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Author Archives: Julie Carl
Julie Carl has more than 30 years of experience in journalism, most recently as a senior editor at the Toronto Star. Julie started her journalism career at small-town Ontario newspapers. She then served as city editor at the London Free Press, managing editor at the Valley Today, Nova Scotia, opinion page editor at The Gleaner, New Brunswick, and deputy editor of the Winnipeg Free Press. Along the way she has garnered eight National Newspaper Awards — two for personal work, six for work she supervised — and three Michener citations.
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Canadian Affairs nominated for prestigious National Newspaper Award
Canadian Affairs has been nominated for the prestigious National Newspaper Award for Editorial Writing for editorials penned by Lauren Heuser
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Toronto’s tree seed diversity program to grow healthier urban forest
Toronto’s tree seed diversity program aims to make the city more liveable and its people happier and healthier
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Doggie daycare auditions leave pet owners on tenterhooks
Doggie daycare can be just as essential as human daycare. But in Toronto, dog owners face waitlists, size requirements and doggie auditions
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Why Charlottetown is well on its way to being a Blue Zone
Parks galore, community garden plots and incentives for families to live together. How Charlottetown has cracked the Blue Zone code
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How Guelph makes ‘the healthy choice the easy choice’
Guelph has many elements in common with Blue Zone cities. And its been working to introduce more of them
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Why Airdrie, Alberta has the Blue Zone ‘secret sauce’
Airdrie, Alberta had plans to become the first Blue Zone city in Canada. And then ‘everything went by the wayside’
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Toronto is a Blue Zone for the rich, says former mayoral candidate
“The wealthy neighbourhoods of Toronto… are Blue Zones. The low income, the poor neighbourhoods are not,” said Gil Penalosa
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Blue Zone cities: how Vancouver stacks up
Vancouver’s environment makes it easy to choose healthy habits. But its drug crisis suggests o key feature of Blue Zone cities is missing
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Could Canadian cities become havens of longevity?
Blue Zone cities have vastly different cultures. Yet, the people in each one live long, healthy lives. What could they possibly have in common?