Zoomer Magazine

ZOOMER is Canada’s exciting magazine for Canadians 45 and up. Each issue brings you tips on living healthy, staying fit, and making your money last. Enjoy travel advice, arts and food reviews, stylish shopping, health breakthroughs and secrets to successful intimacy. Plus, meet fascinating celebrities, spiritual leaders, authors and more!

Zoomer Magazine • VOLUME 41, NUMBER 2

Contributors Letter

From the Editor-in-Chief & Publisher: Suzanne Boyd

ZOOMER DMs

Frontis: A Digest of News and Views to Inspire Body, Mind and Spirit • A DIGEST OF NEWS AND VIEWS TO INSPIRE BODY, MIND AND SPIRIT

Boarding Pass • Travel writer Joni Sweet, who’s in the air 75+ days a year, swears by these tricks to keep her journeys smooth, stress-free and easy on the wallet

Widsom of the Ages: Your Guide to Happy, Healthy Living

Later in Love: The Dashing Englishman • Rose Demmer, 83, reminisces about her marriage and travels with dashing Englishman Rick

The Oldie Index: Defying Ageism, One Senior Moment at a Time • Defying ageism, one senior moment at a time

The Non-Retirement Plan: Work is a Vacation for Hotelier Paul Doyle • OWNER, THE CRANE, A HISTORIC CARIBBEAN LUXURY RESORT. AGE 76

Far & Wide: Kellee Irwin’s Mongolia • Travel industry expert Kellee Irwin loves hitting the open road, desert or mountaintop. But she won’t do it without her motorcycle – as a former off-road competitive biker, she explores the world on two wheels

Style With Attitude: Rosemin Madhavji Opgenhaffen, Dubai-Based Fashion Maven

Counter Culture: How to Combat Dry Skin on Long-Haul Flights • The new luxe Emirates Airbus A350 pumps extra moisture into parched cabin air. Until other carriers catch up, here’s how to combat dehydrating long-haul flights

Zoom In Exchange: Money News and Views That Matter to You

Agenda: What Will Trump’s Tariff Threats Mean for Your Wallet? • Will the tariff dispute shatter our long and prosperous alliance with the U.S.?

POV: Libby Znaimer’s Tale of Two Vacations

Freedom to Rome: Isabella Rossellini is Living Fearlessly, Aging Gracefully and Laughing Bawdily • FROM THE STREETS OF HER ITALIAN HOMETOWN TO THE FIELDS OF HER FEMINIST FARM, ISABELLA ROSSELLINI IS LIVING FEARLESSLY, AGING GRACEFULLY AND LAUGHING BAWDILY

Frontis: Mapped: Reasons to Travel 2025 • A PASSPORT TO TRAVEL INSPIRATION AND UNEXPECTED EXPERIENCES

Taking the Waters: Susan Casey’s Fish-Eye View of Travel • A fish-eye view gives a new perspective on travel

Time to Take Flight: Channelling Emotion Through Exploration • Whether it’s the joy you derive from hearing bird calls at dusk, walking across an entire Alpine kingdom or losing yourself in a rapture of blues, travel is all about emotion

The Quirky Joys of Birding

Walking Lichtenstein

Feeling the Blues in Anguilla

Experiences: Anguilla

Want to Gain Some IQ Points? Travel During “Smart Season” • Try travelling during the “smart season”

Cross-Canada Cuisine: Six Hot Tables • After booking accommodations, the savvy traveller’s next task is securing restaurant reservations. Here are six hot takes

Sight Lines: A New Sailor Sees B.C’s Desolation Sound With Fresh Eyes • With her partner in tow, a new sailor sees B.C.’s Desolation Sound with fresh eyes

Empire State of Mind: A Generational Guide to New York Fashion Week • Each February New York turns its attention to the catwalk, celebrating the unique energy and style the city that never sleeps infuses into fashion

A Dip Into La Dolce Vita: A Gourmet Italian Getaway Fit for an Influencer • Leanne Delap turned her obsession with an American-Italian food influencer into a gourmet getaway where each meal was better than the last

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