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Ash Kaushik

Ash has more than a decade of experience in technical and creative writing, having majored in English Literature in college. He puts his experience to use as a senior writer and editor, creating engaging and entertaining content for Canadians at Canadian Essence.

6 Things About Canadian Cottage Culture That Are Quietly Dying Off

March 31, 2026March 31, 2020

The cottage has always been central to the Canadian summer identity. But the version that existed a generation ago is becoming harder to find — …

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8 Ways Canadians Are Quietly Redefining What a Good Life Looks Like

March 31, 2026March 31, 2020

The old markers — house, car, career, retirement — are being quietly renegotiated by a generation that inherited the goal posts but not the field. …

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7 Unspoken Rules Every Canadian Knows But Never Talks About

March 30, 2026March 30, 2020

Nobody wrote these down. Nobody taught them in school. But every Canadian absorbed them somewhere along the way — and violating them produces a specific …

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8 Things Canadians Stopped Doing That They Probably Shouldn’t Have

March 30, 2026March 29, 2020

Not everything that fades deserves to. Some habits that were quietly common in Canadian life a generation ago have mostly disappeared — not because they …

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6 Ways the Canadian Dream Has Quietly Changed in One Generation

March 30, 2026March 29, 2020

Your parents had a version of Canada that mostly delivered on its promises. A house, a pension, a stable job, kids who would do at …

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7 Hard Truths About Canadian Multiculturalism Nobody Wants to Say Out Loud

March 28, 2026March 28, 2020

Canada’s multicultural identity is genuinely one of its best qualities. It is also, like most genuinely good things, more complicated in practice than it is …

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7 Things That Are Uniquely Exhausting About Being Canadian Right Now

March 28, 2026March 28, 2020

Canada is still a remarkable country. That’s not what this is about. This is about the specific, accumulating weight of being Canadian in this particular …

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8 Things Only Canadians Who Grew Up Outside the Major Cities Truly Understand

March 28, 2026March 28, 2020

Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal get most of the cultural airtime. But the majority of Canada is somewhere else entirely — smaller cities, towns, and places …

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6 Things Canada Quietly Does Better Than America

March 27, 2026March 27, 2020

This isn’t a competition. Except it kind of is. And Canadians are too polite to bring most of this up unprompted — which is exactly …

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7 Reasons Why Canadians Are Quietly Having a Mental Health Crisis Nobody Is Talking About

March 27, 2026March 27, 2020

Canadians are famously good at saying they’re fine. They’re not fine. Something is quietly fracturing underneath the politeness — and the numbers are hard to …

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