Zoomer Magazine

Zoomer magazine is as much a movement as a magazine, Zoomer amplifies a positive vision of aging while addressing its issues through its innovative blend of relevant policy and lifestyle content with a service-with-style positioning. Its key pillars are health, travel, finance and policy, with food and drink, arts, entertainment and pop culture as well as beauty, grooming and fashion in the mix.

Zoomer Magazine • VOLUME 37, NUMBER 5

Still Electric

THE QUEEN AS SUBJECT

Prized Writers • We’ll skip the autumnal clichés about bounties of books and get to the point: The credentials of Canada’s best fall fiction writers are off the charts

Time of Reckoning • Cree author Michelle Good talks about Five Little Indians, the residential-school story she was compelled to write

THIS WAY UP • THE PEAKS AND VALLEYS IN THE JOURNEY

Courting CONTROVERSY

PAYING RESPECT TO Aretha

EMMY WATCH

A SANDSTORM AT TIFF • A ’60s sci-fi thriller of a novel gets a retake

BARENAKED LADS • Time to man up, gentlemen. The Zoom boom has given a boost to tech treatments suited for guys

ELECTION EUPHORIA • Will the pandemic hand Trudeau a majority?

NO PLACE LIKE HOME • As the pandemic proved, long-term care homes are a health hazard. Nora Underwood investigates how better building design can help

The ER Diaries • Dr. Zachary Levine gives us the 911

A Reunion of Memories

STILL ELECTRIC • After leaving the MuchMusic spotlight more than 20 years ago, the now beauty entrepreneur Monika Deol gets set to unleash a wave of ’90s nostalgia with a dance-party reboot

POWER UP • From the makeup chair to makeup maven, how Monika built a brand new makeup bag

BRAND AMBITION • Toronto PR guru Natasha Koifman adds her signature – and style – to the condo boom, Leanne Delap writes

PRAIRIE WAY • The Great Plains foodie movement is being nourished by women who feed body and soul

the long game • At 77, tennis superstar Billie Jean King is finally at peace with her life, happily married to her wife, and hitting balls again, Johanna Schneller reports

the greatest • … of all time. A new Ken Burns documentary explores the life and legacy of the original G.O.A.T.

THE UNVARNISHED TRUTH • A complicated relationship with her father didn’t stop Aviva Rubin from agreeing to write his memoir. She just didn’t expect to see him in a flattering new light

A Charmed Life • Keepsakes connect us to the past, but the charm bracelet provides a unique record of a woman’s life, Nathalie Atkinson contends

A Thing for Chintz • Inspired by nature and simpler times, cottagecore is a nostalgic movement being adopted in droves by Gen-Z and millennials, Trish Crawford writes

THE RELUCTANT GARDENER • As she battles insidious intruders in the wasteland known as her yard, Ellen Vanstone’s thoughts turn to murder

BUDS of HOPE • An ongoing photo project on the life cycle of flowers is also a teaching moment about life and art. Photographer Yuri Dojc takes us on a tour, in his own words

Moses’ Last Word/First Word