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1 month ago | alive.com | Carimé Lane

On zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs)The federal government offers up to $5,000 at the point of sale for the purchase or lease of light-duty ZEVs, which includes most personal vehicles. BC, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, and the Yukon offer incentives in this area as well.

1 month ago | alive.com | Joshua Duvauchelle

Trees are medicine“Edmonton already had a great program called Root for Trees with a goal of planting 2 million trees across the city,” says Mike Hurley. He’s the executive director of Trees for Life, a national charity whose stated mission is “to create a healthier, happier Canada by planting native trees where we live, work, and play.”Hurley’s organization worked with the city in 2023 to plant nearly 20,000 trees across Edmonton, including the ones at Grey Nuns Hospital.

2 months ago | alive.com | Matthew Kadey

This satisfying plant-based bowl of nutrition brings together many cherished victuals of Japanese cuisine―nutty soba, vibrant matcha, earthy miso, and feisty wasabi. Baking the tofu that’s been slathered with a miso sauce yields cubes with a meaty texture and some flavourful caramelization. If you’re eating gluten free, you can find soba noodles that are made entirely of buckwheat flour, which is free of gluten.

2 months ago | alive.com | Matthew Kadey

A descendant of the doner kebab, a Turkish dish made with sliced meat cooked on a vertical rotisserie, shawarma is a popular street food with Middle Eastern provenance. This shortcut version of chicken shawarma skips the long marinating and roasting time and relies, instead, on seasoned roasted poultry that is stuffed into greens, instead of pita, to keep it tasting extra fresh. Served topped with a herby yogurt sauce, it makes a satisfying meal any day of the week.

2 months ago | alive.com | Joshua Duvauchelle

A growing problemStephanie Jaret’s daughter was born prematurely and spent a month in the infant special care unit. “She was displaying feeding issues that the staff dismissed, and they diagnosed her with a heart condition,” says Jaret. After getting a second opinion from a pediatric cardiologist, Jaret says she “grew increasingly skeptical about the diagnosis.”Her daughter was later evaluated by a feeding therapist and correctly diagnosed with a feeding disorder.