorette started with a luxurious morning of pampering, and ended in a fight with a tiara being ripped off the bride’s head. Jaclyn*, who asked Global News to change her name to protect her identity, had planned a lavish, fun day for the…

By Christine Meadows, Global News Producer I think I am a dad shamer. Not all dads; just my husband. A new poll, by C.S. …

By Venkatesh Shankar, Texas A&M University, Special to Global News A quarter of a century ago, on July 5, 1994, a company, which shared a name with the world’s largest river, was incorporated. It sold books to customers who got to its website through a dial-up modem. It wasn’t the…

By Arti Patel The concept of snowplow parenting may not be for everyone, but “panda parenting” is meant to be the alternative. The term was first dubbed in April by author Esther Wojcicki in the Telegraph. …

By Meghan Collie and Laura Hensley Loneliness is often thought of as an issue for the elderly, but a new report says millennials — especially women — are also struggling. According to a recent poll conducted by the Angus Reid Institute, women under 35 tend to express greater feelings of…

By Alan Cross Through the latter half of the 1970s, some areas of the music community were having a Marshall McLuhan-esque existential crisis thanks to the rise of synthesizers and the adoption of new studio technology. The new machines, many of which could perform tricks that no human could ever…

By Meghan Collie Coming out is often nerve-wracking, but coming out when you’re older can be even scarier. For Peter MacEwan, whose name has been changed for privacy reasons, it meant telling his wife of nine years that he no longer wanted to be married. “It was the most anxious…