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2017 · Jane and Finch

Canada Goose

Pressa

Mans not stressin', winter cold in the Goose

The annotation

'Mans' as a first-person singular — 'mans is hungry', 'mans not stressin'' — is the single most identifiable grammatical move in Toronto English, borrowed from UK road slang and re-tuned uptown. Pressa pairs it with the Canada Goose parka, the city's status coat and its winter reality at once.

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