At Toronto’s impossibly grand Casa Loma, stars sparkling through the garden’s glass pavilion, guests gathered for a special end-of-the-summer “sunset concert,” an LGBTQ+ event with Canadian singers ...

To mark the 56th anniversary of Woodstock – which ran from Aug. 15 to 18 – we revisit Zoomer contributor Brian D. Johnson’s 2019 story reflecting on the iconic rock festival’s 50th anniversary.

More and more people over the age of 50 are taking up physical exercise. Medical associations resoundingly agree that this is a good thing. Physical exercise is not only key to disease prevention, it ...

Scientists are pinpointing just how much behaviour can influence the incidence of cancer, which is the No. 1 cause of mortality in Canada, responsible for 86,700 deaths in 2023. In fact, experts ...

This is a recurring problem for new drivers and seniors alike. There are several reasons why many drivers make this very basic mistake, sometimes with disastrous consequences. The mixup usually ...

Describing the summer of 1969 as “eventful” downplays the remarkable happenings — and their ripple through the future — of that short time. From the pop-culture influence of Woodstock to NASA putting ...

When pop legend Andy Kim changes his shoes for his Zoomer photo shoot with rock star Bryan Adams in Los Angeles, the stylist notices his toenails are painted white, something one wouldn’t expect to ...

Hollywood legend Robert Redford celebrates his 85th birthday on Aug. 18 and, as authorized biographer Michael Feeney Callan put it out a decade ago in his Robert Redford: The Biography: “Contractions ...

I finally got some buy-in from one of my brothers. For several years, I have been keen to take a trip to the places our parents came from, and the places where they met and made a life together as ...

We look back at one of the biggest Olympic scandals involving a Canadian athlete and find out what Ben Johnson is up to now. The world was watching as Usain Bolt’s finished his 100 metre sprint on ...

In September 1940, Ruth Lowe, 26, with golden hair and a Cheshire smile, brought a guest to meet her mother and sister at her mom’s apartment in downtown Toronto. Already an accomplished pianist and ...