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Spring Fun in the Sun
Ideas to get you out and enjoying the spring weather.
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Spring Fashion Preview for On The Danforth Magazine
A behind-the-scenes look at our fashion photoshoot from the upcoming spring issue of On The Danforth Magazine.
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I Scream, You Scream
You upper-Canadians don’t know how good you’ve got it. If you didn’t already know, I hail from the east coast. It is a lovely place filled with quaint back-country roads and beaches galore. But in April, it is still snowing. It snowed this past weekend. Badly, I hear. I chuckled when I heard the news as I gazed out of my window at blue skies, blooming trees and the parrot across the street (weird, I know right?) Perhaps the best part of spring is that it is now acceptable to eat copious amounts of ice cream. Even better (or worse, depending on what your vices are) when there’s a cozy…
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A Spoonful of Honey Helps the Medicine Go Down
By Jenna Simpson Natural health clinics. Herbal dispensaries. The Carrot Common. Push-pin boards overflowing with flyers for alternative therapies. Even the most casual passerby walking along the Danforth can't ignore the indications of a vibrant alternative health community. On the Danforth, conventional and alternative medicines coexist peacefully. Roger Lewis, manager and master herbalist at Thuna's Wholistic Dispensary, says they receive many patients referred by medical doctors. "That's the kind of doctor that we like to work with. That's not the kind of doctor we want to steal a patient from. We're not pretending to be medical experts—we're herbalists." He emphasizes that a balance between Western and alternative health practices benefits…