Now or Never

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When everyone else has given up and gone home...what does it take to be the last one standing?
Trevor pays a visit to the last typewriter repair shop in Winnipeg, and finds out why 76-year-old Izu Gephter has no plans of packing it in.
Jimmy Chau finished dead-last in the most recent Manitoba Marathon, and tells us what kept him going on his nearly seven-hour race.
William Liu’s dim sum shop in Vancouver's Chinatown has been in his family for three decades. But as boxing gyms and yoga studios move in, can small family-run businesses like his survive?
Trevor writes an ode to 'that guy' - the last one to leave a party.
When you feel like the odd one out in your circle, find a new circle. At the Toronto meetup group SWaNK - Single Woman and No Kids - Melissa Ramage, Sarah Dukes, and Binesh Lodhi are finding friendship, good vibes, and reminders they are not alone.
Mike Parsons and his partner Georgina are the last remaining people on Little Bay Islands, a resettled community accessible only by boat. So what do you do when you live alone on an island in the North Atlantic? Mike Parsons says you stock up, wind down — and surprisingly, don’t bicker.
And 96-year-old Marion Marten is likely the last of the women electricians who worked on warplanes at a Toronto plant during WWII. She shares her memories of that time.
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