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1News
3 days ago
- Politics
- 1News
Jacinda Ardern on her cancer scare and a chilling public bathroom encounter
The world's media is lining up to interview Dame Jacinda Ardern about her memoir, A Different Kind of Power – CBS, BBC, even Oprah. But as the former prime minister sits down to talk to Seven Sharp, she insists the impression she makes on Kiwis matters most. 'I'm sweating just as much as I did with Oprah,' she tells Hilary Barry in a conversation that traverses fertility, public hostility and the cancer scare that sparked her decision to resign. "The question for me was, could I keep going and do the job well?" – Watch this story on TVNZ+ In the middle of 2022 Dame Jacinda Ardern was standing by the stalls in an airport toilet when a member of the public approached her and delivered what initially sounded like a compliment. 'I just want to say thank you,' she said to the then Prime Minister of New Zealand. And then came the punchline: 'Thank you for ruining the country.' ADVERTISEMENT Hilary Barry quotes the passage to Dame Jacinda from her new memoir. 'People who thought ill of politicians had always been out there, I'd known that, but it felt as if something had changed recently, as if people's restraint had slackened.' Dame Jacinda picks up the thread. 'It's certainly not the case that I felt like I was in any personal danger but... there you are on your own by a toilet stall and someone comes in and has a go.' She didn't mind challenge or debate, she says. 'Those are the things you expect, but there was an extra layer that I just noticed in the latter part of my time in office, and I think other politicians, not just in New Zealand but around the world, globally, would say that they've noticed this as well... The former Prime Minister was asked by Seven Sharp's Hilary Barry whether she could return to New Zealand without being given a hard time. (Source: Seven Sharp) 'Was it the stress and the anxiety and the difficulty of Covid? Maybe... All I can say is, in the 15 years I was in office, I did notice a shift.' Covid 19. Vaccines. Mandates. The angry 23-day occupation of Parliament. Looking back, 2022 can seem surreal to any of us. But as Dame Jacinda tells Barry, Covid was far from the only challenge in an intense five years in office that included the Mycoplasma Bovis, the eruption of Whakaari/White Island with its devastating consequences, and the most horrific act of terrorism the country has ever experienced, the Christchurch Mosque massacre. Flowers and tributes are laid at the Botanic Gardens on March 18, 2019. (Source: Fair Go) ADVERTISEMENT 'It was a really hard five years for New Zealand and for those who had the privilege of leading New Zealand at that time,' she says. 'I've said many times, I could have kept going. But the question for me was, could I keep going and do the job well?' When a doctor discovered a lump in her breast toward the end of 2022, a thought that had probably been brewing for some time suddenly loomed large. 'Maybe this will be what allows me to leave,' Dame Jacinda remembers thinking. Although she adds: 'I want to be careful about not wanting to overplay it. Because women have these kinds of scares all of the time.' It wasn't cancer. That anxiety passed, but the other big question remained: 'What kind of state was I in if I was seeing cancer, not just as a devastating possibility, but as a ticket out of office?' Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announces her resignation (Source: Getty) IVF and secret Sunday scans When the prospect of being our next prime minister first arose in 2017, Dame Jacinda was 37 and, unbeknown to most, undergoing fertility treatment with her then-partner-now-husband Clarke Gayford. ADVERTISEMENT Jacinda Ardern and partner Clarke Gayford on election night, September 2017. Although the result was unclear on the night, Ardern went on to form a coalition government with the New Zealand First Party and Green Party with herself as prime minister. (Source: Getty) By the time Winston Peters had made his fateful choice of coalition partner, making her the world's youngest female head of state, Dame Jacinda had known for six days that she was pregnant. Two dizzying, life-changing moments happening within the space of a week – one nationwide news, the other still a fragile secret. It was 'fairly overwhelming,' she tells Barry. 'I tried my best to describe it on the page.' Dame Jacinda's first pregnancy scan took place on a Sunday night, her obstetrician booking her in under a fake name. 'It was like a covert operation, the whole thing. There were very few people who knew,' she says. 'It was a strange time. You want to be really joyous, but I also knew that I had to demonstrate that my key focus was doing my job. The fewer people who knew the better.' When the reality of balancing new motherhood with a massive role first hit home, Dame Jacinda did as anyone would do and turned to an older woman for advice. Except, in her case, it was Queen Elizabeth II. 'She just very matter of factly said to me... 'Well, you just get on with it'. And to a certain extent that's absolutely true,' she says. 'The only thing to do was just put one foot in front of the other and just get on with it.' This probably wasn't the moment the Queen told Dame Jacinda to "get on with it". (Source: Getty) ADVERTISEMENT The weight of the world Covid 19 came along in the final year of Dame Jacinda's first term in office and her high-profile handling of the situation was widely credited for her landslide victory in October 2020. Jacinda Ardern is interviewed after claiming victory during the Labor Party Election Night Function at Auckland Town Hall on October 17, 2020. (Source: Getty) But two years later the 'shift' she describes had occurred. The pandemic had now divided New Zealand and even Dame Jacinda's ardent supporters could see a change in the once charismatic leader. 'You told your chief of staff before you resigned that you felt like you'd become a political lightning rod, a flashpoint,' says Barry. 'Do you still feel that way as far as New Zealand is concerned?' As prime minister, Jacinda Ardern became the focus of much of the anti-vaccination movement of 2022. (Source: Getty) Dame Jacinda doesn't quite answer the question, returning instead to the 'flashpoint' era following the height of the pandemic when she felt she'd become 'a reminder of a really difficult period for everyone'. ADVERTISEMENT 'I did believe, rightly or wrongly, that perhaps if I removed myself, that might bring down the temperature,' she says. 'And then that would be good for politics, it would be good for my party and perhaps it would be good for the election as well.' Dame Jacinda and Clarke Gayford, directly after her resignation. (Source: TVNZ) And maybe good for Dame Jacinda too. She resigned at the beginning of 2023 and is now based at Harvard University in Massachusetts, where she occupies a range of educational and international roles. 'You look like someone, and I hope you don't mind me saying this, who no longer has the weight of the country on their shoulders,' Barry tells her. 'Does it feel that way?' Dame Jacinda agrees it does. That feeling of a heavy load off was immediate, she says, happening the minute she walked out of Government House. 'That's not to say it hasn't taken a bit of time to decompress.' She's still not good at relaxing. 'I don't really sit still but maybe I'm coming to terms with the fact that might just be my personality... Worrying about the world, thinking of what I can do to be useful... But that's very different from carrying the day-to-day responsibility.' And worrying is something Dame Jacinda has always done. Her memoir tells of her mother taking her to the doctor as a thin-skinned child who experienced anxiety-related tummy aches. She once, to her embarrassment, cried in the classroom when the teacher played the children Peace Train by Cat Stevens. Decades later her tears would roll again when Stevens (now Yusaf Islam) sang that song in Hagley Park after the Christchurch Mosque Massacre. ADVERTISEMENT It was definitely not the only time she cried as prime minister. But that's the key message of A Different Kind of Power – leadership no longer needs to be associated with poker-faced stoicism. Jacinda Ardern hugs a mosque attendee in Wellington on March 17, 2019, two days after the Christchurch tragedy. (Source: Getty) 'A goal of the book is to try and encourage people who may have those character traits to stop necessarily seeing them as weaknesses,' Dame Jacinda tells Barry. 'If you over prepare, it's going to make you a better decision maker; if you bring in a bit of humility, it's going to mean you bring in the best advice.' The book is dedicated to 'the cryers, the huggers and the worriers'. Hilary Barry, happy to identify to at least two of the three, says after the interview that she reached for the tissues a few times while reading the memoir. It was a particular story from Dame Jacinda's childhood that got her. She was also fascinated by Ardern's apparent issues with a certain former Labour leader. And, Barry says, she laughed too, particularly at Ardern's account of practising at home for her job in a fish'n'chip shop by wrapping cabbages in newspapers. ADVERTISEMENT As the book makes clear: nothing wrong with a bit of anxious prep. "The question for me was, could I keep going and do the job well?" – Watch this story on TVNZ+ or catch it on Seven Sharp tomorrow night.


The Advertiser
19-05-2025
- Business
- The Advertiser
Ardern lashes US isolationism in Yale address
Jacinda Ardern has re-entered the political fray with a rallying call for internationalism, rebuking the inward outlook of the United States under President Donald Trump. The popular former New Zealand prime minister spoke at Yale College's Class Day on Monday (Australian time), the undergraduate arm of the prestigious Ivy League university. Dame Jacinda, who has lived in the US as a Harvard-based fellow since late 2023, said she opted against "the usual pep talk that perhaps you might expect" in an address witnessed by thousands. "Suddenly didn't feel enough. Not when the world, over the course of a few short months, moved from tumultuous to an all-out dumpster fire," she said. "There's the war in the Middle East and Europe, with both leaving questions over our sense of humanity. "The daily reminder of climate change that bangs on our door but falls on deaf ears at the highest echelons of power. "Challenges to rules around trade, increases in migration flows, and a decreasing regard for civil rights and human rights, including the right to be who you are." Dame Jacinda said the world stood at an "inflection point in global politics", fuelled by post-pandemic economic challenges, when politicians needed to care for the most vulnerable. "Some of the greatest leaders here in the United States have recognised that amongst all of the challenges politicians face, they must meet the most basic needs of their citizens, first and foremost," she said. "FDR (former president Franklin D Roosevelt) said in 1944 while still governing a country at war, 'true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made'." Dame Jacinda supported unsuccessful Democratic candidate for president Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, appearing at party events. In a thinly veiled attack on Trump's America First economic doctrine, Dame Jacinda said isolationism was an "illusion". "You cannot remain untouched by the impacts of infectious disease. A trade stand-off can never just hurt your competitors," she said. "A warming planet does not produce extreme weather that respects borders, and far-flung wars may not take the lives of your citizens but it will take away their sense of security and humanity. "We are connected. We always have been." The 44-year-old said "to be outwardly looking is not unpatriotic" and "in this time of crisis and chaos, leading with empathy is a strength". Dame Jacinda has become a worldwide poster child for empathetic leadership since her response to New Zealand's worst modern-day mass shooting, the Christchurch Mosques massacre, in 2019. Since leaving office, she has made few incursions back into public life, but is expected to expand on her time in office in her memoir, A Different Kind of Power, released in June by Penguin Random House subsidiary Crown. Jacinda Ardern has re-entered the political fray with a rallying call for internationalism, rebuking the inward outlook of the United States under President Donald Trump. The popular former New Zealand prime minister spoke at Yale College's Class Day on Monday (Australian time), the undergraduate arm of the prestigious Ivy League university. Dame Jacinda, who has lived in the US as a Harvard-based fellow since late 2023, said she opted against "the usual pep talk that perhaps you might expect" in an address witnessed by thousands. "Suddenly didn't feel enough. Not when the world, over the course of a few short months, moved from tumultuous to an all-out dumpster fire," she said. "There's the war in the Middle East and Europe, with both leaving questions over our sense of humanity. "The daily reminder of climate change that bangs on our door but falls on deaf ears at the highest echelons of power. "Challenges to rules around trade, increases in migration flows, and a decreasing regard for civil rights and human rights, including the right to be who you are." Dame Jacinda said the world stood at an "inflection point in global politics", fuelled by post-pandemic economic challenges, when politicians needed to care for the most vulnerable. "Some of the greatest leaders here in the United States have recognised that amongst all of the challenges politicians face, they must meet the most basic needs of their citizens, first and foremost," she said. "FDR (former president Franklin D Roosevelt) said in 1944 while still governing a country at war, 'true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made'." Dame Jacinda supported unsuccessful Democratic candidate for president Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, appearing at party events. In a thinly veiled attack on Trump's America First economic doctrine, Dame Jacinda said isolationism was an "illusion". "You cannot remain untouched by the impacts of infectious disease. A trade stand-off can never just hurt your competitors," she said. "A warming planet does not produce extreme weather that respects borders, and far-flung wars may not take the lives of your citizens but it will take away their sense of security and humanity. "We are connected. We always have been." The 44-year-old said "to be outwardly looking is not unpatriotic" and "in this time of crisis and chaos, leading with empathy is a strength". Dame Jacinda has become a worldwide poster child for empathetic leadership since her response to New Zealand's worst modern-day mass shooting, the Christchurch Mosques massacre, in 2019. Since leaving office, she has made few incursions back into public life, but is expected to expand on her time in office in her memoir, A Different Kind of Power, released in June by Penguin Random House subsidiary Crown. Jacinda Ardern has re-entered the political fray with a rallying call for internationalism, rebuking the inward outlook of the United States under President Donald Trump. The popular former New Zealand prime minister spoke at Yale College's Class Day on Monday (Australian time), the undergraduate arm of the prestigious Ivy League university. Dame Jacinda, who has lived in the US as a Harvard-based fellow since late 2023, said she opted against "the usual pep talk that perhaps you might expect" in an address witnessed by thousands. "Suddenly didn't feel enough. Not when the world, over the course of a few short months, moved from tumultuous to an all-out dumpster fire," she said. "There's the war in the Middle East and Europe, with both leaving questions over our sense of humanity. "The daily reminder of climate change that bangs on our door but falls on deaf ears at the highest echelons of power. "Challenges to rules around trade, increases in migration flows, and a decreasing regard for civil rights and human rights, including the right to be who you are." Dame Jacinda said the world stood at an "inflection point in global politics", fuelled by post-pandemic economic challenges, when politicians needed to care for the most vulnerable. "Some of the greatest leaders here in the United States have recognised that amongst all of the challenges politicians face, they must meet the most basic needs of their citizens, first and foremost," she said. "FDR (former president Franklin D Roosevelt) said in 1944 while still governing a country at war, 'true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made'." Dame Jacinda supported unsuccessful Democratic candidate for president Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, appearing at party events. In a thinly veiled attack on Trump's America First economic doctrine, Dame Jacinda said isolationism was an "illusion". "You cannot remain untouched by the impacts of infectious disease. A trade stand-off can never just hurt your competitors," she said. "A warming planet does not produce extreme weather that respects borders, and far-flung wars may not take the lives of your citizens but it will take away their sense of security and humanity. "We are connected. We always have been." The 44-year-old said "to be outwardly looking is not unpatriotic" and "in this time of crisis and chaos, leading with empathy is a strength". Dame Jacinda has become a worldwide poster child for empathetic leadership since her response to New Zealand's worst modern-day mass shooting, the Christchurch Mosques massacre, in 2019. Since leaving office, she has made few incursions back into public life, but is expected to expand on her time in office in her memoir, A Different Kind of Power, released in June by Penguin Random House subsidiary Crown. Jacinda Ardern has re-entered the political fray with a rallying call for internationalism, rebuking the inward outlook of the United States under President Donald Trump. The popular former New Zealand prime minister spoke at Yale College's Class Day on Monday (Australian time), the undergraduate arm of the prestigious Ivy League university. Dame Jacinda, who has lived in the US as a Harvard-based fellow since late 2023, said she opted against "the usual pep talk that perhaps you might expect" in an address witnessed by thousands. "Suddenly didn't feel enough. Not when the world, over the course of a few short months, moved from tumultuous to an all-out dumpster fire," she said. "There's the war in the Middle East and Europe, with both leaving questions over our sense of humanity. "The daily reminder of climate change that bangs on our door but falls on deaf ears at the highest echelons of power. "Challenges to rules around trade, increases in migration flows, and a decreasing regard for civil rights and human rights, including the right to be who you are." Dame Jacinda said the world stood at an "inflection point in global politics", fuelled by post-pandemic economic challenges, when politicians needed to care for the most vulnerable. "Some of the greatest leaders here in the United States have recognised that amongst all of the challenges politicians face, they must meet the most basic needs of their citizens, first and foremost," she said. "FDR (former president Franklin D Roosevelt) said in 1944 while still governing a country at war, 'true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made'." Dame Jacinda supported unsuccessful Democratic candidate for president Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, appearing at party events. In a thinly veiled attack on Trump's America First economic doctrine, Dame Jacinda said isolationism was an "illusion". "You cannot remain untouched by the impacts of infectious disease. A trade stand-off can never just hurt your competitors," she said. "A warming planet does not produce extreme weather that respects borders, and far-flung wars may not take the lives of your citizens but it will take away their sense of security and humanity. "We are connected. We always have been." The 44-year-old said "to be outwardly looking is not unpatriotic" and "in this time of crisis and chaos, leading with empathy is a strength". Dame Jacinda has become a worldwide poster child for empathetic leadership since her response to New Zealand's worst modern-day mass shooting, the Christchurch Mosques massacre, in 2019. Since leaving office, she has made few incursions back into public life, but is expected to expand on her time in office in her memoir, A Different Kind of Power, released in June by Penguin Random House subsidiary Crown.


West Australian
19-05-2025
- Business
- West Australian
Ardern lashes US isolationism in Yale address
Jacinda Ardern has re-entered the political fray with a rallying call for internationalism, rebuking the inward outlook of the United States under President Donald Trump. The popular former New Zealand prime minister spoke at Yale College's Class Day on Monday (Australian time), the undergraduate arm of the prestigious Ivy League university. Dame Jacinda, who has lived in the US as a Harvard-based fellow since late 2023, said she opted against "the usual pep talk that perhaps you might expect" in an address witnessed by thousands. "Suddenly didn't feel enough. Not when the world, over the course of a few short months, moved from tumultuous to an all-out dumpster fire," she said. "There's the war in the Middle East and Europe, with both leaving questions over our sense of humanity. "The daily reminder of climate change that bangs on our door but falls on deaf ears at the highest echelons of power. "Challenges to rules around trade, increases in migration flows, and a decreasing regard for civil rights and human rights, including the right to be who you are." Dame Jacinda said the world stood at an "inflection point in global politics", fuelled by post-pandemic economic challenges, when politicians needed to care for the most vulnerable. "Some of the greatest leaders here in the United States have recognised that amongst all of the challenges politicians face, they must meet the most basic needs of their citizens, first and foremost," she said. "FDR (former president Franklin D Roosevelt) said in 1944 while still governing a country at war, 'true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made'." Dame Jacinda supported unsuccessful Democratic candidate for president Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, appearing at party events. In a thinly veiled attack on Trump's America First economic doctrine, Dame Jacinda said isolationism was an "illusion". "You cannot remain untouched by the impacts of infectious disease. A trade stand-off can never just hurt your competitors," she said. "A warming planet does not produce extreme weather that respects borders, and far-flung wars may not take the lives of your citizens but it will take away their sense of security and humanity. "We are connected. We always have been." The 44-year-old said "to be outwardly looking is not unpatriotic" and "in this time of crisis and chaos, leading with empathy is a strength". Dame Jacinda has become a worldwide poster child for empathetic leadership since her response to New Zealand's worst modern-day mass shooting, the Christchurch Mosques massacre, in 2019. Since leaving office, she has made few incursions back into public life, but is expected to expand on her time in office in her memoir, A Different Kind of Power, released in June by Penguin Random House subsidiary Crown.


Perth Now
19-05-2025
- Business
- Perth Now
Ardern lashes US isolationism in Yale address
Jacinda Ardern has re-entered the political fray with a rallying call for internationalism, rebuking the inward outlook of the United States under President Donald Trump. The popular former New Zealand prime minister spoke at Yale College's Class Day on Monday (Australian time), the undergraduate arm of the prestigious Ivy League university. Dame Jacinda, who has lived in the US as a Harvard-based fellow since late 2023, said she opted against "the usual pep talk that perhaps you might expect" in an address witnessed by thousands. "Suddenly didn't feel enough. Not when the world, over the course of a few short months, moved from tumultuous to an all-out dumpster fire," she said. "There's the war in the Middle East and Europe, with both leaving questions over our sense of humanity. "The daily reminder of climate change that bangs on our door but falls on deaf ears at the highest echelons of power. "Challenges to rules around trade, increases in migration flows, and a decreasing regard for civil rights and human rights, including the right to be who you are." Dame Jacinda said the world stood at an "inflection point in global politics", fuelled by post-pandemic economic challenges, when politicians needed to care for the most vulnerable. "Some of the greatest leaders here in the United States have recognised that amongst all of the challenges politicians face, they must meet the most basic needs of their citizens, first and foremost," she said. "FDR (former president Franklin D Roosevelt) said in 1944 while still governing a country at war, 'true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made'." Dame Jacinda supported unsuccessful Democratic candidate for president Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, appearing at party events. In a thinly veiled attack on Trump's America First economic doctrine, Dame Jacinda said isolationism was an "illusion". "You cannot remain untouched by the impacts of infectious disease. A trade stand-off can never just hurt your competitors," she said. "A warming planet does not produce extreme weather that respects borders, and far-flung wars may not take the lives of your citizens but it will take away their sense of security and humanity. "We are connected. We always have been." The 44-year-old said "to be outwardly looking is not unpatriotic" and "in this time of crisis and chaos, leading with empathy is a strength". Dame Jacinda has become a worldwide poster child for empathetic leadership since her response to New Zealand's worst modern-day mass shooting, the Christchurch Mosques massacre, in 2019. Since leaving office, she has made few incursions back into public life, but is expected to expand on her time in office in her memoir, A Different Kind of Power, released in June by Penguin Random House subsidiary Crown.


NZ Herald
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- NZ Herald
My Secret Auckland: Comedian Itay Dom shares his favourite spots in the city
Brunch is very important. You want to go somewhere public enough to show off your girlfriend, but not too public that your wife finds out. That's why I recommend Bestie on K Rd. I've never actually been but I met the owner at a Halloween party many years ago and she was nice. If you go there and drop my name at the counter they'll give you 90% off! View this post on Instagram A post shared by Bestie Cafe (@bestie_cafe) Favourite restaurant for dinner with friends? If you know me then you know I swear by Amano. Everytime I walk past it I think to myself 'f**k, this place is expensive'. I love going there though, I take all my dates there. I mean most of my dates. Okay, I took one date there. She worked in finance, which was good because she could help me take out a loan to pay off the bill. Favourite place to take a visitor to? Auckland Airport. Go to the international terminal if you want to see emotional goodbyes. Go to the domestic terminal if you want to see lukewarm hellos. Or take them to the Jetstar terminal if you didn't get a chance to take them to Spookers. And don't forget to stop by the gift shop - they have a carousel with free suitcases. Just pick one up and go your merry way! Favourite spot to finish a night out? Duck Island. I love Duck Island with a capital D. I take all my dates there. I don't think I've ever not taken a girl there. I have an intricate knowledge of all the flavours - I know when they came out, what they taste like, and their entire backstory. But when I'm on a date, I have to pretend it's my first time. I'll be like, 'White chocolate miso? Huh, I wonder what that tastes like...' Meanwhile, deep down, I already know it's life-changing. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Duck Island Ice Cream (@duckislandicecream) Favourite place to get coffee? Red Rabbit Coffee inside Newmarket Westfield. I go there once a week, not because I like coffee but because I am slowly building up the courage to ask out the barista with the fringe. They have a wide variety of coffee beans (two). The owner always asks me which one I want, and I say, 'Surprise me', and we laugh. But the real shock comes when the price pops up on the screen. Regardless, I love the vibe - sipping hot coffee, listening to mall announcements, and watching a ram-raid. Favourite fish-and-chip shop? I haven't had fish & chips since Jacinda was in office, but I'd go to Penny's in Parnell. Favourite trail for a hike? 136 Fanshawe St, where I work. You have to climb, like, a bajillion stairs to get to the office. Favourite venue for a gig? Advertisement Advertise with NZME. I love performing at The Classic Comedy Club because I like my crowds difficult. It's the little things about this ex-porn cinema that make me love it. The wobbly stage. The owner, Scott, always makes me laugh (and question my life choices). The bitter old comics. The bitter new comics. The little tech booth where you can see Finn losing his mind when you go 10 seconds over time. Sharing a laugh with Cam, the bartender, every time he tries charging me full price. The front-of-house girl who reads a book a day and never seems to do any work. The managers, Zeb and Harry, who always let me jump on stage at midnight and act like they're doing me a favour. I love it all. If you go there and drop my name at the counter, they'll give you 90% off! To top it off I'm doing my Comedy Festival show there, come check it out. Favourite place to find a bargain? Bar 101 at 2am. $3 drinks. $5 regret. IYKYK. View this post on Instagram A post shared by BATS Theatre (@bats_theatre)