“What’s with the stache, bro?”“It’s a token of my prostate cancer awareness campaign for Movember,” replied Mayooran, sporting a smirk while wolfing down what was left of his tuna salad sandwich. “I’m not really fundraising for the cause – it’s just to avoid shaving for a month and to rebel against the norms of manscaping,” Mayooran added, chuckling. “Are you serious?” asked his friend Mithunan. “If you’re going to hold out on shaving for a month, you’d better know that misshapen peach fuzz doesn’t count!”

It was a bright spring morning when restauranteur Kumar Thamotharan woke to prepare his daily “breakfast of champions”: two slices of toast, bacon, four mini pork sausages and two scrambled eggs - with butter, of course. This had become the daily routine since he had immigrated to Canada 15 years ago and was his celebration of being “Canadian.”