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We all know the wonderful health benefits of beets, but its  vivid colour is also a great way to add the finishing touches to our baked treats without the artificial dyes. We asked our friends at Tori’s Bakeshop to give us their tips and tricks for making the best icing the most natural way: 1) There are two ways to add colour:  juicing a fruit or root or adding a potent powder or spice. For example, the icing on the “Homer Simpson”-style baked donuts are bright pink from beets, which were juiced and strained. Blueberries make a wonderful blue. For green, use...

As a teen girl, there’s a lot of pressure to look and act a certain way. According to the Canadian Women Foundation, a staggering 50 per cent of all girls in Canada say that they wish they were someone else. Whether it’s feeling too tall, too short, not smart enough or not at all beautiful, these negative feelings impact their self-confidence and their sense of identity. In this instalment of Be a Villager, we sit down with Dee Buryk, founder of Growing Goddesses, an after school program that helps girls navigate through these negative feelings and turn them into something...