Thais Freitas

Communications Strategist & Writer

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I got published in The Globe and Mail!

My first opinion piece published in The Globe and Mail, exploring youth, screen time, and the value of time spent outdoors. After years of helping others get published, it was fun to see my own byline there for a change.

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The books I read in 2025

I wrote a brutally honest list of the books I read in 2025, realized how many bad choices I made at bedtime, and somehow still walked away feeling okay about my reading year.

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2024: My year in review

2024 was an insanely busy year for me and my family, but we made it! In this year in review, I look back at all the changes in our lives and what we did to put everything back in order after the chaos of 2023.

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14 ways to keep your house cool without electricity

Summer hasn’t even officially begun and already we’re experiencing record-breaking heat waves and wildfires around the world. This is our new reality: we need to adapt to climate change without making it worse, and one way to do that is to cool our homes without electricity.

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Mother with two little boys in a forest full of yellow leaves in Quebec

2022: My year in review

2022 was tough – I’ve never felt so exhausted! But a lot of good things happened, too – with this 2022 Year in Review, I look back at what I learned in the year that’s ending and list my goals for 2023.

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