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Beat the winter blahs with a window garden

Well, it’s the first day of winter and I’m bracing myself for the gray days ahead. If you’re like me and you live in an urban apartment, the view from your window is probably pretty dreary for most of the colder months. But two innovative women... Read more

Posted by Jennifer Goldberg on December 21, 2009, 11:53 am

If your genes put you at higher risk for cancer, would you want to know?

An article in today’s Globe and Mail reports that Jewish women of Eastern European descent... Read more

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Posted by Jennifer Goldberg on December 14, 2009, 05:39 pm

Have your latkes and eat them, too!

It’s the first day of Hanukkah and I’m getting ready to chow down on my mom’s famous latkes (potato pancakes). I can’t wait. I don’t know how she does it, but they always come out perfectly: crispy on the outside, warm and gooey on the inside... Read more

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Posted by Jennifer Goldberg on December 12, 2009, 04:06 pm

Winter coat (and breakfast) woes

Yesterday on the Toronto subway, my form of getting to work, the trains were stopped because of some sort of an emergency. It turns out that, according to reports today in the paper, a few people had fainted at one station, and the fear was that there... Read more

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Posted by Bonnie Munday on December 10, 2009, 03:45 pm

3 stocking stuffers, including something for the boys

Cargo Classic Lip Gloss in Whistler. Need I say more? By the holidays, Olympics fever will be at full pitch. This pretty peachy pink shade is fairly neutral, therefore a safe bet as a gift; if... Read more

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Posted by Rhonda Rovan on December 3, 2009, 11:06 am