Tag: toronto business

• Fashion Innovators: One Woman’s Fight for Fairness

  

  This article focuses on the fashion innovator, Nurjahan Begum, and includes an exclusive interview with her. This is the debut article on The Switch for new writer Tasha White. The year 2022 is a big one for many reasons; The opening of the Ethical Local Market was one of them. It popped up in Toronto’s…

  Tasha White

  April 5, 2022

  Fashion, Innovations

  clothes, ethical business, Ethical Local Market, fashion industry, social enterprise, sustainability, sustainable, toronto, toronto business

• National Secondhand Clothes Day: Thrifting

  

  The Rise in Thrifting Over the course of the pandemic, second-hand store employees and owners in Canada have noticed a significant increase in thrift shoppers seeking ways to stretch their budgets, discover unique items, and avoid the creation of more waste. According to 2020 data from ThredUp, an online consignment and thrift store, while consumers…

  Saige Friedman

  August 25, 2021

  Fashion, History & Holidays, Trends

  clothing, Fashion, secondhand, shopping, sustainability, ThredUp, thrifting, toronto, Toronto, toronto business

• Six Clean Beauty Businesses to Support in Toronto

  

  The City of Toronto is home to a range of beauty businesses with sustainable processes or operations; this list consists of 6 clean beauty businesses doing their part to make a difference. Pretty Clean Shop Pretty Clean Shop was founded by Miriam Juarez in Toronto’s Junction neighbourhood in 2019. The idea formed after Juarez watched…

  Saige Friedman

  December 22, 2020

  Conscious Beauty

  #showyourstripes, beauty, Canada, city of toronto, clean beauty, cruelty-free, downtown toronto, green circle salons, hair salon, haircare, local business, organic, pretty clean shop, province apothecary, Queen's Shop, refillable, support small business, sustainability initiatives, sustainable development, the detox market, think dirty, toronto, toronto business, vegan, wildcraft care