By Gina Kelly
As winter approaches, gardeners everywhere start to count down the days until the new planting season begins. While you might be excited to browse through the seed catalog or brainstorm a new garden design, there are steps you should take heading into the winter months to ensure your spring planting goes off without a hitch. … Continued
Society has always obsessed over living longer. We’ve dreamed up fanciful ways to achieve that, from comic books’ superhero potions to Star Trek’s cryonics. But dream no more: Canadian life expectancy is currently at historic highs. Now that we’re living longer, the focus has shifted: how can we live better and healthier? Active aging holds … Continued
By Heather Burt
Fifty-plus years after the release of The Graduate, it’s hard not to cringe watching the famous scene of Mr. McGuire offering Benjamin a “great future” in plastics. We now live in the movie’s future, and a staggering quantity of petroleum-based plastic chokes our oceans, leaches toxic chemicals into the ground, and threatens the health of … Continued
We’ve had a stressful go for the last little while, and most of us can see it when we look in the mirror. The skin is just as vulnerable to the ill effects of stress as any other part of the body. As we savour the last warm rays of sunshine and brace ourselves for … Continued
Photo Credit: Warwick Saint When the COVID-19 pandemic swept through North America last March, Kimbal Musk and Frank Giustra were both thinking a lot about food. The two business titans-turned-social entrepreneurs didn’t know each other yet. But, from different vantage points, each wanted to help families who were struggling to afford groceries gain greater access … Continued