Zoomer Magazine

Still Electric: Monika Deol’s second act. Plus, redesigning long-term care homes, Billie Jean King’s memoir; cottagecore; taste the Prairies, gardening and inspiring photos by artist Juri Dojc.

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