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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As the long-awaited sequel Freakier Friday comes to theatres this weekend, revisit our recent cover story with its Emmy- and Oscar-winning star Jamie Lee Curtis, who will swap bodies once again with ...

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 ...

Spinach Dark leafy greens, which Dotson endorses, are rich in B vitamins. And spinach is at the top of the list for folate (vitamin B9), which has been shown to help minimize age-related cognitive ...

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 ...

Right now, hockey night in Canada is every night. The boys are finally back on the ice after a four-month shut-down due to the pandemic, so why not cheer on your favourite team by raising a glass? Our ...

Fifty years ago, one of the most iconic music festivals took place on a patch of farmland in White Lake, New York. The Woodstock Music & Art Fair — which would later go down in history as simply ...

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 ...