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In the Haute-Savoie Alps of Val d’Isère, where the powdery snow and joie de vivre run deep (page 25)
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Back in the snow we taste what’s happening in Calgary, then go north, stopping along the way to dig in to this winter wonderland (page 12). And to celebrate the cold—or recharge after exploring in it—we get cozy with some extra-comforting winter-weather gear (hello, batteryoperated heating vest; page 7) and then warm up with icewine (page 11). Hot or cold, we want to see your winter adventures. Are you embracing the chill or escaping to the heat? Share your adventures and travels on social media (and we may even feature you in “small talk”; see page 30): Facebook (facebook.com/justfor canadiandentists), Instagram (@justfor canadiandentists; #justforcanadian dentists) and Twitter (@JFCDentists).
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igh in the French Alps—2,551 metres high—there’s a skier’s paradise of runs (think legendary Olympic level) but also wine, cheese and fresh-baked bread. Only in France…and more specifically in Val d’Isère, where the country’s first cable car started taking skiers up to the Solaise 80 years ago. In Val, the French joie de vivre includes a mountain-top burlesque show and cheese cave with a view of Mont Blanc, but also a Michelin-star restaurant in the sleepy, snowy valley below (page 25). Bien sûr! There’s also some fine fare being plated at sea level on the southern tip of the Baja Peninsula, where another award-winning chef is taking to the soil and bringing a revived authenticity to the usual resort scene (page 5).
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path through dense foliage feels like a foray into the jungle. Palms tower overhead, a gecko scuttles by, birds cackle and the beaches dotted with all-inclusive resorts along the coastline of Los Cabos seem far, far away. I stop to crane my neck and just gaze into the verdant green. It’s hard to believe I’m mere minutes from the town of San José del Cabo (and the airport everyone flies into) on the southern tip of Mexico’s Baja Peninsula. Surrounded, quite literally, by desert and tourism, this is an oasis. Here, Acre, an off-beach, very-boutique hotel and restaurant (started by a Canadian a few years ago), is part of a culinary movement that’s taking Baja cuisine back to basics—as in, grown right here. I walk across the colourful tiled floor, settle in under the fronds, sip a classic margarita and barely miss the sounds of the surf. But Acre is just one of a handful of players shaking things up in Baja. For dinner, I go to a new outpost nearby, Puerto Raíz. Opening this February to the public, the outdoor restaurant is James Beard Award-nominated chef Javier Plascencia’s take on Baja cuisine (a distillery is planned here too). Minimalistic lanterns and handcrafted decor, locally grown ingredients, foraged cocktails, an open fire…all under an ancient guamúchil tree, its gnarly limbs creating a natural pergola over the beautifully set table. Before sitting down to Plascencia’s fire-roasted menu, I ponder the “port of roots” meaning of Puerto Raíz as I stroll through its gardens (there are 13 acres of unspoiled land here, which also serve as a sanctuary to rescue animals)—where much of what I consume will have been just harvested. It’s the ultimate farm-to-table experience. Earlier, I visited Plascencia’s other Baja project, another farm and restaurant on the west side of the peninsula near Todos Santos. Called Jazamango (the Spanish word for arugula), the menu showcases ingredients just dug out of the earth, flavoured with the moles and spices that have put Mexican cuisine on UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage list. Back in San José del Cabo, another farm-to-table restaurant, Los Tamarindos, is located in a farmhouse from the 19th century, once the base for a sugar cane operation. Now, there’s a “mixology” garden and menu by Chef Enrique Silva that showcases ceviche, chile relleno, grilled octopus and local oysters and panela cheese… Happily, this new culinary movement seems to be catching on at resorts too. At my (yes, beachside) resort, Mar del Cabo, the Baja bounty continues with dishes like aguachile and more grilled pulpo. Uno más, por favor! — Barb Sligl
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1 core strength There are limitations as to what even the warmest coat can do in the middle of a Canadian winter. Enter: the heated vest—a complete game changer. Adding a thin, heat-producing (battery operated!) vest under your coat will keep your core warm, making those morning dog walks, daily commutes or just an extra chilly office much more civilized. Multiple heated zones distribute gentle, adjustable heat for up to 10 hours throughout your core, keeping you cozy warm even in the most extreme conditions. ororowear.com
left-foot design, these will be the socks you reach for whether you’re travelling to a conference on a drafty flight or heading out to the slopes. stance.ca
2 happy feet Warm, dry feet require the right socks as the basic building block to a cozy, winter experience—inside or out. Best known as the official on-court sock for the National Basketball Association, Stance socks are made with high performance materials like Merino wool and high-tech synthetics such as Feel360. With enhanced cushioning, reinforced heel boxes and ergonomic right- and
3 hot plate Winter and home-cooked meals just go hand-in-hand. David Robertson’s new cookbook, Gather, features 80 recipes designed to be shared on platters, in big bowls, heaped up high, all made and eaten with gusto. From crème brûlée French toast to salmon Wellington to honey-roasted vegetables, this is your key to countless cozy winter nights spent happily at home. chapters.indigo.ca
5 snug as a bug A blanket’s fine, but a weighted blanket is a new level of cozy calm. Weighted blankets are actually created to mimic the benefits of an all-encompassing bear hug. That kind of touch therapy helps ease anxiety and actually increases oxytocin in the brain, helping the mind and body relax. Aim to get a weighted blanket that’s approximately 10% of your body weight, for optimal bear-hug-ness. casper.com/ca
4 urban apothecary Even if you’ve never been to the south of France, L’Occitane’s new candles have such evocative fragrances with enough familiar elements—geranium, basil, lavender, cypress—that they’ll make you think you’re wandering through an outdoor market in Provence. Juxtaposed against our winter reality, the lush scents
6 sure footed Even though Olang boots are made in Italy, they’re perfectly designed for Canadian winters. With patented, foldable stainless steel cleats that hinge 180° on the soles, they offer extra grip on slippery surfaces, from sidewalks to ski slopes. They’re waterproof, breathable and warm (to -30°C)—and Italian, so stylish as well. olangcanada.com
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s a child growing up in Mexico City, Dr. Sandra Fastlicht was fascinated with teeth, thanks in large part to her father, orthodontist Jorge Fastlicht, who gave his 10-year-old daughter an office uniform and allocated her cleaning jobs in his clinic. Not only did the young-
too. But Fastlicht’s ambitions soon went beyond hygiene lectures, and she began undertaking dental examinations in the school bathroom. Her fellow students were losing their baby teeth and would ask her to help them get rid of the wobbly annoyances. Fastlicht happily obliged.
degree in orthodontics before joining her father’s practice. But Mexico City’s severe air pollution affected Fastlicht’s children’s health, so she and her family moved to Canada. They settled in Vancouver, and Fastlicht took a full-time position as clinical associate professor of orthodontics at the University of British Columbia Faculty of Dentistry, as well as working in private practice. Then, in 2011, following a 12-year teaching stint, Fastlicht left UBC to undertake an Orthodontic Fellowship in Cleft Lip and Palate and other Craniofacial Anomalies at the Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto. SickKids’ cleft lip and palate program is one of the oldest and most comprehensive in the world, with a team of medical experts ranging from orthodontists to plastic surgeons, speech therapists to social workers, audiologists to dentists. (The centre treats children from other countries as well as Canadians.) As the team’s fellow in orthodontics, Fastlicht would insert devices inside a two-week-old baby’s mouth to bring the cleft segments and lips together and facilitate feeding. This helped to remodel the mouth, lips and Dr. Sandra nostril, preparing the infant for Fastlicht treats the first of many surgeries, says an infant patient in Fastlicht. “Each baby I held in Vietnam, alongside my arms was like my baby,” she her Planet Smile says. “I knew that these children support team were the children I wanted to treat and help.” Then, the Canadian charity Transforming Faces, which works closely with SickKids, asked Fastlicht to attend a Cleft Lip and Palate conference in Peru. Gripping the offending tooth tightly She would be part of a SickKids’ team that with toilet paper, she would twist, deftly would lecture to the Spanish-speaking extracting it. Word spread and Fastlicht attendees about the different stages of became the unofficial school dentist. orthodontic treatment in cleft lip and Eventually the principal found out and palate patients. For Fastlicht, it was the kiboshed any further procedures. “I closed start of an international teaching career ‘shop,’” Fastlicht says with a chuckle. “But with Transforming Faces, whose mandate my father really enjoyed knowing I was a is to bring quality care to children with little dentist at school.” cleft lip and palate in Asia, Africa and the Fastlicht went on to attend dental Americas. Eventually, Transforming Faces school in Mexico City, a postgraduate hired her to train medical professionals in orthodontic specialty and a master’s Chile, Peru, Argentina and she travelled
ster undertake menial clean-up but she also learned about hygiene, thanks to the clinic’s giant denture model and oversized toothbrush, which her father used to teach young patients oral care. Excited to share her newfound knowledge, Fastlicht would take the denture model and giant toothbrush into the classroom and instruct her fellow students on proper brushing techniques during show-and-tell. She was soon invited to give her presentation in other classes,
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as a consultant to such southeast Asian countries as Vietnam and Thailand. Cleft lip and palate is a significant health concern in Vietnam, affecting an unusually high number of children: one in 500, compared to one in 700 in the West. The high rate is linked to persistent contamination from Agent Orange, or dioxin, that the United States used as a defoliant from 1962–71 during the Vietnam War. Some kids with cleft palate are abandoned by their parents at so-called Agent Orange orphanages or at Buddhist temples. Fastlicht worked in the cleft palate program at Vietnam’s National Hospital of Odonto-Stomatology Dr. Fastlicht in Ho Chi Minh City. started her own Here, devastated organization, Planet parents were Smile for Kids, to develop shown there comprehensive and was hope for sustainable cleft lip their newborns. and palate programs Fastlicht recalls in Mexico and one mother who Vietnam rejected her baby after it was born with
cleft palate. Luckily, the young mom’s sister took the infant. After medical treatment showed that the condition was “treatable and that there was a team helping, educating and supporting the family,” the mother took the child back, Fastlicht says. Fastlicht continues to reside in Vancouver while teaching part-time at UBC. Recently, she started her own organization, Planet Smile for Kids, to develop comprehensive and sustainable cleft lip and palate programs in Mexico and Vietnam and, eventually, other countries in southeast Asia. The NGO’s broad mandate includes providing equipment, education and training to local professionals. It also collaborates with several Canadian children’s hospitals as well as other charitable organizations. The intent, says Fastlicht, is to help transform the trajectory of a patient’s life by enhancing their appearance. How a young patient feels about him or herself is integral to “how they integrate into society and live healthy productive lives, enabling them to reach their full potential.”
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undled in a down parka, I lean against a bar hewn of ice inside the 10Below Icewine Lounge at Peller Estates Winery in Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON, and watch as tour and tasting guide Alfred Schnierle carefully pours Vidal Icewine into four glasses. I shiver in anticipation of the sweet elixir—and from the cold. The frosty tasting room, located in the winery’s subterranean cellar, is cooled to -10°C to mimic the frigid conditions necessary to harvest icewine grapes on the Niagara Peninsula. “Icewine grapes have to have a minimum of 35 brix of sugar, and three consecutive nights and days of temperatures no warmer than minus-eight. Then, the grapes have to be pressed frozen and to do that they have to pick them at night,” Schnierle explains as our group swirls and sniffs the wine before tasting it. (Basically, the cold binds up all the fluid inside the grape, but the sugar doesn’t freeze, so when the grapes are pressed, they render just a single drop of wildly flavourful syrup.) At this moment, I’m happy to be sampling the finished product while standing in a cold room, rather than knocking frozen grapes from their vines in the middle of the night. I toast my good fortune, take a sip, and luxuriate in the amplified peach and candied citrus flavours that bathe my happy tongue. It’s hard not to drink the entire sample all at once and hope for a refill. This delicious experience is the final stop on The Greatest Winery Tour at Peller Estates, and it’s clear to me they’ve saved the best for last. I like my table wine dry, but I can’t resist the sweet complexity of icewine. Be forewarned, though. This distinctly Canadian tipple packs a punch to the palate—its intense, concentrated flavours can range from honey and lemon
1 2015 Borealis, Benjamin Bridge, Nova Scotia Stone fruit and honey flavours elevate this icewine that should be sipped with pâtés, stinky cheeses or desserts such as shortbread or fruit tarts.
drops, to sweet cherry and molasses, depending on the grape varietal—but that’s what makes it special. Indeed, Canadian icewines are coveted at home and abroad. They make up 24% of Canada’s wine exports, with most icewine going to Asian markets. In fact, Ontario is Canada’s largest exporter of icewine, so it’s not surprising that so many of the 160 Niagara-area wineries set aside grapes every season to make it. On the Niagara Peninsula, it routinely drops below the requisite minus-eight needed for a successful icewine harvest. When the cold weather blasts in, the winemaker decides whether to harvest the grapes. At large estates like Peller, special machines collect them in the dead of night. At smaller estates such as Vineland, winemaker Brian Schmidt rouses a team of about 14 intrepid workers to tumble the marble-like fruit off the vines and into big plastic bins by hand. It sounds romantic, but relying on humans is risky. “You make that phone call and someone can hang up the phone and go back to bed,” says David Hulley, director of customer experience at Vineland Estates Winery, where we sip the 2016 Vidal Icewine paired with savoury cheesecake after lunch at the winery restaurant. Complicating matters more is the exact temperature at harvest. If it’s not cold enough, the grapes’ brix number will be too low and it won’t qualify as icewine. If it’s too cold, however—say, south of -14°C—the sugar content will be too high, which affects yield (you don’t get as much juice) and messes with fermentation (a brix level higher than about 40 is toxic to yeast). The month of harvest matters, too, says Hulley.
2 2016 Vidal Icewine, Vineland Estates, Ontario Taste dried peach, apricot and candied clementine in this sweet and spicy icewine that pairs well with cheesecake or salty foie gras.
3 2017 Riesling Icewine, Quails’ Gate Estate Winery, BC Smell mango, honey and doughy biscuit on the nose, before sipping an explosion of stewed pear and tropical fruit that goes best with creamy and blue cheeses.
Check out the Niagara Icewine Festival running January 10–26 at participating wineries across the region. niagarawine festival.com
“All icewine is not created equal. If you get icewine early, in November, it’s hanging on the vine and boom, instant freeze. So the flavours are fresher, more like a table wine,” he explains. “In February, the grapes are more shrivelled and the fruit is more mature, so the icewines are from a dry fruit and more caramelized flavours.” Sometimes the frigid temps don’t hit until March, so the grapes have to hang on to the vine until they’re harvested, withstanding wind, birds and the freezethaw cycle. While some winemakers create beautiful icewine using Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon or Riesling grapes, the hardy Vidal Blanc grape is most commonly used to make it. “It makes a beautiful juice but it has a thick skin,” says Hulley. Once the grapes are pressed, it takes months to ferment icewine, and the process requires special strains of yeast. Icewine is also more viscous than table wine and must be filtered to strain out spent yeast and render a crystal-clear fluid. This all translates to a pricier bottle. “That’s why it’s so expensive. You have to sacrifice about six to eight regular bottles of wine for one bottle of icewine,” says Hulley. “It’s made in extreme conditions, it’s very rare and it’s a gamble.” But, as I can certainly attest, it’s worth wagering on.
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The Banff Hot Springs top, right Gazing up from the frozen bottom of Maligne Canyon, Jasper National Park bottom, right Inside the new Calgary Central Library building, designed by Snøhetta
ot so long ago, the Manchester Industrial District, just southwest of downtown Calgary, was just that—a place where hardworking men and women came to put on hard hats, coveralls and punch the clock, but visitors rarely ventured. It’s still home to many of those businesses that typically sit at the fringes of any big city—strip malls and auto parts stores and, yes, factories. But lately, this district has been transformed into something else. Now, it’s known as the Barley Belt. “Manchester has always been a bit of a forgotten neighbourhood,” Alex Horner, a co-owner at Banded Peak Brewery, tells me. Founded three years ago by three lifelong friends who love to snowboard, Banded Peak brews beer adapted to Alberta’s adventurous outdoors. As I sip one of the unfiltered, unpasteurized brews, Horner notes that microbreweries are still a fledgling industry here and many of the producers have worked together to change the provincial legislation that makes this even possible. “Beer is about good times, we don’t want to be butting heads—we’re all buddies.” Once known primarily for two things (oil and cattle), Calgary has come a long way on the culinary and cultural fronts. And being here in winter, with a fresh covering of snow on the ground and the Rocky Mountains on the horizon, its all-weather charm as an urban base for outdoorsy pleasures—in those nearby mountains and in that pint brewed by snowboarders—I’m reminded that Alberta actually heats up in the cold-weather months. Continuing on my beer tour, multiple brewers tell me that smaller craft operations have only been permitted here for the last five years or so, but in that time almost 100 have popped up. At Village Brewery—started by six former employees of regional stalwart Big Rock—the owners tell me that their whole philosophy is based on community. They have an on-site gallery featuring local artists, with exhibitions rotating every two months, they invest in local causes and festivals, and even grow hops in community gardens to pick themselves. “It’s all about getting out to know the neighbours, that village mentality,” as one of them tells me. And it’s all part of a city-wide reinvention. While libraries may not usually make it on to a traveller’s itinerary, the newly opened, $245-million renovation of the Calgary Central Library has become a city landmark—a community hub and the largest civic project since the 1988 Olympic Winter Games. I enter through a western red cedar arch into the swirling, sloping January/February 2020 Just For Canadian dentists
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space, complete with a performing-arts venue, pod-style seating areas and a buzzing café. Designed by the world-renowned Norwegian architecture firm Snøhetta, the library also had the input of 16,000 Calgarians as part of a public engagement program. Inside, Indigenous artwork is illuminated by an ocular skylight. A “bookscalator” elevates your literary returns up to the second floor. This is a cool place. And so is Rouge, where I dine during one of my wintery nights in the city, in the historic red-clapboard and gingerbreadtrim of the Cross House. Built in 1891 by a prominent cattleman, it sits near the banks of the Bow River in Inglewood, the city’s oldest neighbourhood where Fort Calgary was established back in 1875. After trudging across crusty snow, it’s warm and welcoming inside. Settling in for a six-course degustation menu, I journey through a culinary adventure that doesn’t include even a morsel of AAA-Alberta beef—but rather gnocchi, rabbit and local cheese. Chef and co-owner Paul Rogalski comes out to give a little history of the place (and sharing stories of the building being haunted) and the evolution of top-shelf cuisine in Calgary. Since 2001, his restaurant has been a pioneer of the city’s if you go burgeoning culinary scene, which Discover all the now ranges from the funky take Alberta adventures (and on Indian at the Calcutta Cricket beer!) to tap into this Club to the modern Japanese of winter at: travel Shokunin. Even one of those craft alberta.com breweries, the Dandy Brewing Company, stepped up as a hotspot for beer and food and was hailed as one of the city’s best new restaurants when it opened its tasting room in 2018. But I venture outside of Calgary, too. In Banff, I chat with the guys at Park Distillery, enjoying the faux ski lodge feel while swilling some of their craft spirits, all made using pure glacier water, and the gin distilled with botanicals they foraged themselves. Afterwards, I tuck into some of their campfire cuisine (as they say, “campfires are the original restaurant”), like the “Mess Hall Standard” that includes cheese smokies, potato salad and pork ’n’ beans. I soak in the hot pools and history of the 125-yearold Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel—like the fact that Marilyn Monroe likely dipped into these waters as well while she stayed here in the hotel’s golden age. I also ski all of the Big Three—Lake Louise, Sunshine Village and Norquay. Not
a particularly talented athlete, I take my time on the thick, fresh powder and avoid the glades and moguls, making my way carefully across cat trails, remembering to bend my knees while cutting between main runs, and sometimes taking ages to make it to the bottom. At Lake Louise, it begins to snow heavily and I realize that I’m skiing in the tracks of the annual Ski World Cup—and feel like a champion, despite my plodding pace down the slope. Abandoning the ski boots, I get behind the wheel of a rental car and venture farther north into the mountains and away from Calgary, making my way up the Icefields Parkway. Winding 230 kilometres, high through the frontal range of the Canadian Rockies, this roadway takes me all the way to Jasper—through the heart of a UNESCO World Heritage Site and two of the nation’s best national parks and around some of Canada’s highest peaks, like 3,211-metre Nigel Peak, a ridge that forms the boundary between Banff and Jasper National Parks and towers far above my windshield as I cross Sunwapta Pass. Snow is in the forecast—a lot of it—and I take a breath as a few flakes begin to fall, and I roll further north into the mountains. Paralleling the continental divide and built as a Depression-era project employing hundreds, this Parkway was finished in 1940, and is often recognized as one of the world’s most beautiful roads. I keep my eyes peeled for elk (and bear), pulling off frequently to take in sweeping views. The road passes hanging glaciers, as well as long, now-frozen lakes. I make it to Jasper before the storm, but will find out tomorrow that authorities closed the road due to heavy snow. But by then, I’m safely ensconced in Jasper, where there’s an icy hike into Maligne Canyon and then a rewarding cold-weather swim in the heated pool at the famed Jasper Park Lodge. And another brew. This time, from the first brewery in a national park. Maybe the Jasper Trail Session Ale (“Consumption improves tentbuilding skills ten(t)fold,” or so the menu says) or the Jasper the Bear Ale, named after the town’s mascot. Either one is a good cap on my Alberta adventure from the city into the mountains. I’ve gone from sipping in an urban neighbourhood that’s reclaimed an industrial wilderness to sampling a pint at an outpost in the actual wilds of a national park. It all deserves a hearty “Cheers!”
from top The classic roadside attractions in Jasper National Park, moose and Pyramid Mountain rising in the background; a pint at Banded Peak Brewing in Calgary’s revitalized industrial southeast side, also known as the “Barley Belt”; Calgary cityscape in winter; The Dandy Brewing Company and Tasting Room, voted one of the city’s best restaurants in 2018
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January 21 to February 9 is NYC Restaurant Week, NYC Broadway Week and NYC Must-See Week: three weeks of prix-fixe meals and two-for-one tickets.
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top left The Lower Manhattan skyline and street art near One World Trade Center top middle The “Imagine” mosaic memorial to John Lennon at Strawberry Fields
on the Upper West Side of Central Park right Looking up at the skylight within the ribbed structure of the Oculus at the World Trade Center Transportation Hub bottom left Exhibit at The Whitney Museum bottom middle The exterior of the Oculus by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, meant to reference a dove in flight
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Take to the streets and museums of new
he trees are bare, their graphic branches stretching across blue sky and frosty concrete and shiny glass amidst a forest of skyscrapers. New York City in winter has a stark beauty. But its frenetic energy is slightly softened, the constant buzz a bit muffled and everything seems to glow. Your breath puffs out in a big cloud as you crunch through Central Park in Manhattan. On the Upper East Side, the swish of ice skates at Wollman Rink mingles with the omnipresent hum of traffic on 5th Avenue. On the other side of the park, a short walk from Columbus Circle, people gather and take selfies at the “Imagine” memorial to John Lennon. There’s an introspective quality to the city in winter. Take to the streets and just walk. When it’s time to warm up, duck in
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to one of its more than 100 museums. On 53rd, the newly expanded MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) is a Midtown escape (starting February 9th is an exhibit on renowned photographer, Dorothea Lange). Brave the chill again and walk west and then south, from Midtown into Chelsea, on the High Line—a 2.3km-long elevated greenway and rail trail—amidst outdoor art and the canopy of that forest of skyscrapers. At the south end of the High Line, another museum beckons, the recently relocated Whitney Museum of American Art, where you can immerse in the iconic works of artists like Andy Warhol. From here, it’s a few more blocks to Lower Manhattan. Take the subway to One World Trade Center, where emerging into the station will bring a different kind
of chill. Millions of daily commuters pass through its sculptural entryway, called the “Oculus,” which opens up dramatically to the sky. Brilliant white and suffused with light, it’s as if you’re levitating in the space. Spanish architect, Santiago Calatrava, says of the retractable skylight, “…we are framing a piece of Manhattan’s sky.” Sunlight projects onto the floor in what he calls the “Way of Light,” and at 10:28am on September 11th—coinciding with the time of the second tower’s collapse—it illuminates the central axis of the interior. Outside, perched atop Ground Zero, the steel-and-glass structure takes the form of 350-foot wings—a bird-shaped reference to a dove. It’s sobering but uplifting—and somehow brightens even the darkest days of winter. — Barb Sligl
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Endodontics
Cosmetics/Aesthetic
Anesthesia/Sedation
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Various Courses In Anesthesia
Dental Anesthesia Online
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Jan 25
Minneapolis Minnesota
Nitrous Oxide-Based Sedation Training: Pediatric & Adult Patients With Special Health Care Needs
University of Minnesota School of Dentistry
612-625-1418
smile.umn.edu
Feb 07Mar 01
San Diego California
I.V. Sedation Training For Dentists
Conscious Sedation Consulting
888-581-4448
sedation consulting.com
Apr 17-18
Seminole Florida
Nitrous Oxide Psychosedation
University of Florida
888-550-4590
ce.dental.ufl.edu
Sep 07-11
Dublin Ireland
Anesthesia Update
Northwest Anesthesia Seminars
800-222-6927
nwas.com
Call to schedule
Toronto Ontario
One-On-One Training: Botox And Filler For Modern Dental Practice Theory Materials Provided Via Online Access. Hands On Sessions Scheduled At Your Convenience.
Botox Training Centre
647-346-7024 See Ad Page 4
botox training centre.ca
Mar 27
New York New York
The Art Of Resin
New York County Dental Society Henry Spenadel Continuing Education Program
212-573-8500
nycdental society.org
Apr 05-06
New York New York
Hands-On Aesthetic Continuum: 4-Day Program On Aesthetic And Restorative Dentistry
Aesthetic Advantage
212-794-3552
aesthetic advantage.com
Apr 10
Toronto Ontario
Botox And Filler For Modern Dental Practice
Botox Training Centre
647-346-7024 See Ad Page 4
botox training centre.ca
Apr 22-25
Orlando Florida
36th Annual American Academy Of Cosmetic Dentistry Scientific Session
American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry
800-543-9220
aacd.com
Sep 18
Toronto Ontario
Botox And Filler For Modern Dental Practice
Botox Training Centre
647-346-7024 See Ad Page 4
botox training centre.ca
Apr 11-25 2021
Cruise around Japan
Cosmetic Dentistry: Materials And Preparation With Dr. Mike Malone
Mindware Educational Seminars
888-574-8288 See Ad Page 17
mindware seminars.com
Ongoing
Vancouver British Columbia
Course #1 Shaping, Cleaning, And Obturation Of Root Canal Systems Course #2 Re-Treatment & Other Complex Cases
Endodontics Unsponsored
604-987-2285
vancouverroot canals.com
Feb 26Mar 07
Galapagos Islands Cruise
CDE AWAY: Dental, ENT, Head & Neck Problems With Dr. Brian Jafine (Endodontics) and Dr. Jack Kolenda (ENT) Almost Sold Out!
Sea Courses
888-647-7327 See Ad Page 20
seacourses.com
Apr 01-04
Nashville Tennessee
AAE20 Annual Meeting
American Association of Endodontists
800-872-3636
aae.org
May 01-03
Surrey British Columbia
Hands-On Endo CE Training In Rotary Endodontics To Take Back To Your Office On Monday
B.C. Endodontic Solutions
778-998-3261
bcendo solutions.ca
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Jan 22
Langley British Columbia
Northwest Dental Study Club Presentation: How Dental Regulation Is Changing, And Staying The Same With Dr. Chris Hacker Avoiding Complaints Presented By Drs. Garry Sutton And Alex Penner
College of Dental Surgeons of BC
604-736-3621
cdsbc.org
Jan 30Feb 01
Boston Massachusetts
Yankee Dental Congress
Massachusetts Dental Society
877-515-9071
yankeedental. com
Feb 01-08
Maui Hawaii
40th Annual Dental Forum In Hawaii
Dental Seminars and Symposia
952-922-1707
dentsem.com
Feb 03-07
Big Island Hawaii
Adventure And Learn
University of British Columbia, Continuing Dental Education
877-328-7744 See Ad Page 16
dentistry.ubc.ca/ cde/travel-andlearn
Feb 20-22
Chicago Illinois
155th Chicago Dental Society Midwinter Meeting: Kaleidoscope View 2020
Chicago Dental Society
312-836-7300
cds.org
Feb 28Mar 01
Whistler British Columbia
Annual Ski Seminar
University of British Columbia, Continuing Dental Education
877-328-7744 See Ad Page 16
dentistry.ubc.ca/ cde/travel-andlearn
Mar 05-07
Vancouver British Columbia
Pacific Dental Conference
Pacific Dental Conference
604-736-3781
pdconf.com
Mar 19-21
Atlanta Georgia
Hinman Dental Meeting
404-231-1663
hinman.org
Mar 23-27
Maui Hawaii
UBC Annual Spring Break Symposium, An Interdisciplinary Program
Hinman new CE toDental Society of Atlanta be placed University of British Columbia, Continuing Dental Education
877-328-7744 See Ad Page 16
dentistry.ubc.ca/ cde/travel-andlearn
Apr 02-04
Winnipeg Manitoba
2020 MDA/CDA Annual Convention
Manitoba Dental Association
204-988-5300
mdacda2020.com
Apr 03
New York New York
2nd Annual Medical/Dental Symposium - Cannabis In Healthcare: Pros & Cons
Columbia University College of Dental Medicine
212-305-6881
dental. columbia.edu/ce
May 01-02
Key Biscayne Florida
Making It All Work - A Special Retreat For Women In Dentistry
Pankey Institute for Advancd Dental Education
800-435-7352
pankey.org
May 05-15
West Coast Cruise
Dental Seminar At Sea / 10-Night Cruise On Windstar Star Breeze
Professional Education Society
877-737-7005 See Ad Page 31
pestravel.com
May 07-09
Toronto Ontario
Annual Spring Meeting
Ontario Dental Association
877-779-3127 See Ad Page 29
asm.oda.ca
May 21-23
Edmonton Alberta
Alberta Wellness Summit
Alberta Dental Association and College
780-432-1012
dentalhealthalberta.ca
May 28-30
Seattle Washington
2020 Pacific Northwest Dental Conference
Washington State Dental Association
800-448-3368
wsda.org
Mediterranean Cruise
MINDWARE EDUCATIONAL SEMINARS
Japan Cruise
Tour of Provence
July 16 - 26, 2020
April 11 - 25, 2020
May 23 - June 3, 2021
Dr. Sam Halabo “Building Your Practice with Implants”
Dr. Mike Malone “Cosmetic Dentistry: Materials and Preparation”
Dr. Michael Goldberg “Periodontal Practices for the Prudent Practitioner”
Enjoy la Dolce Vita aboard the luxurious Oceania Riviera as you visit the Med’s poshest ports of call! Air included + New Lower Pricing!!
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Medical/Dental Issues
Implantology
General Dentistry
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Jun 07-21
Norwegian Fjords & the Midnight Sun
CME/CE Seminar At Sea / 14-Night Cruise Along Norway’s Scenic Coast On Holland America’s Newest Ship
Professional Education Society
877-737-7005
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Jul 19-26
Southern France River Cruise
Dental Symposium / 7-Night All-Inclusive River Cruise On Uniworld S.S. Catherine
Professional Education Society
877-737-7005 See Ad Page 31
pestravel.com
Sep-29 Oct 07
Spain, Portugal and Morocco
Exploring Dentistry & Medicine / 7-Night Cruise Lisbon To Barcelona On Windstar Legend
Professional Education Society
877-737-7005 See Ad Page 31
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Nov 27Dec 02
New York New York
Greater New York Dental Meeting
New York County and Second District Dental Societies
212-398-6922
gnydm.com
Jan 2021
Sandals St Lucia
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Kennedy Professional Education Seminars
877-536-6736
kennedysemi nars.com
Multiple Dates
Vancouver British Columbia
AAID Vancouver MaxiCourse Program Jan 17-19; Feb 21-23; Mar 20-22; Apr 17-19; May 15-17; Jun 12-14
Vancouver MaxiCourse
888-teeth-99
vancouvermaxi course.com
Multiple Dates
Santo Domingo Dominican Republic
Hands-On Live Implant Course: 5 Days Of Live Surgery Level 1: Implant Placement Level 2: Sinus Lifts And Grafting Mar 02-06; Jun 15-19; Sep 14-18; Dec 07-11
Trinon Collegium Practicum
630-705-1002
implantology courses.com
Multiple Dates
Santo Domingo Dominican Republic
Live Patient Implant Surgical Bootcamp: Three Days Of Live Surgery And One Day Of Didactic Training Feb 03-06, Jun 15-18, Oct 12-15
Implant Seminars
305-944-9636 See Ad Page 9
implant seminars.com
Multiple Dates
Santo Domingo Dominican Republic
new CE to Live Patient Extraction Program: Three Fullbe Days Of Live Surgery Option 1: Socket Grafting With Extractionsplaced & PRP/
Implant Seminars
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Apr 30May 01
Miami Florida
Implantology Unlimited - An Accelerated, Cost-Efficient, Two-Day Dental Implant Program
Implant Seminars
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Jul 10-17
Alaska Glacier Cruise
Dental Implant Immersion: Concepts And Techniques Essential For Success
Continuing Education, Inc./University at Sea
866-456-9464
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Jul 16-26
Mediterranean Cruise
Dr. Sam Halabo: Building Your Practice With Implants: Enhancing Diagnosis, Placement, Cementation And Marketing
Mindware Educational Seminars
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mindware seminars.com
Aug 10-20
Tour of South Africa
Dr. Robert Vogel: Comprehensive Update Of Current Topics And Techniques For Ideal Implant Dentistry
Mindware Educational Seminars
888-574-8288 See Ad Page 17
mindware seminars.com
Ongoing
Online
Dental Emergencies: Cardiac Emergencies
American Seminar Institute
866-611-5599
americansemi nar.com
Jan 05-19 2021
South Africa Cruise
Dental & Emergency Medicine With Dr. Brian Jafine (Endodontics) And Dr. David Isen (Dental)
Sea Courses
888-647-7327 See Ad Page 20
seacourses.com
PRF Feb 06-08, May 07-09, Dec 03-05 Option 2: Extractions Focused On 3rd Molars Jan 23-25, Mar 05-07, Aug 06-08
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Pediatric Dentistry
Orthodontics
Oral Surgery
Oral Pathology
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Apr 24-25
Orlando Florida
2020 Sleep-Related Breathing Disorders & Craniofacial Pain
TMJ and Sleep Therapy Centre
800-228-9290
tmjtherapy centre.com
May 15-18
Ridgedale Missouri
4 Half-Day Lectures (20 hours) On Practical “Nuts & Bolts” Clinical Oral Pathology At Big Cedar Lodge
OPCE Seminars
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Oct 08-19
Italy & Greek Islands
Dr. Hagen Klieb - Oral Pathology: What’s New And What’s Worth Remembering; Dr. Jack Lipkin - Treatment Planning: The Crystal Ball Of Prosthetics
Kennedy Professional Education Seminars
877-536-6736 See Ad Page 18
kennedysemi nars.com
Dec 09-11
Las Vegas Nevada
Core I – Foundations In Restoring Complex Cases
LVI Global
888-584-3237
lviglobal.com
May 01-03
Toronto Ontario
Oral Surgery For The GP: A Practical Approach
Palmeri Media Group
866-581-8949
drlarrygaum.com
Aug 09-16
Alaska Cruise
Dr. Leslie David - A Potpourri Of Oral Surgery And Implants For General Practice
Kennedy Professional Education Seminars
877-536-6736 See Ad Page 18
kennedysemi nars.com
Jan 24-25
Calgary Alberta
Level I, Session 3: Intro To Orthodontics
Rondeau Seminars
877-372-7625
rondeau seminars.com
Mar 06-07
Toronto Ontario
Orthodontic Staff Training – Instructor: Gina Noakes, RDH
877-372-7625 See Ad Page 19
rondeau seminars.com
Mar 06-07
Toronto Ontario
Diagnosis And Treatment Of TMD – Instructor: Dr. Brock Rondeau/Dr. Dawne Slabach
Rondeau Seminars
877-372-7625 See Ad Page 19
rondeau seminars.com
Mar 06-07
Toronto Ontario
Case Finishing And Mechanics – Instructor: Dr. Adrian Palencar
Rondeau Seminars
877-372-7625 See Ad Page 19
rondeau seminars.com
Apr 30May 01
New York New York
International Clear Aligners MasterClass NYU Linhart College of Dentistry
NYU Linhart College of Dentistry
212-998-9755
dental.nyu.edu
Feb 09-14
Park City Utah
Southwestern Society Of Pediatric Dentistry Winter Ski Meeting
Southwestern Society of Pediatric Dentistry
866-244-0979
swspd.org
Mar 20-21
Washington DC
Pediatric Dental Pearls For The General Dentist
Pediatric Dental Seminars
601-750-5947
pediatric dentalce.com
Jun 05-12
Alaska Cruise
Pediatric Dentistry
Continuing Education, Inc./University at Sea
866-456-9464
continuingedu cation.net
Sep 24-26
Whistler British Columbia
CAPD Annual Conference
Canadian Academy of Pediatric Dentistry
info@capd-acdp. org
capd-acdp.org
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Rondeau Seminars The Leader in Dental Continuing Education
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Rondeau Seminars Limited Nationally Approved PACE Program Provider for FAGD/MAGD credit. Approval does not imply acceptance by any regulatory authority or AGD endorsement. 3/1/2018 to 2/28/2021 Provider ID# 217653
Level I - Introduction to Orthodontics Internet Course Course Fees Per Session Fee: $1,295 USD per session (plus shipping cost for course manual) Full Payment: $4,000 USD for all 4 sessions (plus shipping costs for all 4 course manuals) Save $1,180 with Full Payment
Sessions 1. Early Treatment Mixed Dentition, Functional Appliances, Diagnostic Records, Cephalometrics, Practice Management 2. Straight Wire Mechanics, Class II Treatment, Twin Block™, Rick-A-Nator™, Bracketing, Banding of Molars, Archwires 3. TMJ in Orthodontics, Sagittal & Tandem Appliance, Class III, Utility Arches, Splint Therapy, JVA 4. MARA™ Appliance, Open Bite Cases, Impacted Cuspids, Clear Braces, Case Finishing, Retention, Snoring & Sleep Apnea, Air Rotor Stripping & Invisalign (Clear Aligners)
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Practice Management Technology and Planning
Prosthodontics/Restorative
Periodontics
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Jun 06-07
Brossard Québec
Optimize Your Results In Interceptive Periodontics
International Dental Institute
877-463-1281
idi.org
Aug 09-22
British Isles & Amsterdam
Dr. Hoda Hosseini - Perio
Kennedy Professional Education Seminars
877-536-6736 See Ad Page 18
kennedysemi nars.com
Oct 31Nov 03
Honolulu Hawaii
106th Annual Meeting Of The American Academy Of Periodontology
American Academy of Periodontology
312-787-5518
perio.org
Feb 13-28 2021
South America
Dr. Steve Faigan - Current Concepts, Diagnosis And Management Of Periodontal & Peri-Implant Diseases And Enhancing Beauty Of Restorative Dentistry With Esthetic Periodontal Surgery
Kennedy Professional Education Seminars
877-536-6736
kennedysemi nars.com
May 23Jun 03 2021
Tour of Provence
Dr. Mike Goldberg: Periodontal Practices For The Prudent Practitioner
Mindware Educational Seminars
888-574-8288
mindware seminars.com
Multiple Dates
Toronto Ontario
Multidisciplinary Approach To Implant Prosthodontics Didactic Sessions: Mar 27-28; May 29-30; Jun 12-13 Treatment Planning Session: May 02
Genesis Continuing Dental Education
416-229-6002
genesiscde.com
Mar 07-14
Hawaii Cruise
Tips And Tricks For More Predictable Outcomes In Both Fixed And Implant Prosthetics: Mastering Key Principles For Success...Pearls To Use On Monday
Continuing Education, Inc./University at Sea
866-456-9464
continuingedu cation.net
Apr 27
Toronto Ontario
Prosthodontic Management Of Implant Failures
Prosthodontic Associates Centre for Excellence
877-920-7223
pace education.ca
Jun 23-30
Classical Rhine River Cruise
Achieving Excellence In Restorative Dentistry Through Creative Treatment Planning
Continuing Education, Inc./University at Sea
866-456-9464 See Ad Page 21
continuingedu cation.net
Oct 01-03
Halifax Nova Scotia
28th Annual Scientific Meeting
Canadian Academy Of Restorative Dentistry And Prosthodontics
902-435-1723
cardp.ca
Ongoing
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Dental Recordkeeping
College of Dental Surgeons of BC
800-663-9169
cdsbc.org
Mar 13-15
Rancho Mirage California
Al Heaps & Associates, Palm Springs Dental Practice Transition Seminar And Golf Weekend
University of British Columbia, Continuing Dental Education
877-328-7744
dentistry.ubc.ca/ cde/travel-andlearn
Sep 13-20
Western Mediterranean Cruise
Dental Treatment Planning And Sequencing; The Keys To Predictable, Profitable Dentistry
Continuing Education, Inc./University at Sea
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Nov 01-08
Western Caribbean & Perfect Day Coco Cay Cruise
Predictable Treatment Planning: From The Seemingly Simple To The Worn Dentition... And Everything in Between
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practice management Timothy A. Brown Timothy A. Brown specializes in dental practice appraisals, brokerage, consulting, locum placements, associateships and practice financing across Canada. You can reach Timothy at timothy@roicorp.com.
A new lease
How a leasehold agreement and its clauses can impact your exit strategy
gency plans to sell a building and they want the right to relocate you within the building (RELO) or terminate your lease and deliver the property vacant, should the new owner want to reposition the building or demolish it (DEMO). These clauses and rights favour landlords by making a building more valuable. Tenants hate these clauses; landlords and their realtors love them. This doesn’t discount the fact that full occupancy and high rents are still the main priorities for a landlord. But a RELO and/or DEMO clause makes the property more valuable and/or saleable to multiple interested buyers, which is another high priority of the landlord.
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As a tenant, you won’t know the details of the DEMO clause specific to your lease until the renewal lease proposal arrives. My client’s current lease says that her landlord does not have to provide the renewal lease proposal until precisely six months before the current lease expires. This gives tenants very little time to plan for relocation and a savvy landlord knows that. Landlords have the upper hand in these situations. In working with my client on her exit plan, we want at least 10 years of tenancy from the date she sells in order to obtain 10-year-term financing for the buyer.
client, that means about one year to find a nearby property, buy it and design/build a new office. It’s tight but it can be done. And buying real estate is always a good move, even if it is a long-term investment (think 10 years or more) and her career exit plan is three years. It may seem to be a conflict, but don’t attach career to a real estate investment. These are separate decisions with differing commitments and timelines. Real estate can generate income for you and your family for many years. Your practice only generates income for you while you own it and, to a lesser extent, if/when you become an associate with a new buyer. The alternative is to stay and gamble that the landlord will not evoke the DEMO clause (a 50/50 probability) until 2023 or 2024, based on what might be happening in the surrounding real estate area. Or there’s the option to sign a new lease in a neighbouring building, move and custom build another dental office (as my client did 20 years ago). To do so means abandoning the leaseholds of the current suite (estimated value in the hundreds of thousands of dollars) and getting a bank loan to build the new office—and be at the whim of another landlord. Landlords will always Before planning position their holdings for resale and will not accomyour exit strategy, modate tenants who occupy rethink whether a relatively small portion of their building (like my client’s you should Ten-year-term practice, which is just 3% of financing allows the entire property). And so, for increased pracas I suggested to her, buying tice sale prices. But it’s her own property may be the best more likely that we’ll get move (quite literally). The alternatives three to five years of secured for dentists in leasehold agreements— tenancy, after which the DEMO clause (or who are also planning their exit strategy “threat”) will arise. Assuming my client and career retirement—are limited. sells in about three years, as per her plan, Find something in the area you the new owner will then have as little as want and secure a long-term real estate one or two years before being forced to investment. The bonus is that it’ll become move. And this, of course, will substantiala second retirement income once the ly reduce the sale price of any practice. practice is sold. As has been said by a bilThere’s the option to move and purlionaire oil tycoon, “If it appreciates, buy chase a property. But that means starting it. If it depreciates, lease it.” Don’t let your the hunt for a business space now. For my practice depreciate.
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client of mine is having anxiety about her expiring premise lease. She wants to stay—it’s a great building and she’s invested almost $1 million in leasehold improvements and non-moveable fixtures. But the landlord is inserting a building demolition clause in all the renewal leases. For someone who’s three years from retiring and planning her exit strategy, moving isn’t part of the plan. As I explained to my client, a landlord wants AAA tenants—those who have a solid track record and pay rent on time— particularly a successful dentist like her. However, all landlords also have contin-
t h e w e a lt h y d e n t i s t M a n f r e d p u r t z k i Manfred Purtzki, CPA, CA, is a principal in the Vancouver office of Purtzki Johansen & Associates. He can be reached at: Manfred@purtzki.com or 604-669-7558.
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t’s a new year and one perennial thing that’s likely to make it on most people’s list of resolutions: boost income. One simple way to do that: reduce taxes. Here’s a checklist of tax-saving strategies to reduce your income-tax bill for 2020.
reasonable. A good test of reasonableness is to pay them what you would have to pay a third party. An individual can earn up to $12,069 and pay no federal tax. If the family member works more than 20 hours per week for the practice, then Income Tax Savings
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1 Reduce tax on shareholder draws. If you take large draws from your corporation, which would normally be reported as dividends on your tax return, consider converting those dividends to capital gains. See table above for the tax savings.
Pay salaries to family members. The new income-splitting restrictions eliminate the benefits of allocating income to family members in lower tax brackets. It’s interesting that the new restrictions do not apply to salaries paid for actual work performed. However, salaries paid to family members must be 2
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3 Don’t miss out on the capital gains exemption. It’s never too early to begin to prepare for the eventual sale of your practice (see page 22 for another aspect of preparing to sell your practice). You never know when one of the large corporate consolidators will appear on your doorstep with a purchase offer you cannot refuse.
1. At the time of sale, 90% of the fair-market value of the corporate assets must be used in an active practice. 2. During the 24 months prior to the sale of the shares, 50% of the fair-market value of the corporation’s assets must have been used in an active business. 3. You must have owned the shares 24 months prior to the sale.
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Work with your accountant to ensure that you have the full $883,000 entitlement of capital gains exemption for each of your family members available to you when the time comes. To access this capital exemption, the shares must be “Qualifying Small Business Shares” and meet these three conditions:
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D r . k e l l e n s i lv e r t h o r n Dr. Kellen Silverthorn is Just For Canadian Dentists’ automotive writer. He tries to keep one convertible and/or one track-day car in the family fleet.
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he Highway 401 road-side sign west of Toronto said “Legendary Motorcars Display.” I knew that name, but from where and when? Then it came to me. Ten years ago, when I had cable TV, Dream Car Garage was a weekly TV show based at that enterprise. I even remembered the hosts, the encyclopedic straight-man Peter Klutt, and jolly foil Tom Hnatiw. And the featured garage, Legendary Motorcar Company, clearly knew collector cars, and the individual cars that were showcased on the TV show were the best of their breed.
A “Legendary” line-up of Cobras and the Shelbyinfluenced Ford GT40
Before you could say “Bob’s your uncle,” I was touring Legendary’s current 55,000-square-foot Halton Hills facility. My tour guide was Peter Klutt’s son Gary. With brother Ryan, the younger Klutt generation is taking an ever-bigger role in the family business. Key employees have been with the garage long enough to be like family; Chris Simon, the restorations manager, has been with them since 1984 and Legendary’s sales manager, Dave Griffiths, started with the company 31 years ago as a 15-yearold. (And if you know someone keen on starting a fulfilling career with collector cars, Legendary is looking to add to its long-serving staff of 20.)
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Thirteen of the staff members work in the restoration shops and race shops (the remainder is in sales and administration). Active work-bays can accommodate 50-plus cars. Among the Legendary staff there’s a cumulative experience with collector cars approaching demimillennial status. The sales side typically has roughly 100 cars for sale at any given time. Sales usually reach 300 units annually. More than half of Legendary’s sales are to USA customers. Remaining sales are roughly split between Canada and the rest of the world. The largest Canadian markets for Legendary Motorcar are Ontario, followed by Alberta and BC. While I didn’t see any pre-war or inter-war period metal, post-war diversity abounds: 1957 Mercedes SL, 1958 Buick Limited convertible, 1965 Dragon Snake Cobra, 1969 Baldwin-Motion Camaro and a 1973 Maserati Bora were all resplendent in their glory. Race cars too: from SCCA, NASCAR, IndyCar and Formula One. Peter, Gary and Ryan all love to race (I suggested that they race together as a clan, joining my clan at Targa New Zealand). Gary says he isn’t sure which came first, the racing bug or the family firm’s increasing specialization in Shelby Mustangs, Shelby Cobras and (Shelbydeveloped) Ford GTs. Roughly a quarter of Legendary’s on-site collector-car stock falls into these Shelby-related categories. Their combined Shelby valuations rival the GDP of some of the world’s smaller nations. Public interest in all of these Shelby/ Ford cars will be piqued by the current movie Ford v Ferrari, inspired by the 1964–69 motorsport vendetta between auto industry titans Henry Ford II and Enzo
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Ferrari. In the movie, Matt Damon plays Ford’s real-life lieutenant character Carroll Shelby, while Christian Bale plays Shelby’s real-life race driver/engineer Ken Miles. So, it blew my mind when I realized that one of Legendary’s restoration bays housed “The Turd”—arguably the most important Shelby Cobra of all time. Back in the day, race cars were crude tools, not art, nor investment vehicles. Ken Miles modified this particular race car unmercifully through 1964 to make it faster. Within Shelby’s race shop, Miles’ orphan project received the “turd” appellation from the other mechanics. The name stuck. His Cobra got its unique svelte body, while its V8 engine went from the usual small-block cast-iron unit to an experimental aluminum big-block. Miles was determined to silence the resurgent cross-town rival Corvette Gran Sports. This he accomplished to salutary effect at the 1964 season wind-up in Nassau, Bahamas, by driving away from the field with ease. While not as beautiful to look at as the six Daytona Coupe Cobras, The Turd is one-of-one, with a fascinating technical pedigree, race history and human story. I won’t spoil the movie’s plot by telling you the rest of that tale, but I will foretell that once Legendary finishes The Turd’s restoration, I predict it will re-set the auction record for most valuable “American car” (the regular Cobra’s aluminum bodies were hammered into shape by hand in England). Sadly, Dream Car Garage co-host Tom Hnatiw won’t get to see the restoration of The Turd in this life. He passed away in 2012 from kidney disease. But the Klutts knew Tom would want their shared passion for collector cars to continue broadcasting from Halton Hills. So, later in 2012, Gary and Peter Klutt began producing weekly TV episodes of Legendary Motorcar. Tune in on BNN or Discovery Velocity channel to view. And don’t miss the Ford/Shelby movie on the big screen. Visit Legendary Motorcar if you’re west of Toronto on Highway 401. Old episodes of Dream Car Garage can also be viewed on YouTube. Feel the Legendary passion.
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The Dream Car Garage lives on and brings another legendary car back to life
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he road is quite sinuous,” says my driver, as we twist and turn through the Haute-Savoie region of France, up, up, up into the Alps. It’s snowing. Peaks loom above and valleys plunge below. It’s a three-hour car ride from Geneva airport to Val d’Isère in the French Alps, and when we pull up to a chalet on the edge of town, I emerge into a storybook setting. Flocked trees, soaring snowdrifts, downy slopes, piercing peaks. And the deep quiet and glow that comes from all that noise-absorbing and light-reflecting white powder. My base while in Val, as the town is nicknamed by vacationing Brits, is a pretty-as-a-picture classic ski chalet: stone walls, reclaimed wood beams, roaring fireplace, fur throws…fully serviced with a staff that includes a chef who’s worked in a Michelin-starred restaurant. It’s one of a handful of “Hip Hideouts” in the village, but from here, at the tip of one fork of the “Y” shape of Val, I can tumble out of bed and straight into the mountains or slide “downtown.” It’s ski in/ski out extraordinaire. Val d’Isère sits high (1,850 metres high!) in the Tarentaise valley in the Vanoise National Park. I could ski across the border on that glorious powder (eight metres of it every winter) into Italy. But with more than 300km of marked runs and access to the Solaise mountain (so called for all the sun it gets) right from the centre of the village, I stick to the French side of the Alps. This is where the country’s oldest cable-car station is, now transformed into a swish hotel, France’s highest: Le Refuge de Solaise. It’s a James Bondworthy outpost high above the village, where you can “be the spectator of the sunset and sunrise at 2,551 metres of altitude,” as Le Refuge’s Director of Communication, Anne Olivieri, tells me. And then, Bond-style, you can make first tracks in the morning on piste M or the black-level Rhône-Alpes (which also serves as the World Cup women’s downhill course) back into the village. The hotel just opened this past December, but the restaurant-with-aview has served haute (in all its connotations) cuisine since last ski season. This isn’t your standard ski-resort-cafeteria fare. It’s here that I have lunch between runs off the Solaise, as only the French do: a glass of Rousette (a Savoie AOC, Appellation d’Origine Contrôlée, wine), traditional tartiflette with local reblochon cheese (from a nearby farm, bien sûr), a sample of Beaufort, “the prince of Gruyère” (produced only at a certain altitude, from certain cows), and then tiramisu (remember, Italy is just down the other side of these mountains…and my Italian ski instructor gives the dessert his hearty approval). Bon appétit! Post lunch, I ski from the Solaise to the Bellevarde side of the resort. La Face de Bellevarde is a legendary black piste (with a gradient of 71% at its steepest), and the 1992 Winter Olympics men’s downhill run. After staying upright down this wall of snow, I want to simply rest and refuel at another gourmet restaurant, La Peau de Vache, that overlooks La Face. But there’s still La Grande Motte to tackle, where the gondola takes me to 3,456 metres below its peak. The vastness of the ski area (157 runs, 72 lifts, 1,900 metres
previous page, clockwise from top left Dancing on the table at La Folie Douce; high above the Solaise; ski instructors taking a lunch break at Le Refuge de Solaise; one of the many charming chalets scattered across Val d’Isère village in its “Y” valley this page, from top Selfie-attracting sign high up on the Bellevarde side of Val d’Isère ski resort; fresh-baked bread with the Haute-Savoie region’s crest—and as only the French know how to make—at Le Refuge de Solaise restaurant; the stunning view from Le Refuge de Solaise, high above the village of Val d’Isère opposite page, clockwise from top left Two very perfectly behaved dogs at two-Michelinstar Chef Benoît Vidal’s Le Gourmet Bistrot in Le Fornet; it’s hard not to just stop, sit and stare at the 360-degree mountains on Val’s sunny ski slopes; the slopeside perched “kiosque” at La Folie Douce; stone chapel in the old village of Val d’Isère
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of vertical) is exhilirating. And it countinues into Tignes, the adjoining ski resort. You can ski endlessly in the Haute-Savoie Alps it seems, down and down and down into the valley. After five (or was it six?) peaks in one day, I make my turns to the top of La Daille gondola, where the après-ski rite of passage is ending the day at La Folie Douce. The “sweet madness” is an open-air burlesque-style show with 360-degree mountains as the backdrop and flowing (and flowing and flowing) Champagne. It’s delirious and delicious. There’s a cheese cave (more Beaufort!) and a kiosque perched over the edge of a ski run with views of Mont Blanc in the distance. Quelle expérience! Back in the village for more après-ski, I have a rosé at Cocorico with some flamboyant and très happy skiers. The joie de vivre is infectious and I follow it throughout the snowy streets, which are like a stage set for “authentic ski village.” I happen upon a museum-like display of Jean-Claude Killy’s skis, the champion skier who hails from Val, and all sorts of ski accoutrements, from ski run signs, including “Face,” to omnipresent hooks and racks for helmets and skis and snowboards. I even have a rather ski-themed dessert at La Luge: Le Mont Blanc, a decadent peak of crème de marrons with meringue that mimics pillowy snowdrifts. I wander into a pâtisserie (Maison Chevallot, known for croissants that rival any in Paris), where people still in ski gear are lining up for bread or the tourte Savoyarde au Beaufort, and an also-packed fromagerie, where another regional cheese, Tomme, is flecked with grass and truffles. At this cheese shop, La Fermette de Claudine, the third-generation cheesemaker herself (oui, Claudine!), tells me that her farm (just over there, she points) has 23 cows. Perhaps they produced that Beaufort and Reblochon de Savoie I tried up on the Solaise, the herbaceous and flowery aroma coming from the mountain pastures they graze on. My final day here, I sample yet more fromage at yet another purveyor of fine French food. In the village of Le Fornet, one of the highest in France that’s farther up the road from Val and near the Iseran pass, is L’Atelier d’Edmond, where Chef Benoît Vidal has received two Michelin stars. On my last ski run, I swoosh down the Mangard piste (making a pitstop at the impossibly adorable L’Edelweiss chalet for an aperitif of bubbly…because skiing in the French Alps is so civilized), right into Le Fornet and the entrance of the Michelin-starred restaurant. if you go Lunch in the adjoining Le Gourmet Bistrot STAY at one of the Hip Hideouts is being made by Chef Vidal himself. And chalets: hiphideouts.com. Or make inside are two perfectly behaved dogs, sitting like James Bond on a mountaintop demurely under the table at the feet of their at Le Refuge de Solaise: lerefugevaldisere.com/en/. SKI and get your owner. Only in France. I have another glass of winter fix all the way into May— Roussette, that white grape variety of Savoie, Val has one of the longest ski rillette de canard, crozets (a Savoie pasta) with seasons with the most snow: champignons, and crème brûlée au sapin (fir valdisere.com. infused!). Divine. After which, I reluctantly depart and slowly descend from this alpine reverie, twisting and turning, back through the Haute-Savoie Alps to Geneva. Coming down the mountain is coming down from a Val d’Isère high. Which is très haute, indeed.
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Lounging in the sun atop the Solaise—with Le Refuge de Solaise in the background, overlooking the valley and village below—is de rigueur aprèsski at Val d’Isère; lunch (yes, on a ski hill!) at Restaurant L’Étincelle, another fine-food outpost (think truffles, foie gras, Savoie cheese from neighbouring farms) near the bottom of the Solaise side of Val, by the Solaise cable car and the Stade piste…ski-in via pistes M and Rhône-Alpes; a happy après-ski partaker at Cocorico at the base of the Solaise side of Val d’Isère
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dentists share their picks + pleasures dr. Sandra Fastlicht got her dentistry start early—working in her orthodontist father’s office. She’s now a third-generation dentist and makes it her cause to help children with cleft lip and palate and craniofacial anomalies and disabilities (read more about her charitable work on page 8). Her love of children is so strong that if she wasn’t a dentist, she’d be a paediatrician. She works on all of the Planet Smile for Kids projects around the world and teaches at the University of British Columbia…but she also hangs out at elephant sanctuaries—for big hugs! My name: Sandra Fastlicht
orthodontists—I’m the third generation
Favourite city: Vancouver, BC
Must-see TV: Game of Thrones
I live in: Vancouver, BC
My last trip: Vietnam and Malaysia
My training: DDS, MSc, Fellowship Cleft Lip and Palate/ Craniofacial Anomalies
Most exotic places I’ve travelled to: Thailand and Bali, Indonesia
Best meal anywhere: In Mexico—all Mexican food
Favourite band/song: All You Need is Love by The Beatles My first job: At my father’s orthodontic practice
Why I was drawn to dentistry: My grandfather and father were both
A favourite place that I keep returning to: Vietnam
Memorable restaurant: Hum Vegetarian Restaurant, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
My guilty pleasure: Chocolate-covered strawberries My go-to exercise/ sport: Dance: salsa, tango Favourite spectator sport: Hockey, if my son is playing
I’d describe my home as: My sanctuary
Celebrity crush: I have two! Brad Pitt, Richard Gere
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I’d want this with me if stranded on a desert island: Fishing rod My secret to relaxing and relieving tension: Yoga, meditation, hot baths A talent I wish I had: Play the cello A big challenge I’ve faced: Moving from Mexico to Canada The word that best describes me: Caring I’m inspired by: My dad My motto: “For my good and the good of all”
Can’t believe I’ve never been to: China Dream vacation: Maldives
If I could travel to anywhere, I’d go to: Bali, Indonesia, Hawaii
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A “wow” hotel/resort I’d happily stay at again: Anantara Hotel Thailand My jet-lag cure: Wish I had one! I always travel with: iPhone charger, outlet converter
My car: Simple: Corolla from Toyota Most-frequented store: Crate & Barrel, Pottery Barn My fridge is stocked with: Berries, veggies, cheese and tortillas
On my must-do list: See the Taj Mahal and the Great Wall of China If I wasn’t a dentist, I’d be: Paediatrician—I love children
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Dr. Sandra Fastlicht in Bali, where she spent time at an elephant sanctuary and combined two passions: “I love to travel and I love elephants… being so close to them was definitely a highlight and an experience I’ll never forget,” she says. Bali also gave her the opportunity to practise her zen, tour rice fields and visit temples. See page 8 for more on Dr. Fastlicht.
A cause that’s close to my heart: Helping children with cleft lip and palate, craniofacial anomalies and disabilities
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