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A look at what the Class of 2017 does on an average workday.

Meet the people who helped pick this year’s Top 40s.

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Unleash Your Inner Host

A closer look at some of the issues behind the statistics that measure the physical, mental and socio-economic well-being of the citizens of Calgary.

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Detours Learn about the places in Calgary that are at the forefront of 3D-printing, the Calgary Film Centre’s Project Lab initiative (which awards funding to new Calgary productions), and a school that exclusively trains pet birds.

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done it well, they had to have built something, demonstrated success outside of the task at hand or moved a project past a significant hurdle.

To be a Top 40 it’s not enough to work hard and play hard — you must change the playing field.

And that’s what all of the Calgarians we profile in this issue have done. They are both literally and figuratively building the city that, in the future, we will all live in. Their work is wide-ranging and demonstrates that there is a growing diversity of enterprise and achievement here.

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very year we receive more than 400 nominations for Avenue’s Top 40 Under 40 project. Each nominee is talented and gives back to the city in some way.

Selecting only 40 is a difficult task.

To choose the Top 40 Under 40 Class of 2017, presented in association with First Calgary Financial and the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary, our editorial team narrowed the nominations down to a shortlist of about 65. Those nominations were sent to our incredible team of judges who devoted their May long weekend and considerable extra time to poring over the nomination packages (you can learn more about our judges on page 128).

Once the marks were in, the judges gathered to discuss and debate, and finally the Class of 2017 was selected.

So what is it that the judges were looking for?

After all, in selecting the Top 40 Under 40, we by no means look at similar types of achievements.

How do you compare this entrepreneur to that doctor, or this oil-and-gas executive to that founder of a non-profit?

The criteria that the judges came back to over and over was achievement in the sense of completing or creating something. To be a Top 40, the nominees had to not only have done their job and

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CONTRIBUTORS ERIN BROOKE BURNS Erin Brooke Burns is an award-winning editorial and commercial photographer and graphic designer based in her hometown of Calgary. Her work has been published in Avenue Calgary, Westjet Magazine and Home Ice Magazine, among others. She loves all things local, coffee, cats and yoga, not necessarily in that order.

Between photo shoots and meetings, she spends her days chasing her two little girls, driving them around the city and running her business. Check out her latest work at erinbrooke.com.

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JENNIFER DOROZIO Jennifer Dorozio is the 2017 Top 40 Under 40 Intern at Avenue. She chose to study journalism at Mount Royal University after realizing she could get paid to ask people nosy questions. Her curiosity about the world has led her to teach English in Cambodia, write for the Eastern Door newspaper in Kahnawake Mohawk Territory and attend a field school in Northern India. Lately, she’s been thinking about getting bangs again.

CELIA KRAMPIEN Celia Krampien is an illustrator whose client list includes The Globe and Mail, Scientific American, Variety and WWF Canada. Krampien grew up in a rural area outside of Owen Sound, Ont., where she spent most of her time reading and observing local wildlife, and flora and fauna continue to be a big influence on her work. She is a graduate of Sheridan College’s BAA Illustration program and currently resides in Oakville, Ont., with her partner, nosy beagle and silly cat. She spends her days drawing, drinking too much coffee and going for long walks with the nosy beagle.

LISA MONFORTON Lisa Monforton is a Calgary-based freelance writer with more than 20 years’ experience as an editor and writer who gets to deal with the fun side of journalism — travel, food and lifestyle. When she’s not working, she

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Replica of a human brain, 3D printed at the Taylor Family Digital Library at the University of Calgary.

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id you know that the same technology NASA is experimenting with to create vital replacement parts in space is accessible to anyone for around six dollars at the University of Calgary’s Taylor Family Digital Library?

That technology, known as 3D printing, or additive manufacturing, replicates a three-dimensional design by stacking layers of a malleable substance that eventually solidifies. Plastic is the most common substance used in 3D printing, but the process can also be done with cement, chocolate, even wood.

The University of Calgary has been 3D printing at its Schulich School of Engineering for more than 20 years. One of the best known examples of 3D printing at the U of C was when mechanical engineering student Douglas Kondro printed blue prosthetic feet for a footless rooster named Foghorn in 2015. The technology has since been added to the faculties of environmental design and sciences, as well as the Taylor Family Digital Library (TFDL), where it is available to students and the general public.

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or submit their own design in advance. The cost is low: 25 cents per gram of plastic, plus $1.

Leeanne Morrow, the university’s director of learner support and engagement services for libraries and cultural resources, says the TFDL printers have been used for a range of purposes, even in one instance, creating a replica of a student’s girlfriend’s brain. Morrow’s own 3D printing experience includes working on an installation of 3D-printed musical instruments, including a ukulele and a flute, for last September’s Beakerhead festival.

The U of C isn’t the only player in the local 3D-printing game. Currently, there are more than 25 independently run 3D-printing home businesses in Calgary that can create everything from small baubles to functional parts — a new head for a camera tripod, for example.

Calgary’s 3D Printing Club counts 700 members, a third of whom own their own 3D printers, according to organizer Gary Chang. The club meets once a month to discuss new developments in the technology, listen to guest speakers and share access to different printers with each other.

In addition to his involvement with the club, Chang also owns Calgary 3D Printing, a store where you can 3D print a miniature bust of yourself, or purchase your own 3D printer and the products you need to run them, such as the punchy-coloured plastic filaments commonly used as the base building material.

Part of the draw of 3D-printing technology is the seemingly endless possibilities of what can be printed. “Two years ago the engineering students, as part of their Capstone project, 3D printed all sorts of different chocolate desserts,” says Morrow.

There is also the potential for life-changing applications in the medical world. Chang says his company is currently working on a project with the club to print a prosthetic hand for a four-year-old boy at Alberta Children’s Hospital.

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Birds of a feather learn together

Insider ADAM FITZPATRICK ON THE KEY TO BEING THE KING

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obin Horemans, a behaviourist with Birdline Canada (a non-profit rescue organization for parrots), noticed there were several obedience schools for dogs in Calgary, but nothing to help Calgarians teach their pet birds skills for better behaviour. “I realized there was a big gap where education was needed to meet the care of the birds,” says Horemans.

To bridge this gap, she started the Calgary Bird School in January 2016, with a mission to help bird owners build more reciprocal relationships with their feathered friends.

Calgarians and their pet birds have since flocked to her classes, which have a maximum of 15 birds per session, and rotate four core lessons that can be started at any time. The focus of each lesson differs; one of the basic skills taught is the “step-up,” where the bird learns to move onto an extended finger.

Horemans offers classes for birds of all sizes — from macaws to budgies. Smaller birds attend special classes called “Taming Your Tiny Dragon,” where they can learn to go through hoops or even dunk a tiny basketball.

Horemans says every bird’s progress is different, but that, ultimately, there is something to be learned for every bird and bird-owner that attends. —J.D.

Quentin the Congo African Grey Parrot is often used

by Robin Horemans to demonstrate a new behaviour or skill for the students at the Calgary Bird School.

What began as a dare to perform as the King at the 2008 Penticton Pacific Northwest Elvis Festival has evolved into a full-time globetrotting career for Calgary-based Elvis Presley tribute artist Adam Fitzpatrick.

Since taking the amateur category that year, Fitzpatrick has gone on to win at global competitions such as Europe’s Tribute to Elvis in 2014 and the 2014 Las Vegas Elvis Festival.

Paying proper tribute to the legendary performer takes a lot of hard work.

Fitzpatrick watches concert DVDs over and over to learn Presley’s mannerisms. “I’ve seen his main concerts probably at least 30 times each,” he says.

As for the look, Fitzpatrick uses a black dye with a blueish tint to get the King’s signature coif and doesn’t skimp on suiting. “The suits, they’re expensive. They range from $1,200 to $6,000. It’s an expensive start. You’re buying all the suits, you have to buy sound equipment.

You have to invest a lot of money into it at first.”

Most importantly, Fitzpatrick says, “You’ve got to love the music. You’ve got to love Elvis. If you don’t, it’s never going to work.” —Ashley King

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ust one year after the Calgary Film Centre (CFC) was created to develop Alberta’s film industry, local emerging filmmakers are already benefitting.

Earlier this year, the CFC announced its provincial government-funded Project Lab initiative, which picks a handful of projects to sponsor each year. Project Lab expands the CFC’s work beyond simply encouraging major projects to film in Calgary by developing Alberta’s grassroots film community.

From the 28 applications, the CFC awarded grants to six emerging Alberta filmmakers with projects across a range of formats that includes feature films and a series pilot — three production-ready projects and three in the preproduction/development stage.

“The fact that this has been launched shows that locally there’s support for the industry,” says Kyle Thomas, a member of local film collective North Country Cinema, which received a Project Lab development grant to work on its next film, Vance Adams.

“We get a lot of big productions that come in from the States, and that’s really the Film Centre’s

bread and butter,” says Thomas, “It’s really nice to see that they’re taking interest in looking out for the more independent filmmakers.”

The CFC Project Lab funding has allowed North Country Cinema to hire a script editor for their project, something they usually can’t afford. Project Lab also offers opportunities and resources for its emerging filmmakers such as shooting venues, equipment and connections to experienced film professionals to act as mentors.

“It’s not just money. They’re opening up their doors and Rolodexes and saying, ‘Hey, you need this? Let me see who I can connect you with,’” Thomas says. “If the Film Centre’s program had been around when I made [previous film] The Valley Below I would have definitely applied.

Having time, money and resources to work on your script and pitch make the project that much stronger.”

Bolstering the local film industry has a larger economic benefit, too, as film, television and digital production bring in an average of $150 million each year to the Calgary area. And, thanks to this new funding, more emerging voices will be contributing to that number. —Andrew Jeffrey

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Almaviva plots Doctor Bartolo’s downfall so that beautiful Rosina will love him instead. But Almaviva can only succeed with the help of the town barber, Figaro (even non-opera goers will recognize “Figaro’s Aria”).

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MIXER

CARRIED AWAY

BY Lisa Kadane PHOTOGRAPHY BY Jared Sych

Rim a coupe glass with a mixture of ground caraway and salt.

Into a cocktail shaker add:

Charcut

1.25 oz. Hans Reisetbauer Karotte Eau-de-Vie

Seasonal cocktails with surprising ingredients will help you get Carried Away.

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here’s no denying the humble carrot is a symbol of fall. Every autumn we pull them up, eat them plain or dipped in hummus, stir their orange rounds into warming soups or steam them as a side dish for Thanksgiving or Christmas.

But shake carrot booze into a cocktail with caraway syrup? That’s a new use for the sweet root vegetable and its aromatic sidekick. And it’s just the kind of seasonal and creative, but simplicity-driven, experimentation that’s become a hallmark of Charcut Roast House, where chefs and co-owners Connie DeSousa and John Jackson have been cooking with local ingredients served in ways that often challenge convention for the past seven years.

Charcut’s head bartender, Wyatt Sutherland, extends that food philosophy to the drink list.

He believes in cocktails that are simple (they have few ingredients) but not basic (they go beyond the classics), and use quality spirits, liqueurs, juices and syrups. His idea of a winning libation is one that has multiple layers of flavour, but doesn’t involve a “dog and pony show” behind the bar.

Sutherland’s Carried Away cocktail is a delicious example of a drink that’s easy to make, uses known flavours in an unusual way, and makes customers curious about what, exactly, is in it (and likely to order another one, which is the ultimate sign of a good cocktail).

Carried Away takes a carrot-based distilled spirit from Austria and shakes it with mezcal, fresh lime juice and simple syrup made with sugar, water and caraway seeds. The drink’s simple garnish is a salt-and-ground-caraway rim, whose herbal aroma draws you in for a sip.

You get a smoky hit from the mezcal up front, followed by a balance of sweet carrot, tart lime and savoury caraway. As Sutherland sums up: “It’s roasted carrots in margarita form.”

It’s weirdly wonderful.

Though Charcut’s drinks are great on their own, the restaurant understands that people come

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in the door to eat, so the entire beverage program is built around collaboration with the kitchen.

“The cocktails are meant to be enjoyed with the food,” says general manager Jynnifer Gibson.

As such, Carried Away is a lovely liquid accompaniment to the duck-fat fried poutine, or the charred octopus with sausage, tomatoes, white beans and chili oil.

“People liking what I’m making brings me joy,” says Sutherland. And it goes both ways: you’re going to love the joy he brings to the cocktails, too. Who knows? You just might get carried away and order a second round.

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0.50 oz. Los Siete Misterios mezcal (available at Vine Arts)

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Shake until well chilled and then strain into the coupe glass.

Serve straight up *Caraway syrup In a sauce pan combine: 1 part sugar 1 part water 2 parts caraway seeds Simmer for 10 minutes, remove from heat and let cool.

Strain out caraway and store the syrup in the refrigerator.

—Recipes courtesy Wyatt Sutherland, Charcut

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THE POUR

Berkshire pork chop paired with Kindeli pinot noirsyrah at Cilantro.

BY Tom Firth PHOTOGRAPHY BY Jared Sych

W I N E AN D F OOD PAI RI N GS TEATRO Prosecco and Oysters Prosecco is wonderfully versatile, suitable on its own or with some nibbles. Try matching the Ca’ dei Zago “Col Fondo” (by the glass for $11) with Teatro’s fresh oysters or with the calamari — it’s an ideal complement to the seafood and the aioli.

PIGEONHOLE Whites and Fish Tacos If you haven’t tried the fish tacos yet at Pigeonhole, I suggest you remedy that immediately. The wine list at Pigeonhole changes often, so ask your server for a rundown of the natural whites on hand to pair.

CILANTRO Red Blends and Pork Chop The Berkshire pork chop at Cilantro is one of those classic menu items that, no matter how hard you vow to try something new, is ulimately tough to resist.

Pair it with the Kindeli pinot noir-

on the menu

syrah ($65 for the bottle), an unusual blend done oh-so-well.

Oh, Natural

Making wine without artificial processes creates bottles with plenty of soul.

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ome of my favourite wine-tasting experiences have been with “natural” wines.

Done well, they shine a spotlight on the terroir and the skill of the winemaker.

On the flip side, they can also be some of the most disappointing wines.

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banging the drum about their various merits.

So, what are we really talking about?

“Natural” is a loosely defined term used to describe wines that are made in a non-interventionist fashion. Way back, someone discovered that fruit left in a bucket will ferment, thanks to the natural yeasts and sugars in the fruit. These ingredients, plus time, result in wine — that socially lubricating nectar of the gods.

Modern winemaking significantly improved upon the process until wine, in many cases, became something generic to be corrected in the lab, rather than an expression of the grapes from the soil to the glass. Whether it was the development of yeast cultures that would yield more reliable end products, or filtering materials and adding fining agents to ensure the wine was crystal clear in the glass, wine became commercial and, in some

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THE POUR ways, lost some of its soul. The natural-wine movement seeks to return some of that soul back to your glass.

Natural wines don’t have to be made organically or biodynamically, though many are. Often the winemaker will farm their land sustainably, forgoing fertilizers and pesticides, planting cover crops between rows, and such. They use naturally occurring yeasts for fermentation and don’t use acidification or chaptalization (adding sugar to boost potential alcohol) or artificial colour (yes, that is a thing in some wines). Once the wine is made, you won’t see filtering or fining. Since gelatin is commonly used as a fining agent, the absence of this process makes natural wines assuredly vegan-friendly, as well.

When it comes time to bottle, the addition of a little sulfur is permitted (except by the most devoted natural-wine purist) to ensure the wine is stable for reaching the consumer in markets near or far. Sulfur, you might ask? First off, this sulfur addition has nothing to do with sulfites, which you probably aren’t allergic to, anyway. A sulfite sensitivity manifests most often as an asthmatic type of reaction, and if you can eat canned or frozen fruit without a problem, you most likely don’t have a sulfite sensitivity (but don’t look to me for medical advice). Adding sulfur, which is done just before bottling, stabilizes the wine and helps ensure it tastes like it should when it finally gets to the table. Without that sulfur, variation between bottles can be excessive and create a high likelihood of the wine being “off ” — or just plain awful.

So, how does one go about finding a natural wine? Since very few producers would put it on the label and there is no “seal” or logo on the bottle that is managed by an organization, it’s a little harder to seek them out. To start, ask questions at your favourite wine shop about natural wines they carry. The boutiques are your best bet as the employees will likely be better informed about what is on the shelves. In restaurants, natural wines are slowly making inroads, so ask your server or sommelier.

Most importantly, are the wines good?

Absolutely. In the broadest possible sense, these wines are made in smaller quantities by skilled winemakers devoted to their craft. The wines can come from anywhere in the world and there is a tendency to these wines having slightly lower alcohol levels, little to no oak to hide behind and perhaps even some of that extra sense of place known as terroir.

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PICKS

CHATEAU MUSAR 2007, BEKAA VALLEY, LEBANON This premium red from Lebanon is made without filtering or fining and with naturally occurring yeast and is definitely worth trying.

Mostly cabernet sauvignon with Cinsault and Carignan, it’s deeply coloured with earthy berry fruits, some punchy tannins (think of your cellar!) and oodles of depth. $57 MENTI 2015 RONCAIE SUI LIEVITI, VENETO, ITALY This is a very interesting producer making some wild wines. The Roncaie can vary STIRM 2015 RANCHO ARROYO PERDIDO OLD VINES GRÜNER VELTLINER, SANTA YNEZ VALLEY, CALIFORNIA

quite a bit from bottle to bottle, but it’s always delicious. It’s cloudy, a little gunky on the bottom of the bottle and lightly frizzante. Above all, it’s tasty. $26

A front-runner in natural wines in the U.S., Ryan Stirm makes wines in some exceptional vineyard sites with limited production. Limited to 155 cases, this grüner is light and delicate with lime and white pepper. Superrefreshing and a joy to drink. $39

FRONTONIO 2014 “MICROCOSMICO” MACABEO, VALDEJALON, SPAIN Never mind that the wines of Spain are hot right now and never mind that macabeo is a wonderful grape. This wine feels authentic right from the start, with clay

STIRM 2015 KICK-ON VINEYARD RIESLING, SANTA BARBARA

earthiness, yellow apples and lively acids.

Stunning. $22

COUNTY, CALIFORNIA Never pass up a chance to drink good riesling. With about three grams of residual sweetness, this one is honeyed with melon and lime aromas, flinty,

FORADORI FONTANASANTA 2015

mineral-type flavours with loads of

MANZONI BIANCO, TRENTINO-ALTO

citrus and fruit on the palate. From

ADIGE, ITALY

start to finish, it’s a “hell, yes!” $29

Manzoni Bianco is a cross of riesling and pinot blanc, which grow well in the mountainous Dolomites of northern Italy.

Medium gold in the glass with hints of gingerbread spice over base aromas of apple and clay-mineral tones, dry, crisp and perfectly balanced, it’s a wine of nuance that should be discussed at the table. $39

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DINING

BY Elizabeth Chorney-Booth AND Dan Clapson PHOTOGRAPHY BY Julya Hajnoczky AND Jared Sych

Photography by Julya Hajnoczky

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The Loft Bakery is one of three food-service options at Granary Road Market.

MARKET AND MORE

The Loft at Granary Road Market

Choices abound for quality eating at this dining, market and family-fun destination.

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he new Granary Road Market, located in the rural area just south of Calgary, is an ambitious public space. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an active-learning park with 11 agriculture-themed exhibits (including a petting zoo and a large pond to keep kids and energetic adults busy), as well as an expansive public market with local vendors selling produce, high-quality meats, artisanal chocolate, pet treats and prepared foods. With so much to do onsite, Granary Road shoppers are bound to get a little peckish and go in search of a bite to eat.

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Gruyère and fontina grilledcheese sandwich with whiskybacon-fig jam at The Loft Lounge at Granary Road Market.

BELOW Poke nachos with wonton chips, soy-marinated ahi tuna, spicy Japanese mayo, avocado, cucumber and mango at Madison’s 12|12.

BOTTOM Madison’s 12|12 interior.

on the menu

That’s where the Loft trio of eateries comes in.

Operated by Canadian Rocky Mountain Resorts (whose Calgary restaurant count includes The Lake House and Cilantro), The Loft is split into three separate spaces: The Loft Bakery, The Loft Kitchen and The Loft Lounge. The Bakery sits at the front of the market, serving coffee and baked goods to fuel customers while they cruise around the market. The Kitchen faces the back of the market with a view of the active-learning park and offers counter service with soups and salads, plus a carving station where you can get hot sandwiches.

And then there’s The Loft Lounge — the most intriguing piece of the puzzle. The cozy upstairs space overlooks the entire market and offers visitors a chance to relax with a beverage and enjoy a proper sit-down meal. Chef Thomas Neukom’s menu is casual but elegant, with standbys such as bison burgers and fish and chips, as well as a 32-hour broth (a dark chicken broth with noodles and roasted pork belly shavings) and a fancy grilled-cheese sandwich with Gruyère and fontina cheeses and a whisky, bacon and fig jam. —E.C.B. 226034, 112 St. W. Foothills, 403-453-7623, granaryroad.com, @granaryroad 58

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Madison’s 12|12

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year before Inglewood restaurant Madison’s 12|12 even opened it had piqued the interest of local food-scene watchers, but was also somewhat perplexing. First off, despite the uptown-sounding name, Madison’s 12|12 declared it would be specializing in just two menu items: nachos and salad. Secondly, the project is touted as a “communityfunded” restaurant, with investors promised a lifetime supply of nachos, spurring the hashtag #Nachos4Life.

The concept may still seem strange to new patrons. By day, the chic restaurant doubles as a casual co-working space, with an all-day

brunch and lunch menu, along with coffee and gelato. In the evening, the room and its heated patio (the plan is to keep the patio open 10 months of the year) take on a more social atmosphere, offering cocktails and an extensive beer list.

Quirks aside, Madison’s 12|12’s appeal really comes down to one thing: the nachos. Madison’s 12|12’s offerings are perhaps a bit showy, but that doesn’t detract from their deliciousness. The spicy Korean nachos are loaded with bulgogi beef, gochujang mayo, kimchi and a sunny side up egg.

For something on a completely different flavour spectrum, the poke nachos feature wonton chips covered in soy-marinated ahi tuna, spicy Japanese mayo, avocado, cucumber and mango. Each nacho selection has a sister salad with similar ingredients for those who want to skip the chips.

All of this raises the question: if it’s not a tortilla chip covered in melted cheese, salsa and jalapenos, can you still call it a nacho? But really, it doesn’t matter. Madison’s 12|12’s plates are good enough to cut through all of the noise surrounding this odd little restaurant.

—E.C.B. 1212 9 Ave. S.E., madisons1212.com, @madisons1212

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1918 Tap and Table

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ith more than 1,500 members, the Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 264 in Kensington is one of Canada’s largest. To make room for all those members, earlier this year the Kensington Legion unveiled a shiny new four-storey facility 60

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next to its former digs. Since the Legion prides itself on being a neighbourly kind of organization, designers designated prime space in the new building for a public restaurant, dubbed the 1918 Tap and Table (a reference to both the building’s address at 1918 Kensington Road and

to the last year of the First World War).

Walk past the reception area into the 1918 Tap and Table and you’ll find a modern and bright room — consistently full of Legion members and their friends and family stopping in for a casual meal. The dining room is cozy but spacious, with

big windows facing a sprawlABOVE Pork schnitzel with ing patio that sits adjacent to herb spaetzle Kensington Road. Executive and arugula and chef Chris Murphy has put shaved-fennel together a menu of upscale pub salad at 1918 selections with an emphasis Tap and Table. on local and fresh ingredients.

LEFT 1918 The brined wings (served hot Tap and Table or dry-spiced) are a standout interior. on the appetizer menu, while entree plates include interesting combinations such as a pork schnitzel with herb spaetzle and an arugula and shaved-fennel comfort food salad. Naturally, there’s a big juicy burger, which is topped with tomato jam, garlic aioli and double-smoked bacon.

None of the menu is revolutionary, but it certainly does the job.

The Legion has also traditionally been a place for members to grab a drink and the “tap” part of the new restaurant covers that nicely.

Tap and Table’s “Calgary Beer Project” aims to familiarize Legion patrons with local beers and the restaurant has several Calgary craft beers on tap.

It’s also worth noting that members of Legion No. 264 get a 10-per cent discount. The building operates as a not-forprofit and money earned from Tap and Table is put back into the operation of the building.

—E.C.B. 1918 Kensington Rd. N.W., 403209-1918, 1918tapandtable.com, @1918tapandtable

Photography by Jared Sych

DINING

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Oak Tree Lounge

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LEFT Oak Tree Lounge’s spicy Korean hotdog with kimchee.

BELOW Oak Tree’s Bek Se Ju mojito.

games such as an original Ghostbusters pinball machine while you sip. On weekend nights, expect a rotating lineup of DJs, spinning agreeable tracks.

Along with the concept remix, the food offerings have shifted from small and snacky to full-on gourmet hot dogs.

Opt for quirky creations such as a turkey dog topped with cranberry relish and fried

stuffing or a spicy Korean dog with gochujang and kimchi.

There are veggie dogs available too, so even non-meat eaters can indulge. If you’ve got a sweet tooth, spoon into chef Nicole Dekuysscher’s inventive Negroni-inspired pot de crème-like dessert that’s served in a parfait glass. —D.C. 124 10 St. N.W., 403-455-2452, @oaktreetavern_lounge

Alberta lamb ribs rubbed in sumac at Fence and Post.

must try

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ver the past couple of years it has been refreshing to see different chef-driven restaurant concepts pop up outside of major city limits. Cochrane’s Fence and Post

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is one of the newest of this crop of eateries, offering a thoughtful dining experience on the main street of this ranch-country town.

Truly only about 25 minutes from the heart of Calgary (provided you’re not heading out

during rush hour), the dining room offers a bright design with contemporary finishings and plenty of natural light.

Start off with little tastes of chef Chris Hartman’s candied salmon, beef jerky and warm bread — all

made in-house — with your pre-dinner cocktail. Move on to plates brimming with quality local ingredients such as Alberta lamb ribs rubbed in sumac, gnocchi with house-made bacon, grilled corn, blistered tomatoes and golden beet puree and crispy onion-and-chickpea fritters served with a B.C.-peach chutney.

Finally, with freshly made tarts, cakes, cookies, feature sundaes and even gourmet chocolates available by the piece, there are plenty of tempting ways to end your meal at Fence and Post, regardless of the time of day. —D.C. 214 1 St. W., Cochrane, 403-9817678, fenceandpost.ca

Photography by Jared Sych

ensington’s former PRLR Lounge has opted for a reinvention and rebranding in recent months, taking its cue from upstairs neighbour the Oak Tree Tavern.

Gone is the speakeasy vibe and focus on serious craft cocktails, which has been replaced with a more quirky and laid-back atmosphere (and still plenty of cocktails, too).

Order an inventive drink such as the Bek Se Ju mojito — a twist on the classic using Korean herbal rice wine — and head to the back of the bar where you and your friends can trade off playing vintage arcade

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From artists and bakers, to doctors and researchers, to entrepreneurs, engineers and inventors this group of Calgarians is moving the city forward. Avenue’s Top 40 Under 40 Class of 2017, presented in association with First Calgary Financial and the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary, is a celebration not only of individual success in its many guises, across a range of sectors, but also of the city that has provided the honourees a home and a foundation for their work.

By being awesome, the Top 40 Under 40 Class of 2017 is making the city awesome, too.

We’re happy to celebrate these individuals in our pages.

And if you know of someone who should be featured here next year, nominations for 2018 are open now at top40under40.com.

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Marie-Claire Arrieta 39 Assistant Professor, Depts. of Physiology and Pharmacology and Pediatrics, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary Arrieta’s work at the University of Calgary sheds light on the connection between childhood asthma and the microbes that live in the gut. She makes her findings accessible to the public through speaking engagements, books and articles aimed at non-academic audiences.

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arie-Claire Arrieta was always curious why most of her family suffered from asthma although she did not.

Now, as a researcher in the field of microbiology at the University of Calgary’s Cumming School of Medicine, she’s on track to help answer that childhood question.

Arrieta, who grew up in Costa Rica, has built her career as a professor and a researcher studying the intestinal microbiome — the community of bacteria that live in our gut and that we now know play a role in our overall health. Arrieta’s current work focuses on how a baby’s microbiome can affect future health, especially when it comes to afflictions such as asthma.

While her work is still in the research phase, she is already coming up with practical findings that will help doctors and parents predict the likelihood of a child developing asthma, and she is hopeful that one day her research may even lead to preventative care. In fact, as a result of some of her research, Arrieta is one of the primary holders of a U.S. patent that is currently licensed by a biotech company exploring ways to prevent asthma in babies.

In the year she has been in her faculty position at the U of C, Arrieta has brought in more than $1.2 million in research funding.

Arrieta recognizes that scientific research often fails to capture the imagination of the public, but as a mother she believes it is important to share her findings about gut bacteria with other parents. She frequently appears in the media and at public speaking engagements (including TEDx and Beakerhead). Along with her colleague Dr. Brett Finlay, she wrote the 2016 book Let Them Eat Dirt: Saving Our Children From an Oversanitized World to help inform parents on how gut bacteria “What I’m really can affect children’s long-term looking forward to health. Publishing rights to the book have been sold in 14 languages and it in the next stage has been featured in major national of my professional and international publications inlife is my role as cluding The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian and The Times. a mentor of new “As people who get paid with scientists. I have a taxpayers’ money, we almost have lab of my own now a duty to share this information,” at the university Arrieta says. “This is the first time where I’ve been working in a field with students dowhere I understood that there is ing their degrees a lot of information that could be and it’s something transmitted to a lot of parents who that inspires me were like me, but didn’t have this information about their baby’s incredibly.” health.” —Elizabeth Chorney-Booth

Yann Blanchard 39 Co-founder and Executive Chef, Yann Haute Patisserie Blanchard’s Yann Haute Patisserie introduced French macarons to Calgary and is the only Canadian company to have been awarded the Relais Dessert Distinction, an international mark of excellence for patisseries.

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ann Blanchard grew up in southern France toiling in his father’s bakeshop where he learned to resent baking (difficult and tedious work to a 12-year-old).

It wasn’t until he witnessed his father create a custom cake that he realized baking could be an art form.

He has been in what he calls “the business of making people happy” ever since.

After receiving his pastry education at the Ferrandi School of Culinary Arts (sometimes referred to as the “Harvard of Gastronomy”) in the heart of Paris, Blanchard moved to Calgary to hone his English and his pastry skills.

After working as the executive pastry chef at the Fairmont Palliser, Blanchard opened

Yann Haute Patisserie in Mission in 2009.

In the era of cupcakes, Blanchard introduced the French macaron to the culinary scene in Calgary. His meringue-based confections are boldly coloured, befitting the canary-yellow exterior of the patisserie, and come in a range of flavours including lavender and apricot, and orange blossom and Grand Marnier.

Blanchard attends to every detail, down to the beautiful togo pastry boxes. “It’s not just the product, it’s the experience,” he says. That pride in his work has earned Yann Haute Patisserie a spot among the world elite in the business. In September, Yann Haute was awarded the Relais Desserts Distinction by Relais Desserts in France —

the first patisserie in Canada to achieve this mark of excellence.

Blanchard has always explored the limits when it comes to dessert-making. “A day you haven’t learned something is a day wasted,” he says. When he finds an employee who shares that same mindset, he takes a special interest in their training. As a result, several former Yann Haute staff members have gone on to work in elite pastry kitchens in North America.

In 2016 when Yann Haute revenues began to fall due to the recession, Blanchard restructured the patisserie’s staff and food costs allowing them to operate with lower costs. As a result, this year, Yann Haute’s revenue will continue to near the million-dollar mark.

The Yann Haute Patisserie building is also home to

Blanchard, his wife and business partner Jeraldine, and their three children. Building a space that was both home and business was a complex process, enough to make Blanchard swear off expanding the business further.

But the allure of creating more desserts has been too sweet to resist. His next venture, Berlingo, a premier chocolate and ice cream shop, will open next door to Yann Haute Patisserie soon. —Jennifer Dorozio

Photograph by Erin Brooke Burns

“We’re not saving lives, but I feel like we manage to improve them.

We make people happy — eating is an important part of life.”

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J. R. Brooks & Gareth Jenkins 37 Director of Operations (Brooks) 39 Lead Designer, Livestock Water Recycling, Inc. (Jenkins) Brooks and Jenkins have helped create an innovative water filtration system for farms that recycles manure into clean water and produces a quality fertilizer, leading to more sustainable farms and less pollution.

hen Livestock Water Recycling (LWR) was doing the first trial of its new system in Manitoba, director of operations J. R. Brooks stopped in Winnipeg to visit his parents. LWR’s system takes raw animal waste and turns it into potable water and nutrient-rich fertilizer, so Brooks brought a jug of water they’d recycled to show his family. Much to his horror, his mother promptly took a swig. “I went, ‘Whoa!

We haven’t tested it in the lab. What are you doing?’” says Brooks. “That’s classic mom: ‘I’m sure my son did a great job!’”

Brooks’s mother isn’t the only one who thinks so. Both he and lead designer and production officer Gareth Jenkins have heard glowing endorsements of LWR’s work from farmers who have implemented the innovative system the pair helped create.

Most farmers store manure in a giant lagoon of liquid, up to two football fields wide and 30 feet deep, until it’s ready to be spread on fields as fertilizer. This way of dealing with animal waste takes up a lot of space and wastes a lot of water.

In addition, it makes for uneven fertilizer where one section of land can end up loaded with too many nutrients while other areas are left lacking — weakening plant growth in both cases.

The LWR system addresses all these problems by using mechanical separation with chemical addition and reverse osmosis to reduce the volume of raw manure solids to 30 per cent of the original mass. The system separates and concentrates nutrients such as phosphorous and nitrogen in the fertilizer, allowing farmers to adjust amounts based on their needs. The system also recycles what would have been wasted water into clean water that can be reused on the farm.

Currently, LWR’s systems treat more than 590 million gallons of manure annually, but it wasn’t always such a large-scale operation. Jenkins remembers setting up an early pilot of the system on a farm in minus-15-degree weather and wrapping insulated tarp around it to keep it from freezing. “We were covered head-to-toe in manure and the system wasn’t running. It wasn’t a good time,” says Jenkins. “It would have been easier to get in the truck and leave, but I hate quitting. I wanted to see it through.”

Thanks to this strong work ethic and the help of their colleagues at LWR, this made-inCalgary agricultural innovation is now used on farms across North America, creating a more sustainable future for all. “The amount of fresh water currently available to us is getting smaller and smaller every year,” says Jenkins. “That’s why conserving it and making it something that’s going to last for generations is important.”

—Andrew Guilbert

“Water is finite and the population is continuing to grow, so it’s going to take a ton of water to feed everyone.

We need to change the way we use it.”

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— J. R. Brooks

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Dr. Shauna Burkholder 38 Pediatric Critical Care Physician and Medical Director, Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy Program, Alberta Children’s Hospital Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Dr. Burkholder cares for some of the sickest children in southern Alberta, improving their outcomes by introducing new airwaymanagement protocols, including a checklist that has dropped the rate of severe complications from intubation to zero.

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“Bad stuff happens, but it’s human nature to be resilient.

The stuff I see families go through is amazing.

There’s so much strength.”

r. Shauna Burkholder spends her days (and sometimes her nights) with critically ill children, making life-and-death decisions, performing challenging procedures and speaking to distraught parents. Sometimes she celebrates joyous recoveries and sometimes she attends funerals. Her job is difficult by every measure, but to Burkholder, the opportunity to be part of a family’s life at a difficult time is, in itself, a gift.

“To experience that with another human being is a real privilege,” Burkholder says. “I think it does make my life a lot richer.”

Burkholder has been a critical care physician in the Alberta Children’s Hospital’s Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) since 2010. She has been improving ways to deliver care to her young patients ever since.

She helped integrate specific services provided by the PICU and Pediatric Nephrology unit to create the Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy Program, of which she is now the medical director. The program provides critically ill kids who have compromised kidney function access to gentle, continuous dialysis from familiar nurses, lowering the physical and emotional stress of the treatment.

Burkholder also implemented an Airway Guideline Safety Checklist, which streamlines and standardizes the procedure

for inserting a breathing tube (intubation). In 2016, Burkholder’s laminated, colour-coded checklist helped to raise her unit’s first-pass intubation success rate from 72 per cent to 96 per cent, while dropping its severe intubation complication rate from seven per cent to zero.

In addition to her clinical work, Burkholder takes part in research related to pediatric critical care and also teaches at the University of Calgary.

In addition to that, she and her husband are the parents of four children under the age of six. Burkholder’s hectic schedule has taught her to loosen her Type-A tendencies and accept help from others. She says parenting and her own experiences of loss have also made her a more empathetic physician. “It gives you that motivation to help children and families in the very best way that you can,” she says.

Each Sunday, Burkholder sings with her band at St. Michael Catholic Community. Unlike a traditional church choir, Burkholder’s band plays instruments and sings contemporary songs. Burkholder says singing with the band helps relieve stress and provides balance in her life, and she pursues it, as she pursues all activities, with curiosity and commitment. “The more I learn, the more I want to learn,” she says. “I always want to have that sense that there’s a challenge in life, that there’s something I’m working toward.” —Julia Williams AvenueCalgary.com

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Shawn Cable 37 Founder and Director, Re-Matt Inc.

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hen it comes to making big decisions, lots of people advise sleeping on it. Entrepreneur Shawn Cable literally did just that.

In 2014, Cable founded the only mattress recycling facility in Alberta, Re-Matt Inc. While touring a Sears Distribution Warehouse, Cable realized that mattresses were being sent to Alberta’s landfills because there was no other alternative for disposing of them. “I was always trying to figure out better ways of doing stuff,” says Cable.

“I always thought it would be great if I ever came up with a [new] way to do something so I could reap the benefits of that, and the freedom.”

In just over two years of operation, Re-Matt has kept 72,000 mattresses and box springs out of the garbage heap — that’s about 1.2 million pounds of material salvaged.

He credits a large part of his success to setting up partnerships with major retailers including The Brick, IKEA and Sleep Country. The retailers collect used mattresses from their customers when delivering new ones and then send the old mattresses to Re-Matt’s warehouse. Several Alberta universities, including the University of Calgary, Mount Royal and the University of 70

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Alberta, work with Re-Matt, too, sending used mattresses from their dorms.

Cable has figured out how to re-use almost every piece of the mattresses and box springs that come to his 10,000-square-foot warehouse. His team disassembles the mattresses by hand and sorts the materials into bins of scrap metal, fabric, foam and wood. The material is then sold to be made into carpet underlay, animal bedding, mulch and for other uses.

Ripping up a mattress requires some muscle, which is where Cable’s nine years of playing professional lacrosse — six years for the Calgary Roughnecks — come in handy.

Playing lacrosse also led him to help organize the Guinness World Records first “World’s Longest Lacrosse Game” and raise more than $100,000 for the children’s sport charity Right to Play.

Cable’s next goal is to make his service easier for Calgarians by creating drop-off locations for used mattresses.

“It’s obviously going to impact future generations and our ability to be able to cut down on waste,” he says.

“I think that’s going to be a success for our communities.”

—Jennifer Dorozio

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As the founder of Alberta’s first and only mattress recycling company, Cable has kept almost 1.2 million pounds of mattresses and box springs out of landfills.

David Crosby & Cole Torode 34 CEO, Rosso Coffee Roasters (Crosby) 25 Director of Coffee, Rosso Coffee Roasters (Torode) In 10 years, Crosby and Torode have built their coffee business into a local empire with seven craft coffee shops and a successful wholesale roasting operation.

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ack in 2007, when David Crosby opened his first coffee shop in Ramsay, he was, admittedly, “bootstrapping it.”

For six months, Crosby was the only employee of what was then called Caffe Rosso, waking up every day at 4 a.m. to bake muffins and scones and serve as baker, barista, dishwasher, cashier, plumber, accountant and so on. He got to know people’s drinks, their kids’ names, and day-by-day built a space where people came not only for a daily cup of coffee but also to experience community.

“I did lots of studying in coffee shops in university and I thought I knew coffee. I was like, ‘oh, I can open a coffee shop.’ I was 24 and just did whatever needed to be done,” says Crosby.

In 2009 he opened his second location in the Telus Convention Centre, followed by a third on the main floor of the Arriva Tower in 2012.

In 2010, Crosby’s half-brother, Cole Torode, joined the company to work as a barista while he contemplated his future after graduating high school. It didn’t take him long to decide his future was at Rosso.

Torode became a partner in 2012 and together the brothers began to develop a larger business plan.

“It’s a ton of fun working behind the bar,” says Torode, “but it distracts from business development. It wasn’t until we started to take ourselves out of the shop and say ‘how can we make this better and not do it ourselves?’ that we started to see positive growth.”

Five years ago Crosby and Torode took the first big step by starting to roast their own beans in their original Ramsay location. A year later they started to travel to the coffee-growing regions the beans came from, and have since been to Costa Rica, Guatemala, Colombia,

Rwanda and Brazil. Their next step is to build a dedicated stand-alone retail roasterie where customers can see the roasting process, learn about it and develop a connection to the product.

While the brothers were busy reducing their wholesale costs and improving the quality of their coffee by roasting it themselves, they were also

increasing the number of coffee shops, opening four last year alone. Rosso Coffee Roasters has seven locations, 65 staff, 107 wholesale accounts and serves more than 2,000 cups of coffee a day.

“The climate is very difficult but there also are huge opportunities to grow right now,” says Crosby. —Jennifer Hamilton AvenueCalgary.com

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Kevin Davies 25 Founder and CEO, Hop Compost Davies founded the first inner-city compost facility in Canada, and has turned more than seven million pounds of food waste into organic compost in less than three years.

“Our food system needs significant progress, both in waste and in chemical growth of food, and I think having a technologybased approach that is scalable is the best approach to arrive at the solution.”

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hen Kevin Davies was in university he was already running his first company, a local recycling venture called Green Start that went on to divert more than three million pounds of landfill-bound waste.

While building Green Start (which he sold last year), Davies saw first-hand the huge amount of food waste at local restaurants, grocers and businesses. That, combined with a personal scare when his dog was poisoned by garden fertilizer, prompted Davies to launch Hop Compost in February 2015.

“I came to see that it was equally important to solve the chemical growth of food as it was to solve the ultimate waste of food,” Davies says. “Compost is beautiful because it solves both of these problems in one stroke.”

Hop is the first inner-city compost facility in Canada.

The facility’s central location means the waste collected from Hop’s clients doesn’t have to travel far, saving around 85 per cent of the usual hauling emissions.

The company uses patented technology (and eventually bought the company that created it) that makes compost indoors using huge enclosed computerized vessels that keep operations odour-free. The final organic compost product, which Hop sells at independent garden centres, has more than seven times more nutrients than regular compost.

Hop currently collects food waste from more than 100 businesses and restaurants in Calgary and Vancouver. Together, they’ve prevented more than 10 million pounds of emissions by taking more than seven million pounds of landfill-bound food waste and turning it into compost. Clients receive monthly impact reports showing how much waste, water, land and emissions they saved by composting with Hop. “There is a notion that an effort such as composting is just a drop in the bucket,” Davies says. “I think people are always surprised at just how significant an impact they alone have. And then, when they see their results in the context of the community [along with] 120 other businesses that are doing it at the same time, how much they accomplish together — it’s phenomenal.”

To date, Davies has secured more than $5 million in angel investments and bank financing for Hop, which enabled the company to open a second facility in Vancouver last year and double the capacity of both facilities. A certified B Corporation, Hop was also recently named a 2017 Best for the World award recipient.

The company is on track to open its third compost facility in Toronto this winter, and aims to open one in every major North American city in the next 10 years.

“Creating something that can have its own life beyond me as a company and have a lasting impact is a very exciting opportunity,” says Davies. —Alana Willerton

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Anton deGroot 36 Theatre Designer (set, light, and sound) An award-winning theatre designer who brings worlds to life for local and international audiences, deGroot also creates off stage magic with art installations and podcasts.

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nton deGroot remembers when his grade 10 guidance counsellor asked him what he wanted to do when he grew up, and deGroot jokingly told him he wanted to be the guy that makes things explode in movies. “I was immediately signed up for the theatre class and the introduction to electronics class,” says deGroot. “I think that was my first introduction to the stage and, now that I think about that, it’s huge to where I am now.”

While he has yet to make anything blow up, deGroot’s work has blown away theatregoers and critics alike, netting him dozens of awards for his sound, lighting and set design.

He has a knack for finding creative solutions to technical and logistical challenges. His award-winning set for Vertigo Theatre’s Travels with my Aunt needed to transform into dozens of locations quickly.

His solution? Luggage. “We set the rules of the play at the beginning, so the set was this gigantic pile of suitcases that transformed from a gravestone to a chair or from a table to a car,” says deGroot.

While his work has graced every major theatre in the city, from Stage West to Theatre Calgary, deGroot’s creativity isn’t contained to the stage. In 2012, he co-created a podcast, The Deep Field, with Inside Out Theatre’s Col Cseke. Since then, they’ve added Alberta Theatre Project’s Laurel Green to the team, and the podcast has been downloaded thousands of times. The show, named for the 74

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Other deGroot projects include interactive artwork created for the first GLOW Festival last winter. “A Light Shower” was a free-standing shower stall that

at the push of a button bathed the participant in two minutes of light and the sounds of Calgary’s summer, including the Stampede parade, Folk Fest, lawn mowing and birdsong.

The work deGroot does also takes him to other cities. This year, he worked for four months at the Avon Theatre at the Strat-

ford Festival as the assistant lighting designer for a pair of productions.

“While Calgary is my home, I want to be able to take my work abroad, play different stages and show the world what Calgary’s got,” he says. “The best damn theatre community in the whole country.” —Andrew Guilbert

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David Dick 38 Assistant Professor, Philosophy; Fellow, Canadian Centre for Advanced Leadership, University of Calgary Dick is pioneering the study of the philosophy of money.

His course “Philosophy of Money,” which is offered both to undergraduates and as a one-day continuing education program, was named a “cool course” in Macleans’ 2015 universities issue.

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many students have told him the course has changed the way they approach money and how much of their time they want to dedicate to making money.

“Philosophy of Money” has since become part of the U of C’s standard course offerings, and in 2015, Macleans identified it as a “cool course” in its annual universities issue. The U of C has created a permanent tenuretrack position for Dick with appointments in the department of philosophy and the Haskayne School of Business.

He has also grown the Integrity Network a local organization for business ethics and compliance professionals. When Dick took on the organization of the group, it had only 10 members and infrequent meetings. Now it counts more than 100 business ethics professionals representing more than 40 organizations who meet four times a year to discuss business ethics topics.

Dick is also organizing a miniconference at the U of C this fall and a panel at a conference of the American Philosophical Association next spring on the philosophy of money. Right now, most of the people in academia who are interested in money and how it works study economics, but Dick is adamant that while that field is important and interesting, it leaves questions unanswered.

“Part of my project is to bring the philosophy of money back to the philosophers,” he says.

—Käthe Lemon

“Some people think that you’re only doing good work and accomplishing things when things are dour and serious and painful.

And that is just false. I’m happy to report that I’ve been able to have fun.”

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t’s not every day that someone starts a new branch of philosophy, which makes David Dick’s creation of the philosophy of money all the more impressive.

“Philosophers reach for money as an obvious example to talk about different things, so there’s lots of stuff written about it along the way to a different point, but not a lot of people are looking at it directly,” says Dick. But he’s aiming to change that.

Dick started teaching a course on the philosophy of money at the University of Calgary shortly after he was hired as the chair in business ethics in 2009. At the time, the chair position had only three years of funding remaining and Dick was hired with the understanding that his employment at U of C would most likely end at the same time.

So he didn’t have long to try to prove himself indispensible.

The first time he offered the course, he was nominated for a teaching award. He has now received a total of five teaching awards, four at U of C and one at the University of Michigan.

It’s easy to see why — he has an infectious enthusiasm for his topic and, notwithstanding the fact that philosophy jokes may have a fairly limited audience, Dick is a funny guy.

“Some people show up and think that it might be a course about how to make more money, and it definitely is not that. Don’t go to philosophers for that kind of advice,” says Dick, noting that

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Mark Erickson & Matthew Kennedy 33 Co-owner, Studio North (Erickson) 32 Co-owner, Studio North (Kennedy) Studio North champions (and builds) laneway housing in Calgary, along with other projects that have grown the two-person partnership into a boutique firm of seven employees in under five years.

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Hiring additional employees has cleared time for Kennedy and Erickson to do what they do best — use their joint creativity to pitch new ideas.

“Where we have found success is when we’ve had the chance to really flex our creative muscle and explore fresh ways of doing things,” says Erickson.

“We always want to be hands-on with our projects and we always want to be pushing ourselves to think creatively,” adds Kennedy. “While we love the organic growth we’ve achieved so far, you won’t see Studio North becoming a 100-person firm anytime soon.” —Kait Kucy

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fter completing their master’s of architecture degrees at Dalhousie University, Mark Erickson and Matthew Kennedy returned to Calgary in 2013. They brought with them an excitement for public art, vibrant urban spaces and a new way to approach development in established neighbourhoods: laneway housing.

Kennedy had just finished his thesis on laneway housing — small houses built facing onto the back alleys of existing single-family homes.

Even though at the time there was no laneway housing in the city and fierce debate over secondary suites, the pair believed Calgary was the perfect city to take advantage of this method of stimulating growth and development within established neighbourhoods.

Now, Studio North has completed three laneway houses with four more currently in progress, and the City of Calgary has asked Studio North to use its Parkdale laneway house to create a howto video about the process of obtaining permits for building a laneway house.

“It’s really exciting to come to work every day,” says Kennedy. “As a small-business owner, I feel like business and personal life are basically one and the same — in the best way possible. The laneway houses offer a new kind of diversity to our neighbourhoods, and it’s great to see Calgarians get excited about it.”

The Studio North team has grown to include seven full-time employees. Kennedy and Erickson committed to achieving this growth without taking out any loans — other than the loan of office space in Kennedy’s parents’ house when they started.

To date, the company has completed more than 30 projects — including laneway houses, renovations, multi-family homes and commercial sites. Current projects include a line of pet-friendly furniture, a new hotel in Canmore, a piece of public art in Toronto and the redesign of an apartment tower. “The projects range in scale, but they’re all built with a commitment to craftsmanship,” says Erickson.

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Christina Fast 30 Founder, Educator and Consultant, Sterile Processing Education Charitable Trust (SPECT) Fast has educated hundreds of health-care workers in developing countries on proper medical equipment sterilization, and has developed and distributed a prototype sterilizer that can be powered by wood fire.

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acial tumours. Reversed knees. Severe burns.

These were the sorts of conditions that Christina Fast saw volunteering as a medicaltool sterilizer with Mercy Ships, a non-profit floating hospital ship circulating off the west coast of Africa, in 2011. But what she saw when she visited a hospital in Sierra Leone left her dumbfounded. “[The hospital] would put instruments they had used in a bucket of chlorine and water, and let them sit there for an hour and then use them on

another patient,” she says. “The water and chlorine solution was only changed once a week.

There was floating blood and tissue and other things inside this solution.”

A doctor working there told her 90 per cent of his patients returned with infections.

This experience pushed Fast to create the Sterile Processing Education Charitable Trust (SPECT), an NGO that provides free classroom training in medical device reprocessing (MDR), the proper sterilization of medical equipment,

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“A mentor of mine said, when you’re pioneering some-thing new that no one else has done before, you can’t always lean on other people for support, so you ha e t find the strength within yourself.”

and onsite practical mentoring.

While SPECT does have occasional volunteers helping on the ground, for the most part, Fast works solo. Six years on, SPECT has taught more than 230 workers in 40 hospitals and 60 health centres in six countries.

When Fast realized the hospitals she visited needed sterilization machines that could function without electricity, she invented one. She adapted a pressure cooker she bought on Amazon and could power using wood fire, and redesigned it for use as sterilization equipment.

Eighty-eight of these prototypes have since found their way to hospitals and clinics in need.

To keep SPECT running, Fast has secured $290,000 in contracts and grants, including a $112,000 grant in 2013 (given to SPECT via Mercy Ships Canada), and has raised more than $60,000.

Until last February, Fast spent half the year teaching MDR at Alberta Business & Educational Services in Calgary, and the other half working in Africa. Thanks to her successful fundraising, however, she will now be able to work nine months of the year in Africa, teaching a new generation of MDR professionals to persevere despite the sometimes difficult conditions.

“I’ve had moments where I’ve felt weak, and there are many moments where I forget why I’m doing what I’m doing,” Fast says. “But I think persevering despite those hard times will be the key to my success.”

—Andrew Guilbert

Dr. Geoffrey Gotto 39 Founder and Medical Director, Clinic for Advanced and Metastatic Prostate Cancer, Prostate Cancer Centre; Urologic Oncologist, Southern Alberta Institute of Urology; Clinical Associate Professor, University of Calgary Dr. Gotto helped found the Clinic for Advanced and Metastatic Prostate Cancer (CAMP) — a flagship program recognized nationally for providing the best possible care to men living with advanced and metastatic prostate cancers.

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ccording to the Canadian Cancer Society, urological cancers — those affecting the prostate, bladder, kidney and testicles — account for just over 31 per cent of all new cancer diagnoses in men in this country. These types of cancers can be cured with timely intervention, but if left unchecked they risk becoming metastatic and spreading to other areas of the body.

Dr. Geoffrey Gotto recognized an unmet need to consolidate care and provide easier access to advanced treatments and clinical trials for this patient group, which led him to help establish the Clinic for Advanced and Metastatic Cancer (CAMP) at Calgary’s Prostate Cancer Centre.

CAMP combines both clinic and research space and provides state-of-the-art, multidisciplinary care. CAMP patients get access to novel therapeutic agents in the treatment of advanced prostate cancer through participation in international clinical trials. Under Gotto’s leadership, hundreds of men have enrolled in clinical trials, and CAMP is collaborating to establish one of the largest biorepositories in the country to facilitate prostate cancer research.

Gotto himself has raised around $500,000 to support the clinic, and CAMP’s success in clinical trials has brought in close to $2 million in funding for the Prostate Cancer Centre over the past five years. Due to CAMP’s successes, Gotto has been invited to cities across Canada interested in developing similar programs, and he mentors colleagues nationwide.

Losing his grandfather to metastatic prostate cancer in 1994 is what inspired Gotto to pursue urology. “He proudly served in the Canadian military and dedicated his life to this country; I had tremendous respect for him growing up,” Gotto says. “He died shortly after his retirement, which I didn’t think was fair.

I always wondered if his death could have been prevented, if he really had to suffer the way he did in the end.”

Following his urology residency at the University of British Columbia, Gotto completed a two-year fellowship in urologic oncology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre in New York — one of the world’s top cancer-care hospitals. At the same time he completed a master’s in public health at Harvard.

He continues to be a busy researcher, having published more than 30 peer-reviewed papers, and as a clinical associate professor at the U of C, he trains surgical residents and fellows. But the majority of his time is spent in direct patient care, performing more than 700 surgeries a year. “As a physician, the more you are able to help your patients, the more rewarding your life becomes and the more dedicated you become,” he says. —Felicia Zuniga AvenueCalgary.com

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36 Co-founder, Market Collective As a co-founder of Market Collective, Guerra has helped grow the community-focused arts market from the ground up. In the last three years alone, the markets have generated $5 million in sales for local artisans and artists.

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n 2008, just weeks after meeting on the porch of a mutual friend’s house, Angel Guerra and Angela Dionne (Top 40 Class of 2011) decided to chip in $50 of start-up capital each and launch Market Collective (MC) together.

The inaugural MC was a resounding success. Around 500 visitors came to support 30 local artists and a handful of musicians in Kensington’s Carpenter’s Union Hall.

“I really thought it was important to give artists and artisans an accessible place to show and sell their work — somewhere they could work toward making a successful career for themselves in the arts,” Guerra says.

In the nine years since that first event, MC has proven it is just that. The organization now features 75 to 100 local artisans as well as local food and drink vendors and musicians at each of its eight annual markets. In 2016, the markets received 42,000 visitors.

MC has had a huge impact on the livelihood of local artisans, who keep all the profits they make at the events. MC artisans made $1.5 million in sales in both 2014 and 2016, and $2 million in 2015.

Many local businesses that got their start at MC, such as Plant, have been able to open their own stand-alone retail operations or, in the case of Camp Brand Goods, have grown their operations into shops and online retail across the country.

“Market Collective’s success always goes back to whether the people we started this for are growing,” Guerra says. “These last couple years, so many people were able to quit their full-time jobs or start up brick-and-mortar shops. That’s when you know Market Collective is successful.”

In recent years, Guerra, who is also a substitute teacher with the Calgary Board of Education and an outdoor education leader with Westmount Charter School, has taken on a more defined role managing MC’s community initiatives and collaborations as well as focusing on media relations. She helped oversee MC’s growth from six employees in 2016 to 12 in 2017 and organized the multiple workshops MC has held. Last year, she worked on a collaboration with Phil & Sebastian, which now sells the work of five rotating MC artists in its Stephen Avenue coffee shop.

“Going into our 10th year, we’re focused on not just being an artist market but being an organization that has the ability to change the landscape of the city,” says Guerra. —Alana Willerton

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Angel Guerra

“[Market Collective] supports the local economy, it supports the creative class in the city and has ultimately kept artists in the city, and those are the people you want to keep in the city because they make your city bright, vibrant, colourful and beautiful.”

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Tulika Gupta 26 Production Planner, Suncor Energy Inc. (on leave); graduate student, Harvard Business School Gupta has been named a “rising star” in the oil-and-gas industry for her work at Suncor Energy, where she served as an advisor to the company’s executive vice president and helped implement the Cost Efficiency Drive program for employees to communicate ideas directly to senior leadership.

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into preparing for the question-and-answer portion. “Now, I think if I had prepped I could have done even better,” she says.

The kind of confidence that puts a computer engineer on a pageant runway also makes Gupta an effective mentor. At Suncor, she mentored other female employees in her business unit through the Women’s Diversity Initiative and hosted Bring Your Daughter To Work Day for high-school girls to learn more about technical

oil-industry careers. She also designed and hosted Suncor’s Resiliency To Change Day, an event that presented strategies for female employees to weather the economic and emotional challenges of the oil-industry downturn.

“People are capable of doing so much,” says Gupta. “I think our processes restrict people’s creativity in some ways, especially in a conventional industry like oil and gas, but I think that’s changing now.” —Shelley Arnusch

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ulika Gupta has made a habit of defying expectations. Born in India, she was the first female from her family to study engineering, travelling to North America to earn a degree in computer engineering from the University of Toronto. After graduation, she defied expectations again by taking an oil-and-gas job with Suncor Energy in Fort McMurray rather than heading for Silicon Valley like many of her fellow computer engineers.

After two years in Fort McMurray, Gupta relocated to Suncor’s Calgary offices to work as an analyst to the executive VP, an advisory role. During her 18-month stint as an analyst she was instrumental in the implementation of Suncor’s Cost Efficiency Drive by creating a way for employees to submit sustainable businessimprovement, cost-cutting and carbon-reducing ideas directly to senior leadership. The drive collected 40 comprehensive ideas that identified millions in potential savings.

Gupta then moved into a production planner position at Suncor, collaborating with multiple internal stakeholders to design processes and planning for the $16 billion-plus Fort Hills project. Her work with Suncor caught the attention of Oilweek magazine, which named Gupta its “rising star” for 2017.

Gupta has since been granted leave from Suncor to pursue a masters of business administration degree at Harvard. In the midst of her MBA application process last year she was selected as one of 16 contestants in the Miss India-Canada 2016 pageant, which she had signed up for on a whim. “It was always on my bucket list, and anything that makes me uncomfortable, I always make sure I do that because that’s when you know you’re growing,” she says.

Unlike her fellow contestants, Gupta didn’t have any previous modelling or pageant experience. Even so, she finished as second runner-up — despite the fact that she hadn’t expected to be among the top five, so she didn’t put much effort

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Devon Guy 32 Health Education Coordinator and Certified Diabetes Educator, Tsuut’ina Health Centre Guy leads a team that has created a range of diabetes-prevention and treatment initiatives to address the high rates of the disease in the Tsuut’ina Nation, forming a roadmap for other indigenous health programs in the province.

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ulling weeds in the community garden at the Tsuut’ina Nation may seem worlds away from a career in international modelling, but Devon Guy says one job actually led to the other.

Guy’s interest in nutrition was sparked when she was 16 and modelling professionally in Italy, where she was exposed to the fashion world’s infamously unhealthy eating habits. “I thought, ‘there has got to be another way, we cannot be compromising our health,’” says Guy, who would go on to study nutritional sciences at McGill University.

These days, Guy is a health education coordinator and certified diabetes educator for the Tsuut’ina Nation, one of the Treaty 7 Nations, located just southwest of Calgary.

Helping tend the community vegetable garden there is just one of her many tasks.

Diabetes occurs earlier and at a higher frequency in First Nations than in the general population in Canada, and Guy and her team work collaboratively to prevent new cases, developing school curricula such as the Diabetes Prevention Program for grades three and four and the Food

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“Children are our future, children are the next generation of human resources.”

Literacy Program for grades five to eight, in which children are taught food knowledge and skills with implications for health, such as recipes for healthy eating, diabetes prevention and how to grow food.

These classes often use the community garden that Guy applied for and received grants to start, as a teaching tool.

Before Guy and her team started working with the school three years ago, the cafeteria staff had never been offered professional development. Now the reserve’s Health Centre team and the school cooks collaborate to implement new recipes for the more than 300 students they feed every day, and they’ve taken sugar-sweetened beverages off the menu.

A year ago, Guy started the monthly Adult Endocrinology Clinic, widening access to specialized care for people dealing with diabetes and hormonerelated conditions in Tsuut’tina by bringing in two specialists.

With all of these initiatives, the health message is spreading. The program’s logo is now used to mark healthier food options at food retailers on the reserve, and the Health Centre is also offering training to Tsuut’ina caterers.

As part of the master’s of public health degree Guy recently completed, she created a summary of lessons learned through her work with the Health Centre. That document is being used as a roadmap for other Alberta First Nations interested in indigenizing health promotion programs.

While it can be difficult to show the results of preventative programs, Guy is optimistic. “Small changes can be so significant, and it’s okay to just focus on those because we’re not going to change things overnight,” she says.

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“It has taken me a long time to get to a place where I truly feel comfortable with who I am and what I am building. Choosing the right clients, aligning with the right partners and having a team that understands the vision I’ve been building over the past 15 years is all part of that.”

Hamilton’s dedication to raising the profile of the interior design industry while supporting education also led her to launch a travel scholarship for Mount Royal University (MRU) interior design students.

Having mentored students with both MRU and JASA, Hamilton says she was excited to find another way to encourage students to grow.

“Education doesn’t necessarily need to be formal; we sometimes need the disruption of learning about design outside the classroom to really grow,” she says. —Kait Kucy

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hen interior designer Amanda Hamilton left her first employer, McKinleyBurkart, to start her own company in 2009, she had only one residential client and one commercial client. Now, with design teams that include five full-time employees based in Calgary and Vancouver, plus work in Edmonton, Saskatoon and Regina, Amanda Hamilton Interior Design (AHID) has had exponential growth. Last year the firm worked with a roster of 45 clients across the country.

AHID has handled the design of renowned restaurants in the city including Native Tongues, Rodney’s Oysterhouse and Añejo as well as retailers such as Mariah and Bricks Wine Company.

Beyond her residential and commercial design projects, Hamilton has also debuted her own line of products including kimonos, table linens, throw pillows, scented candles and a collection of ceramics produced in collaboration with the Los Angeles ceramicist Brooke Winfrey of BTW Ceramics.

Earlier this year, Hamilton was approached by the owners of The Guardian condo towers to take over the Sanctuary Loft space in Victoria Park. In the spring she relaunched it as The Loft

by Amanda Hamilton — a designer showroom and retail shop that also serves as a design consultation office and event space. To take advantage of the space, Hamilton started a panel discussion series centred around design, hospitality and creativity. “My goal is to educate the general public on design and the arts by making it accessible and approachable,” says Hamilton.

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Aubrey Hanson 38 Assistant Professor, Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary Hanson made the U of C’s Indigenous education course available to students online and has helped develop a master’s of education program focused on Indigenous education.

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for Métis heritage, assuming most people, like her, were a combination of Aboriginal and immigrant heritage.

“She kind of gave me this look and said, ‘Aubrey, you are the only one.’ And I was like, what?’” says Hanson. “I didn’t realize the extent to which

Indigenous people were a minority in this country; that was shocking to me in fifth grade.”

Since then, Hanson, now an assistant professor at the University of Calgary’s Werklund School of Education, has become well-versed in Indigenous and Métis realities in Canada,

and has dedicated her life to sharing that knowledge. Through her teaching, she helps educators in training tackle stereotypes and misconceptions about Indigenous culture, a process that can often take an emotional toll both on her students and on her.

“One of the challenges is being faced with questions that come out of an understandable ignorance. You know it comes from the fact it wasn’t taught in schools, but it hurts,” she says.

“People don’t know that the last residential school closed in 1996.

It’s not ancient history.”

Hanson’s research examines how Indigenous literature can be used to help people learn about that history. “If you want to engage people in learning about these difficult histories and social issues, literature can be a way to open up and inspire, instead of hammering people over the head with facts,” she says.

Hanson was hired into her current role while she was still finishing her Ph.D., and since then she has made the U of C’s bachelor of education’s mandatory Indigenous education course available online, making it accessible to students who aren’t able to be on campus. She has also co-developed a master’s of education program focused on Indigenous education, one that takes the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s call to action as its guide.

She is also one of the organizers of last December’s Eyes Open, Eyes High, a community celebration featuring speakers, discussions, theatre and a showcase of undergraduate student’s learning in the form of short video clips.

In spite of her many personal accomplishments, Hanson is quick to specify the collaborative nature of her work. “All the social change I’m talking about, no one person can do it. Lots of people are doing it, and I see myself as part of a much bigger picture.” —Andrew Guilbert

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“People don’t always get what they deserve. I’ve seen wonderful, smart, strong, talented people n t find t acti n in their ideal jobs. There’s no kind of merit system that works in society; it’s not a fair game. It takes a lot of unlearning to draw people’s attention to that.”

Dr. Glen Hazlewood 39 Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary; Rheumatologist Dr. Hazlewood’s groundbreaking research in the field of rheumatoid arthritis advocates for treatment guidelines that take into account patient preference along with medical need.

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heumatologist Dr. Glen Hazlewood lets his personal curiosity take him in unexpected directions. That’s what led him to his current work researching how rheumatology doctors choose courses of treatment for patients.

After completing his medical training at the University of Calgary, Hazlewood received a Ph.D. through the University of Toronto in 2016. Since then he has been working as an assistant professor at the U of C, specializing in research that emphasizes patient preferences when it comes to care. In particular, his research focuses on rheumatology, a field where doctors have seen a huge growth in the number of medications available, which are often used in combination, expanding the possible treatment options exponentially.

Giving patients choice when it comes to their health care may seem obvious, but even though some physicians do take patient preferences into account, it is not a systemic approach to treatment at this time. When Hazlewood began to take note of how many of his patients were struggling (largely because the symptoms of chronic diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis are felt so acutely), he wanted to explore how treatment choices could also take patient preferences into account.

“I’ve always been interested in how we make decisions in practice,” Hazlewood says. “The more I got into it, the more I realized that one size doesn’t fit all.”

Hazlewood is currently working on a set of treatment guidelines for the Canadian Rheumatology Association that will include integrating patient preferences through patient surveys with

“As physicians, we don’t always understand the impact of our decisions on people who live with the disease. If I can change that in any way, that’s what drives me.” an engaged group alongside the treatment guidelines — a world-first in the field of rheumatoid arthritis. While this research takes up the bulk of Hazlewood’s time, he still reserves one day a week to treat patients in his clinics so that he doesn’t completely drift into the realm of policy and academics.

“Seeing patients keeps me connected with the realities of the research and gives me more practical ideas from working with the patients,” Hazlewood says. “Plus, I really enjoy it.”

—Elizabeth Chorney-Booth

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Scott & Suzanne Henuset 38 Entrepreneur and Philanthropist (Scott) 34 Entrepreneur and Philanthropist (Suzanne)

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eorge and Amal, Tom and Gisele, Beyoncé and Jay-Z — there’s no denying our collective fascination with the “power couple.” Characterized by ambition, confidence and drive, and strengthened by the bond of a relationship, each duo is greater than the sum of its parts.

With their entrepreneurial successes and shared philanthropic vision, high-school sweethearts Scott and Suzanne Henuset are, undeniably, one of Calgary’s power couples.

Scott readily admits that the couple’s successes are, in part, due to the legacy of his parents (prominent local entrepreneurs Wayne and Liz Henuset, owners of Willow Park Wines & Spirits).

But Scott and Suzanne have built upon that history with a strong work ethic that is all their own.

Scott co-founded Corkscrew Media in 2001 to produce TV shows about wine, beer and spirits. Taste! The Beverage Show ran for five seasons with 65 episodes seen in more than 56 countries. In 2003, after completing a bachelor’s degree at the University of Calgary and earning her chartered accountant designation, Suzanne started working for Corkscrew as well, and eventually they bought out Scott’s partner in the business, Peggy Perry. Together, the couple grew the media company to produce 26 TV shows. They also expanded into commercial and corporate video production, and in 2008 founded STIR Films and the post-production facility BDI Post, which has worked on Fargo and Hell on Wheels.

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Seeking new challenges, the Henusets recently sold their majority shares in the Corkscrew Group of Companies. Their latest venture, which they acquired in 2015, is a group of equipmentrental companies: Modern Industrial Rentals provides equipment to contractors and construction companies, while Modern Tent Rentals and Modern Luxe Rentals supply weddings and other elegant events.

The Henusets are also active philanthropists. In 2014 they became co-chairs of the Vintage Fund, an endowment trust, which Scott’s father and Perry started in 2001. They are the driving forces behind Willow Park’s annual Charity Wine Auction, which raises more than $300,000 per year for local charities such as the Alberta Children’s Hospital Foundation and the Sheldon Kennedy Child Advocacy Centre.

While it may seem like the Henusets are all work and no play, Suzanne says it’s quite the opposite. “We have a very good work-life balance. Our most important thing is our family,” she says. The couple is raising four children and continues to honour the memory of their first son, Jackson, who passed away in 2009 at the age of two.

“You can assume that someone’s life is perfect, but no one’s life is perfect,” says Scott.

“Everyone’s life has challenges,” Suzanne says. “People have successes, failures, people have unbelievable ups and downs.

So just be a good person in the end. Work hard; do good things for others. That’s how we live.”

—Jennifer Hamilton

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They also co-chair a charitable fund that has raised more than $4 million, all as busy parents of four children.

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39 Co-owner, Vine Arts Wine and Spirits, Proof and Donna Mac (Jamieson) 34 Co-owner, Vine Arts Wine and Spirits, Proof and Donna Mac (Willis) Jamieson and Willis are shaking up the local cocktail scene with their two wine and spirits stores, Proof craft-cocktail bar and new restaurant, Donna Mac.

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ack in 2012, When Jeff Jamieson and Jesse Willis opened Vine Arts, a boutique liquor store in Victoria Park, the shop carried three kinds of bitters. But when the clientele clamoured for more, Vine Arts expanded its offerings. “Three turned into six, which turned into 20. Now we have more than 150 types of bitters,” says Willis.

Bitters on their own are rather vile-tasting liquids.

But in tiny drops they’re a key ingredient in the kinds of craft cocktails that are emblematic of the shift away from the cloying cosmopolitans of the Sex and the City era. The resurgence of those bitters-enhanced libations have been the key to the sweet success Jamieson and Willis have found selling wine and spirits, slinging cocktails and serving food.

“It wasn’t that long ago that I can remember walking into liquor stores and being intimidated and overwhelmed,” says Willis, who is a trained sommelier.

“At the same time, the numbers were showing that there were a lot of younger people getting into wine and that their wine consumption was on the rise.”

Thanks to small investments by friends and family, the pair cobbled together enough cash to bring their vision — a community“We have minded purveyor of eclecclients now that tic wines, beers and spirits — to fruition. are spending a Buoyed by the success lot of money on of Vine Arts, Jamieson and collectable wine, Willis opened Proof in 2015.

The speakeasy-style cocktail but when they bar carries one of the largest started buying selections of craft spirits they were only in Canada, and specializes in handcrafted cocktails spending 25 bucks a bottle. and carefully curated small plates, which earned Proof They’ve stuck a spot on Avenue’s 2016 list with us because of 10 Best New Restaurants.

In 2016, the pair opened they say, ‘You a second Vine Arts location always made us on 17th Avenue S.W. And feel like we were they plan to open Donna spending $100 Mac, a casual restaurant in even if we were the Beltline.

Despite how busy their only spending portfolio of businesses $15.’” keeps them, Jamieson and Willis have also made —Jesse Willis time to serve their community. Their annual Carnival Cocktails for Cancer, a fundraising event that they first staged in 2014, has raised about $175,000 for cancer research. Willis also served on the board of the Beltline BRZ for three years.

“Culture is important,” says Jamieson, “and atmospheres that bring people together are important parts of culture and of peoples’ lives. Food and drink, they’re something we talk about every single day. It’s something we do every single day.”

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Kenneth Keung 37 Director, Canadian Tax Advisory, Moodys Gartner Tax Law LLP The youngest of Moodys Gartner Tax Law LLP’s six directors, Keung has helped develop national tax education programs, and he was invited by the Joint Committee on Taxation to help generate feedback on tax legislation for the Government of Canada. He’s also a respected speaker, teacher and writer on tax matters.

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hen Kenneth Keung was deciding whether to pursue a career in music or accounting, he chose the latter because he thought it would be more financially stable. But what originally started as a practical choice has turned into his passion.

“I feel very lucky to be able to do tax every single day,” Keung says. “I don’t think there’s another profession I would rather do than tax.”

Keung holds seven degrees and certifications in areas ranging from law to accounting to taxation. He puts that education to use as a director of Canadian

tax advisory at Moodys Gartner Tax Law LLP. The youngest of the firm’s six directors, he manages the Calgary office and navigates the complex world of tax planning and consulting for high net-worth families and private businesses.

Keung, who struggled to overcome the language barrier when he immigrated from Hong Kong at age 12, is now a sought-after speaker, teacher and writer on tax matters. He volunteers around 250 hours annually, speaking at industry events across North America and writing published tax-related papers and articles.

For the last two years, Keung

has also helped the Canadian Bar Association and Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada’s Joint Committee on Taxation generate feedback on tax legislation for the Department of Finance Canada. He also helped update the national tax education programs for the Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada and the Financial Planning Standards Council and teaches student group sessions in CPA Canada’s In-Depth Tax Course. “[One of my favourite things about my job is] being able to help other tax professionals grow and getting other people as excited about tax as I am so that they can grow and be successful,” Keung says. “I want to be the best tax person I can be.

That sounds pretty boring, but that’s it, that’s what drives me to be the best. To be better and better and better at my craft.”

For the past four years Keung has also volunteered with the local non-profit Elder Statesmen Group (ESG), which provides subsidized housing for low-income seniors. Previously the vice-president, Keung now manages ESG’s finances as treasurer, and, as a member of the board of directors, he helps to manage the organization and its portfolio of almost 100 housing units.

“I wanted to [be part of] a place where I could apply my financial acumen, my interest and contacts in real estate and help people,” says Keung.

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Matthew Kinderwater 33 Owner, Director of IT, iCube Development Ltd. Kinderwater founded and operates Alberta’s largest data recovery lab, building client trust by billing by the hour instead of by the job.

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“Everyone has their talents. If you acknowledge that, it’s a great lesson in humility.”

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atthew Kinderwater always wanted to help people, whether as a lifeguard in his youth or later in his first career as an emergency medical technician. That desire to help didn’t change when he switched to a career in tech.

In 2005, he started iCube, a data recovery lab that helps individuals and businesses recover critical data from servers and computers.

Kinderwater’s Métis heritage made him eligible for funding to kick start iCube, but he respectfully declined. “I wanted to build it from the ground up,” he says. “Now, it’s nice to be able to contribute to the Métis Association of Alberta and know that I’m helping others because I can, not because a debt is owed.”

Kinderwater has grown iCube from a makeshift office in a bedroom closet into Alberta’s largest data recovery lab — in terms of volume of recoveries it does each year, number of clients and also square footage. Kinderwater says his success is due to his commitment to transparency and his decision to price differently than his competitors. “Most data recovery requires one to three hours of labour; the rest is done by automated computer processes,” he says. “iCube is the only company in Western Canada that works on hourly rates instead of tiered pricing.

Clients only pay for real time, and it almost always results in a cheaper recovery. It’s also more honest because we provide a breakdown of cost, so it forces us to justify what we charge.” iCube also developed the open-source Billwerx software, which is used by more than 4,000 companies completely free of charge.

Kinderwater appreciates that his clients are in a vulnerable state, having lost important business data or personal files of great sentimental value. He builds trust with them so they understand what iCube can do to help. And he looks for opportunities to help: after the 2013 flood, iCube donated free recovery services to families in Calgary and High River, and to date the company has donated more than $40,000 worth of services and hard drives to victims of the Fort McMurray fire. Recently iCube fixed the hard drive of a Syrian refugee family whose child was at the Alberta Children’s Hospital for free. “Sometimes, helping someone get back their kids’ photos is more important than the monetary return,” he says. “If you can help, then you do.” —Colleen Seto

“It’s the friendships that I’ve created, the community that I’ve created, the family that I’ve created that sustain me, help me and motivate me in the times I’m telling myself I can’t do it.”

Anila Umar Lee Yuen 39 CEO, Centre for Newcomers

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In her role as CEO for the Centre for Newcomers, Lee Yuen has helped new Canadians settle into the city, while also helping bring the organization out of debt.

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hen she was 23, Anila Umar Lee Yuen received a Governor General’s award for her work with the Calgary Bridge Foundation for Youth and the Calgary Immigrant Women’s Association, where

she advocated for women and children’s rights. At the awards ceremony, the husband of another recipient brashly suggested that she had “peaked.”

He couldn’t have been more wrong. Since then, Lee Yuen has received an Alberta Centennial Medallion for Community Service, volunteered with the Calgary Stampede’s International Agriculture Committee and completed a degree in behavioural neuroscience.

These days, she’s the CEO at the Centre For Newcomers (CFN), a registered charity that assists around 10,000 immigrants and refugees every year with resettlement.

Since coming on board as CEO in 2015, Lee Yuen has spearheaded programming such as volunteer-led refugee supports for vulnerable populations with unique needs.

Among these programs is Calgary’s first settlement service addressing the needs of LGBT immigrants and refugees. “They may be afraid of being in a class learning English with other people from their home country, who might find out they’re gay and call home,” says Lee Yuen. “That could have dire consequences for family or friends in their home countries if being gay is illegal there.” To work around these concerns, CFN meets with these individuals in outside, safe locations. CFN also advocates for understanding from the government on behalf of

people who are reluctant to disclose their orientations in official documents for fear of persecution.

New programs aren’t the only things that Lee Yuen has brought to CFN. When she came on board, the organization had accumulated nearly $200,000 in debt, but in the two years she’s been there, Lee Yuen has turned the charity’s finances around. In her first financial quarter as CEO, she brought in $80,000 in donations. Up to that point, the organization was averaging between $10,000 and $12,000 in donations per year, making Lee Yuen’s quarterly total higher than the previous seven years combined. Under her leadership, the CFN ended its last fiscal year with a budget surplus of more than $100,000 and has increased its budget by $2.5 million.

Through all of this, Lee Yuen has been battling chronic depression, a condition for which she has taken medication since she was 19. “There were days, months, complete years where I couldn’t get out of bed, where it was difficult for me to move,” she says. Her experiences have inspired her to advocate for mental health.

“I didn’t ever feel safe enough to come out with depression until I got my job as CEO,” she says. “There’s no way anyone could say that my chronic depression is getting in the way of me being successful in my job, but it’s a struggle I deal with every day.”

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37 Director, Artistic Operations, Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra MacDonald has helped the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra become more efficient and cost-effective and was part of a group that successfully lobbied the federal government to change policies that restricted orchestras from hiring world-class musicians from other countries.

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Those would be the rafters at the Jack Singer Concert Hall, home of the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra (CPO).

MacDonald started at the CPO in 2011 as an associate director and has since risen in the ranks.

Now, as the director of artistic operations, she and her team manage the administrative details of the orchestra’s 90-plus concerts per season involving 66 full-time and more than 100 additional musicians. MacDonald’s department also oversees the CPO’s educational portfolio, which includes school concerts, community outreach and an afterschool program at Keeler 1 00

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Elementary School, where orchestra musicians provide students in the PhilKids program with three hours of music instruction per week throughout the school year in trumpet, violin and other instruments.

A detail-oriented doer (“I’m pushy, but it’s coming from a thoughtful place”), MacDonald has helped the orchestra run more efficiently and cost-effectively, taking on projects such as the 2013 changeover of the CPO’s internal database to software that provides companywide integration.

MacDonald has also made her mark as an advocate for the arts. In 2014 she was part of a group of representatives from Canadian arts institutions who successfully lobbied the federal government to change regulations in the temporary foreign worker program to bring in artists who provide a cultural benefit to Canada. She continues to support and advocate for the orchestra community as a member of the board of directors for Orchestras Canada, serving on the strategic planning and advocacy committees, a time commitment of approximately 100 hours a year.

MacDonald attributes her successes to the transformative power of live classical music and her desire to share that experience. Since her days as a kid taking piano lessons in Cape Breton, through her years in Montreal as a musicology grad student who took in as many concerts as she could, to her current life in Calgary keeping the CPO running smoothly and orchestrating deals to bring in world-class superstars such as Yo-Yo Ma, it’s the “why” behind what she does and what keeps her going.

“I just really believe in what music can provide for a person,” she says, “that ability to express the inexpressible and connect in such a deep way. I’ve felt that my whole life.” —Shelley Arnusch

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Richard MacDonald

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39 Co-founder and Managing Partner, Higher Ground Consulting MacDonald has grown his environmental and engineering consulting firm from a two-man basement operation into a thriving business with a staff of 20 in under five years.

He’s also an elite endurance athlete who uses ultra-marathon running to raise funds for MitoCanada, a national charity.

il prices were hovering around $100 a barrel when Richard MacDonald decided to leave his well-paying job at an engineering firm to work out of his basement.

“I believe to achieve what you want in life you’ve got to take some calculated risks,” he says.

Co-founding Higher Ground Consulting with business partner Wes Ferris in 2013, MacDonald found what he was after — a career-defining challenge. The company, which helps oil-and-gas producers minimize their environmental impact, has since grown to 20 staff with annual revenues of $4 million and offices that are, unmistakably, above ground. “There are no easy answers in terms of how you balance social, economic and environmental issues,” says MacDonald. “To actually get in there and help solve some of those challenges is motivating and rewarding.”

Rewarding or not, there were times when his risk didn’t look like such a good idea. As oil prices dipped below $50 in 2015, MacDonald remembers people expecting his company to fold. But he says that having a reputation built on honesty and integrity allowed Higher Ground to not only survive but prosper. “In every downturn there’s always opportunity and I think we’re proof of that,” he says.

Running a business and raising two young children with his wife makes for a long list of responsibilities, but MacDonald manages the stress with exercise.

After initially picking up endurance running to support MitoCanada — a friend’s charity that helps families affected by Mitochondrial disease and to further research — MacDonald now runs ultra-marathons (distances that exceed a regular marathon and are often around the 100-kilometre mark). He also represented Canada in his age group at the 2013 Ironman World Championships in Hawaii.

At this year’s Calgary Marathon MacDonald and 113 other runners tied themselves together with surgical tubing in an attempt to set a new Guinness World Record for the most linked runners to complete a marathon, raising more than $150,000 for MitoCanada along the way.

MacDonald credits a compulsion to challenge himself and not take the “easy road” for both his business and athletic achievements.

“There’s enjoyment in suffering,” he says, “[the feeling] when you come through the other end and you look back and say, ‘Wow I can’t believe I did that.’” —Fabian Mayer AvenueCalgary.com

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37 Principal, Stand and Command Mehta has founded a successful leadership and training presentation company, led the development of an app to improve public speaking and dedicates his time to numerous volunteer committees in the city.

“We do have a business plan, but at the end of the day, it’s about what contributions are you making to make things better?”

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ne key piece of advice has guided much of Avnish Mehta’s working life: a mentor once convinced him to commit to taking 10 meetings every week, whether for hour-long discussions over coffee or even just brief phone calls.

Through continuous hustle and networking, Mehta created connections that opened doors for him, bringing business success and allowing him to give back to the city. Now at Stand and Command, the leadership and presentation training company he built, Mehta helps clients create strong networks, just as he built his own.

“For anybody starting a new business or anybody who’s looking to gain some traction, I recommend the exact same advice,” says Mehta. “Ten meetings a week — go out and meet people. It’s about developing the network, making sure that you’re top of mind for people and then having other people discuss you.”

Stand and Command provides a range of services to improve clients’ communication skills including public speaking, internal workplace communication and networking. Since taking its first clients in 2012, Stand and Command has grown from making $3,000 per month to $40,000 per month.

To expand their work further, Mehta and his team have developed a voice analysis app. Fillerbuster helps speakers understand the quality of their voice by measuring pitch, frequency and power. Mehta sees application for the software beyond business, as well, and he has brought it with him on two trips to Nairobi in 2015 and 2016 to explore how speaking technology can improve access to education for rural Kenyan students.

But Stand and Command isn’t Mehta’s first experience spreading the gospel of networking. In 2005, he founded Corporate Connections, a company that connected university graduates with Calgary companies based on cultural fit. Starting in 2008, he worked at the Calgary Catholic Immigration Society to help develop a pilot program that connected temporary foreign workers with employers.

The program was then replicated across Alberta.

Mehta’s network-building has allowed him to contribute to the city by offering pro-bono services and by working on a number of volunteer boards and committees with the Calgary Public Library Board, Calgary Folk Music Festival, Making Treaty 7 and Bow Valley College.

Another way he tries to give back to the growth of the city is by helping his employees develop their own business ventures, even when that approach inevitably leads to losing team members.

“If we were getting up just to make money, I don’t think we would be motivated in the same way,” Mehta says. “Let’s allow them to be successful somewhere else. Let’s help them build that, because it’s important.

They’re going to make great contributions.”

—Andrew Jeffrey

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Uyen Nguyen 39 Executive Director, Synaptic: Spinal Cord Injury and Neuro Rehabilitation Centre Nguyen started the only outpatient clinic in Canada for people with spinal cord injuries and neurological conditions to receive further ongoing rehabilitative therapy after they are released from the health-care system.

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yen Nguyen was working as a sports therapist to elite athletes when she realized people living with neurological conditions and spinal cord injuries were underserved by the Canadian medical system.

In 2012 she opened Synaptic: Spinal Cord Injury and Neuro Rehabilitation Centre, an outpatient clinic and registered charity that provides long-term rehabilitation programs to people dealing with spinal cord injuries, strokes, tumours and progressive neurological conditions, such as multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s disease.

Nguyen opened Synaptic with the help of Dr. Shaun Marty, who helped find them a downtown space and led the building of the original clinic. Last December, Synaptic moved from its downtown location to a nearly 6,000-square-foot facility near Chinook Centre.

As the executive director and a registered physical therapist, Nguyen manages the staff, programs and donations and also personally assesses every client. Nguyen and her team of 11 employees work with clients from the ages of four to 90, many of whom have received a life-altering diagnosis but are “My thought discharged from the public health system beon pretty much cause further therapy is unavailable. By offering ongoing rehabilitative therapy, Synaptic aims everything is that to help clients meet their own long-term goals, just because we such as re-learning how to walk or keeping acdon’t have the tive for as long as possible.

Synaptic uses equipment such as a giant conanswer doesn’t traption called a Therastride, which suspends a mean it isn’t so.” patient so they can practice walking, and Xcite FES, an electrical stimulation technology used in hand therapy. These technologies exist elsewhere in Canada but primarily in academic and hospital settings.

“At some point somebody has to take a chance on you and give you that opportunity,” says Nguyen. “If science or the medical community has set that limitation, I just want these people to be given a chance to try.”

Synaptic is also a registered charity and Nguyen has secured $1.5 million in private donations to keep therapy as affordable as possible for the 500 patients who have benefitted from its help since its inception.

One Synaptic patient was a woman who was told after waking up from a car crash that the probability she would walk again was next to zero. A former dancer, she refused to accept that diagnosis and was determined to one day put on her dancing shoes and walk again. After years of intensive therapy with Synaptic, she did just that at a charity event for the centre. “I can still hear the click, click, click of her shoes coming across the stage,” says Nguyen.

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Dr. Daniel Niven 37 Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Calgary; Intensive Care Physician

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“My wife would say I’m over-organized,” says the intensive care physician and assistant professor of medicine at the University of Calgary. “I think organization has helped me be successful over the years.

I know very successful people who aren’t as organized, but, for me, it’s helped.”

That meticulousness is the hallmark of Niven’s approach.

Despite less than a year as faculty at the University of Calgary, the clinician-scientist has published 42 scientific journal articles, including publications in some of the world’s top journals.

What’s more, his findings have led to changes in the way critically ill patients are cared for.

His research focuses on the emerging field of “de-adoption” — getting health-care workers to stop using tests or treatments that have been found to be ineffective or harmful.

A well-known study from the U.S.-based Institute of Medicine showed it takes, on average, 17 years to implement new discoveries into patient care.

Niven’s work has demonstrated that it can take even longer to stop using old technologies and techniques.

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“My mission is to shorten this time period so that patients can benefit from new research as soon as possible,” says Niven. De-adoption of outdated treatments and tests has the potential to reduce preventable harm, decrease health-care costs and simplify care for patients, he says. In intensive care units (ICUs) across Calgary, his work has already led to changes in the way temperature is measured in admitted patients, in the way blood clots are prevented and in the use of ineffective blood products.

Niven works in the ICU of the Peter Lougheed Centre, looking after patients with lifethreatening conditions such as ruptured aneurysms, infections or major heart attacks.

A father of three kids ages five and under, his idea of relaxation has changed in recent years — these days free time is usually spent playing sports with the five-year-old.

“Life can change just like that,” he says. “We see that in the ICU all the time. It’s really humbling. And so, one of the things I’ve learned over time is just to enjoy life while you have it.” —Christina Frangou

“[De-adoption has] a huge potential to not only improve the care for patients but then potentially help ith the financia sustainability of the health-care system.”

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our years ago, just before starting a post-doctoral fellowship in Seattle, pediatric pain expert Melanie Noel lay in an ultrasound suite and heard words that changed her life: “There are three heartbeats.”

Now, the assistant professor in psychology at the University of Calgary says having triplets has been both her toughest challenge and biggest boost.

“It changed my anchors in terms of what is important, what is stressful, and it makes me know that I can persist through anything,” says Noel.

In 2015, Noel was recruited to the University of Calgary and Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute as part of the Vi Riddell Pain & Rehabilitation Centre, which is dedicated to helping children who are suffering from pain.

Her research focuses on developing simple psychological treatments to manage aspects of children’s pain — things like memory reframing, an intervention that involves talking about past painful experiences in ways that help a patient remember them in more positive ways. Her groundbreaking work has shown that chronic pain in childhood heightens risk for PTSD, anxiety and depression in adulthood.

Noel also helped create practice guidelines for pain management during vaccinations that are now backed by the World Health Organization.

“Given that healthy children in Canada will receive 20 vaccine injections by age five this work affects all children,” says Noel.

In addition to her work as director of the Alberta Children’s Pain Research Lab, Noel is a national collaborator on the Pain in Child Health Training Initiative connecting pediatric-pain researchers around the world.

Her 56 published papers to date are cited among the key publications on childhood pain in recent years, for which Noel was awarded the Canadian Pain Society Early Career Award. She is currently the only Calgary-based co-investigator in The Chronic Pain Network, a $25-million initiative that brings together patients, researchers and clinicians across Canada.

Noel is motivated by her patients and the young researchers coming up behind her. It’s important to her that women know they can have a successful career in science as well as a family. Her secret is her “village” — a husband who uprooted his career several times to follow her, family members who helped look after the triplets and the crew of researchers in the lab adjacent to her office.

It’s not easy, but there is a way to make it work, she says. “I think it’s important for people like me to start being real about those struggles but also show the other side of what’s possible.”

—Christina Frangou

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Noel’s internationally recognized research has changed the understanding and treatment of the psychological aspects of childhood pain. She helped develop guidelines for pain reduction during vaccinations that have been adopted by the World Health Organization.

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“Make a decision that you can defend if it became public.

Whether in business or in life, we should act based on our principles and convictions.”

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39 VP Finance and CFO, Tangle Creek Energy As part of the executive leadership team, Pantazopoulos has helped raise $180 million in equity capital for Tangle Creek. His price-hedging program was instrumental in allowing Tangle Creek to execute its development drilling program, positioning it to acquire another oiland-gas company in 2016 worth $40 million. He’s also a tireless advocate for public education.

n early July, John Pantazopoulos was planning how Tangle Creek, the company of which he is the VP Finance and CFO, would literally move up in the world — from the 14th floor to the 21st of its downtown office tower.

In large part because of the oil price-hedging program Pantazopoulos instituted, Tangle Creek increased its cash flow by more than $6 million in 2016, leading it to acquire another oil-andgas company, worth almost $40 million. This allowed Tangle Creek to move up in the world figuratively even as other oil companies went out of business.

Pantazolpoulos is quick to emphasize that the success of Tangle Creek to date is not his to claim.

“It’s a cliché, but you can really see that ability to work together here,” he says and points to the teamwork in one of the company’s early acquisitions.

“People said you couldn’t do it. We put together 100 sections of land with something like 25 or 30 separate transactions. We had to go and hustle.”

That hustle ended up as a financial success, but Pantazopoulos also believes in the intrinsic value of hard work. “I want to be able to say, I worked hard, I gave it the best I could. If you give it 100 per cent, great, that’s success in itself.”

To that end, Pantazopoulos volunteered for the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) royalty review subcommittee in 2015 and was appointed to the steering committee to work directly with the provincial government.

You might call Pantazopoulos a money guy’s money guy, who started his career as an analyst with CIBC world markets here in Calgary and, by the age of 29, had risen to the rank of CFO of a TSX-Venture listed company.

In addition to his work in oil and gas, he’s currently a director of the Calgary Parking Authority, where he serves as vice-chair of the audit committee.

Though parking downtown is one subject that tends to inspire strong opinions in people, if you want to really get Pantazopoulos fired up, talk to him about public schools.

“Public education is the definition of what makes a democracy what it is. It’s a bedrock. It affects everything,” he says. This belief has led him to advocate for school building and to sit on the audit committee of the Calgary Board of Education.

All of these efforts align to get him closer to his tentative 15-year plan: entering politics.

“To go into politics and make sure those public institutions are safe and secure,” he says, “I’d absolutely love to do that.” —Käthe Lemon AvenueCalgary.com

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“If you’re helping out the poorest people you’re bringing up society’s general wealth.”

Mark Powers 36 Manager, Donation Centre and Resource Development, Calgary Drop-In & Rehab Centre Since becoming its manager, Powers has more than doubled the revenue brought in by the D.I.’s Donation Centre and increased the number of products the centre recycles from just two to more than 11. He also helped develop the Christmas Wish Program, which provides gifts to around 600 homeless Calgarians every year.

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n 2003, Mark Powers broke his cellphone on purpose. He had decided to quit using drugs and step one for him was erasing all his contacts. Powers got a new phone, but he kept the same job he had scrubbing floors and bunks at the Calgary Drop-In & Rehab Centre (the D.I.).

The charity, which provides immediate and longterm services for homeless and at-risk Calgarians, is the largest of its kind in North America in terms of the number of people served.

As Powers worked on his recovery, he took on more responsibility and in 2008 became the D.I.’s volunteer coordinator. Over the six years he worked in that department, he more than doubled the number of regular volunteers and restructured the department, eventually managing more than 100,000 hours of volunteer time.

In 2008, Powers helped develop the D.I.’s Christmas Wish Program, an initiative that allows Calgarians living in shelters to request a specific gift at Christmastime.

With between 500 and 700 people on the program’s list each year, Powers devoted so much time to the project that he usually put off celebrating Christmas until early January. In fact, until 2016 when he spent the day with his newly adopted son, it had been 12 years since he celebrated Christmas on December 25th.

When Powers became manager of fund development for the D.I. in 2013, he and his team raised more than $1 million dollars in cash and even more in-kind donations such as furniture, clothing and books. “I’ll ask anyone for money,” says Powers, and he is always finding ways to connect people and businesses with the D.I.’s mission.

He now manages the D.I.’s Donation Centre and oversees all of the D.I.’s resource development. Powers more than doubled the donation centre’s revenue from $60,000 to more than $120,000 by initiating 11 new and profitable recycling programs for donated items like scrap bicycles and electronics parts.

Powers is proof that the D.I. can help people change, and he’s not shy talking about his past — he routinely gives impact speeches about drug use at the United Way and the D.I. “My dad always taught me you work hard and take care of others and listen to what they have to say,” says Powers — advice he tries to live by.

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Kevin & Julia Read 34 Founder and CEO, Nomodic Modular Structures (Kevin) 32 Vice-President Finance, Nomodic Modular Structures (Julia) The Reads have built their modular construction company into a business with 40 employees and revenues expected to exceed $25 million in 2017. They are challenging the utilitarian view of modular construction with luxury lodges and other custom projects.

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humble beginnings in the master bedroom of a 1,000-square-foot bungalow in Willow Park where Kevin started the company in May, 2012.

While Nomodic’s first project was for work housing in a remote part of northern B.C., it now has two hotel projects on the go. Duffin Cove Oceanfront Lodging in Tofino, B.C., is adding 18 more rooms using Nomodic’s modular construction, which will allow the hotel to only shut down for a couple months during low season to do the

expansion. Julia and Kevin are also excited about a luxury lodge Nomodic is constructing near Yellowknife, N.W.T., with 37 plush suites, all with skylights for watching the northern lights.

Nomodic is also working with First Nations in Ontario in need of permanent housing.

“Every building we build, you can’t tell it’s prefabricated,” says Kevin, adding they want to keep pushing the boundaries of construction.

—Gwendolyn Richards

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evin and Julia Read are literally thinking outside of the box. Where most modular building companies embrace the traditional, boxy, square or rectangular shapes associated with prefabricated construction (think school portables and mobile homes), the Reads and their company Nomodic Modular Structures are shape-shifting the modular world.

“We try to push the boundaries of people’s perceptions,” says Julia.

With an in-house architect and designers, along with relationships with materials manufacturers across the country, from wood to steel, there is no limit to what Nomodic can build.

You might say they aren’t, well, “boxed in.”

Instead of vying for the same business as other pre-fab companies building those school portables and relocatable trailers, the Reads compete for jobs across the construction market.

The only true difference between traditional construction and what Nomodic does, says Kevin, is that the pieces of the building are created elsewhere and assembled on site using the company’s construction team.

The biggest payoff is efficiency. Timelines are crunched to mere months compared to the years a conventional project might take, and there is less waste because all the design is done up front, with the building pieces mapped out and made in a factory. “All the engineering happens in advance and everything is custom designed to fit, so you don’t have people showing up at the job site trying to make it work,” said Kevin.

“Everything fits perfectly.”

Currently, Nomodic has more than 40 employees in four cities. The company projects it will pull in $25 million in 2017 — more than triple last year’s revenues. It’s a leap from Nomodic’s

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Eddie Richardson 37 Founder and Director, Genesis Basketball

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hrough the sheer volume of his contributions, Eddie Richardson has helped turn Calgary into a hub for youth basketball and provided accessible training to hundreds of young athletes.

One testament to Richardson’s impact is the success of the Genesis Classic, a boys’ and girls’ basketball tournament he founded. Every spring, teams from across North America flock to Calgary for the Classic — the largest basketball event in Western Canada — which drew 136 teams in 2017.

A former nationally recognized collegiate athlete at SAIT, Richardson chose to shift to the training side of the sport after he graduated. In 2007, he founded Genesis Basketball, a non-profit that offers low-cost, high-quality basketball coaching, camps, clinics and tournaments for athletes from five to 18 years old. Enrollment has grown from 24 players in 2007 to 538 in 2016. More than 30 per cent of those athletes are financially sponsored by Genesis to participate, giving them access to high-quality training

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in a supportive atmosphere regardless of their socio-economic background.

A decade after starting the non-profit, Richardson is now hearing what it has meant to the kids he coaches. “Some are graduating and telling us, ‘Hey, I wouldn’t have gotten into [post-secondary] school without Genesis,’ ‘I wouldn’t have thought education was important without Genesis,’ ‘I wouldn’t have had someone to call and lean on without knowing Genesis was around,’” says Richardson.

In addition to running the business operations and acting as the head of coaching development at Genesis, Richardson is also the head coach of the club’s top men’s and women’s travel teams, which play around the country and the western United States. He also works with NBA Canada to run the Junior NBA program for five- to seven-yearolds; assists Basketball Alberta with tryouts, coaching and development and bridges the gaps between Canada Basketball’s national program and local athletes.

Richardson also spearheaded the construction of the LAB — Genesis’s $150,000 modern 2,200-square-foot “mini” training facility. And for the past 10 years, he has also helped run summer basketball camps.

“You’ve got kids from all over the city, from different demographics, and they’re laughing on the bench and they’re smiling and they’ve forgotten all their worries, and they’re just playing basketball,” Richardson says.

“When I look at them and see the smiles and the camaraderie they have, that makes me say, ‘Yeah, I’ll do this forever.’”

—Andrew Jeffrey

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Richardson founded a club that provides hundreds of kids with elite basketball training regardless of their socio-economic background, spearheaded the building of a comprehensive training facility and created the largest basketball tournament in Western Canada.

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he Christian church and out-and-proud LGBTQ activism are two areas of life that many believe don’t mix — that is, to fully engage in one requires suppression or rejection of the other.

Pam Rocker doesn’t see it that way.

In her position as affirming consultant at Hillhurst United Church, Rocker works to remove barriers to inclusion for LGBTQ people and establish the church as a safe space — socially and theologically — for those who have been traditionally marginalized by religion.

In her role, Rocker provides outreach and one-on-one counselling and preaches to the congregation. Over the seven years that Rocker has led the affirming ministry at Hillhurst, the church’s attendance numbers have doubled, bucking the general trend of declining numbers of regular churchgoers. Rocker’s ministry has also gained national attention and she now provides consulting services, resources and support in the way of speaking engagements and workshops for other churches and faith-based communities. This national exposure, says Rocker, helps combat Calgary’s reputation in the minds of some as a conservative and intolerant city.

Rocker is also an active participant in Calgary’s arts scene as part of the queer feminist

comedy band The Wrong Kind of Girls and as a solo comedy and musical performer. She also directed the Coming Out In Faith Monologues edition of the Coming Out Monologues series and collaborated with Urban Curvz theatre (now Handsome Alice) to throw a feminist Halloween party, designed as a statement against Halloween’s ingrained sexism.

The event caught the attention of conservative U.S. pundit Glenn Beck, who brought Rocker on his TV show as a talking head.

Predictably, Beck was not sympathetic to Rocker’s views — a negative reaction she’s all too familiar with. Rocker deals with hate mail and personal attacks daily, but she understands that visibility is key to the success of her ministry.

Though Rocker was raised in the United Church, her sexuality and activism led to estrangement from her family, so she understands what it’s like for others who don’t have their own family’s support. “[For] queer people, it has sort of been ingrained in us that in order to experience something sacred you have to feel guilty,” she says. “They can’t actually imagine a faith community that would accept them without shaming them.

“I think I represent that it’s possible to have those things in your life and be okay.”

—Shelley Arnusch

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Rocker’s LGBTQ-inclusive ministry at Hillhurst United Church has received international attention, making her a sought-after consultant for other faith communities and helping to break down negative stereotypes.

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Scarratt has become a key player in securing funding for research at the U of C, implementing processes at the university that have helped increase research funding by more than $100 million annually.

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s director of the institutional program division for the University of Calgary’s research services office, Liz Scarratt leads a team of 15 administrators who help U of C researchers get funding to do groundbreaking work. There are grants and funding that researchers apply for on their own, but it’s the large and complex research projects that Scarratt and her team work to secure funding for.

She not only chases big money for big discoveries but also helps implement the U of C’s strategic research plan and then helps researchers prepare proposals, strategically position their work and even figure out some of the logistics of implementing the funded projects.

One such project Scarratt helped bring to fruition is Advancing Canadian Wastewater Assets (ACWA), a partnership between the U of C and the City of Calgary that launched in 2015 and aims to improve the future of clean water. ACWA examines the impacts of pollutants on different aquatic environments and studies how to create and improve water treatment technologies. Scarratt has been a board member of ACWA since it started and helps to develop the organization’s long-term strategy, community outreach, budget and sustainability.

“There is a much larger purpose to all of it,” Scarratt says of her work at the U of C. “If I do a good job, then one of the best researchers can get the opportunity to deliver something amazing for the public.”

Before Scarratt was hired in 2008, the university had received small grants but had fewer processes to get “big money” funding — significant grants that allow for largescale projects. Scarratt worked to develop “I see what I do a new framework focused on making the as contributing to university more successful when seeking multi-million-dollar research grants. By the vision of the 2009, she had helped bring in $111 miluniversity. So if lion for that year.

In 2011, Scarratt developed SUPPORT can find a a — a multidisciplinary panel that reviews to be connected and improves the business case and logic to something behind researchers’ needs for significant larger than grants. The process has improved success yourself, then rates for the U of C’s major funding apI think that’s a plications across funding agencies. For example, this year the university had a good way [to stay 52-per cent success rate for infrastructuremotivated].” funding applications, compared to a national success rate of around 30 per cent.

Today, Scarratt and her team are involved with more than 700 researchers across multiple faculties and more than 100 active projects worth more than $150 million.

The strategies and processes Scarratt has implemented helped increase the U of C’s overall annual funding for research to $360 million last year. —Ashley King

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38 Assistant Professor, Department of OnDi isi s s ia C i edi i e i ersit Ca ar s ist e at a d ra s a t r ra berta C i dre s s ita Dr. Schulte is an internationally recognized expert on the psychological and social effects of surviving childhood cancer whose work has changed the international guidelines for longterm follow-up for pediatric cancer patients.

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r. Fiona Schulte knows that talking doesn’t cure cancer.

But she has also proven that it can improve a survivor’s quality of life, even long after treatment is over.

The five-year survival rate for children diagnosed with cancer has increased from just over 50 per cent to 83 per cent in the last 40 years, but it’s not all rosy for survivors.

“There’s this perception that after cancer treatment ends, you get to go back to the way life was before,” says Schulte. “That’s not the case.

So many patients struggle psychologically and socially to adjust to life after cancer.”

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Dr. Fiona Schulte

In her six years working as a psychologist, Schulte has treated more than 400 pediatric cancer patients, their siblings and their parents. Her patients suffer everything from depression to post-traumatic stress disorder, and she helps improve their quality of life with support groups and counselling.

Schulte is an internationally recognized leader in the relatively new field of pediatric psychosocial oncology. She has authored 30 publications and received more than $1.5 million in research grants to improve the psychosocial wellbeing of both the kids who survive cancer and those who are undergoing treatment.

In January 2017 Schulte was awarded the Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation Psychosocial: Launch Grant. She is the only Canadian ever to win the US$100,000 grant, allowing her to research pediatric brain tumour survivors. She’s determined to uncover why these kids often have social difficulties and what can be done to help them.

Her work is bringing attention to Calgary as a place where important post-cancer research happens. Earlier this year, Schulte was elected vice-president of the Canadian Association of Psychosocial Oncology. She’s also involved in the Children’s Oncology Group, an international board that publishes long-term follow-up guidelines for pediatric cancer survivors every five years. Schulte updates the guidelines for psychosocial follow-up.

While Schulte’s research and leadership is putting Calgary on the map, her goal is to improve the quality of life of pediatric cancer survivors. “I hope that I’m impacting survivors and their families by giving them a safe space to say, ‘This is hard and I’m not doing well,’” says Schulte. “I want them to know they’re not alone in this experience.” —Karin Olafson

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Shaw is an assistant professor in the faculty of social work at the University of Calgary — the largest faculty of social work in the country — and is currently the youngest in her department.

Since taking the position last January, she has worked to incorporate collaborative learning within her lectures, handing over power so that students can grade one another, and swapping desks for floor-seated circle discussions. She aims to create open environments where everyone can share and contribute. “I think about respecting adult learners as people that come to the classroom with so much experience and knowledge,” says Shaw. “Maybe there are a couple things that I can teach them, but in the end, they teach me just as much.”

Shaw also co-founded the Equity Action Committee, a platform where students and staff can share social-justice resources and information on community events to encourage wider involvement. In recognition of her dedication to her students and the community, she was selected to represent her faculty on the university’s Senate, a committee that tries to bridge the gap between the institution and the community.

Shaw’s research, which often features controversial subjects affecting marginalized groups, has led to invitations to speak at more than 40 conferences and events nationally and internationally.

As an activist and volunteer, she splits her efforts between the local and the global. She was part of the six-member organizing committee that brought Calgary its first Amnesty “I try to do honour International Human Rights Conference to this position that this past summer, and is a board member I’ve been given here of Women Help Women, an international that supports abortion access in and to not let the group countries where it is illegal or restricted. power and privilege On the local level, Shaw was part of a of being a professor multidisciplinary team put together by prevent me from the City of Calgary that created the “Social Impacts of an Economic Downturn” being relatable with report to help councillors and administhe community.” trators make spending decisions.

In addition to all that, Shaw is a trained doula (and founder of the national full-spectrum doula collective) and a fencer. If ever anyone was unironically deserving of the title “social justice warrior,” she’s it. —Ashley King

The youngest faculty member in social work at the U of C, Shaw’s research on often controversial subjects affecting marginalized populations has received national and international attention. She was also on the committee that brought the Amnesty International Human Rights Conference to the city for the first time.

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Dr. Amy Tan 39 Associate Professor, Department of a i edi i e C i edi i e i ersit Ca ar a i si ia Dr. Tan helps to improve advance-care planning and communications about end-of-life planning as a lead investigator of a multi-provincial study and has developed a framework used by the University of Alberta to teach doctors to talk about how to make end-of-life decisions.

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n December 2002, Amy Tan, then a newlywed medical resident, skidded on black ice as she drove to work. Her car crashed, landing upside down under a bridge.

While Tan was too disoriented to make decisions, doctors asked her husband if she would want a risky surgery. He had to guess what she’d choose — they’d never discussed what either wanted in case of a serious medical condition.

“My hope is that with advance-care planning, people will not be put in the situation that I put my husband in,” says Tan, now an associate professor at the University of Calgary and a family physician who works in a teaching clinic in the city’s northeast and provides palliative care services at several local hospices and in patients’ homes.

Her accident required a seven-month leave of absence from her training and taught her life is precious. “It cannot be taken for granted. As corny and cliché as that is, literally, things can change,” she snaps her fingers, “like that.”

Motivated in part by her own experience, Tan is a passionate proponent of better advance-care planning for Canadians. She developed a framework to help physicians talk to surrogate decisionmakers of dying patients about

how to make informed decisions, which is now used in the University of Alberta medical school curriculum.

The local lead investigator and national co-lead for a multiprovincial study backed by a $2.7 million grant, Tan is spearheading a large study in family medicine clinics to identify the people most likely to make major health-care decisions in the next two years and get them to engage in advance-care planning. “It’s a gift we can give our loved ones, to tell them what we would want,” she says.

In addition to her regular clinic, Tan supports Calgary’s Palliative Home Care Program as a family physician by visiting housebound patients living with serious or terminal illnesses.

This past summer, she received a Janus Research Grant for $11,000 from the College of Family Physicians of Canada to interview and conduct focus groups with the medical professionals who provide palliative care and the patients and families of patients who need it. The project will aim to get a “360-degree view” of the community-based primary palliative care experience in Calgary and the surrounding rural areas and find ways to better support family physicians to provide palliative care to housebound patients.

People often think palliative care is a depressing career choice, but it’s actually the opposite, Tan says. “It is very life-fulfilling because I am privileged to walk with people at such a hard time in their life.”

Her routine differs every day, with a busy travel schedule and multiple clinics around the city.

She gets through it thanks to her online calendar, a lot of coffee and her husband and son. “I could not do this without their support,” Tan says.

—Christina Frangou

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owned indoor soccer facility, the first of its size in Alberta. Wheeldon was the main force behind the project, pushing the importance of a dedicated soccer facility for the club, working alongside program director Danny Hay to get the building through to development. From concept to completion, the fieldhouse was finished in five years.

With this new fieldhouse making news, along with his weekly radio appearances as an analyst on Sportsnet 960 and his pro-am coaching success, it seems that the young footballer from Liverpool has worked his way up to become one of the most important public figures representing the beautiful game in Calgary. —Andrew Jeffrey

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ommy Wheeldon arrived in Calgary in 2002, a young footballer from Liverpool signed to play for the city’s professional team, the Calgary Storm. When the Storm folded a couple years later, he took the chance to be a part of developing Canadian soccer from the grassroots level, and stayed in Calgary.

“I fell in love with Calgary,” Wheeldon says.

“We were outside the top 100 in the FIFA world rankings, but I could see great people, great athletes, and I thought, ‘Well, why can’t we do it?’

Everything that we’ve done now is change people’s view [to see] that, actually, Canadians can be great at soccer.”

Wheeldon joined the Calgary Foothills Soccer Club (CFSC) in 2007 and became the technical director the following year, overseeing the club’s operations and long-term plans.

Under his leadership, CFSC has become one of Canada’s top youth soccer clubs, with player registrations jumping from 300 to 3,000. The club has earned six Canadian Youth National Championships and now boasts men’s and women’s professional-amateur teams competing across the continent. In 2016, Wheeldon coached the men’s pro-am team to the championship final of the Premier Development League in their second season. The City honoured the achievement by lighting the Calgary Tower green and white.

With Wheeldon’s assistance, on average, 10 male and 10 female CFSC players receive university or college soccer scholarships each year.

Wheeldon also raises the $30,000 the club uses to subsidize youth players each year.

“We’re shaping the future, because we’re shaping kids’ lives,” he says. “No matter what walk of life you go into, you’ve got to work with people, you’ve got to work with a team, you’ve got to understand emotions. I think soccer, and any sport, teaches those emotions and instills crucial life values.”

Years of teamwork helped Wheeldon himself achieve one of his greatest accomplishments — CFSC just opened an $11 million privately

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Winter’s research in energy and environmental policy has influenced decisions at the provincial and national levels while helping the public better understand energy policy issues.

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on Energy the Environment and Natural Resources.

Winter is also one of the few economics academics in the country connecting energy policy with Indigenous policy.

Currently, she is helping develop a book on the experiences of First Nations communities with resource development, which is intended to be published in late 2018.

For Winter, the value of her work is in engaging with the public and providing Albertans with the information they need to make informed decisions.

“If people don’t have accurate information readily available to them, how can they evaluate the policy choices that governments are making or the statements that opposing parties are making?” she says.

To that end, since 2013, Winter has participated in more than 40 speaking engagements, been interviewed on television and radio programs and written opinion pieces for national publications such as The Globe and Mail, making her a prominent thought-leader in the field.

“My end goal would be a better informed public that is able to hold politicians to account on energy and environmental policy issues,” she says.

—Karin Olafson

“Try lots of different things.

Even if you think you won’t like something, you should probably try it just in case.

You might be surprised.”

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ennifer Winter is an economics professor and academic focused on energy and environmental policies who has made a big impact in a short time.

Since entering the field in 2012, Winter has published 16 papers covering topics such as the different definitions of green jobs and the potential for Canada to export heavy oil to countries in the Asia-Pacific region, and she has secured four grants for her research totalling $140,000. Her work has catapulted her to the role of scientific director, the highest position in the University of Calgary’s energy and environmental policy department in the school of public policy.

Winter’s research is read by company leaders and policy makers, and has helped move provincial and national policy conversations. In 2015, she helped write a paper that analyzed why a carbon tax in Alberta would be a good idea and submitted it to the Alberta Climate Change Advisory Panel. That work was quoted in the 2015 Climate Leadership Report to Minister, and Alberta’s carbon tax was introduced in 2017. In February of this year, Winter gave testimony on carbon pricing to the Senate of Canada Standing Committee

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Richard Davignon founded Davignon Martin Architecture + Interior Design in 2001. His industry experience encompasses residential, hospitality, corporate and educational-facility architecture and design. Davignon has earned the American Institute of Architectsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Award of Excellence and has received a mention of excellence from the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. He is a frequent guest critic for studio-level courses at the University of Calgary and was a member of the Canada Council for the Arts jury, which selected the 2011 Professional Prix de Rome in Architecture.

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Joyce Byrne is the publisher of Avenue and former publisher of This Magazine, former associate publisher of award-winning business magazines Alberta Venture and Unlimited and a former consulting publisher with the literary magazine Eighteen Bridges. Byrne is president of the Alberta Magazine Publishers Association and past president of the National Magazine Awards Foundation. She was Magazines Canada Volunteer of the Year for 2011, made the National Advertising Benevolent Society Honour Roll in 2012 and received the Advertising Club of Edmontonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fellowship Award in 2013.

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Fabrizio (Fab) Chiacchia is a business-development and product-development professional with a passion for innovation. He currently works in business development at Pembina Pipeline Corporation and is a board member of Surface Medical Inc. Chiacchia has been awarded several patents and publications for scientific contributions, and he is an active volunteer in the science technology engineering and mathematics (STEM) community. In 2015, he received a prestigious national Ernest C. Manning Innovation Award.

Elise Fear is a professor of electrical engineering in the Schulich School of Engineering at the University of Calgary.

Her research team is developing new approaches to imaging and sensing that uses low-power microwaves. These new techniques may be useful for breast imaging, assessing hydration and monitoring cardiac output.

She enjoys teaching classes in electromagnetics and imaging, as well as mentoring students.

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Judges Allison Maher

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Allison Maher is co-founder of Calgary-based Family Wealth Coach Planning Services, chair of the local TIGER 21 Chapter, a director of the Heritage Park Foundation and a family council member for GENn Family Office, an enterprise established to meet the needs of ultra-high net worth families. She is also past chair of The Alberta Business Family Institute’s advisory board, a centre within the University of Alberta’s School of Business. She also co-authored the book The Future of You: Providing Clarity Where Life Intersects Wealth.

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Käthe Lemon is the editor-in-chief of Avenue, a role she took on in 2006. Under her tenure, the magazine has won multiple industry awards and, in 2011, she was recognized as the Alberta Editor of the Year by the Alberta Magazine Publishers Association. She has volunteered with a number of organizations including the boards of the Alberta Magazine Publishers’ Association, the Rotary Park Lawn Bowls Club, the Attainable Homes Calgary Corporation advisory committee and the Amber Webb-Bowerman Memorial Foundation, a charity that provides scholarships for emerging Western Canadian journalists and artists.

Ken Lima-Coelho is a familiar voice to Calgarians from his years hosting and producing on CBC, his work as a communityevent emcee for organizations such as the University of Calgary, Mount Royal University, Calgary Economic Development and the Calgary Stampede and as a founding member of local a cappella group the Heebee-jeebees. Lima-Coelho is currently the vice-president, marketing and communications for YMCA Calgary and is an active volunteer, currently serving as chair of the Arts and Heritage Grant Advisory Committee at The Calgary Foundation.

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THE he lth OF OUR CITY Boom or bust, the average Calgarian is comparatively healthy and satisfied with both the quality of health care available to them and their overall quality of life.

But scratch the statistics just a little and a much more complex picture emerges.

BY Marzena Czarnecka ILLUSTRATIONS BY Celia Krampien

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ime for a checkup on the health of the average Calgarian.

They can expect to live 82.3 years, and if they’re 65 today they can expect to add another 20.9 years to their lifespan.

They consider themself pretty healthy and have their immunizations up to date. If they’re a senior, they’ve had their flu shot, too. They have a family doctor, though they’re more likely to go to a hospital emergency room if they want same-day health-care access.

They’re less likely to be obese than the average Albertan or Canadian (but more likely than their peers in Vancouver or Toronto).

Most don’t smoke, and they’re more likely than the average Canadian to choose to exercise during their leisure time. They drink a little more than the national or provincial average but not as much as their peers in Northern Alberta. The Canadian Institute for Health Information, which tracks and releases this data, is a little concerned about upward-trending rates of hospitalization caused entirely by alcohol, but rates for Calgarians are not the highest in the province or the country, so things could be worse. And, if the average Calgarian ends up in a hospital, they’ll receive good care with which they’ll likely be satisfied. Plus, they’re unlikely to die of unexpected complications from treatment or sepsis and unlikely to be readmitted.

They’re also pretty into Calgary. They give the city a solid B, reports the Calgary Foundation in its annual Vital Signs report. They feel they know their neighbours well enough to ask them for help, believe they have an opportunity to make a difference, and consider their mental well-being and physical well-being to be quite high.

Pretty good, right? To make it even better, they live in one of the healthiest and wealthiest cities in the world. “Globally speaking,

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Calgary is a rather healthy city,” says William Ghali, scientific director of the O’Brien Institute for Public Health at the University of Calgary. “Why? Because of education and prosperity. Calgary is a rich city, on a national landscape, and even in the context of the economic downturn, it remains a rather prosperous city.”

But don’t throw that congratulatory party just yet. Let’s pick those numbers apart a little. First, let’s consider that there is no such person, ultimately, as the “average Calgarian.” As the Calgary Foundation’s 2016 Vital Signs report points out, “Our citizens speak over 140 languages and belong to 240 ethnic origins.” In 2011, around a quarter of Calgary’s population were new immigrants and Statistics Canada estimates new immigrants will comprise 40 per cent of Calgary’s population by 2020.

Calgary’s “average” income is well above the national average, even during an economic downturn. However, economic disparity in our city continues to increase, too, says Noel Keough, a professor with the faculty of environmental design at the University of Calgary, and a co-founder of the Sustainable Calgary Society.

Keough and Sustainable Calgary have been tracking Calgary’s social and economic health through its State of the City reports since 1998. “[Income] inequality in the city has been growing over that period of time,” Keough says. “Calgary is now noted as one of the most unequal cities in the country.”

According to a recently released study by the Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada, Calgary’s income inequality is four times higher than the Canadian average. That doesn’t mean just that the gap between Calgary’s wealthiest and poorest is large (that goes without saying). What’s more troubling, as a 2016 Statistics Canada report on Canadian income disparity highlights, is the widening gap between the uber-wealthy and the average Calgarian. The city’s richest one per cent earns 11 times as much as the city’s median earners.

That’s almost double the six-to-one spread between the top one per cent and the median income Calgary reported in 1982.

This matters as a health issue because, on average, a wealthy city is a healthy city. But if the wealth isn’t evenly distributed, neither is the health. Wealth, or, to be more academic about it, socioeconomic status, has a huge impact on physical and mental health and overall well-being. The research is pretty much unanimous: “The biggest determinants of poor health are lack of stable housing, lack of food security and social isolation,” says Ghali. In other words, the poorer you are, the worse your health, from daily quality of life through to your life expectancy.

“We know that the social determinants of health, such as stable housing, social capital and social support, education, access to healthy food, experiences of racism and discrimination … those sorts of things determine the health of a population far more than access to hospitals and systems of health care,” says Dr. Gabriel Fabreau. An internal medicine physician at the Peter Lougheed Hospital, co-founder of the East Calgary Health Centre and assistant professor at the U of C’s Cumming School of Medicine, Fabreau is deeply involved with Calgary’s most vulnerable populations. His major research project, CUPS Coordinated Care Team (CUPS CCT), a partnership between CUPS (Calgary Urban Project Society) and Alpha House’s Downtown Outreach Addictions Partnership team, is focused on the health needs of Calgarians struggling with addiction and homelessness.

“We know that the social determinants of health, such as stable housing, social capital and social support, education, access to healthy food, experiences of racism and discrimination … those sorts of things determine the health of a population far more than access to hospitals and systems of health care.”

– Dr. Gabriel Fabreau, co-founder of the East Calgary Health Centre, assistant professor at the University of Calgary’s Cumming School of Medicine

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One in five Canadians will experience a mental health episode a year ...

“That’s more than 200,000 people in this city, every year, needing mentalhealth support.”

– Callum Ross, advocacy lead, CIMH Calgary branch

Fabreau also works with Calgary’s Mosaic Refugee Health Clinic, as does Tanvir Turin Chowdhury, research director and assistant professor with the faculty of medicine at the U of C. The Mosaic Refugee clinic is part of the Mosaic Primary Care Network, an arrangement between a group of family doctors and Alberta Health Services to provide primary-care services to patients living in the northeast, southeast and some northwest Calgary communities, which include some of Calgary’s poorer neighbourhoods and are home to a disproportionate number of Calgary’s vulnerable citizens.

The refugee clinic, now considered one of the best refugee clinics in the country, supports the unique health needs of refugees. Just as importantly, it engages in ongoing dialogues with physicians and other service providers and stakeholders in the city to educate them (and learn from them) about how to best serve violently transplanted citizens who, apart from culture shock, may be suffering from a level of trauma outside the experience of an average Calgary doctor or city employee.

“Refugees are different from conventional immigrants,” says Chowdhury. “They didn’t really choose to come here. They need unique supports to become integrated, flourishing and contributing citizens of our city.”

And they can’t be expected to find those supports on their own, so part of Chowdhury’s work is creating maps of “assets” — services and resources that both clinic clients and their service providers can utilize. People can’t access services they don’t know about, and even when services exist and people know about them, they still need help connecting with them.

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77 per cent of Calgarians rating their mental well-being as high, and 80 per cent giving their physical well-being a thumbs up. The spike in suicide rates that Alberta, including Calgary Zone, experienced in 2015 has receded to a level that could be considered “normal.”

Of course, what those Vital Signs numbers also reveal is that more than 20 per cent of Calgarians aren’t so sanguine about the state of their mental health.

Sadly, there’s nothing surprising about that statistic. According to the Canadian Institute for Mental Health, one in five Canadians will experience a mental-health episode a year. Callum Ross, the Advocacy Lead with the Calgary branch of CIMH, really wants to drive that point home. “That’s one in five Calgarians a year going through some tough mental-health stuff,” he says. “That’s more than 200,000 people in this city, every year, needing mentalhealth support.”

There are not sufficient dollars in any government’s coffers to provide support for that many struggling people. “We’ve created this situation where we’ve done a really good job of telling people to ask for help,” Ross says. “We’ve done a lot of good work around removing the stigma of mental health, especially among younger people. If they feel they need help, they ask for it.”

And then they get put on a waiting list. Getting mental-health help through Alberta Health Services can be a gruelling process, especially for someone in crisis, involving jumping through myriad bureaucratic hoops.

“When I finally managed to talk to my doctor about my depression and got a referral from her to AHS, my first contact with AHS was this horrible form letter that sounded almost threatening to me,” says one of those 23 per cent of Calgarians who does not report good mental health and spoke on the condition of anonymity. It took tremendous effort to persevere and take the next step, she says.

She’s now on a waiting list to get help and, in the meantime, is left to cope with her depression without support from the system.

When the road to help from the system is long, what fills the gap is community. Friends. Family. Neighbours.

According to the Calgary Foundation, 60 per cent of Calgarians feel they know their neighbours. But that also means that 40 per cent of Calgarians don’t feel they have that connection. According to Ross, community and connection are a critical part of well-being. International studies bear them out pretty much unanimously, and not just on the mental-health front — the more connected you feel to other people, the healthier (and likely the happier) you are.

The more connected you are, the more resilient you are in the face of adversity, too, says Ross.

Now, Calgary is a damn resilient city. We even have a recent award to prove it: the Rockefeller Foundation named us one of the world’s 100 resilient cities in 2016. “One trend that has remained consistent [over the decade of our Vital Signs reports] is our city’s sense of optimism and resiliency,” says Taylor Barrie, director of communications with the Calgary Foundation.

But, again, that resilience, and the better health it brings, isn’t equitably distributed. Barrie is blunt: “The gap between rich and poor is ever-widening and poverty reduction remains a big issue in our community.”

It’s important to note that the gap between the rich and poor in Calgary isn’t just related to the neighbourhood one can afford to live in or what kind of car one drives. It’s related, directly, to how long one lives. University of Calgary studies on longevity in Calgary communities have identified a difference of 10 years in life expectancy between Calgary’s lowest-income and highestincome communities. (It could be worse: in Winnipeg, the difference between life expectancy in its troubled city core communities and affluent suburbs is a whopping 18 years.)

Community design also has a significant bearing on health.

Gavin McCormack, a population and public health researcher, and associate professor in the Cumming School of Medicine at the U of C is among the researchers who study the relationship between urban design and physical activity. “Our research shows that regardless of your socio-economic status, living in a walkable neighbourhood is good for your health,” McCormack says.

“Where you live and the environment in which you live have an impact on physical activity, and also it can have an impact on outcomes such as the amount of time you spend watching TV or using screens in your leisure time” (and, yes, also on your weight).

Plug socio-economic status into that equation, though, and something scary happens: the health of people in poor neighbourhoods with low walkability is much worse than the health of people in affluent neighbourhoods with low walkability. “It’s a double whammy in a sense,” says McCormack.

Implications for policy makers and neighbourhood developers are clear: if you want healthy citizens, build walkable neighbourhoods. But the most walkable neighbourhood is no good to you if you can’t afford to live there, and affordable housing remains a troubling issue in Calgary.

“The way it is right now, housing is almost entirely within the private market and that suits most people quite well,” says Lindsay McLaren, associate professor at the Department of Community Health Sciences at the U of C, as well as chair in Applied Public Health with Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Public Health Agency of Canada and Alberta Innovates Health Solutions.

“And then, there’s a very, very tiny social-housing sector that sort of helps some people.

“Then, there’s that group of people in the middle who are precariously housed.”

This “precariously housed” group of Calgarians (sometimes described as employed but struggling), spends a disproportionate percentage of their income on housing. Providing them with housing security, says McLaren, is a complex task that requires the support of all three levels of government: municipal, provincial and federal. In November 2016, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced consultations on a national housing strategy, something McLaren notes Canada hasn’t had since 1993. McLaren is hopeful Calgary will see progress on this front. “The City of Calgary has an affordable housing strategy and there is potential here for alignment with the other levels of government,” she says.

Food security — and we’re not talking about reliable access to food banks for the most vulnerable — is as important to health as housing security. Keough and McCormack’s research illustrates that proximity to “utilitarian destinations,” such as grocery stores, correlates with people’s health. In other words, the harder it is to get to your local Safeway, Co-op, or Superstore to get fruit and veg and the easier it is to swing by McDonald’s or call for pizza delivery, the worse you’ll eat — and the worse your health.

But there’s more to the relationship between health and food than just proximity. You can live really close to grocery stores and eat only junk food. Charlene Elliott studies food marketing, packaging and policy in Canada, with a specific focus on children’s health, and is involved in several projects related to Health Canada that are designed to help Canadians make better food choices. A key focus of that endeavour is improving food literacy across generations.

“Healthy cities need to have a food-literate population,” Elliott says. “That means people who are able to critically understand packaging and marketing and nutrition claims, and differentiate between facts and advertising.”

“Food literacy” research is pretty nascent, but it’s already shown that food literacy is closely correlated with socio-economic status, that key social determinant of health.

When you start talking about health, everything is connected.

Including art.

The Canadian Institution for Health Information (CIHI) does not collect data on art, but the Calgary Foundation does, and Calgarians consistently give the city a “B” grade on its art performance.

The average Calgarian’s relationship with art is, well, average. They like, for the most part, knowing that it’s there. They’d just rather

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not pay for it or fund it through tax dollars. But art is one of the critical ways that people in a city foster meaningful connections with each other, says Marc Scholes, the former executive director of continuing education and enterprise at the Alberta College of Art + Design.

Scholes is the producer of “An Art-Enabled Life,” a collaboration between ACAD and the Calgary Board of Education, funded by the Calgary Foundation with support from the Calgary Arts Development Authority, which aims to open up people’s understanding of the huge capacity the arts have to enrich our lives. “We come together in a city for a lot of reasons and most of them are economic,” Scholes says. “But once we’re in the city, we realize we need to connect.

We need meaningful connections with each other and that’s what the arts do. We know there’s more to being a human being than meeting our material needs.”

We also know that there’s more to health than absence of disease, but that makes defining and improving the health of a city a truly Herculean task.

The good news, though, especially for the fiscally conservative, is that throwing more money at the health-care system is not the way to build a healthier city. Calgary and Alberta already have one of the highest-costing health-care systems in the country. The average cost for a hospital stay in Canada in 2015 was $6,098. In Alberta it was $8,007. In Calgary, it was $8,233. Both numbers have also been trending upward and at a faster pace than the Canadian average.

“One of the broadest and most difficult problems we face is the ongoing overreliance on emergency departments for our population at large,” Fabreau says. “This is completely unsustainable. We really need to be building coordinated models of care that work upstream and improve patient care and outpatient services so that we can reduce the burden on our hospitals.”

The solution isn’t to increase health spending, it’s to increase health literacy. Health literacy goes hand-in-hand with education and improving socio-economic status. Make your people wealthier, more educated and less vulnerable and they will use the services you offer in a smarter, more cost-effective manner.

While making people wealthier — or at least less poor — during an economic downturn may seem impossible, making them less vulnerable starts with getting them more connected to both each other and to all the services our city offers. “A healthy city for me is a city that meets the needs of its people, and not just economic needs and safety needs,” says Scholes. “It’s an emotionally connected city that fosters relationships between communities and across age groups. It’s a city in which everyone has the means to become the best people we can become.”

Such a city doesn’t just happen. Nor is it engineered overnight.

And it does require work, and financial investment by municipal, provincial and federal governments, as well as support and advocacy from organizations such as the Calgary Foundation and Sustainable Calgary. And buy-in from citizens who value each other’s well-being.

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“We need meaningful connections with each other. And that’s what the arts do.

We know there’s more to being a human being than meeting our material needs.”

– Marc Scholes, producer of “An Art-Enabled Life”

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Inner host Home entertaining can seem like a lot of work, which is ironic since the whole point of parties is to have fun.

Overcome these common hang-ups with tips from caterers, cleaners and consummate hosts and get your groove on for the holiday party season.

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I’M AFRAID MY PARTY WILL BE BORING

Consumate host Clare McWilliams says she doesn’t feel pressured to “entertain” the guests she’s hosting, and neither should you. “In my opinion there’s nothing boring about eating, drinking, tunes and great company,” she says. “The more relaxed you are as a host the more relaxed your guests are going to be.” Accomplishing most of the party prep a couple of days before allows you to relax and focus on your guests when they arrive. “That calmness you have when you know you’ve got everything covered comes through, and you’re enjoying yourself so your guests are more likely to feel that level of comfort

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ne of the prime objections to hosting is the seemingly insurmountable effort it takes to set the stage (a.k.a. clean the house). But there are ways to do this with (relative) ease: one, focus your efforts, two, deflect attention and three, outsource.

Interior designer and frequent host Paul Lavoie recommends focusing cleaning efforts on high-impact areas. “Make sure the bathroom is impeccable,” he says.

“We try to have fresh flowers in the bathroom and we always make sure there’s a bar of soap and a hand pump.

We just make sure that the house is kind of detailed in a way that makes everybody feel comfy.”

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table. “I would say the tablescape is the biggest preparation other than the food for us,” Fraser says. “We do a beautiful tablescape every time using different dishes and florals and things.”

He also notes that beautiful doesn’t have to mean time-consuming. “A really simple, clean table setting can be beautiful and you don’t have to have specialty dishes,” he says.

If your house truly needs a deep clean before you’re ready to open it up, getting someone else to do the dirty work is a nice treat, provided you have the resources.

“We recommend a clean of common areas such as living rooms, patios — let’s not forget those cushions — kitchens and, the most popular, bathrooms,” says Natasha Moyo, from SHO Luxury Home Care, a company that specializes in home cleaning. “Tidying up your coat closet ensures your guests have space for their personals and keeps your party space free of coats draped over your favourite armchair. We’ll even take care of organizing your fridge to make room for those tasty party treats.”

But the best tip when it comes to cleaning may be to not to worry too much — just pick up the clutter, stash it in a room your guests won’t be in and close the door.

that,” says McWilliams.

For larger gatherings, where the guests won’t all know one another and you may not be on hand to make introductions, Paul Lavoie favours using name tags and icebreaker games to get everyone out of their comfort zone and talking. “It sounds ridiculous and kind of tacky, but it’s not to me. It lets everybody communicate and it gives you a talking point for someone when you walk up to them,” Lavoie says. Games allow people to share common ground and break down inhibitions. Asking guests to dress to a theme or even a certain colour is another way to help loosen things up. “Anytime you can make people feel like they’re all on one side or part of a larger team they all get along better. It adds a little bit of fun to the air,” says Lavoie.

I’M A TERRIBLE COOK

In addition to catering companies, many fine grocers and specialty food shops offer platters perfect for your next party.

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f you’ve become known as “the host who burns the roast” you need not toss up your oven mitts and quit. It could be that you’re getting too complicated with your menu.

Greg Fraser recommends focusing around foods you are comfortable preparing. “You don’t have to have a six-course meal. Start with something that you find easy,” he says, noting that almost anyone can pull off cocktails and appetizers. “I wouldn’t start with a big, four-course dinner for 15.”

As a frequent host of both personal and corporate events, Clare McWilliams also advises simplifying the amount of work you are doing.

One way to do this, she says, is to mix dishes you cook from scratch with some you buy prepared. “If your budget allows you to order food and you’re more comfortable this way, do it,” McWilliams says. This frees you up to socialize more and gives you a chance to make the food look good. “It’s a nice touch to transfer [store-bought] items into your own stoneware and dishes. Not only does it present better, but some guests may assume you cooked it. Don’t ask, don’t tell!”

If you really dread the kitchen, call in the pros. There is an entire industry dedicated to making party food so you don’t have to. “Our role is to make the process easy for the client so they can sit back and enjoy their party,” says Judy Rafuse at Grumans Catering and Delicatessen.

Hiring a caterer doesn’t have to be super fancy or super pricey, either.

Rafuse notes that Grumans offers hot pans of food that can be put in the oven and then served, allowing you to avoid the cost of renting chafing dishes or hiring servers.

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WHAT IF MY GUESTS DON’T GET ALONG?

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ringing any group of people together comes with the risk of social disharmony, but it is possible to take the bull by the horns when it comes to guests getting along. Be selective with your guest list, create an environment where they can get to know each other and don’t be afraid to make introductions and guide conversations.

Greg Fraser has a novel approach to getting guests at his monthly dinner series to chat more — he hand-selects guests from different industries and doesn’t let them bring a spouse or friend.

That way, they have to talk to new people instead of just chatting with the person they came with.

“The nature of our dinner series is about creating community and growing a network,” Fraser says. This approach might not work for everyone, but it does keep the conversation flowing.

Clare McWilliams says if you get the jump on introducing people the conversation will flow. “Be a connector,” she says. “Casually introduce your guests to one another; in one sentence explain how each is connected to you or the

guest of honour, and say something interesting or unique about each of them.

Provide that icebreaker and they’ll take it from there.”

Being strategic on where you choose to congregate can also lead to rapport between guests. Marie-France Lyras, owner of Ateliers Jacob, an interior-design firm that specializes in kitchens and custom cabinetry, says her gatherings often start with everyone casually visiting around the kitchen island. At dinner, Lyras prefers to bring everyone together around one table — kids included. Even if it is crowded, this ensures the energy in the room doesn’t dissipate. “It’s more enjoyable and it’s more fun,” she says.

When the inevitable lull in conversation happens, the trick is to not panic, says Fraser, but to take control. “For sure, sometimes there are little blips in conversation, but it doesn’t mean that people aren’t getting along,” he says. “Sometimes it’s just a lull.”

If you’re not confident in your abilities to lead conversation around a dinner table, throw a different style of party, Fraser advises. “Do a cocktail party or an open house.”

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a soiree. But if you stick to a budget, simplify your plan and choose where to splurge, you and your bank account can escape reasonably unscathed.

As with cleaning, think focus and deflect. Clare McWilliams recommends picking what you want to spend a little more on in order to impress your guests and

“I’m convinced that this is where creativity flourishes. I’m DIY all the way.”

Marie-France Lyras says the point of hosting is not to show off but to bring people together, so if you worry about spending too much, opt for casual food options. “You can always go very simple, such as mixed grill on the barbecue, or even burgers and sausages,” she says. “It’s not that expensive and everybody likes it.”

It’s easy to rack up a large bill with alcoholic beverages. Paul Lavoie advises a signature drink — think a modern spin on the mid-century punch bowl. “That saves a lot of time and energy and cost,” he says. Serving only one type of wine or beer can also save you money as many liquor stores offer bulk-sales discounts.

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“I’ve always lived in small spaces and it’s never stopped me from hosting parties for two or 102. I currently live in a 650-square-foot condo and I’ve hosted a sitdown dinner party for 20.”

Prove your small-space prowess by inviting fewer people, removing large furniture items and being strategic about where you want your guests to end up.

“Pick a guest-count you can manage, then de-clutter your space,” says McWilliams.

“I remove furniture that blocks pathways. Then I set up different stations — in one part of the room or out on a patio, I’ll have a beverage station so that it pulls people toward that area and keeps everyone moving.”

If your home really is too small for the type of event you want to host, look elsewhere — whether that means borrowing a friend’s house, renting a venue or booking a private room at a restaurant.

Most importantly, be unapologetic about what you’re working with. “Feel confident regardless of your home’s size, postal code or decor style,” says McWilliams. “When your guests are made to feel special, the setting is inconsequential.”

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THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO

WINTER MOUNTAINS

Photograph courtesy of the Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise

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This winter it’s all about dressing up cozy and heading out to do the things that make your cheeks all rosy — whether that’s snowshoeing, skating, skiing or just catching flakes on your tongue — then snuggling up fireside when the outdoor stuff is all done (and eating melty cheese right out of the pot). Whether you’re one for cruising down the slopes, or if keeping your boots firmly planted on snow-covered ground is more your speed, we’ll see you out there.

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ADVENTURES Have a Heritage Moment at Assiniboine Lodge

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ultra-affable mountain guide Claude Duchesne, whose wife, Annick Blouin, has long presided over Assiniboine’s shockingly excellent kitchen.

Duchesne and Renner lead the day trips, tailored to the skills of the guests, but always with an emphasis on fun. The ski terrain surrounding the lodge is effectively limitless. Whether on crosscountry gear, snowshoes or the light, modern alpine-touring gear now favoured by many, Assiniboine routinely delivers the best winter touring of your life. It’s not cheap; fully guided and catered stays start at $290 per person per day, excluding heli-transfer. But the point is, if you’re a skier and this is not on your bucket list, you’re doing it wrong. —K.B. assiniboinelodge.com

Current lodge photograph by Peter Moynes

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hould you ever long to follow in history’s ski tracks, you’ll simply never find a better or more beautiful location to do it than Assiniboine Lodge. Straddling a stunningly photogenic alpine meadow at 2,180 metres, Assiniboine still looks much like the log cabin it was in 1929, when it opened as the Rockies’ first backcountry ski lodge.

In those times, clients trudged a minimum of 27 kilometres to get here. Nowadays, this living museum can be reached by a 15-minute helicopter ride from Canmore (or a 10-minute ride from Mt. Shark). Otherwise, little has changed, least of all the pyramidal sentinel towering above it all: Mt. Assiniboine, the Matterhorn of the Rockies.

Canadian mountain history seeps from the timbers. The lodge’s founder was Erling Strom, from Norway via Lake Placid, N.Y., where he had been North America’s first professional ski instructor.

But like many after him, he was beguiled by the pristine quality of this region. His family’s tenure would last more than a half-century, hosting one illustrious mountain character after another — like the early photo-documentarist, Byron Harmon, and cross-country ski giant Jackrabbit Johannsen. Even employees earned legendary status. For a time, the lodge’s chief architect of gemütlichkeit (German for “good times”) was Lizzie Rummel, a noble-born Teutonic adventuress who was nevertheless adamant about social democracy, decreeing that hearty but simple food was essential, and that all guests would dine family-style at long tables. One of her lodge helpers was a young Hans Gmoser, later the pioneer of helicopter skiing. Gmoser copped her philosophy wholesale in his inspirational chain of heli-ski lodges, meaning that every time ski-weary clients sit down together to scarf soy-chili salmon or coconutbutternut soup or a hearty eight-grain bread — which these days is just about everywhere in the mountain west — you can thank Assiniboine Lodge for creating the model.

True, there have been a few welcome adjustments. A 2010 update rescued the main lodge from crumbling. There’s limited electricity now (but no WiFi) and daytime bathroom trips still lead to an outhouse. Old-school ways are unlikely to disappear under the watch of co-custodian Andre Renner, who, like his Olympian sister, Sara, largely grew up here when his parents took over from Strom in 1983. His partner (at least until 2031, according to the terms of their contract with B.C. Parks) is the

B A CKCO U N TRY L E G E N D S Assiniboine Lodge has hosted many legendary figures over its long history, including the late Sam Evans (left), a ski pioneer from Wyoming who first came up to the lodge in the 1930s and his contemporary, Ken Jones (right), the first Canadian-born mountain guide. Both Evans and Jones were guests of Assiniboine Lodge up into their early nineties.

LEFT Assiniboine Lodge as it looks today, following the 2010 renovations.

Historic photography courtesy of Assiniboine Lodge

BOTTOM Assiniboine Lodge circa 1960s.

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here’s an illicit thrill to being high up on a ski hill after the chairlifts have powered down for the day and all the skiers and snowboarders have cleared out. In this peaceful, snow-covered world, you can watch the sky turn pink as the sun dips behind the surrounding peaks, while the normally whirring lifts sit eerily quiet.

At Panorama Resort you can pair that otherworldly setting with a two-course (cheese and chocolate) fondue at Summit Hut, the rustic alpine cabin perched at 2,730 metres. Though the hut is just off the top of the Summit quad chair (the gateway to the expert terrain at Panorama) you don’t have to be an expert skier or even a bunny-hill skier to do the fondue here. The resort’s neighbourly relationship with RK. Heliski has made possible a heli-fondue experience that whisks guests up to Summit Hut via a 12-minute flight from the base area, with a return flight back down — no skis or snowboards necessary.

Sitting around communal tables in the cozy log-cabin room, sipping one of the B.C. wines the hut has on offer, dipping breads, veggies and fruits into the warm cheesy and chocolaty goodness, it’s a little taste of alpine extravagance that comes with one heck of a ride home. —S.A.

panoramaresort.com HEL I , YES! The single-day packages offered

by RK. Heliski at Panorama are a to your resort vacation. Skiers and snowboarders can book as individuals with one of RK.’s standard nine-to-11-person groups, or book a semi-private experience as a small group. Along with that wonderful Purcell powder, the day includes lunch in the backcountry, breakfast and après-ski at the warm and inviting RK. Heli-Plex, and a certificate to prove how awesome you are. —S.A. rkheliski.com

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OPPOSITE PAGE (TOP) Fondue at Summit Hut, Panorama Mountain Resort.

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THIS PAGE (BELOW) Ski touring in the backcountry near Kicking Horse Resort in Golden, B.C.

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Try Touring in Golden

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here are many mechanical ways to get up a mountain so that you can ski down it: gondola, chairlift, T-bar, helicopter, snow-cat, et cetera. But if the thought of burning millions of calories melts your ski wax, you can slap on the skins (grippy strips that adhere to the base of your skis) and go up via your own leg power. Yes, it is way harder — and way slower — but some will say way more rewarding for it, as well.

Ski touring is growing in popularity for numerous reasons: the freedom, the adventure, the workout, the lack of lift lines or crowded runs.

Then there’s the heightened connection with the alpine world. They’re all legitimate.

For beginners looking to get into ski touring, there are some challenges, however. For starters, snow safety and gearing up can be daunting, putting on the sticky skins and working with adjustable touring bindings can be tricky, and understanding and mitigating avalanche risk is critical.

For your first foray into touring, your best bet is to go with a professional guide. As for locale, you can’t do much better than Golden, B.C., a legitimate contender for the ski-touring capital of Western Canada title. A fully guided, one-day backcountry tour setting out from Kicking Horse Resort is a good starting point for the touring novice.

A local guide such as Rich Marshall with Backcountry Solutions, will assess the group’s ability, assist with gear, provide mandatory basic avalanche training prior to starting out, and then guide everyone into the powder playgrounds that envelop the resort.

The best part? A gondola trip to the top provides a glorious, 1,260-metre “freebie” before you even start your trek beyond the resort boundary.

Plus, you can end your day by skiing down a front-side cruiser run, then duck into the Kicking Horse Saloon at the base and brag about your backcountry bliss to the lazy skiers who rode the lifts all day. —A.P.

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deny the awesomeness of liftaccessed skiing, particularly if those lifts are accessing the amazing spread of terrain at Kicking Horse Resort. A true “skier’s hill,” Kicking Horse has the fourth-highest vertical drop in North America and averages more than seven metres of snowfall (yes, metres)

Mt. Engadine Lodge, K-Country

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here are few things that capture the spirit of winter so perfectly as skating outdoors on a frozen pond. And when that pond is the incomparable Lake Louise, it’s nothing less than a wintertime mic-drop. During the cold-weather months, the lake’s ice surface receives top-notch maintenance courtesy of the staff from the Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise, getting multiple Zamboni coatings over the course of each day. The resulting ice sheet does have the odd crack (befitting any natural ice surface), but for the most part it’s sheer and smooth enough to handle the most intricate figure-skating manoeuvres.

While the main ice surface is pleasure-skating only, there’s a satellite shinny rink that draws a handful of hockey-stick-toting players in the late afternoons, many of whom are staff on break from the various Lake Louise properties — in other words, they’re young and strong adventurous types and they’ll give you a good game.

There’s no fee to skate on the lake, and if you don’t have skates, they’re available to rent from Chateau Mountain Sports in the hotel (you can also rent a hockey stick). If you haven’t been out on the blades in years, it might be a bit awkward at first, but as baby steps give way to smooth glides, you’ll feel that initial apprehension give way to rosy-cheeked smiles and the breath-catching-in-your-throat feeling of being in the most beautiful place at the most beautiful time. —S.A.

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S K I AT LOU IS E They call it “the Lake,” though it’s somewhat incongruous to compare the massive Lake Louise Ski Resort with a placid body of water. With 4,200 skiable acres, Louise represents the biggest of the Big Three resorts within Banff National Park (the other two being Sunshine Village and Mt. Norquay). Whether it’s the long, steep runs, the insanity-inducing terrain-park hits or the incredible views across the Bow Valley, a day at Louise always makes a big impression. —S.A. skilouise.com

Find Your Glide in Fernie

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egan Lohmann grew up cross-country skiing in the 1990s in Ontario. She loved the sport, and especially the close-knit community associated with it. Now a mom of two living in Fernie, B.C., Lohmann is introducing her kids to skinny skis and helping her preferred winter pastime gain a boot hold in a town better known for its steep-and-deep downhill terrain.

She’s a founding board member and the president of the Fernie Nordic Society (FNS), which has grown from a handful of members to more than 700 since its inception in 2006. What’s more, 31 per cent of members are from outside of Fernie, hailing mainly from Alberta.

“The sport is taking off,” says Lohmann. “We have a lot of tourists who come to Fernie and want a day off from alpine skiing, so they explore the Nordic option.

And the past couple of years we’ve had people coming for the sole purpose of cross-country skiing.”

As outdoor enthusiasts look for more ways to stay active all year, it’s no wonder they’re waxing up skinny skis and hitting track-set trails — Nordic skiing is a really good workout. There’s also something romantically old-school about the sport. You can’t help but feel awestruck by nature while gliding through a silent forest under your own power as giant snowflakes twirl down from the sky.

To keep pace with the growing interest in Nordic, the number of trails in the Elk Valley has greatly increased, and their quality has improved, thanks to a dedicated team of volunteers that track-sets and grooms new snowfall.

Last fall, a trail was completed that connects the Elk Valley Nordic Centre’s skier-only trails (no dogs or fat bikes allowed) in Mt. Fernie Provincial Park with those at the base of the ski hill.

There is also a cross-country network up at Island Lake Lodge as well as trails maintained by the FNS at the Fernie Golf

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and Country Club adjacent to downtown. In total, there are more than 50 km of groomed Nordic trails in the area.

As more families like Lohmann’s add cross-country skiing to their activity repertoire, this traditional winter pursuit should continue its renaissance. “It’s a very accessible sport for families, from a cost perspective and the logistics of it,” she says, adding that skiers can head out for a quick ski rather than dedicate the entire day. “It’s pretty awesome to have a sport that we can do all together.” —L.K.

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Go Snowshoeing in K-Country

oads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.” Christopher Lloyd’s famous Back to the Future quip is applicable to both time travellers and snowshoers. While getting off the beaten path and pouncing through the powder is the highlight of any snowshoeing adventure, the first step is determining where to go. And you can’t go wrong with Kananaskis.

With hundreds of kilometres of gorgeous trails, many designated solely for snowshoeing, and equipment rentals conveniently located right in Kananaskis Village at Kananaskis Outfitters, K-Country is an ideal locale for both beginners and seasoned snowshoers to go for a stomp.

The Kananaskis Village Loop Trail is a tidy little trek to get you started. Just 2.5-km long with only 40 metres of elevation gain, it still manages to provide awesome views into the Kananaskis Valley, as well as the stunning, snow-smeared peaks of Mount Lorette and Mount Kidd. Plus, the loop begins and ends just steps away from the Delta Kananaskis Lodge, where you can celebrate your outdoor intrepidness with a pint (or two) from the taps at the new Blacktail lobby lounge.

Natually, seasoned snowshoers will want to stray a little further. The trail to Chester Lake is a Kananaskis classic, a scenic 10-km round-trip trek to a stunning alpine lake that is a picture of serenity when it’s covered in winter snow.

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lthough it’s a word that defies direct translation, hygge has, nonetheless, become part of our collective consciousness. With so much confusion over how to pronounce this Danish term, people can only agree that the combination of coziness, comfort and contentment evokes a certain feeling. Around here, it would take the form of a snowy winter evening in the mountains, settled into a comfortable chair in a warm, inviting space, enjoying good food in the company of near and dear ones, all dressed down in sweaters and Sorels.

Nestle in at one of these restaurants in Canmore, Banff and Lake Louise to know the pleasures of dining, hygge-style. —G.R.

At Miner’s Lamp, hygge takes the form of an English pub crossed with a rustic winter cabin inside a quaint Tudor-style inn. Tuck into a ploughman’s platter, some Scotch eggs or the requisite fish and chips (with halibut, even) from the comfort-food-focused menu. If you’re lucky, you’ll score a spot by the fireplace.

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Once a log-cabin show home, this Canmore favourite echoes its past with robust log walls and sturdy beams. Upstairs, the wine lounge offers a smaller menu of charcuterie and share plates, perfect for an après-ski stop. The downstairs bistro is a snug space where curry bowls share the menu with steak frites and Alberta baby back ribs. A solid wine list makes it easy to settle in for the evening, though don’t discount heading there in the morning; the filling breakfast bowls will warm you up for your day in the mountains.

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The diminutive room exudes a sense of snugness, while the elevated comfort food will warm you from the inside out. Like the small space, The Trough features a curated menu of dishes that borrows flavours for a worldly approach while still managing to cover every cold-weather craving. The smell of fresh bread, made daily in-house, adds to the restaurant’s cozy vibe, as do the mouth-watering aromas coming from the open kitchen.

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The river-rock wall and fireplace and the thick, amber-coloured wooden beams evoke a hunting lodge, but it’s the hearty platters of steak and towering trays of seafood that will have you really feeling content. If you’re in search of deep snug, stick to the downstairs lounge with its long wooden bar curving through the room and wingback-style chairs that beckon you to settle in.

Head below the more formal Waldhaus Restaurant at the Fairmont Banff Springs to its more humble sister spot, the Waldhaus Pub and Patio. Set in the same cottage-style building behind the regal hotel, the pub is a comfortable spot to grab beer in a boot or a serving of sausage and spätzle. Cozy up to the long, dark-wood bar or round up some friends for a free game of pool.

Literally translated, “stübli” means small, cozy room and this spot lives up to its moniker.

It feels like a little log cabin tucked up into the Post Hotel, with sturdy beams, wooden walls and a fireplace keeping the cold weather at bay. Strings of lights twinkling from the ceiling over the handful of tables add to the magic, making for a warm and intimate evening huddling over bubbling fondue pots of cheese, broth or chocolate.

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ABOVE Fondue Stübli at the Post Hotel, Lake Louise.

FAR LEFT Waldhaus Pub at the Fairmont Banff Springs.

RIGHT Seafood tower at the Maple Leaf Grill and Lounge in Banff.

Photo by Jeff Bartlett

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APRÈS-SKI Seven cocktails best enjoyed after a day playing in the snow.

D R IN K : SUNSHINE BISHOP W H E R E : CHIMNEY CORNER AT SUNSHINE MOUNTAIN LODGE, SUNSHINE VILLAGE SKI AND SNOWBOARD RESORT Sunshine’s version of mulled wine simmers Portuguese red wine and Port with orange, sugar, cloves, star anise and cinnamon, for an aromatic après sipper that transports schussers to their fireside happy place.

D R IN K : SOCIAL OLD FASHIONED W H E R E : ALPINE SOCIAL AT FAIRMONT CHATEAU LAKE LOUISE This robust, spirit-forward classic will warm you from toque to toes in a truly Canadian manner—the base spirit is Alberta Premium Dark Horse rye, which is sweetened with maple syrup from Quebec and spiced up with black-walnut bitters.

D R IN K : ROCKY MOUNTAIN BACON CHEESER

The Rocky Mountain Bacon Cheeser from the Eagle’s Eye Restaurant at Kicking Horse Mountain Resort.

W H E R E : EAGLE’S EYE RESTAURANT, KICKING HORSE MOUNTAIN RESORT Shredding more than 4,000 vertical feet every run burns serious calories, so après-skiers need to replenish energy stores with a cocktail that drinks like a meal. This Caesar twist combines bacon-infused vodka with Clamato, a balsamic reduction, chipotle and lime, and garnishes it with pepperoni, cheddar cubes

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he annual Emerald Awards recognize and celebrate outstanding environmental achievements across all sectors in Alberta. From classroom curricula to large, corporate initiatives, the program recognizes a variety of projects. The award categories celebrate those who demonstrate commitment to the environment and take

the initiative to make quantifiable, sustainable changes, educate others about the importance of sustainability and lead the way for other individuals and organizations to adopt their own environmentally friendly practices.

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he realities of climate change and the need for alternative energies have long been realized by the minds behind Bullfrog Power. And, as consumers are becoming more interested and invested in environmentally friendly options, Bullfrog’s forward-thinking approach is paying off.

Gary Fredrich-Dunne, who leads Bullfrog Power’s sales and marketing in Alberta from the company’s Calgary office, says that Bullfrog Power is about “giving people a choice when it comes to renewable energy.” Energy sources include wind and low-impact hydro sources, and also a renewable natural gas product it pioneered to replace fossil fuels. “Recognizing that transportation-related emissions are a significant part of individual or organizational footprints, we’ve rolled out a green fuel solution,” Fredrich-Dunne says.

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or natural gas the customer purchases. Bullfrog also uses the support of its customers to help fund new, renewable energy projects in Canada. To date, Bullfrog Power customers have supported over 70 new green initiatives across Canada and have displaced the equivalent of 1.3 million tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere — the equivalent effect of taking 274,000 cars off the road for one year, or planting 33 million seedlings and allowing them to absorb

carbon dioxide for 10 years. Many environmental non-governmental organizations and non-profits have purchased Bullfrog Power energy for their premises, including World Wildlife Federation Canada, David Suzuki Foundation and the Pembina Institute.

The Alberta Emerald Foundation was proud to have this category sponsored by the City of Calgary and CN. Ω

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s a source of water for plants, animals and insects, even the smallest stream plays an essential role in an ecosystem. Ensuring that 50,000 Alberta stream crossings are in good condition is a big undertaking. In 2005, a group of companies and government agencies set out to develop a more effective system to inventory, manage and repair stream crossings — they came up with the Foothills Stream Crossing Partnership (FSCP). Since 2006, 8,400 stream crossings in Alberta have each been inspected at least once, for a total of 16,000 inspections. Since 2011, FSCP members have mitigated fish barriers at over 200 stream crossings and are working on repairing barriers in over 55 priority watersheds with a plan to be complete by 2020.

(from left to right) Cathy Falk, Community Green Supervisor, City of Edmonton; Katelynne Webb, Green Program Supervisor, City of Edmonton

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Those trees didn’t just appear overnight — they’ve been growing for decades and are now a valued amenity of urban communities.

Realizing the desirability — and positive environmental impact — of trees in urban cities, the Root for Trees program has been working to preserve and expand Edmonton’s urban forest.

By planting trees, the group aims to turn low-impact areas into natural ecosystems and create new, sustainable spaces for Edmontonians to enjoy for years to come.

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facilitators — it makes for a unique birthday party activity — in which participants are provided with all the materials required for a fun and educational day in nature.

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n the south of Edmonton sits a sleek, contemporary — but almost futuristic — building with lots of windows and wooden features. On the inside, the air feels as fresh as it does outside and living walls feature dozens of plants. In the parking lot is an electric vehicle charging station and a bike garage and, inside, office workers engage with an openconcept, mixed-use space. The Mosaic Centre for Conscious Community and Commerce isn’t just unique aesthetically, it’s also Alberta’s first net-zero commercial office building — it produces as much energy as it uses. To accomplish this, the building is powered by a solar PV array, heated and cooled by a geothermal system, has a rainwater retention tank used for irrigation of plants, 100 per cent LED lighting, a fibreglass triple-glazed curtain

wall system to reduce thermal bridging and on-site composting. Further, it has 40 per cent more landscaped area than what the City of Edmonton requires (this is one green building) and 95 per cent of all building materials were diverted from landfills during construction.

The Mosaic Centre is currently under review for LEED Platinum Certification — the highest designation awarded to buildings that are sustainable and contribute to human and environmental health. The building has a bright, fresh air and positive-energy environment designed to help building occupants feel happy and inspired at work.

The Alberta Emerald Foundation was proud to have this category sponsored by the City of Edmonton and GE Canada. Ω

(from left to right) Dennis Cuku and Christy Benoit, Owners and Founders, Mosaic Centre for Conscious Community and Commerce

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Home Imitates Life This family home of an architect, an artist and their three sons is inspired by life in Rome and designed for life in Calgary.

BY Lisa Monforton PHOTOGRAPHY BY Jared Sych

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The home features floor-to-ceiling, highefficiency windows and a select knotty cedar exterior. The basement is inset, creating a plinth that makes it seem as if the main floor is floating.

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he home that Marc Boutin and Allison Morgan built for their family combines all the things they cherish: travelling and living in Europe, their love of art, having friends over and the busyness of raising three boys.

As you might expect, Boutin and Morgan had strong views on what their home should look and feel like. He’s the principal architect of Marc Boutin Architectural Collaborative and has won national and international awards for residential and public-space designs, including Calgary’s Poppy Plaza on Memorial Drive. She’s a contemporary large-scale figurative painter, whose work sometimes tackles complex themes.

The one-storey rectangular home in Ramsay has floor-to-ceiling windows spanning the length of the east and west sides. The lower level is inset, making the upper level appear to be floating, while the select knotty cedar-clad exterior is softened by the lazy branches of a weeping birch and a row of young fruit trees lining a wooden walkway. “We basically want an orchard around the house; we always want to feel like we’re in the trees,” says Morgan, who loves to garden and has been known to throw the occasional pie-baking or crab-apple jelly making party.

The simplicity of the rooms is intended to be “responsive” and adaptable to how the family’s life unfolds, says Boutin. All the rooms are meant to be multi-purpose.

While the home was being built, Boutin would coyly tease the neighbours, asking: “Do you think it’s going to be a school for gifted children, or a post office?” But joking aside, the home was always meant to be less about showy outer appearances and more how the couple and their three sons, ages 21, 19 and 16, go about their daily lives amongst the things they feel connected to.

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Homeowner Allison Morgan wanted a kitchen that was adaptable for whatever the day might hold, whether that’s the boys doing their homework or having friends over to bake pies. The ironwood island separates into several pieces and most of the appliances are tucked away or concealed.

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he first thing you notice walking into the home — aside from Sean the family dog sprawled in the sunlight of the front windows — is the eclectic mix of art, which is fitting for the home of an artist and an architect.

A large painting by Morgan, titled Skeptic, hangs on the white walls of the stairwell, above the jet-black painted stairs to her lower-level studio. Mounted on the wall beside it is a large muskox head, which Boutin quips he had little choice on acquiring (“my marriage depended on it,” he says). The muskox fits with Morgan’s collection of a dozen or so antlers that sit along a windowsill in the lower-level family room opposite her studio.

The apartment in Rome that the family lived in for a year after Boutin won the Canada Council for the Arts’ prestigious Prix de Rome in Architecture award provided some of the guiding principles for the design of this home (use of the apartment was part of the award). “That’s where the inspiration came from for this house,” says Boutin.

The ideas incorporated into their home from that apartment include natural light from the floor-to-ceiling windows and neutral, consistent, flowing surfaces, such as natural Marmoleum floors and clear cedar ceilings throughout the house, as well as the clutter-free, multi-purpose rooms. With the exception of the stove, most of the kitchen appliances are tucked away or hidden, and the kitchen island is a 14-foot ironwood table that can be separated, allowing it to adapt for use in entertaining or as a homework area.

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The home’s main hallway, flooded with light from three circular skylights, features a muskox head above the stairway leading to the lower level.

At the end of the hallway is a large-scale artwork that Morgan created from a childhood sketch by one of her sons.

The narrow white cabinets that run the length of the open living area also provide hidden storage space (the same cabinets can be found in the bedrooms). The white millwork is designed to serve as a display for paintings hanging along a rail, while between the upper and lower cabinets a narrow opening with a mirrored backdrop provides a stage for three-dimensional artworks.

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DECOR The living room features an eclectic mix of furniture pieces, some passed down from family members. A slot running through the white millwork creates a showcase for Inuit sculptures and cherished objects from the family’s travels.

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outin says much of their furniture and art is a curated collection of items that are “found or stolen,” and all have some connection to their lives. The lived-in leather couch in the living room belonged to Morgan’s parents, two Allan Gould string chairs are from the architectural firm where Boutin’s mother once worked in Montreal and an aunt’s contemporary chrome 1960s teacart houses the stereo. Two metal office-style chairs were acquired from institutions where Boutin has studied and worked. Boutin also designed the Carrara marble and metal dining room table, which has become his favourite spot in the house to work.

Adding to the casual atmosphere of the home, a woodstove separates the dining and living areas.

It provides warmth and can be used for cooking.

A stack of wood is an arm’s reach away under a window, creating a cozy cabin feel. Boutin deems the stove a play on the concept of the hearth being the heart of the home — a classic Canadian symbol of warmth and contentment.

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The entryway, as seen from the living room, features a woodcut by Calgary artist Lisa Brawn and a pocket door with a childhood sketch by one of the couple’s sons on it, which Morgan recreated using an overhead projector.

A wood-burning stove stands between the living room and dining room with a stack of wood nearby, creating what Boutin describes as a cozy “coming home” feeling.

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F L E X I B LE LIVING SPACES F R O M A RCHITECT MA R C B OU TI N 1. Make sure it can be adapted to the various stages of life.

“Today it’s a bedroom, tomorrow it’s an office,” Boutin says, specifically referring to a space at the front of his own house currently being used as a bedroom by one of his sons.

2. An entryway on the lower level of Boutin’s home provides the couple’s sons, ages 21, 19 and 16, a sense of autonomy, allowing them to come and go without having to use the main entrance. If the couple decides to rent out the basement in the future, the lower-level entryway provides a separate entrance for that, as well.

3. Every room and space is designed to multi-task. “We hate waste,” says Boutin. A prime example of this are the sliding pocket doors at the back of the house, which allow the masterbedroom ensuite to morph into a powder room for guests.

4. Boutin and Allison Morgan, both 53, built the house with their own aging in mind.

Should their mobility decline they won’t be forced to find a new home. “Everything we need is on one level,” Boutin says.

LEFT Exterior view of the back of the home, which features a separate entrance on the lower level.

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TOP Allison Morgan’s art studio on the lower level is something she didn’t have in the family’s previous home, a 1950s-era bungalow.

THE SOURCE DECOR PAGES 170 TO 176 Architectural design by Marc Boutin, The Marc Boutin Architectural Collaborative Inc., 100, 205 9 Ave. S.E., 403-261-9050, the-mbac.ca Contractor Meadow Sage Builders, 403-510-3266, meadowsagebuilders.ca Marmoleum flooring by Forbo Flooring Systems, forbo.com Custom millwork by Meadow Sage Builders Window coverings by Creative Interiors, 630, 12100 Macleod Tr. S.E., 403-271-0580, creativeinteriorscalgary.com Curtain wall glass by Thermal Aluminum & Glass, Unit 20, 1410 40 Ave. N.E., 403-451-5443, thermalal.com Cedar ceiling custom-made by the Boutin family Kitchen island designed by Marc Boutin and fabricated by Joe-Jay’s Welding, 4512 8A St. N.E., 403-277-0211, joejayswelding.com; kayu batu wood top for kitchen island from Kayu Canada, 8, 6304 Burbank Rd. S.E., 403-541-9009, fabricated by Marc Boutin White quartz kitchen countertops and backsplash designed by Marc Boutin, fabricated by Dauter Stone, 5230 1 St. S.W., 403-253-3738, dauterstone.com Counter stools from University of Calgary Surplus sales Stove (Viking original prototype range), hood, dishwasher and under-counter fridges from Coast Appliances, 2151 32 St. N.E, 403-717-0548 (north) and 6128 Centre. St. S.E., 403-243-8780 (south) locations, coastappliances.com Signs of Breathing striped artwork in kitchen

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WORK OF ART CURATED BY Katherine Ylitalo

The Hatstack

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TITLE: The Hatstack, 2017

NOTES: Commissioned by

ARTIST: Walter May

Hotel Le Germain Calgary.

MEDIA: Patina on bronze,

Bronze components were

concrete.

produced by Fonderie

SIZE: 19-feet-by-28-inches

d’Art d’Inverness, Quebec.

diameter.

Fabrication and installation

LOCATION: 899 Centre St. S.W.

by Heavy Industries, Calgary.

Photograph by Walter May

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alter May’s slender columnar sculpture stands out from its prime downtown surroundings with gold-bronze warmth.

Reflected in the windows and polished stone of Hotel Le Germain, it fits perfectly under the lofty cantilever that shields the corner sidewalk across from the Calgary Tower.

The structure is cunning and worth a close look: 33 bronze hats are paired and stacked, brim-tobrim and crown-to-crown. They appear identical, but each has slight surface variations from the sandcasting, chasing and patina processes.

They rise from a stout cast-concrete base, also a carefully considered component. The vertical repetition of symmetrical elements sets a visual rhythm, like the vertebrae of a spine. The overall effect is of balance and harmony, with the suggestion of building, growth and cooperation.

One of Canada’s senior sculptors, Walter May has participated in exhibitions and residencies worldwide. He calls the hat in this sculpture the “forefather of all other cowboy hats.” The model is the classic “Boss of the Plains,” a Smithbilt version of the one John B. Stetson designed in 1865 to meet the challenges of life on the prairies: it can hold water, shed water, keep you warm and offer protection from heat and sun.

May, who taught at the Alberta College of Art + Design for more than 30 years, has an extensive understanding of art history. With gentle humour he puts a new spin on Calgary’s iconic hat, but also on one of 20th century’s most famous sculptures, Constantin Brancusi’s Endless Column, replacing pyramids with cowboy hats, and the symbolism of infinity with Western pragmatism.

Walter May is represented locally by Paul Kuhn Gallery. Another of his works, Grindstone, 2002, is on display on the second floor at the Bow Valley College South Campus. May also has an exhibition opening in January 2018 at the Nickle Galleries at the University of Calgary.

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