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Volume 27, Number 9 ZOOMER ZOOMER cover stories TALKBACK JUL/AUG CONTENTS 63 CALL ME HELEN Star of stage – the words written across the back- SUNBIRDS I disagree with the use of the word “snowbird” used “LOVE, TONY” 2011 and film, Helen Mirren talks carpE frequently in the November issue for people going south in the founder Moses ZnaiMer NOTES drop of our cover shoot by the man himself at the dir- about her work, humour and that little red bikini ection of our photographer Bryan Adams – is his gi winter. Those little white and grey snowbirds stay here all winter editor-in-Chief suzanne Boyd to us. A famously class act, Bennett’s generosity as an – they don’t migrate south. I think those of us who remain in BEST OF CANADA diEm! exeCutive editor Vivian Vassos artist was palpable during the session and perhaps a Canada all winter are the true snowbirds. A better name for those 68 LUSH LIFE A New Brunswick Art direCtor stephanie White reason why his charm has proved as enduring as his Founded more than 25 years ago, CARP is Canada’s deputy editor & beAuty direCtor Kim izzo travelling south would be “sunbirds.” —Jack Cox, Haliburton, Ont. garden for all largest not-for-profit non-partisan association for MAnAging, web & CArp editor arlene stacey voice – turn to Jacob Richler’s “Portrait of the Artist,” 112 THE OKANAGAN Food, drink Canada’s 14.5 million 45-plus and those who care Senior editorS Peter Muggeridge, Jayne Macaulay page 54, to discover what I mean. And what better a for them. CARP proposes a New Vision of Aging, ASSoCiAte feAtureS editor athena McKenzie and a homegrown passion in word than love – a constant theme in Bennett’s oeuvre many of us because a person has to readers, unless political correctness B.C. wine country promoting and protecting your interests, your ASSoCiAte editor Mike Crisolago ZOOM IN rights and your quality of life as you age. editoriAL ASSiStAnt Brooke Benjamin – is there to evoke a universal wish as we enter the mess about converting to imperial has overcome our age group, SASKATCHEWAN GREENS photo editor 114 15 NEWS, CHATTER, Julie Matus holiday season of 2011 and welcome 2012. With love (North American standard), which which I highly doubt. —Ken deputy Art direCtor alexander Joo ASSoCiAte Art direCtor Barbara Glaser Playing the Prairies’ verdant CULTURE, LIFE comes hope, joy and kindness, all of which we could you usually don’t bother to do. Showers, Victoria fairways it’s as easy as a-B-C to Z Art ASSiStAnt stephanie Beard This month in music, do with a lot more of, especially now as the Euro bob- Therefore, the article becomes Contributing editorS Charmaine Gooden, Don irvine, Jay Teitel travel MANITOBA HIGHLANDS movies, politics and What are the issues that experience 116 Contributing Copy editorS/fACt CheCkerS rosemary Counter, Launie Lapp, alicia Merchant, Lynda spark San Georgio Maggione, advoCaCy Venice. Inset: Mordecai bles, America fumbles and the world holds its breath. and Florence, still in love somewhat meaningless – as in the four decades later. Civilized adventure in the more matter? Financial security, pension reform, health SpeCiAL CorreSpondentS arthur Black, Gordon Pape, Libby Znaimer A Family Affair Of course, this is also the season that many of us re- Noah RichleR shares his enduring love of italy as he takes a literary tour PUZZLING I have just received my BMW article. I want to know the gas with his mother and a romantic side trip to venice with his wife slow lane care, caregiving, ageism. Your membership in SpeCiAL projeCtS raymond Perkins VITALITYCARP supports our efforts to advocate on your commit to the ideals of peace and justice and how we fi rst copy of your magazine and mileage against something I instantly 118 MARITIME DRIVE Discovering CArtoon editor Moses Znaimer editor At LArge can facilitate them through our own small acts of char- I HAVe ALwAyS ADoReD ItALy. behalf. We lobby all levels of government and the Bryan adams As an errant teenager, I spoke to my father and told him I was coming home and taking the train through Greece, yugoslavia (it still existed then) and Italy, then on to england. “If you stop in Ven- found it fascinating. The content is recognize as a reasonable base ice,” he said, “go to Harry’s Bar and have a HEALTH & SEX bellini lived in the Parioli district, a working-class neighbourhood 32 budget. “And have the chocolate cake,” said my mother.” which in theI did, crackly not knowing background how ofit wouldthe call. wreck “Harry my never cheap would traveller’s give then and where we were booked to stay the rst couple of cordia on the Via della Croce, near the Spanish Steps, I’d life’s roads less travelled me the recipe.” I made my own adventures in Italy, where I worked for a time, but my parents’ experience always loomed nights so that one a ernoon my wife, Sarah, and I were ablesuggested that perhaps it was time to get back to the hotel. large. In Rome, where I travelled with my mother this spring, I left the hotel early in the morning to stand at the bar of to make the one journey my mother insisted upon – to 33 It was clear who was  agging and it was not my mother. business community and work to change negative the local caffé for an espresso, thinking back to the summers I’d worked in Gressoney, hard by the border with France. ContributorS ity. From the moral high ground on which he stands, Via Buferno, where they had lived.  is was perhaps the During the days, too, it was we who needed to keep up. Paul alexander, Gilbert Benamou, elisa Birnbaum, Cuyler Black, Peter Bregg, I’d watch Italian mountain guides do the same but have theirs one time my mother’s blindness served her well. Her see- In Turin, on the one occasion my mother appeared to be to get the day going. Striding back to the hotel in a kind of estheticcorreto ecstasy, – i.e., Iwith declared a healthy to my early mother morning that nowhereshot of else excellent, and I enjoyed every single number; e.g., 16 MPG, which was ing is marvellously selective (more than once, trying to pay  agging, the lot of us having walked for hours around the Sexual longevity, grappa did I feel at home as I did in Italy. “well, of course you do,” said my mother. “when I eloped here with your father, I was 74 a restaurant bill, I have felt her hand come down on mine squares and along the River Po in the heat of the a ernoon, pregnant with you.” And that, she said, explained it. like a master player of Slap), and it was clear that the house I kept pointing out the ne Italian  ats in the windows of Chris Chapman, James Chatto, Patrick Corrigan, naomi Harris, Waheeda Harris, T.V. Heyes, Jeff Higgins, that we had travelled narrow, busy streets to nd had since perceptions of aging in society at large. small artisans’ shops that might have made better walking SUMMER! been razed for a block of apartments, but she was happy at shoes than the elegant Christian Dior pumps she was wear- activist Archbishop Desmond Tutu (pro led on page VIA ItALIA the gates, and that was enough. ing, but Florence would have none of my ne but boring quitting smoking and ’ve been a bad son. Like many children, I have rarely My mother had been reluctant to make the journey to good sense. Instead, the astute Benedetta gured it out, out to be such a bestseller there. I knew that, in a scandal- David Lasker, Zachary Levine, Jane Macdougall, ian Macneill, Travis Persaud, George Pimentel, edward Pond, article. One thing I noticed is that always the average base a person asked my mother, Florence, about her past directly. Italy at rst, mostly to preserve the integrity of her mem- leading my mother to a brightly lit Superga boutique where My mother, who is legally blind, has always been a con- ous and highly romantic manner that readers of the novel ories with my father there, I imagine. But I had indulged my mother, thrilled, bought herself a pair of black “Milano” summate storyteller, however, and what I did this year – will be familiar with, my mother and father had eloped to in my own bit of wilful blindness and ignored her prevari- sneakers adorned with Swarovski crystals. What she knew one of the best things that I have ever done – was to take Italy in 1959. And I’d heard many times how, in the foot- cations. I insisted, and now here I was travelling with her that I did not was that Italians love their her with me to Italy for a book tour that had come about steps of Hannibal, they’d been stopped by a blizzard as they SING ALONG 14) still inspires through his international advocacy to Rome, Bologna, Turin and Milan with Sarah, Matteo bling. Later that same evening, it was Sarah’svero cuoioturn tobut see also Jann Arden’s more Jacob richler, noah richler, Malcolm Tweedy quite unexpectedly. A piece I had written for a Canadian crossed the Alps in a Renault “Deux Chevaux” and that my 18 and the press agent of the Adelphi sta , an engaging wom- what I did not. Glorious and handsome as our rooms at magazine about the making into a movie of my father’s father had left Florence with her young son, Daniel, in the an called Benedetta Senin. I’d worried, foolishly, that all the stately Hotel Sitea were, my mother wanted more Italy you do not have a page for Sudoku. used for fi guring good or bad gas last novel, Barney’s Version safety of a house by the road as he walked on to get help for , had been translated and pub- the walking and cobbled squares alfresco – this time for gelato from the window of the Ca é lished as part of a slim Adelphi pocketbook that included the stalled car – or something like that. (The story was al- and broad staircases without li s two other essays – a very funny piece by my father about ways a little bit incredible, given how badly my father drove Fiorio, joining a line of late- What if you could recoup your might have been a problem for literary tours (“A Pedlar’s Diary”) and another by his Ital- but, no matter, he always fancied himself a pioneer, and it night revellers on the sidewalk Benefits my mother. But in Rome, our new gig by a line of parked mopeds on SubSCriptionS, renewALS, benefitS & CuStoMer ServiCe 1-800-363-9736 (toronto: 416-363-8748) work – though he claims to be retired – with  e Eld- ian editor at Adelphi, Matteo Codignola. The book was spoke to how much my mother loved him that she told the rst stop, it was she who set the A WALK IN THE called – cutting straight to the chase for the Italians who story this way.) the Via Po. 44 pace and who wore a subtle but have come to embrace his work – Italy, as the fortunate know, is In Rome, they’d known Alfredo di Lelio, the inventor of entirely discernible look of dis- mileage in an automobile. the stories my mother told and knewMordecai how much. I’d listened Italy had to the best place in the world to Many of us enjoy this type of puzzle, fettucine Alfredo , and were regulars at his restaurant on the appointment on the couple of investment in membership by 200 per cent or meant to my parents even before Via della Scrofa from which, though he’d retired, the cele- take a woman of a certain age Barney’s Version occasions when, as happened to- . turned brated chef would still drop in from time to time. They’d A typical experience: in Milan, ward the end of our rst evening 112 zoomermag.com | october 2011 I’d hailed a taxi in the narrow ers. How Zoomeri c! We also spotlight the work of PHOTOGRAPHY, DAVIDPhotograPhy, BRYNDLE DaviD (SAN BrynDle GEORGIO (San MAGGIORE, georgio Maggiore, VENICE); FLORENCE venice); AND Florence MORDECAI anD MorDecai (RICHLER FAMILY (richler ARCHIVE) FaMily archive) at the Trattoria Otello alla Con- PUPPY LOVE PARK Let the street in front of our hotel, an 20 Meeting teen idol d the driver stepped out ready more? CARP gives you free membership for zooMerMAg.CoM and I would like to see it included in Yes, I hear the usual politically AG_Travel Venice FC19bg.indd 112 23/08/11 4:58 PM Donny Osmond elements lead to the worthy Veterinarians Without Borders, in “Beyond AG_Travel Venice FC19bg.indd 113 another member of your household and access vp, interACtive Content McLean Greaves every issue. Do you think this is correct answer that metric has been 23/08/11 4:58 PM SUMMER READS healthyto living discounts on a broad range of products and web Content Co-ordinAtor Tianna robinson Borders,” page 72, which is supported with Aeroplan 24 Essential possible? —Geraldine Lightfoot, used in Canada for a number of years COVER GIRLS Noah Richler’s article books for the season services: home and auto insurance, glasses, Miles donations, which shows how some of your holi- pubLiSher North Bay, Ont. now, but that doesn’t cover the fact ATTITUDEroadside assistance, car rentals, hotels, cellphones, Gord Poland day shopping can serve a higher purpose. on Italy [“A Family A£ air,” October] 28 THE WRITE STUFF Behind the 118 ASSoCiAte pubLiSher & vp, SALeS & MArketing Victoria Wisdom 416-607-7738 50 ATTITUDEetc.... 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ZOOM IN zoom in zoom in VITALITY best cottage reads HEALTH TEST DRIVE politics Aw, they’re PRIME SUSPECT just safer TAKE A STAND real ■ because none  In his latest book, majority is accompanied In For Your Tomorrow: of ’em know Known for escapes The Way of an Unlikely NEWS CHATTER CULTURE LIFE EDITOR KIM IZZO When the Gods Changed: by unaccustomed how to text its classic Soldier, Melanie Murray ZOOM IN The Death of Liberal responsibility, his reign At a time when provincial work boots explores why her nephew Canada, iconic Canadian will make Canada so governments are trying to get older Happy and essential gave his life for his country. political commentator unrecognizable that we drivers off the road, it’s instructive boat shoes, I Feel Great About Peter C. Newman will have to change the to look at current research at Trails Timberland Joe Namath My Hands and Other ■ A study from the is taking its utilitarian heritage to kicked o the deconstructs the demise country’s name. That’s not the massachusetts Institute of Unexpected Joys of Aging, Peninsula College of stylish – and innovative – new Super Bowl of the Liberal Party, which a prediction. But you heard Technology into the cognitive edited by Shari Graydon, Medicine found that heights. Form meets function hype when he ruled Canada for seven of it here first. demands made on drivers of all ages. has notable Canadian exercising outdoors with the company’s exclusive guaranteed a the last 10 decades. ZM: Who is to blame for According to researcher brian reimer, New York Jet women celebrating their is associated with Anti-Fatigue technology – lighter the Liberal Party downfall? older drivers “self-regulate and take victory in 1969. golden years. Mira Bartok’s greater feelings of using recently themselves out of situations where footwear built with moulded, sports Zoomer Magazine: Can the PCN: It was the Chrétien- The Memory Palace is a revitalisation, increased unclassified documents, they perceive the risk is high. That inverted cones in strategically fall of the party truly be Martin blood feud that poignant memoir about her energy and positive personal letters and includes not driving at night, avoiding placed pressure zones that CULTURAL OFFSIDES Michael Ignatieff’s fault? inevitably turned into the diaries, A Covert Affair is mentally ill mother. Larry engagement as well left turns and driving during non- compress and rebound to ease “FOOTBALL,” wrote U.S. journalist George Will, “com- Peter C. Newman: Michael Liberals’ death spiral. The the delicious account of King looks back on half a as decreased tension, rush hour periods. In essence, they stress on joints by absorbing shock bines the two worst things about America: it is violence Ignatieff’s best electoral pivotal factors in the Tory julia and Paul Child’s time century of interviews in confusion, anger and make themselves safer drivers by and allowing all-day wear – is now punctuated by committee meetings.” Extending Will’s showing last spring victory were their attack in the civilian spy service. Truth Be Told. Mark Seal depression. Participants available in selected styles of the taking less risk.” And when distracted thesis, one might argue that pro football’s ultimate game, amounted to less than ads – 6,200 TV hits of captivates in The Man in also described eco-friendly Earthkeepers line. from the task at hand, older drivers the Super Bowl, combines all the other unfortunate stereo- half the Liberal seats won dubious veracity. the Rockefeller Suit, about greater enjoyment Mens’ Earthkeepers 2.0 Rugged tend to be diverted by things that types: blatant hubris, unapologetic patriotism, corporate by Stéphane Dion, his ZM: Who do you think can Steamy tell-allS, Hot tHrillerS and Cool an imposter who bluffed and satisfaction with Moc Toe Boot, $200, Timberland actually merit attention: “... alarms, excess, celebrity worship, gambling – you name it. stumble-bum predecessor. lead a Liberal comeback? Contemporary lit by athena mckenzie his way as a member of outdoor activity and flashing lights, things in the roadway PCN: Cut off from federal stated they were more  As a celebration of the American experience, it’s no won- a great American family. CoM The slip- environment around them.” k. der that each year the Super Bowl consistently scores the funding, bereft Bossypants is Tina Fey’s N likely to repeat the on, slip-o‹ ba highest U.S. television ratings. In fact, the final score has of a power non-fiction memoir about making it activity at a later date. Blundstone

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ork E Liberals seem of musings and art Out of Show Business. 77-year-old singer-songwriter’s work has turned him into a P LAY touch of arthritis in our hands. But lest we get too smug up here, the Super Bowl has nationaal ouderenfonds director Jan w y celebrating these oases. Canadian institution and a lighthouse for any aspiring artist to N E quietly become the most watched Canadian television destined to join Michael Feeney Callan romme said, “We have reports of NEXT TIME YOUR grandkids are This particular unisex style, the look to for inspiration. The Complete Studio Albums thE TKTKTK MAINLY ABOUT MONEY NOT ALL, BUT MOST, OF THE CLUES REFER TO TKTKTKTKTK show, eclipsing ratings for our own nation-defining sport- the dustbin of history. uses hundreds of hours groups of old people attacking playing on their Wii, grab a controller #550, features the company’s SPS Collection (Columbia/Legacy) commemorates Cohen’s career ord/ X-Tra shock protection system 50 Russian monetary unit ing events – the Grey Cup and the Stanley Cup. The Harvard export was the ZM: What else should we of taped interviews and another person with their walkers. and join in the fun. Last summer, Jer- ACROSS 40 For each 64 Universal Time 7 Nickel, the element thus far - all 11 of his albums, remastered and packaged in one 1 European currency 41 US postal code 65 Entice 8 Money 53 Office of This is curious for a number of reasons. For real fans of catalyst for the slaughter know about your book? personal papers, including They kept bumping into their victim emy Butler, a fourth-year kinesiol- paired with a dual-density sole, 4 Original sum invested 42 Tall rounded vase 66 “On the other hand” in text 9 List deductions on tax EconomicOpportunity When the script notes and journals special box set. To that we exclaim, hallelujah! which reduces foot-strike shock return 55 Profit football, the on-field action can’t possibly live up to the pre- but not its main cause. PCN: My title, just about every day.” —Don Irvine ogy student at the University of 12 The root of all evil 43 Greek speak in Robert Redford: The ■ Bad As Me (Anti) is Tom Waits’s first studio album of by about 30 per cent, perfect for 16 Gain in value 44 A tax paid in Canada 69 Suffix for forming verbs 10 Of money 57 Chimp game hype: in truth, it seldom generates the excitement The real culprits were the Gods Changed, reflects my ank (man reading) Windsor, created a therapy program 17 America 45 Each 70 Each 11 Entice 58 Writer ____ Cummings Biography. Selected and original material in seven years. The album features 13 tracks zoomerang protecting joints and muscles and or tension of the far more interesting playoff games that Liberal functionaries, who conviction that the Liberal F ohEN); MIChaEL Craw for seniors using video games. e mage b mage 19 Anguish 46 Ancestor of Saul according 71 Symbol for the chemical 12 Time for repayment 62 Movemvf cash introduced by Camilla of the enigmatic artist’s trademark sound. ( C for taking a jet-lag busting stroll instead of following the ascendancy is doomed. ES program is called Wii-habilitation antimony 13 Northwest 67 A type of rock containing lead up to it. Because it’s always staged in a neutral site, it he i 20 Tenant’s payment to I Samuel t ■ Sir Paul mcCartney expands his boundary of ag post-landing. In black (shown) or 21 Frozen water 48 Body of water 72 Driving Under the Influence 14 Geologic time minerals lacks the essential – and awe-inspiring – roar of 80,000 fans party’s idealistic traditions, My book is the chronology Gibb, The Penguin Book and uses the Wii system’s existing ing/ work on Ocean’s Kingdom (Universal), his first original brown, $180, Blundstone Footwear 22 Asset deposited to ensure 50 Color of ink indicating a 74 A county in Kentucky or 15 Annual (report) 68 Opposite of she cheering madly for the home side. And, thanks to Can- turned into political of how the arrogance of Memoir assembles some games, such as bowling, golf and other repayment deficit the surname of well-known 18 Social Insurance Number 71 The tax on items orchestration for dance. gEtty I M —Vivian Vassos ____ American militia activist. opportunists. embedded in their genetic of Canada’s most respected activities to encourage movement, im- 51 Hernando Soto 23 Year considered harmful or adian broadcast rules, we can’t even see the cool TV ads. aFp/ 24 Not applicable writers. Erik Larson tells ■ Lindsey buckingham, former singer and guitarist FOR WHERE TO BUY 25 Number prefix meaning 52 spacious DOWN 29 The value of shares undesirable So why, on Feb. 5, will so many of us tune in to watch ZM: Describe Ignatieff in code climaxed in the prove balance and develop co-ordin- two 54 Trustee 31 Forceful seizure 72 Stockholder’s share of In Born Liars, Ian leslie the fascinating story of of Fleetwood mac, unleashes his seventh solo record, Seeds NISSE/ SEE SHOPPING GUIDE, PAGE 133. 1 Income profit this American spectacle? Canadian-born Jewish American a single word. Liberals’ self-immolation. to ation. When tested during Butler’s 26 Common Era 56 Make a speech 2 Nonprofit global policy 33 Reach a deal argues that lying is an America’s ambassador to We Sow (eagle rock), showcasing his trademark guitar style 27 __ Aung, Burmese politician 59 The first number 34 Prefix denoting “removal, 73 A verb form novelist Saul Bellow could have been referring to the Super PCN: “Cool.” internship at Hôtel-Dieu Grace Hos- USING ANY COMBINATION OF THE FOLLOWING LETTERS HOW MANY think tank intrinsic part of our social Hitler’s Germany in In the and voice. 28 Harden someone to 60 A letter of the Cyrillic 3 The right to buy or sell reversal” 75 Cheap Bowl when he wrote, “Canada’s chief entertainment – it has ZM: Why should Peter C. Newman’s book, pital in Windsor, it proved very pop- FOUR FIVE AND SIXLETTER WORDS CAN YOU CREATE? something alphabet 76 Artless ■ CbC celebrates the life and work of legendary pianist Glenn within a set time 35 Money in French Canadians be afraid of fabric and that we have Garden of Beasts. Barbara ular among 80- to 89-year-olds, most 30 Information technology 61 Japanese currency 4 Cost 36 Common pronoun 77 Parcel post no choice – is to watch (from a gorgeous setting) what hap- When the Gods Changed: Gould, who would have turned 79 this year, with a 10-disc 83 Long Island evolved and thrived due Eden lets Jeannie Out of “Remind me to take these off when I of whom had never played video games 32 A first nation 62 Future value 5 Statement confirming 46 A claim on property, given pens in our country. The disaster is that there is no other the Liberal Party’s demise? The Death of Liberal box set entitled Glenn Gould on Television: The Complete tradition 85 Recreational vehicle to our ability to deceive. the Bottle in her memoir of (BOWLER) SOKOL (SKIER); HOWARD IMAGES LEENA YLA-LYLY/FOLIO PHOTOGRAPHY, 36 Interest 63 Former Indian monetary payment as security PCN: Unless Stephen Canada, is now available in go to the men’s room.” before. —AM BRAIN GAME (HINT: THERE ARE MORE THAN TWO DOZEN. SEE OUR ANSWERS ON PAGE 133.) unit; also a homonym of a 86 Total value of goods and show.” Perhaps Bellow was right. But that doesn’t mean we CBC Broadcasts (Sony). —TP aN MarCEL photography, 38 Not available 6 Informal money paid in 47 Morning Hollywood life. (books);William k julie matus photography, services bookstores across Canada. VINCENT ELKAIM (NEWMAN) PRESS/AARON THE CANADIAN IMAGES); ILLUSTRATED/GETTY JR./SPORTS IOOSS WALTER PHOTOGRAPHY, PHOTOGRAPHY, TK. FOR ANSWERS, SEE PAGE TK TK. 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GORDON PAPE SIFTS THROUGH THE DATA AND their income. Hibiscus Hill (1), in the Bahamas. spired by a people at ease with them- ing with security over the size of the (sic), arrived punctually women say handbag,” my guide and hina p salad and a gentle melitzanosalata that tastes of eggplant, SUGGESTS WAYS TO PROTECT YOUR MONEY IN  Now that the U.S. Federal Reserve selves. Beauty in the Bahamas cannot beauty products in my carry-on. It at cocktail hour at my suite at the translator confirmed on the long not garlic. New York-based Greek gastronome Diane ower); c ower); Board has publicly announced a hold- You live in a tropical paradise. What be de ned. It is not seen as a blessing seemed simpler to design a good- Hyatt on the Bund and, thanks to the elevator ride up to the 100th floor t Kochilas has advised on other parts of the menu, bring- the-line policy until mid-2013, in- is your favourite winter getaway? bestowed upon a few but is within looking bag with three essential FAA- hopeless language barrier, took my observation deck. There, what ao ing them up to date. Some dishes are decidedly refined – a THERE ARE times when I’d rath- long that will last. For the rest, my terest rates are going to remain at or Skiing in Gstaad. I also love Alys us all.  e collections for Crabtree & approved items. —Vivian Vassos measurements in agreeable silence with the smog, all we could pouch of perfect phyllo pastry stuffed with braised lamb, while I sipped a martini and marvelled observe with clarity was the er be wrong than right. is is one forecasts were pretty much on the below current levels for at least the Beach (5) in Florida. Beautiful archi- hoice (Jin m spinach, tomato and feta, for example. Others are hearty of them. mark. If anything, I was too optimistic next year. e Bank of Canada will be tecture with green building codes. You contentedly at my panoramic 25th gang of Chinese window S c and simple, like a mass of fried peppers and sliced lamb floor view of the Huangpu River washers wandering about on the Spetzofai Last year in this issue, I wrote a col- about the stock market. As of the time extremely reluctant to raise its target bicycle to the doughnut truck each 3 sausage in a tomato-oregano sauce with enough chili heat ART LOVERS SOUTH below. Next I selected the fabric. Then windy deck below, untethered (above), one of umn on the outlook for 2011 that was of writing, the S&P/TSX Composite rate while the Fed stands pat because morning before heading o on a na- ■ The Hon. Hilary M. Weston (with FIVE EASY INSPIRED DESTINATIONS Volos’s signature to prickle your scalp. Greek cuisine is only ever as good

Jony produced a glossy men’s fashion and chain smoking (who can hotographer’ unusually pessimistic, at least for me. Index was o 6.3 per cent for the year, of the upward pressure that would ex- ture trail to try to  nd redemption. her husband, W. Galen Weston, left), is p plates: roasted as its ingredients – which is why it so often disappoints magazine with a view to settling on blame them?). Shanghai World spicy Ontario

Normally, I try to look on the posi- while, in New York, the S&P 500 had ert on the loonie. Do you prefer to be at home or away launching a three-year alliance between ayda/ when transported to cold northern climes. Volos’s village the cut. It was the latest issue of Harry, Financial Centre, Century lamb sausage, tive side, but there wasn’t much to be given back 6.7 per cent. I expect those is means that interest rates on for the holidays? We tend to be at London, England’s Whitechapel Gallery from Harry Rosen of Toronto. “Friend Boulevard, Pudong New Area salad of tomato, cucumber, onion, peppers, olives, feta WHERE THE TWAIN SHALL MEET Lennon wasn’t the only artist who dezvous, where you can take in Ber- red and green cheerful about at the start of the year. numbers to be worse by the time you traditional safe-haven investments home, as this is Junkanoo season (2). with Windsor, Fla., where the Canadian send me,” Jony explained with a shrug, bell peppers, and Cretan olive oil tasted divine in September – but in ere was mounting evidence that read this. like guaranteed investment certi - couple make their winter home. Imagine there’s a country, it’s easy if was taken with this British outpost – muda Gombey dancing, glassblowing My children have grown up drum- when I asked how he came by it. Two 5. hAiry crAb It seems clear uit); Siegfried l oregano tomato January? We must wait and see. the world was facing some stagger- In fact, I think 2012 overall will be cates will remain so . As I write, Roy- ming in the parade. Every year, each The annual will showcase diŽ erent days later, I was delivered a well-cut that just like the Patagonian you try: pink sand below us, above made so by the crash landing of col- and cooking lessons, play a round of sauce with Meanwhile, desserts here are a treat – goblets of rich, ing economic,  nancial and political worse than 2011. We’ll really start to al Bank is o ering only 1.55 per cent troupe selects a theme for its cos- periods of an artist’s path: a suit for C$450. My last off-the-rack toothfish — which only began its us only blue skies … Well, John Len-eonists Getaas en route to Virginia in 1609. golf in the moderate climate (its sub- grilled bread, strained yogurt and berries or of saffron ice cream with 4 brushed with problems that would probably start to feel the crunch of the U.S. slowdown on  ve-year non-redeemable GICs, tumes and members are dressed in rising star (fi rst up, Brazil’s Beatriz number from Harry Rosen cost $2,500. glitzy fast track to endangered ( S Bank mage non imagined it, and it was here in “Bermuda is the right country for a tropical location makes for mild win- rosewater and crushed walnuts (a delectable reminder of Cretan organic he i take their toll as 2011 unfolded. As a before the year is over. less than the current rate of in ation. variations of that theme. Everyone is Milhazes, far left), a modern Jony’s, tel. +13585803384 species status when it was renamed t Bermuda1 where, a er  ve years of jaded man to loaf in,” said American ters) and learn about culture, heritage olive oil; exohico the pervasive influence of Persian cooking that still lin- result, I predicted that we would see Canada was blissfully insulated You can do better at smaller banks on the street; the magistrate dances master and an infl uential fi gure. Chilean sea bass — the Chinese hairy being holed up in the Dakota in New author and humorist Mark Twain, who and tradition. Canadian hotelier Fair- (right), a phyllo gers in post-Ottoman Greece). Though the kitchen closes a slowing economy, a decline in home from the worst shocks of the 2008-09 and credit unions, but even there the with the miscreant, the millionaire “Windsor has a fantastic history of 3. curios Do you really need a crab is going to need a new tag if it is York City, he wrote such songs as was so smitten that he made the islands mont has town (Hamilton Princess) pastry stuffed early, the bar stays open for the post-opera crowd: an souvenir of a man who killed 10 — ever to hit the international big time. the sadly prophetic “Living on Bor- (Bermuda is actually an archipelago of and beach (Southampton) locations, with braised sales, continued low interest rates and  nancial crisis for three reasons. best rate showing on the Globeinvest- with the minstrel. Free dancers and showing world-class contemporary Schierlitz/ om opportunity for a glass of one of the elegant new Greek maybe 20 — million people? If your 5 Here, they love it just as it is — warts, rowed Time,” “Watching the Wheels” more than 180 smaller landmasses) and both Air Canada and WestJet lamb and a sluggish stock market. First, our conservative banking poli- or website was 3.5 per cent. A er tax cowbell shakers are an intrinsic part – artists,” she says. “Beatriz is a brilliant wines on Volos’s list. answer is, “Oh, why not?” then this is hair and all. In November, peak season, vegetables, feta So far, the housing market has held cies and tight regulations protected and in ation, that doesn’t leave much. our national treasure, Kalik Beer (3), addition.” Whitechapel Gallery at and “Cold Turkey” for what event- his second home. Timing, of course, is o er direct  ights, at just less than Mains from $17 to $29 (whole fish at market price). Open the place for you. This small shop packs the best I sampled was at Yè Shanghai, ually would be his seminal return al- everything: from now until March, the three hours from Toronto. www.goto and kefalotyri up surprisingly well, but that’s the our  nancial institutions from the rav- So what should you do to protect derives its name from the noise of the Windsor, until Feb. 28; 3125 Windsor cheeses in a for lunch Monday to Friday, dinner nightly. 133 Richmond photography, t photography,

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OCTOBER zoom out zoom out MONEY THE ZOOMER GUIDE Most Uxbridge EXPERTS residents peter bregg’s zoomer moment Libby Znaimer’s Zoomer report of recurrence because of the immune- istan and China. As that area’s popu- THE live near a suppressing drugs he had to take. His lation increases, the glacier recedes in beautiful trail. choices, she writes, “may not have ex- almost inverse proportion, and with it, A Soldier’S Story A few good men tended his life – and may have even the chief water source for that entire shortened it.” region. JUL/AUG alive until the announcement. “We I don’t think it’s for us to second- Now, consider what we’ve learned GUIDE Downtown Uxbridge were like, ‘okay, Dad, I know things guess these tough medical decisions. about oil, the economy and war. 2011 The Foster aren’t going well, but the nobel, What this underscores is that we must In Canada, we’re still delusional Memorial they’re going to announce it next support more research into better about how much water we use. Ac- monday,’ and he’s like, ‘I know I have treatments and earlier detection for cording to a 2010 survey, on average got to hold out for that. They don’t this deadly disease – and that we we think we use 79 litres daily. In fact, give it to you if you have passed away.” should use our time wisely. Carpe the average Canadian uses 329 litres of diem! Jobs said it eloquently in his water a day – almost tWo DAys lAter, steve Jobs, the now-famous commencement speech double what Euro- legendary founder of Apple Inc., died. to the stanford graduating class in peans use. Forty per He had a rare form of the disease – a 2005. At the time, he believed his can- cent of us don’t know  UXBRIDGE, ONT. neuroendocrine tumour, supposedly cer was cured. But he recounted how what we pay on our more treatable and curable than the it felt to live with a terminal diagno- water bills. More sur- Average home price $420,000 usual variety. His passing wasn’t a sis for the first 24 hours after his first prising: I’ve spoken shock; Jobs’ health had been failing scan – until his doctors figured out to a number of young Population for a long time, in the public eye. And what type of cancer he had. “your adults who think that 19,169 while he was only 56 and could have time is limited, so don’t waste it liv- their household water is provided free. Per- Health care had many more creative years, he had ing someone else’s life … Don’t let the Markham Stou ville Hospital, already changed the world. noise of others’ opinions drown out haps that would ex- Uxbridge site I’m stIll reelIng from a week Their status as mavericks informed your inner voice. And, most import- The author plain the hour-long when we lost three great men. They all their treatment choices, especially ant, have the courage to follow your taps into showers. Distance to: water-saving So, in light of this, Toronto: 78 km; Mississauga, 98 km; died of pancreatic cancer. It hit home steinman’s. He tried to use his nobel- heart and intuition.” It’s advice that’s secrets. Kingston, 243 km; Ottawa, 350 km hard because I am lucky enough to winning discovery to cure his own as pertinent for Zoomers as it is for I decided that my REALESTATE have survived this disease for three cancer. His breakthrough was the dis- young people. for Jobs, the most im- THIS MONTH IN THRIFT household had to do Highlights years. It was already a time of reflec- covery of “dendritic” cells, a new class portant question is: “If today were the more than just take shorter showers. South of Leaskdale, the Foster Here are the water operating princi- City of Trails Memorial mausoleum adds a tion – just days before both the Jewish of cells in the immune system that last day of my life, would I want to do Byzantine temple to the landscape. Day of Atonement and Thanksgiv- target unwelcome things like bacteria what I am about to do today?” EVERY DROP COUNTS ples chez Jane. Built during the Great Depression ing. When I heard ralph steinman’s or tumours. Journalist Brett norman, JANE MACDOUGALL SHOWS US HOW TO CONSERVE 1 In a picturesque valley on the to retire or relocate. by Thomas Foster, a former A Polish soldier appears larger travelling from one end of the country unflattering to the regime and i held story, I thought it was as tragic as it a former science writer at rockefeller tHe tHIrD memBer of the trio OUR MOST PRECIOUS RESOURCE Put a container in your shower. Use northern slope of the Oak Ridges Mor- Gerald Lawrence, a real estate agent mayor of Toronto, its terrazzo and than life as he stands guard on War- to the other with reporter doug long. those back from the censors until after gets. At 6 a.m., our newscaster on University, where steinman worked, was virtuoso pianist roger Williams, the collected water for watering plants. aine sits the town of Uxbridge, Ont. – a with Coldwell Banker, suggests that mosaic interior is occasionally saw’s famous Nowy Świat street after i was always under the watchful eye they had sealed my shipping envelope. Classical 96.3fm (a Zoomermedia wrote that steinman’s experiments on who died at age 87, six months after LIVING IN B.C., a province that the world, the valuation of water is 2 Pre-rinse dishes in a container next small town, no doubt, but one with a because building space is limited, now a musical venue. martial law was declared in december of a “guide” from the information Then, on my way to the airport, i used property) announced that steinman himself were “an open secret … un- he announced that he had pancreatic gets its fair share of precipitation, it’s so profound that even the young to the sink. Use this water in the gar- Overlooking the town of hard to think of water as valuable. understand. den. Think of it as liquid composting thriving (and recently revitalized) might be the time to buy. “We see the Uxbridge, the Uxbridge Historical 1981 by President Wojciech Witold ministry. i was not permitted to an exacto knife to slit open the edge would receive one-half of the nobel fortunately, the dendritic cell-based cancer. He was a legendary performer When I was a kid, we ran the hose all The research on this subject indi- – your drains will thank you too.

downtown as well as an active arts potential for growth in the real estate Jaruzelski, the last communist leader photograph soldiers except on a few to insert those “suspect” photos and Prize in Physiology or medicine. Just treatment didn’t work, at least not well nicknamed the pianist to the pres- ISIng

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S- 3 community. market here. ere are so many par- and exhibits. Take the Quaker Trail of Poland, to quell demonstrations by occasions. it took me two weeks to get used a glue stick to hide the evidence as he was repeating the item at 9 a.m., enough.” steinman lived four-and-a- idents because he played for every one day (the better to fill your water gun), cates that the world is heading to- Collect run-up water (the tap water

But what really sets Uxbridge apart cels of land that will never become de- the pro-democracy union solidarity. permission for this photo while under of tampering. he got breaking news. It turns out half years after being diagnosed with from Harry truman to george H.W. lyon washing the car meant a driveway ward water scarcity. We’re advised to wasted when waiting for it to reach that begins there and is part of a a from similar towns is its abundant veloped. Buying now means getting in trail network that links with the As many Western journalists were be- the escort of an army colonel who Martial law ended in July 1983, but steinman had died the previous fri- stage IV pancreatic cancer, much Bush. His 1955 hit “Autumn leaves” SS river to rival the St. Lawrence Seaway, do simple things like turn off the tap the desired temperature). Use this for local environment. City planners and before home values really rise over the TransCanada Trail and the 140-acre ing turfed from Poland, i managed to took me to locations where i was many political prisoners were not re- day, three days before the crowning longer than usual. But there is debate was the only piano instrumental to hit showers under a half-hour were cruel when brushing our teeth. But to my cooking or drinking. eup, ode eup, various conservation authorities have next few years.” Uxbridge Countryside Preserve. get a visa while working for Canadian allowed to shoot. i got close to the leased until a general amnesty in 1986. achievement of his career. That seems about whether this treatment pro- no. 1 on the pop charts. It remains the and unusual treatment and no one mind, that’s like advising someone to 4 Use stovetop water from cooking, Afterwards, enjoy the welcoming wisely worked together to limit de- Lawrence advises interested buyers Press, partly because Canada had re- ground with my camera to make the Perhaps the most notable prisoner was so wrong. Three days. If the end had longed his life. best-selling piano record of all time. ever turned off the tap while washing put on a sweater when cold – instruc- when cool, for gardening. Also, the atmosphere and fi ne food at the and M aK dishes or brushing teeth. Our water tion for the hard-of-thinking. water used for steaming vegetables can velopment – so much so that, in 2009, to act quickly on the new housing be- Tin Mill Restaurant. The historic ceived friendly media attention in Po- soldier appear extra large because i solidarity co-founder lech Walęsa, come three days after the announce- Jobs opted for alternative therapies And a fitting soundtrack to these the township was designated the Trail ing built. “I know of at least four sub- building, once a fl our mill, was a land, thanks to Prime Minister Pierre felt it best conveyed the huge military who won the Noble Peace Prize in ment, it would have been perfectly for the first nine months after he was three sad stories. supply, it seemed, was inexhaustible. I started taking water seriously a few be re-used to cook rice or other food. 5 Capital of Canada. It’s suggested that divisions underway right now that tannery until 2006. Trudeau. When asked to comment on presence in Poland. 1983 and became Poland’s first elected poetic and somehow all right, even diagnosed in 2003. sharon Begley, Contrast that with this scene from years back. 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