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  • Five Black-owned businesses you can support in the GTA

    For Greater Toronto Area (GTA) residents looking to support Black businesses, go no further. Here’s a list of local businesses ranging from money-focused apps to...
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  • Toronto’s Bluebird Laser opens up laser hair removal to trans and non-binary people

    This story is part of NOW's Support Local series spotlighting small businesses across Toronto. If you want to suggest a business, contact us here and select “Editorial (Life)” from...
    Bluebird Laser's Djuna Day
    Lifestyle
  • How to turn your space into a home spa

    We’re way past cabin fever. We’ve reached a point in this pandemic where we’ve outfitted our living rooms into makeshift gyms and yoga studios and...
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  • Red Tape Brewery will personalize your beer

    Sarabeth and Sean Holden never intended to open a brewery during a pandemic. The Toronto couple had sketched out an initial launch date of February...
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    Food & Drink
  • Not UberEats site lists Toronto restaurants doing their own delivery

    You might think you’re supporting local when you order from your favourite restaurant for delivery, but if you’re getting food from a third-party delivery app...
    An Uber Eats bike delivery person
    Food & Drink
  • Toronto’s Shortstack Records held a record sale in a Walmart parking lot

    Shortstack Records can't have people come to them, so it went to where there are customers: Walmart. This past Sunday morning (January 10), Toronto record...
    A t-shirt from Shortstack Records' Walmart pop-up
    Music
  • How this out-of-work yoga instructor opened a coffee shop

    All pandemic-long, people have pivoted and adapted their businesses to stay afloat. With Two Hot Babes, yoga instructor Nancy Silverman has taken it one step...
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  • How a Queen West restaurant made the successful switch to grocery store

    Samuel Engelking Typically, if you live downtown and want pomegranate molasses, barberries or any other Iranian groceries, you have to travel north of Yonge and...
    Stores shelves at Banu
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