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Publisher Linh T. Huynh

Editor Barb Sligl Art Direction BSS Creative

Contributing Editor Janet Gyenes

Editorial Assistant Adam Flint Contributors Lucas Aykroyd Timothy A. Brown Michael DeFreitas Janet Gyenes Sharon Matthews-Stevens Manfred Purtzki Dr. Kellen Silverthorn Barb Sligl Roberta Staley Mark Stevens

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5 May/June mix 23 CE calendar 37 sudoku 38 small talk

Capturing the Big Island’s contrasts

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11 pay it forward Helping in Haiti

12 motoring

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14 the thirsty dentist

Bitter booze is all the rage

35 practice management

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36 the wealthy dentist

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Sailing on “Summer Breeze” in southwestern Ontario’s Georgian Bay to the rather aptly named God’s Island (page 30).

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from the editor Sailing in Ontario’s lake country, trailing the Group of Seven…and bears. Story on page 30.

into the wild while channelling Alice in a kind of wonderland.

Another American city that’s also playing with perceptions and offering another side to its laid-back west-coast discover vibe is Seattle. Yes, there’s coffee, the fish market and coastal beauty but also some thought-provoking art and architecture (page 23).

Perhaps the most wild place coming up will be Brazil, where it’ll really heat up with the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. Rio de Janeiro promises to put on a spectacular party. But go beyond

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arefoot and bound for adventure. It’s the carefree feeling that comes with spring and only gets stronger into summer, when the warmth and long days bring on an appetite for exploration.

Let loose on deck aboard a vessel in Ontario’s lake country, where you can sail to the divine-sounding God’s Island. This is where the Group of Seven once found inspiration, and these shores still seem untouched. So much so that you may encounter a bear swimming across your sailboat’s path, like the author of our “at home” feature story did (page 30).

If you’re into a different kind of wild, Denver’s art scene (page 17) has the edge you might expect from the cowboy country and culture of Colorado’s capital. But this city has evolved far beyond its wild west days…today you can sip a hopped coffee

its hopping seaside spectacle and deep into the Amazonian jungle to cavort with caimans and macaws (page 5).

On the Pacific side is another wild spot that’s churning quite literally. The Big Island of Hawaii might not be the first place you think of for a late-spring or summer getaway but you’ll find snow (if you’re looking for that come June) and surf and sand and lava—all in one diverse isle of contrasts. And that means it’s the ideal place to practise your photography skills (page 8).

Of course, just because things are heating up and getting wild doesn’t mean work stops (unfortunately). But you can combine work and pleasure by planning your CE meetings in some of the wild places we visit throughout this issue. To help you do just that, we’ve created an online database that highlights the latest conferences and continuing education opportunities around the world (justforcanadiandentists.com/ce/). Another bonus: register for a subscription to email notifications for CE courses, and you could win $1,000 to the course of your choice (see the promo on page 22). Good luck and happy (and wild!) travels.

Any ideas, comments or questions? Reach us at feedback@InPrintPublications.com.

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jungle fever

Using a blowgun in the rainforest. right Sunrise over the Pantanal.

Dusk in the Brazilian wetlands. right Caimans abound in Amazon rivers.

deep into brazil Andre Maceira/Brazil Tourism

From the Amazon to the Pantanal, South America’s biggest country burgeons with natural wonders

Riding Pantaneiro horses. left

Hyacinth macaws perch overhead.

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into the jungle

rumped caciques chirp in glorious cacophony on a nearby island.

The numbers that define the Pantanal’s biodiversity are similarly staggering—and it’s often easier to view creatures here as they’re more out in the open.

Covering upwards of 150,000 square kilometres, this region in central-western Brazil is home to some 700 bird species, 250 fish species, 100 mammal species, and 80 reptile species.

Driving the dusty Tranpantaneira road to the Araras Pantanal Eco Lodge, sightings of capybaras— the world’s largest rodent—and crab-eating foxes are plentiful. Upon arrival, enjoy grilled pacu fish and

Parisian

Double rainbow over Juma Lake.

Pantanal—the world’s largest tropical wetlands— will endure long beyond any sporting event.

Founded in 1669, jungle-ringed Manaus is famed for its domed opera house, financed by the 19thcentury rubber plantation boom. You’ll feel your heart singing as you take a boat tour of the Rio Negro, an Amazon tributary, en route to the Juma Amazon lodge with comfortable bungalows on stilts.

When you pause to explore the forest, your guide, whose painted cheeks depict canoe legends, wields his machete. He chops open a biriba fruit, sweet and goopy.

He shows how Aztec ants come swarming out when he yells at their brown, misshapen nest, and then rubs them into his skin to create a natural scent camouflage—similar to cheese—against predators. Later, you’ll use a blowgun with darts, catch and hold a baby caiman, and marvel at the antics of capuchin monkeys.

You could even experience the surreal, raw power of witnessing a double rainbow on Juma Lake, moments after a thunderstorm. Pink river dolphins surface around the boat, and close to 5,000 yellow-

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lamb stew for dinner, surrounded by glowing yellow lanterns and jaguar and armadillo carvings.

This is an ornithologist’s paradise. During group rides on Pantaneiro horses, hyacinth macaws perch in nearby tarumã trees, casting curious glances, and snail kites soar overhead.

Throughout the day, the Pantanal’s sights and sounds are powerfully absorbed from a 25-metrehigh viewing tower erected in the forest. At dusk, a ferruginous pygmy owl makes a shy cameo. At sunrise, howler monkeys raucously defend their territory.

“Morning is magic,” says the guide. “All the animals are waking up and thanking God for another day with nature.” You’ll feel overwhelming gratitude too as you soak up Brazil’s natural thrills.

— Lucas Aykroyd if you go For more info, go to the websites of Brazil Tourism at visitbrasil.com, Juma Amazon Lodge at jumalodge.com and Araras Pantanal Eco Lodge at araraslodge.com.br.

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Visit a Parisian tea salon…in Vancouver. Ladurée, historic purveyor of oh-la-la macarons in the City of Light, has opened up its first outpost in Canada. The Ladurée Vancouver Boutique and Tea Salon has a façade that evokes the historic Rue Royale boutique in Paris (the original pâtisserie dates back to 1862 when Louis Ernest Ladurée opened the bakery on 16 Rue Royale), and inside are trompe l’oeil skies with angels and goldand-marble counters displaying pastel-coloured macarons, viennoiseries, teas, jams and a collection of perfumed candles and home fragrances.

And, to celebrate this Canadian opening, there’s a special maple syrup macaron. The macarons are also available in limited-edition gift boxes (above), by fashion illustrator Kerri Hess (who’s also worked with the likes of Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Lancome Paris). Oh-la-la, indeed! laduree.com

Andre Maceira/Brazil Tourism; courtesy Ladurée

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our guide kneels, poking a long palm frond into a hole to coax a female tarantula to come out. Hairy legs appear ominously at the entrance. Since you’ve just heard these massive spiders can throw barbed hairs in self-defence, you back up as your spine tingles in anticipation. (Fortunately, she’s a nice tarantula.)

It’s one of many electrifying get- moments on a nature-themed visit away to Brazil, the world’s fifth-largest country. The Rio Olympics may dominate current tourism headlines, but the beauty and strangeness of both the Amazon and the

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p h o t o p r e s c r i p t i o n m i c h a e l d e f r e i ta s Michael DeFreitas is an award-winning photographer who’s been published in a wide variety of travel publications. With his initials, MD, he’s been nicknamed “doc,” making his photography prescriptions apropos.

a study in contrasts

Hawaii’s Big Island appeal is its grand sense of contrast and unpredictability

Send photos and questions to our photography guru at feedback@ inprintpublications.com and your shot may be featured in a future issue!

destination photography

Apply your photography skills to the shooting situations of the BIG ISLAND of Hawaii.

grey is okay

Just north of Hilo are two of the island’s most famous waterfalls, the 80foot Rainbow Falls and 200-foot tiered Umauma Falls. Here, I’m happy for a slightly overcast day so that I can utilize slow shutter speeds (1/10 and 1 second) to make the water look wispy. By using my medium zoom lens (at 50mm–70mm) and f20 for a wide depth of field, I’m also able to include some foreground elements.

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he drive up Mauna Kea’s steep and curvy summit dirt road is as challenging as it is breathtaking.

Besides having no guardrails, the biggest trial for most drivers is keeping their eyes on the road and off the spectacular vistas that pop up around every corner.

At the snowcapped summit, I set up my tripod and wait for the spectacular sunset. I use my wide-angle zoom lens (set at 14mm) to include a nearby snow-covered cinder cone for a sense of place and the surprise of snow in a tropical destination. As the sun drops below the cloud cover its orange glow lights up the snow-covered scene and I fire off a few frames at f16 and 1/125 second. It’s not until I edit my photos back home that I notice the snowboard tracks crisscrossing the slope of the cinder cone. Snowboard tracks in Hawaii—unpredictable or what?

The Big Island, Hawaii, differs from its siblings in its stark contrasts. The laidback Hilo or east side of the island offers an authentic Hawaiian culture amid a lush tropical backdrop, while the Kona or west side is arid, busy and touristy. Both sides provide a wealth of photographic opportunities.

Despite being the island’s largest city, Hilo has maintained the ambience and culture of a small, old-fashioned Hawaiian town.

My first stop is the city’s festive Farmers Market that offers everything from local batik sarongs to pots of orchids and stacks of ripe fruit and vegetables. I find a pile of mangoes perfectly lit by the early morning light and position my wide-angle zoom (set at 14mm) close to the fruit. Including people in the background helps to establish a sense of place, but it’s important that the people not be the centre of attention in every shot.

By using f8 and focusing on the mangoes about a half-metre in front of the camera, I’m able to accentuate the lush fruit and render the background shoppers slightly out of focus (to make sure the mangoes are what draws the eye). By using 1/125 second, I freeze the human motion.

My next stop is literally and figuratively the island’s hottest spot. Just 70 kilometres south of Hilo, the Kilauea volcano (Hawaiian for “much spreading”) has erupted continuously since 1983. Situated in Hawaii

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Volcanoes National Park, it’s one of the most active volcanoes on earth. Although today’s eruption doesn’t feature the 100-metre-high lava fountains, dense plumes of smoke and ash of past eruptions, it’s still a not-to-bemissed event.

You can view the molten lava flowing into the sea from Hakuma Point on the east side of the flow, or from the west side at Kamoamoa along the park’s Chain Of Craters Road. But, despite my fear of heli-

copters, I opt for an aerial perspective. Aerial tours depart Hilo airport daily and some operators offer fully sensory “doors-off” tours.

From above, the juxtaposition of lush-green vegetation and the bright-red rivers of molten lava cutting through blackened lava fields offers yet another striking contrast.

I use a medium zoom range lens (60–70mm) to frame the lava rivers and a high shutter speed (1/800– 1/1000 second) to eliminate engine vibrations.

Framing the lava flows diagonally creates leading lines and allows me to place contrasting green and black patches in opposite corners of the frame.

Armed with lots of land-based signature images, I shift my attention to the Hawaii’s

great surfing. The two most important factors for getting great surfing shots are vantage point and sun angle. Although early morning or late day sun offers a lovely warm glow, its lower angle produces more glare and tends to render the water dark. Late morning light (10am to noon) penetrates deeper into the water accentuating its blue colour while providing a bit of reflected light to help illuminate the surfers.

I pick a top surfing spot on the west coast to utilize a bit of frontal lighting from the higher morning sun. Before shooting, it’s always best to watch the action for a while to determine the best-lit angle and composition (remember that diagonal compositions help accentuate action). After finding a couple of advanced surfers practising tricks, I set up my tripod and use a 300mm zoom lens to snap a variety of shots using 1/250–1/800 second and f11–f16. With my motor drive set on high speed I compose with the surfers entering the frame, not leaving it.

With so many unpredictable photo opps—from sputtering volcanoes to churning surf—make sure that you and your camera are always ready on the Big Island. Aloha!

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dentistry in a time of cholera

The man behind the humanitarian group Canadian International Dental Foundation

courtesy of Dr. Stewart Gillies

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t was 2010, only a few months after a 7.0 magnitude Haiti earthquake killed 300,000 and injured many hundreds of thousands more. Dr. Stewart Gillies of Avalon Dental Centre in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, was sitting down to a meal in Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince with the vice dean of the country’s Faculté d’Odontologie dental school as well as the nation’s health minister. The minister cut short the meal, saying he had to travel to the Central Plateau region to investigate a number of mysterious deaths. Gillies, who had recently founded the Canadian International Dental Foundation, a Newfoundland-based humanitarian group providing dental care to Haitian earthquake survivors, asked the minister to describe the symptoms. It sounded suspiciously like cholera, Gillies remarked. The minister “looked at me and he was very angry,” says Gillies. “He said, ‘We haven’t had cholera in Haiti for 50 years.’”

“Well,” Gillies responded, “I think you’ve got it now.”

Gillies, unfortunately, was correct. The Central Plateau—one of the most destitute regions in a nation already regarded as the poorest in the Western Hemisphere—would soon see thousands of people succumb to the deadly disease. The cholera outbreak quickly became a national epidemic due to the decimated post-earthquake infrastructure: no sewer system, unclean drinking water and overcrowded living conditions.

It was later discovered that infected Nepali United Nations workers introduced cholera to Haiti. Since then, health-care and foreign aid workers have never gotten the cholera under control and the disease has spread to more than 800,000 people, killing 9,000. (Last year, following the rainy season, physicians struggled to treat 1,000 new cases a week.)

From the start, Gillies partnered his organization with three NGOs: the Faculté d’Odontologie, the George Stines Foundation, founded by American dentist Dr. Alfred Stines, and Partners In Health (PIH), a Harvard University-affiliated global group that builds health systems for the world’s poor. In cooperation with PIH, Gillies established a dental clinic at l’Hôpital Saint Nicolas in Saint-Marc.

That initial visit was preceded by cobaffects work at the Haitian dental school. bling together—thanks to Atlantic Canada Gillies has noted that dental assistants are donors—an entire dental clinic in St. John’s, unable to type the names of patients into then shipping it to Haiti at a cost of $12,000 the computers that have been supplied by and re-assembling it at l’Hôpital Saint his organization.

Nicolas. Since then, Gillies and a team of volDespite such challenges, “we’re seeing unteer dentists and hygienists have returned great progress in Haiti,” says Gillies. His fellow eight times for a week at a time, Canadian volunteers undertake preventative travelling the countryside to measures, with hygienists setting up care for Haitians at tempofissure sealant clinics to stop decay rary dental clinics as well Dr. Stewart as tutoring students at Gillies, founder of Faculté d’Odontologie. the NewfoundlandThe need to mainbased Canadian tain a sterile field and International Dental instruments is one of Foundation. the lessons that Gillies’ team has hammered home to dental students. Sterility is paramount; cholera is still prevalent, as is a litany of infectious diseases that include HIV-AIDS, hepatitis A and B, multi-drug resistant TB and chikungunya, says Gillies, who emigrated from Scotland to Canada in 1977 as a 23-year-old dental graduate. “If you have someone in your chair and he’s a pretty ragged guy and you have a small girl coming in right behind him, you think: ‘Am I going to cross-infect this person?’ If you are, you have no right being there doing that job,” Gillies says.

Things like disease transmission, hygiene and sterility are beyond the understanding of many Haitians. Gillies recalls how difficult it was trying to convince a plumber of the need to ensure that the pipe from the dental clinic on the permanent molar and premolar teeth at l’Hôpital Saint Nicolas led straight to the of children. The hygienists treat upwards of sewer. “We had equipment that sucked up 2,000 kids a week, Gillies says. blood and saliva and he simply wanted to Gillies sees “lots of hope” for the country, run the pipe straight into the street. We had due in large part to the remarkable resiliency to beg him—and pay him—to connect it to of its citizens. A vital step forward for the the sewer. This was an area where 400 to 500 nation will be the creation of a universal edupeople a day were coming to Saint Nicolas cation system. “As dentists, the best thing we Hospital with cholera.” can do is educate them in the thing we do Such a lack of awareness is rooted in the best—dentistry,” says Gillies, who will ship poor education system, Gillies believes. In a 25 new computers later this year to Faculté nation where the average monthly income is d’Odontologie, adding to the 55 already about $100, yearly school fees, uniforms and brought down. “The need for good dentistry supplies run as high as $700. Illiteracy even in the future will be immense.”

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D r . k e l l e n s i lv e r t h o r n Dr. Kellen Silverthorn is Just For Canadian Dentists’ automotive writer. He tries to keep one convertible and/or one track-day car in the family fleet.

the devil is in the detail(ing) The paradigm-shifting hybrid car keeps getting greener + better

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colleague, while finalizing an expensive car purchase, asked me if he should opt for the $995 paint and interior protection package. To underscore my position we Googled Consumer Reports.

As I expected, the basic advice was to avoid such a package as “vastly overpriced.” My friend was only partially satisfied; “So, if not the dealer-applied versions, then how should I protect my investment?”

Which begs the question—from what, exactly, are we protecting our cars? An abridged list: ultraviolet rays, big-city smog, impaled insect entrails, salt, hail, sand, brake and other dust, door dings, (take a breath), tar, gas spills, acid rain, flying rocks, flying ferrous flakes, air-borne-tree-goo, and divebombed-bird-pooh.

Meanwhile, that same car’s interior is exposed to a diluted version of the above list—plus, we grind the carpet with our feet, and abrade the upholstery with our bums.

Also: pens, lipstick and other crayons, cigarette and other smoke, newspaper ink stains, fingernail/jewelry scratches, desiccated human skin, dog hair and drool, and every type of foodstuff and beverage. Again, intermittently applied interior products beats replacing even one interior surface.

So “protecting our automotive investment” is really all about a regular program of cleaning-then-protecting. And whether you realize it or not, those in the trade can easily discern the proposed trade-ins that have been well protected since birth. You can guess which car the trade covets. The result-

ing valuation spread between two otherwise identical cars can be 25% or more.

Hopefully, I’ve convinced you that the sizable investment parked on your driveway is worth protecting. The next big follow-on question, then, is exactly who is going to clean and protect your car?

Your key candidates are: well, there’s you of course, or, a family member or neighbour who is willing/coerced/paid/ quid pro quo’ed—or a professional “detail” shop. A quality detail shop’s services would be the money-no-object solution for all of your car’s cleaning and protection needs. However, that service may cost you $50–$100 per hour several times a month.

Almost as costly as a teenager’s cell account.

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sional detailing to my local experts Julian Richards and his crew to help protect my automotive investments. Originally a journeyman Ferrari mechanic in the UK, Julian shifted to the detailing side of the trade long before moving to Canada 13 years ago. His Right Touch Auto Detailing has a staff of six with 75+ years of collective detailing experience (some of the crew, above).

Julian has sagely steered me toward various equipment, products and techniques through the years. And when I explained to Julian my desire to educate our Just for Canadian Dentists readership on detailing, before you could say “wet polish,” I’d been added to his shop’s team as intern for a week of afternoon shifts.

Here’s what I learned. Divide detailing into wet and dry phases.

There are two levels of wet phase detail (minor and major). In the “minor version”

the equipment needed is a water hose, bucket-withbottom-grate filled with warm soapy water and microfibre mitt and chamois. The steps are pre-rinse, wash, rinse, then chamois. Pretty simple, and more-or-less what dad taught us.

The major exterior wet-clean adds four steps after “pre-rinse” for which you need degreaser spray, wetted blocking sponge and wetted clay bar. If the tree sap or bird pooh are not responding to these, then apply spot methyl hydrate soaks. Patience is key here, not aggressive rubbing! I also clean inside the door/trunk jams and fuel-filler door in a major wet clean, as well as using a specific wheel cleaner fluid and brush.

My “dry” detail phase also has both a minor and a major version. The minor version is a quick interior vacuum and dressing tires. The major version of the dry phase includes using a $189 Canadian Tire six-inch

random orbital polisher with micro-fibre head. With this tool I apply the Auto Glym Super Polish. If scratches in the factory clearcoat paint layer are still visible after the wax/ polish step, then refer to a pro like Julian. My major dry phase clean also includes carpet shampoo, followed by vacuuming. Similarly upholstery/leather/vinyl is product-specific cleaned, then protected. Glass polish and door rubber silicon treatments are optional.

Odours that don’t disappear with a major dry clean can be considered for “fans and Febreeze,” or else referred to the pros.

I can perform my minor wet/dry combined home detailing in 30 minutes. My major wet/dry steps take 90 minutes per car.

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esperate times call for desperate measures. The proverb is apropos of how Fabio Martini and Joel Myers of The Woods Spirit Co. came to distill amaro, their first-ever spirit. Amaro is the Italian word for “bitter” and it describes an herbal liqueur made in the land of dolce vita.

The story isn’t exactly a tale of love and war, but close enough. The love interest: the Negroni cocktail. The war: BC’s Campari shortage last year. The hand-wringing was real and the news media ran half a dozen or more stories about bartenders lamenting the loss of this powerful bitter liqueur in their arsenal.

Martini says he and Myers decided to distill a replacement for the Italian amaro—with a West Coast twist. As fanciful as this bitter orange crush might sound, the pair came by distilling honestly. “We’re foragers,” Martini explains. He had run a small foraging tour company and one day, when hiking with Myers, the idea for starting a craft distillery came ‘out of the woods,’ he says. “We started out wanting to make a gin from the forest.” Instead, the Campari shortage spurred them to make “a modern liqueur with a deep respect for the Italian tradition of amaro.”

The roots of bitter liqueurs wander far beyond the boot. According to Jim Meehan’s tome, The PDT Cocktail Book, the first bitter liqueurs distilled from herbal ingredients such as bark, herbs and spices were “made by medieval monks or apothecaries as elixirs and health tonics in Northern Europe, France, Italy and Spain.”

In fact, the “desperate times” proverb has Latin origins that translate to “Desperate diseases must have desperate remedies.”

It makes sense: the main bitter ingredient in herbal liqueurs is gentian root, which was used to battle ills such as malaria and parasites.

Today most bitter liqueurs are made in Italy, following time-honoured recipes that are virtually classified. Some are aperitivos, sipped before the meal to stimulate the appetite.

Others are digestivos designed to settle the stomach. Many accomplish both tasks, whether sipped neat or on the rocks, in a cocktail or with a splash of soda.

By way of explanation for his bitter orange ardour, Martini references his Italian roots and his family’s fondness for the Spritz cocktail, which was introduced by Aperol, another amaro, in the 1950s.

Aperol has been around since 1919 when it was launched by the Barbieri brothers at the Padua International Fair. Interestingly, I met Martini and Myers at Vancouver’s annual BC Distilled festival where the pair debuted their amaro. Although they’re not fratelli, Martini and Myers describe their venture as “the combined curiosity of two friends whose lives have been enchanted and shaped by the West Coast…” Perhaps their amaro will endure for a century too.

My own enchantment with amari was similarly sparked by a Spritz I sipped in Verona, the locale of another love and war story, starring Romeo and Juliet.

On the bitter spectrum, Aperol is sweeter and less bitter compared to Campari. The Woods Spirit Co.’s amaro starts off sweet and citrusy and has a pleasingly bitter finish, close to Campari in my mind. “We worked really hard to balance it,” says Martini. In keeping with tradition he stays mum on the “unconventional sweetener” they use. The bitter ingredients, however, include bitter orange, gentian and wormwood. The West Coast homage comes

from the addition of grand fir needles, which impart nuances of grapefruit.

“We also use a lot of rhubarb,” says Martini, which is a go-to bitter ingredient in most amari, including Aperol and Campari. The latter also includes ginseng and chinotto, an Italian bitter orange. For my taste, though, Amaro Nonino Quintessentia hits the bittersweet spot compared to Aperol (too sweet) and Campari (too bitter).

These orange-forward amari are typically lighter in colour and alcohol, with a few exceptions. Recently, I’ve started exploring their darker, higher-proof side, starting with Amaro Ramazzotti, which claims to be Italy’s first bitter liqueur. Introduced in 1815, it’s made with a secret blend of 33 herbs, roots and spices. A handful of ingredients include star anise, orange, cardamom, cloves, galangal and myrrh. It’s thick and reminds me of another herbal liqueur: Jägermeister. I like the level of bitters, but I prefer the more chocolate-y and citrusy taste of Averna Amaro (introduced in 1868), though the bitters are definitely on the tame side.

Then there’s the legendary Fernet-Branca, which is toe-curlingly bitter, just the way San Franciscans and Argentinians like it. It’s often reported that their lust for the liqueur drinks up a staggering portion of Fernet-Branca’s market share. Fernet-Branca has been made since 1845 following a formula of 27 herbs (the ususal suspects, plus chamomile, aloe and saffron). Its minty aroma is alluring but it takes just a single sip to be hit with its boozy bitterness, finished with a rush of mint. I’m smitten already.

You never know what you’ll fall in love with, but exploring amari might be the start of a beautiful relationship. As for Martini and Myers, one thing is for sure. They’ll never be short of their beloved amaro.

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Colorado, glass artist Dale Chihuly’s interpretation of local skies and sunsets, at the Denver Botanic Gardens. below left The giant chair and horse of The Yearling, outside the Denver Children’s Museum.

s the elevator doors open I’m greeted by a young girl with her arm outstretched, clutching a spray of yellow flowers in her hand. Behind her is a dun-coloured horse, at least 16 hands high, staring at a pile of rowboats that looks like a many-petalled flower. It’s like I’ve stepped through a portal into a different universe.

This tableau isn’t a tired-traveller daydream, but rather the fourth floor main lobby of The Art, Denver’s five-star gallery-esque hotel, which opened last June in the Colorado capital. The girl, the horse and boats are real, but only artfully so. Singer, as the girl is called, is a bronze sculpture by Kiki Smith. She welcomes guests who have already been entertained

by Oliver Michaels’ Tube Balloon Thing or Revolution videos playing on continuous loops in the elevators. Otter, the horse, is imagined from driftwood pieced together like a giant Jenga game. But even that’s an artful deception. The sun-bleached wood is actually cast bronze, the handiwork of sculptor Deborah Butterfield. And the jumble of boats is Collage, a print of Nancy Rubins’ Real McCoy: a massive sculpture composed of vessels that exemplifies her signature of using salvaged materials.

These provocative and playful pieces are part of a serious collection composed by the Art’s in-house curator. A wing of the Fire restaurant is decked with John Baldessari’s Eight Soups screen prints, a mash-up of Matisse (Goldfish and Sculpture) and Warhol (Soup Cans) whose work graces the hotel too. So do pieces by noted artists Josef Albers, Frank Gehry and Clyfford Still, the Abstract Expressionist whose eponymous museum sits among seven others in addition to 50-plus galleries in downtown Denver’s Golden Triangle Museum District.

When I gaze out my window the next morning I spy the mountain-like metal peaks of the Denver Art Museum, which I’ll visit this afternoon as part of my art-filled day. Then I spot a playful throwback on the table in my modern room: a kaleidoscope.

I make my own art as I turn the toy and watch the tumbling pieces settle into shapes that paint the slate sky with fanciful flowers.

At the Denver Botanic Gardens, the sky has turned cerulean on this cloudless June morning. Yet, strangely, the sun is

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Lobby of the Art Hotel, with Otter, by Deborah Butterfield. above left The Big Sweep art installation outside the Denver Art Museum, in which the dustpan’s angle echoes the shape of the distant mountains. above right The four-story El Pomar Grand Atrium in the Denver Art Museum’s Frederic C. Hamilton Building.

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setting too. The gleaming rays of yellow, orange and red radiating from the orb in front of me is Colorado, glass artist Dale Chihuly’s interpretation of Denver’s skies and sunsets. In 2014 his self-titled exhibit transformed the 24-acre urban garden into a Seussian landscape of glass spires, floats and curlicues, along with Colorado (now in the garden’s permanent collection), composed of 700 icicle-like rods rising almost four metres high. It’s also reminiscent of the yucca, one of the native plants that thrive in this arid climate.

“This is a living museum. We are here to curate plants,” says Tiffany Coleman, the garden’s brand manager. The canvas is constantly repainted here as the plants and visiting art collections cycle through the seasons. Through summer and into fall, Barry Flanagan’s bronze-and-limestone Harebell on Portland Stone Piers will grace the garden as part of the “Stories in Sculpture” exhibition. Just one of Deborah Butterfield’s bronze equine beauties will join the leaping hare, but on my visit there’s a stable of 15 horses hidden under shade trees and standing among red-hot pokers, the Science Pyramid rising from the Four Towers Pool behind.

Here, still life meets science: inside the pyramid, touch screens and videos invite people to see the world of plants through a scientific lens. I prefer my own looking glass and continue strolling to unexpected landscapes: through a moon gate, around the lily pad-filled Monet pool and past dwarf conifers where I stop to chat with one of many artists painting en plein air.

My fantastical journey continues at Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Denver, which promotes creative experimentation with art and ideas through its rotating collection and events. Designed by acclaimed architect David Adjaye, the building blurs interior and exterior worlds with windows and a rooftop deck that look into the shape-shifting Lower Downtown “LoDo” neighbourhood that was once the epicentre of Colorado’s gold rush, industrial era and most recently, skid row.

Inside the museum I’m surrounded by outsized Canadian landscapes, but the vibe is more funhouse than woodsy walk. Case in point: I’m face-to-face with a gentle giant, Sasquatch #2. The three-metre painting is one of many darkly comic portraitures in Alberta-born artist Kim Dorland’s “Every Day Monsters” exhibition.

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(just a stone’s throw beyond) was built. It still serves signature brews like Patty’s Chile Beer and the Rocky Mountain Oyster Stout made with—you guessed it—roasted bull testicles. Sitting in MCA Denver’s rooftop cafe, I’m contentedly sipping another kind of local cold brew: Corvus hopped coffee, laced with Colorado-grown Cascade hops.

Back outside, I return to the Golden Triangle on the free shuttle that travels the mile-long spine of 16th Street Mall, where artful touches include architect I. M. Pei’s pavers placed in the pattern of a rattlesnake’s back. When I approach the Denver Art Museum (DAM), I start to wonder if the hopped coffee potion has made me shrink like Alice in her wonderland. A giant’s dustpan and broom rise 35 feet beside me. It’s Big Sweep, one delightful example of Claes Oldenburg’s and Coosje van Bruggen’s whimsical work of super-sized everyday objects. The dustpan’s angles echo those of the distant mountains. So do the knife edges of the museum’s Daniel Libeskind–designed Frederic C. Hamilton Building.

“It took some time to figure out how to hang art when no structural walls are at 90 degrees,” says Marty Corren, one of the museum’s docents. Permanent collections at the DAM include American Indian and Western masterpieces, plus Warhol’s provocative The American Indian.

Its subject is Native American activist and actor, Russell Means. The silk screen immortalizes the man described as blurring the lines of societal status.

My muse of the moment is a longrunning installation whose days are fleeting: Fox Games. Sandy Skoglund’s surrealist room is painted fire-engine red, complete with bistro-style tables and chairs and 23 dark grey foxes sculpted out of clay running amok. As I walk through the installation of frolicking foxes, Corren asks a question: “Did you see the red fox?” I want to go back for a second look but another portal into another art-filled universe awaits.

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eattle is often referred to as Emerald City. And while that’s a reference to the fantastical place in The Wizard of Oz, it’s also a moniker for the lush and green coastal wonderland of Seattle on Puget Sound in the Pacific Northwest. Washington State’s largest city is known for many “wonderous” things; it’s ground zero of grunge music and tech-forward companies like Microsoft, Amazon and Boeing. There’s a new-world gleam here as well as a rebellious spirit. This is the birthplace of the Starbucks coffee empire (its Pike Place roast is now ubiquitous but is named for Starbucks’ very first location at Seattle’s public market). And yet the city’s caffeinated can-do spirit is tempered with an easy-going PNW vibe that puts the outdoors (Seattle comes by its Emerald City nickname because of thousands of acres of parkland) and west-coast lifestyle first and foremost.

While the Space Needle (a legacy of the 1962 World’s Fair) may still be the city’s most iconic landmark, there’s far more futuristic architecture to behold in Seattle. Within the Needle’s shadow is the sinuous EMP Museum 1 . It stands for Experience Music Project and as such its mission statement states that it’s a “leading-

edge nonprofit museum, dedicated to the ideas and risk-taking that fuel contemporary popular culture.” And gazing up at its gleaming, undulating Frank Gehry design (made of 21,000 aluminum stainless steel shingles and 280 steel ribs), one can envision the cross-sections of curvilinear guitars that the architect says inspired him and served as building blocks. And inside “boldly go where no one has gone before” via the Star Trek: Exploring New Worlds exhibition (opening May 21). {empmuseum.org} Also currently showing at the EMP: Nirvana: Taking Punk to the Masses. The band most associated with grunge music also embodies Seattle spirit. Local label Sub Pop Records signed the band in 1989, over 25 years ago, and to relive some of that era stay at the Hotel Max, the art- and music-filled boutique bolthole that recently revealed an exterior mural (proudly proclaiming that “Seattle doesn’t settle” in six-foot tall letters 2 ) and a redesigned lobby that shows off vibrant art (including an original Warhol and a bass guitar signed

by Krist Novoselic of Nirvana), along with a retail shop collaboration with Sub Pop. Also on offer: free samples of local Caffe Vita brew in the morning and craft beer in the

afternoon…and there’s a Sub Pop floor in which to hole up and listen to tunes 3 . {hotelmaxseattle.com} Attached to the Hotel Max lobby is The Miller’s Guild, where a custom-made nine-foot-long Infierno wood-fired grill is a fiery centrepiece. The name is inspired by the building’s past as the 1925 Vance Lumber Company Hotel, where workers rested between harvesting and milling trees in the surrounding forests. Now it’s all about nose-to-tail cuisine and other fire-roasted PNW fare, as well as cask-aged craft cocktails 4 . {millersguild.com} More of Seattle’s creative spirit and innovative pioneering is found at the central branch of the Seattle Public Library. The multi-faceted structure, as if a bright gem nestled in the downtown core, is the creation of another internationally renowned architect, Rem Koolhaas and former Seattleite Joshua Ramus 5 . Take a free guided tour of its award-winning architecture, including a maple floor that’s made of 556 lines of raised text in 11 languages 6 . {spl.org} — Barb Sligl For more visitor info on Seattle go to visitseattle.org.

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Ed North (left) and the author (right) stand lookout to navigate the tricky Channel. left Bridal Veil Falls on Manitoulin Island, a short hike from the popular “overnight” dock at Kagawong.

The most beautiful anchorage in the world, South Benjamin Island. right A bit of company shares the waters off Croker Island. opposite “Summer Breeze” is just one of more than a dozen boats in the fleet maintained by Canadian Yacht Charters.

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SAILING TO

GOD’S ISLAND

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story by Mark Stevens | photography by Sharon matthews-stevens

e’re skimming the waters of Frazer Bay in Ontario’s Georgian Bay in a forty-nine-foot sailboat named “Summer Breeze.”

The quartzite LaCloche Mountains, their rugged slopes white as a February snowfall in the afternoon sun, reach skyward off our starboard quarter. Far astern we can see Killarney Provincial Park and Baie Fine. Royal blue decorates the bay, mirroring the sky but for whitecaps scattered like lace collars across its wind-riffled surface.

Those landmarks inspired numerous Group of Seven paintings. No surprise there: the views embracing us show like landscapes painted by masters.

“Summer Breeze” groans in twenty knots of wind, leaning precipitously, a position that would be frightening but for the fact that this is how she sails—and that all aboard know what we are doing.

We’ve chartered this boat from Canadian Yacht Charters out of Manitoulin Island’s Gore Bay. If you know how to sail, they’ll rent you the boat. If you don’t, you can book a skipper.

We’re navigating the North Channel, guarded to the south by Manitoulin Island and by the Canadian Shield to the north, an east-west passage marked by roughly 300 islands, most of which are unmarred by human occupation.

It’s one of only two Canadian destinations cited in a book called “Fifty Places to Sail Before You Die,” one of the world’s best freshwater cruising grounds.

My wife and I first sailed here in 1999. It’s the first voyage for our friends, Kim and Ed North. Serious sailors, they’re here to help us

work the boat—and to sail paradise itself.

And now I yell over the howling winds.

“Manitoulin, dead ahead.”

I point past a white lighthouse with a fire-engine-red roof toward a blue-gray expanse rising up from Lake Huron like a great leviathan.

“We’re sailing to God’s Island.”

First Manitoulin waypoint is Wikwemikong, one of the few First Nations territories local Ojibwa never ceded to the government. Come here in August to participate in one of Canada’s biggest powwows and take in some First Nations theatre. Hike to picturesque waterfalls, climb to the crest of Niagara escarpment ridges, rent a bicycle, recline on a beach you’ll share with no one, and take in some history.

Explore a fascinating— and sacred—island.

Legend has it that Manitou—the Anishnabe God—saved the bluest waters, the brightest stars, the most scintillating quartzite to make his own retreat—placing it, the world’s largest freshwater island, right here.

Off the port bow.

Tonight we’d make landfall at Little Current, one of the island’s few settlements, securing “Summer Breeze” to a dock, dining ashore on local whitefish.

“And tomorrow,” says Ken Blodgett, the fifth member of our ship manifest, who’s taken over the helm, wrestling the boat through waves that shatter into scintillating spray as we chase the sun west, “we’re taking you to the most beautiful anchorage in the world.”

Blodgett owns Canadian Yacht Charters and has become a friend over the years.

Given that it’s late summer, so things are slower back in Gore Bay, and given that Blodgett has promised to show us “secret spots you can only imagine,” we enthusiastically add him to the crew list.

Tomorrow he’d share one of those secret spots.

Yesterday he shared another one: the Pool in Baie Fine, where we swung at anchor in what felt like the sanctuary of an emerald cathedral.

Early this morning we dinghied ashore from that anchorage, tying to a rudimentary dock and climbing a logging trail to a hilltop lake nestled in a granite cradle, surrounded by gnarled wind-crippled pine, boasting waters so clear you could see ten metres down, painted—like its name suggested—topaz.

“Just wait until tomorrow,” I tell Ed and Kim. “We’ll take you to a really pretty spot.”

A spot called South Benjamin Island, a spot I consider the most beautiful anchorage in the world, a spot we would achieve on our last full day on the water, after a lunch stop at Croker Island, hot dogs on

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the barbecue in a delightful granite bowl decorated by pine, by juniper, by fecund blueberry bushes.

Lunch done, we raise anchor and power west, past Sows and Pigs, a collection of surreal rock outcroppings rearing up from the water like breaching whales.

Kim notices a black irregularity in the water’s surface just off the port stern. “What is that?” she asks.

Ken slows the engine, we make a lazy circle.

We squint at this ‘bump’ then someone realizes that it’s moving, a small wake fanThe Pool in Baie Fine, another ning out from it. It is a black bear. anchorage regulars consider one She looks at us; she swims away. of the world’s most beautiful.

We give her space, but follow her until she reaches a headland off Croker.

She clamours ashore, up onto the rock, turns to face us contemptuously, shakes vigorously, then disappears into the forest.

That evening, as the sun falls in the west, as we swing gently off a curvaceous slab of pink granite, blushing in the sunset, I reflect on the spectacle of the she-bear, nature setting out as if to convince us we were sailing paradise itself, on other highlights, on other visits.

I’m sitting on the shore, gazing at “Summer Breeze”, inhaling the scent of pine, listening to the water lapping the rock shore in liquid melody, the echoing call of a loon.

I remember our first day out of Gore Bay, navigating shoals in Clapperton Channel, skies heavy, vista a minimalist line drawing: sky, rock, water in pewter and purple hues.

I remember the dawn light at Killarney; North Channel scenery like this— prime Canadian Shield—inspired the sun spotlighting a fishing boat, painting the art of members of the Group of Seven. forest rose then gold.

I remember a dock at Kagawong on Manitoulin itself, a circa-1920s general store across from a church whose pulpit was built from the prow of a boat shipwrecked just offshore.

Now Ed climbs the slope; he sits beside me. I point south to the far reaches of the channel, toward the world’s SAIL AWAY To book your sailing biggest freshwater adventure—either with a skipper or island that even on your own—and to check the fleet of now disappears available boats, log on to cycnorth.com in the dusk. or call 1-800-565-0022 to book. PLAN NOW For more info on God’s Island “Manitoulin,” I say, and other shore-based options, “Home of the Great check out manitoulinSpirit.” And then tourism.com.

I pause reflectively.

“God’s Island.”

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Checking out the directions to sail to God’s Island. below Killarney Mountain Lodge— dock here for the night and sample the attractions of this friendly Ontario lodge.

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managing bad publicity

We’re all prone to thoughtless acts, but healthcare professionals need to be extra diligent

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n July 29, 2015 a news story broke that caused a worldwide uproar. It involved the Minnesota dentist, Dr. Walter Palmer, who shot and killed a lion in Zimbabwe. That lion, named Cecil, happened to be a national icon.

Now, many months later, what are the lessons to be learned?

(Besides not shooting an off-limits taggedand-protected animal outside a park.)

What do professionals do when they have purposely or accidently placed themselves in a very bad publicity situation? What are the consequences and how can they be avoided or lessened?

One of the first things that professional handlers tell celebrities or professionals when they do something wrong, is to apologize sincerely and quickly, and admit their mistake (if indeed they made one).

There are conflicting accounts that this dentist did not know he was on a game reserve and one of the guides may have misinformed him of his rights in this type of hunting venture. However, if professionals receive bad publicity through social media or television or any other form of public communication, they need to respond promptly. Denial or excuses, whether they be real or contrived, are rarely believed by the public because the power of perception and the media is often more influential than any explanations of what happened.

Our company has received just one negative feedback on Facebook since we started our social media campaign years ago. We immediately came forward and addressed the concerns of the complainant.

We kept the backstory, regardless of what it may have explained, confidential. We took the position that the client was right, although internally we felt he/she had acted inappropriately.

Our company took the high road and apologized and tried to rectify the situation with the complainant.

We never did receive a reply back from this individual, so we’re uncertain if he/she is satisfied with how we responded. We did so openly and quickly and, I believe, were very professional in dealing with this social media attack.

Professionals are often targets of gossip, rumor or worse because of the jealousy of competitors, exspouses and disgruntled staff members, to name just a few. We have all seen information on Rate My MD, where any member of the public can post any comment. That comment is not monitored or governed in any meaningful way. And it’s an unfortunate reality that people in high-ranking positions in the community, such as healthcare professionals, who are also in higher income brackets, can and will be targeted by a person or persons who have an agenda. And this is when public relations firms can be helpful, guiding individuals on how to manage such situations.

Dr. Palmer’s practice and reputation have suffered as a result of his actions.

Some of his patients have voted with

istock

The old adages “keep your nose clean” and “think of the consequences before you act” are undoubtedly appropriate for people to follow in life…

their feet and regard him guilty in the court of public opinion, regardless of any defense of his actions that he has presented. He’s been forced to hire security guards to protect himself, his family, practice and properties. And, yes, this will have a negative impact on the value of his practice, business and income and it’s entirely possible he may not be able to recover from this self-made disaster. In a recent interview, Dr. Palmer relayed his concern for his many staff members whose lives and livelihood have also been disrupted by the furor over the death of Cecil.

The old adages “keep your nose clean” and “think of the consequences before you act” are undoubtedly appropriate for people to follow in life to avoid potential devastating results. It’s a lesson for all healthcare professionals.

the Thoughtless act of a successful dentist ruins his career and business

do no harm, to others and yourself

be smart about what you do outside the practice

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t h e w e a lt h y d e n t i s t m a n f r e d p u r t z k i Manfred Purtzki is the principal of Purtzki & Associates Chartered Accountants. You can reach him at manfred@purtzki.com.

new start

Don’t rent your future…own it

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Purtzki & associates chartered accountants

hen you start to practise as a dentist, there’s a fork in the road that will have great impact on your career and your financial future.

It’s when you come across this question: “Shall I work as an associate for the foreseeable future until my student loan is paid off or shall I become a practice owner as soon as possible?

Most dental graduates decide to work as associates for many years. Often they choose to leave the city to work in a rural area in search for more money.

But if you really want to pay off your student loan quickly, become an owner as soon as you can. Use the short-term associateship to hone your clinical and patient communication skills. In particular, ask yourself the following three questions:

1 Do I have the confidence and clinical

speed to produce monthly revenues of $40,000–$50,000 based on 20 days per month?

3 Do I have the basic business skills to run a practice?

See the above chart for a comparison of a new graduate becoming a practice owner after two years of associateship versus another dentist who works as an associate for seven years before purchasing the practice.

Over a 10-year period the dentist who chose the early ownership option in year three is over $800,000 of excess cash flow ahead of the dentist who did not become an owner until year eight.

The conclusion is simple: You are almost always better off to become a practice owner as soon as you are ready.

If you can’t find an attractive associate position with ownership potential, create one by providing a service that the prospective practice currently does not. Here’s how:

• Propose to the practice owner that you’ll build up your own patient base by working as an associate during the extended hours and weekends the practice has previously been closed.

• Make an agreement that after an initial trial period you’ll have the option to purchase an interest in the practice and become a cost-sharing partner.

solution from March/ April 2016 contest

communication skills to make a persuasive case presentation?

• Contact well-established practices in the community in which you’d like to live and work.

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This deal is a win-win for the principal dentist and for you. The principal dentist keeps all his/her patient revenues and has less overhead because it’s shared with you.

You, on the other hand, can quickly achieve practice ownership at a relatively low cost since you’re not purchasing expensive patient charts from the principal.

By staying flexible and taking initiative, new dentists can still find their way to professionally satisfying and financially rewarding careers.

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2 Have I developed the necessary

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sudoku Solve puzzle #2 for a chance to win a $50 VISA gift card!

Each sudoku puzzle has a unique solution that can be reached logically without guessing. Fill in the grid so that every row, column and 3x3 square contains the digits 1 through 9.

GOOD LUCK!

sudoku 2 harder solution in next issue

sudoku 1 easier solution on page 36

$50 Visa Gift Card winner: Dr. Noel Farrell of Burin, NL

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Dr. Diya Chadha describes herself and her home as “happy.” Little wonder, given her smile (even in a selfie with a camel in Dubai!) and adventurous spirit. From Egypt to New York City and Brazil to Bora Bora (the dream vacation she’s sure to embark on soon), she’s definitely in touch with her wild side (a theme throughout this issue)—in fact, next on her to-do list: bungee jump!

My name: Diya Dimple Chadha

Medical Center, New York

I live in: Vancouver

Why I was drawn to dentistry: My orthodontist changed my life! I had awful rotated teeth and my orthodontist improved my

My training: DMD (From the University of Pennsylvania) and Certificate in Pediatric dentistry from Lutheran

smile and my life. I wanted to do the same for people.

from a trip: A king Tutankhamun statue from Egypt

My last trip: Dubai

Best meal anywhere: Pork ribs at Duke’s in Maui

Most exotic place I’ve travelled to: Falls de Iguacu, Brazil Best souvenir I’ve brought back

Memorable restaurant: Spice Market in NYC

A “wow” hotel I’d happily stay in again: The Atlantis Bahamas

Most frequented store: Disney Store

A favourite place that I keep returning to: New York City

My fridge is always stocked with: Ice cream

Can’t believe I’ve never been to: China

Dream vacation: Bora Bora If I could travel to any time, I’d go to: The ’70s

My go-to exercise/sport: Long walks

Jetlag cure: Coffee with a shot of Bailey’s

Favourite spectator sport: Hockey

I always travel with: My camera Favourite city: Seville, Spain Favourite book: The Kite Runner Favourite film: Home Alone Favourite TV show: Dexter Favourite band/ album/song: Anything and everything My first job: Telemarketer

In Paris and with her son Nik in Mexico.

favourite book :

The Kite Runner

Gadget/gear I could not do without: My smartphone I’d describe my home as: Happy

world traveller :

My car: A Toyota Highlander. . .

In Cairo

Last purchase: Lunch

must-have staple :

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My guilty pleasure: Online shopping My medicine cabinet is always stocked with: Extra-large Band-Aids

Don’t need to go to: Fargo

Dr. Diya Chadha meets a new friend on her latest trip to Dubai

I have too many: Shoes

Last splurge: Shoes. . . it’s always shoes!

Celebrity crush: Matthew McConaughey My secret to relaxing and relieving tension: Foot massages A talent I wish I had: Playing a musical instrument One thing I’d change about myself: Learn to say “no” The word that best describes me: Happy My motto: Work hard, play hard!

A cause close to my heart: Care for special needs children On my must-do list: Bungee jump If I wasn’t a dentist, I’d be: A lawyer share your picks!

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travel photos courtesy of Dr. Diya Chadha

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