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Meet Notable Awards 2023 Rev Award Winner: Unboxed Market

Meet Notable Awards 2023 Rev Award Winner: Unboxed Market

Meet Michelle Genttner, Co-Founder of Unboxed Market—a zero-waste grocery store in downtown Toronto. Unboxed Market received the 2023 Rev Award, presented by The City of Toronto through its Live Green Toronto program. This prestigious award celebrates the extraordinary efforts of...
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Small Businesses You Can continue To Support During COVID-19

Small Businesses You Can continue To Support During COVID-19

These strange times have hit the businesses in our local neighbourhoods, as social isolation restrictions have...
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Like Having Fresh Eggs? Well, You Can Now Rent a Chicken

If you’ve jumped on the whole “eating local” bandwagon (and it’s a good place to be), you may want to consider adding a chicken coop to your backyard garden. In a growing number of North American cities, you can now rent a chicken for the freshest eggs possible
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9 Good Reasons to Shop Local This Holiday Season

If you haven’t started your holiday shopping soon, we suggest you get on that before things start to get really insane. But before you hit your local mall, big box retailer, or the offerings of our US friends via the click of a mouse, you should really consider shopping locally this season. Here are 9 reasons why
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A Shop Local Thanksgiving Menu for the Last Minute Host

Yellow trees, cool breezes, and pumpkin everything. The signs of fall in Calgary are everywhere, and they’re being celebrated in full effect this weekend. If you’ve been charged with cooking Thanksgiving dinner and want to make it a local affair, check out our guide to sourcing your meal from producers within a hundred mile radius
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Vancouver's Most Notable Farmers Markets

It’s that time of year we love, when a seemingly endless array of farmers markets and pop-ups appear around our city on a regular basis. We’re all about supporting local vendors and small businesses, so news that several farmers markets have returned to the scene for the season got us (and our appetites) excited for the harvest
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