Six Canadian Founders, One Question: What Are You Done With, and What Is It Still Costing?

The feature includes Julie Laberge, Gina Livy, Jaiya Varshney, Zaynah Marani, Tanya Chernova, and Candyce Bakke. Each was asked the same question, in cities including Toronto, Vancouver, Newmarket, Regina, and Montreal, and none offers a tidy ending.

Each founder was asked what she is done with. Their answers show that done does not mean resolved, healed, or over, but that a woman has stopped agreeing to something and continues paying for that decision.

No. The feature states that not one of them is finished. One still lives inside the thing she says she is done with, while another can handle it but has stopped wanting to.

One founder was told her entire life that she was resilient. She would now like to stop being congratulated for surviving, which challenges the common story that praises endurance instead of questioning why endurance was required.