Posts by Engagement

Muhamed was always the one behind the camera at family functions. He taught himself the craft under a string of mentors, on real sets, while some of his friends spent four years in traditional film programs. The funny part, he says, is that by the time they graduated, they were working for him — he…

Alec started cutting hair in high school because he and his friends couldn’t afford to get theirs cut. They found tutorials on YouTube and took turns practicing on each other. By the second time he cut his friend’s hair, he’d decided he wanted to be a barber. He opened his first shop at 20. A…

At Bounce Right Back Massage, two clients can walk in with the same shoulder pain and leave with entirely different treatments. That’s on purpose. Jessica has been running the 167 Street clinic for five years on that principle — practitioners compare notes on shared clients, sessions build on each other, and nothing gets treated like…

Nuwan opened Mellow D on June 10, and nearly everything in the shop is made by his own hands — every chocolate, every French pastry, from scratch. Before this, he spent more than 20 years in Dubai kitchens, working in five-star hotels, clubs, and restaurants. Now that experience goes into a small shop of his…

Daniel knows most of his customers by name — and he means that literally. On Saturdays, when he’s working the floor at Ocean Odyssey Inland, he’ll welcome a newcomer at the counter while calling hello to the regulars filing in behind them, many of whom he’s known for years. Ocean Odyssey has been around since…

Jay has been part of the Stony Plain Road neighbourhood for more than 20 years — long enough to know the regulars, the side streets, and the rhythm of the place. So when the local NOFRILLS came up at the end of 2024, taking it over with his wife Suzie felt less like a business…