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Keeping it green when the world’s gone white
by Jennifer Knoch Winter isn’t easy on a lot of us who prefer basically any other season to polar vortexes and darkness before dinner. It’s not exactly easy on the planet either, but I’ve rounded up a few tips to help us find eco bright spots amidst the gloom. Put your sidewalks on a low-sodium…
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Tiffinday Chickpea Curry: Product Review
by Karma member Kate Tessier If you have ever had the pleasure of enjoying a meal from an Indian restaurant you know all about Chickpea Curry, otherwise known as Channa Masala. It’s that rich dish that only accelerates your consumption of Naan and undoubtedly sends you back for more. But without the freshest ingredients, packaged dishes…
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Organic Logos Explained
by Daria Love of the Food Issues Committee Karma members are discerning shoppers. Seeking quality and integrity in the products they purchase, food labels and logos can provide important information about the packaged product. In Canada, only those products with 95% or greater organically produced content may be labelled organic or display the organic logo. …
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Confessions of a Door Monitor (or: How I’m thriving during the pandemic)
Perhaps you’ve seen me on door duty at Karma, where I put in one shift a week (down from 2 during the sunny weather). I’m the old guy (pony tail, beard, goatee, all tastefully grey) who always has a book. I was one of the original members, and dropped out for about 25 years –…
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Happy Holidays!
2020 is almost over! What a year it’s been! Thank you members and amazing Karma staff and Board of Directors for working so hard to see this year through. I hope 2021 brings health and love to you all. Thank you for your ongoing support this year. Around the store, things are looking like the…
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Meet the Karma Worm Team!
by Colette Slone You may already be familiar with the worm composting bins at Karma, but for those of you who are not yet acquainted, allow us to formally introduce ourselves. We are Colette and Mike, Karma members since 2014 and the official Worm Wranglers of Karma’s worm composting (aka vermicomposting) bin! We started the…
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Your New Karma Board!
Introducing the members of your board! President, and Management Committee Liaison: Andrea Dawber Andrea is currently the Senior Development Communications Officer, Foundations, with Camp Ooch & Camp Trillium, communicating impact to donors and foundations. She has held a range of positions from co-managing an artist-run centre to Acting Executive Director of Ecosource, an environmental education charity based…
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Virtual Holiday Baking with Inayat Singh of Prickly Pear Bakehouse
So WHAT or WHO is Prickly Pear Bakehouse? Our neighbour, Inayat, is a homebaker and avid cookbook collector. She has taken numerous courses on baking as part of her travels (Italy, anyone?) and formal baking classes. On the weekends, Inayat spends time in the kitchen, working on her passion for pastry…and other delicious offerings that…
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Ho-ho-hold the trash: Gift giving made greener
by Jennifer Knoch I really love the holidays, the songs and the decorations, the goodies and gift giving, but the thing that makes me Grinchy is the sheer volume of unnecessary stuff that gets passed around in the name of tradition. Tradition is a slippery thing, after all: back in the day, Bubbe’s Hanukkah gifts…
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Report on the AGM from the Karma Board of Directors
Thank you, everyone, who planned and participated in Karma’s first-ever virtual AGM.It was a surprising success—81 Karma members registered and 53 participated! Next year, we hope to build on this success, integrating zoom for our 2021 AGM as either a hybrid meeting if we can meet or virtual again. Thank you, Kitty Choi, Karma friend…