Katherine F
Where to begin…My name is Katherine and I am a 31 year old expat living in South Korea.  I’ve been here for about two months and this is my attempt to document some of my experiences living and working here as an ESL teacher. I would imagine life is the same everywhere and people [...]

Kyle Bernstein
Let’s clear the air right off the bat and acknowledge that we really do care about the ozone layer and the baby seals and the starving children in Africa.  Every December, we write checks to provide seeing eye dogs for the blind, food for the homeless, and funds to research cures for diseases. These [...]

Stephanie Billes
As a first time home buyer, entering the real estate market can be a little overwhelming.
With soaring real estate prices and fears of a market bubble trickling up from the United States, many first time home buyers are reasonably anxious.
 
Despite these fears, the Toronto housing market has remained strong. While sales are down from [...]

Cynthia Cheng
Technology in the twenty-first century has brought us highly efficient and effective ways of organizing pictures. Some people upload them online to photo sharing sites like Flickr, others email them to friends and yet others use social networking. However, there are still people who prefer the old fashioned photo album. With [...]

Cynthia Cheng
Making it in High Heels, an uplifting and inspiration collection of writing by women held its launch party at C Lounge in Toronto on August 25.  The book, which is published by Burman Books, was written by 39 women from all over North America and its stories are comparable to the Chicken Soup for [...]

Readers,
We at Prospere Magazine are very excited about upcoming changes to the site, including more designer profiles and a new layout. The changes will begin over the next few days and we expect that it would be complete by the time the next issue goes live (September 2). Please be patient while these [...]

Cynthia Cheng
Cindy Renée Mathieu, an alumna of the Ryerson and the International Academy of Design, is the brainchild behind the Sodaliscious and Club Soda clothing lines, launched in 2002 and 2007 respectively. Cindy’s Sodaliscious line, which is currently only available custome made, is described as clothing with a “European feel, something not really seen here [...]

Like many petite women, Allison Izu Song, 5′2″ was frustrated at how clothes fit her.  However, as a fashion designer, Allison was able to not only hem her clothes, but also alter it in a way that it would resemble her silhouette.  She also realized that other petite women were having similar issues with fit [...]

Cynthia Cheng
When one thinks of a stir-fry bar, one generally sees fast food. However, nothing can be further than the truth at Fire & Ice. Located off of Highway 404 and Highway 7 in Markham, this restaurant is different. It marries the typical stir-fry bar with traditional sit-down service.
Like a regular restaurant, [...]