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You’ve got a friend in Gorilla Jack. Owners, brothers Bernard and Martin Pacak, sell supplements to build muscles. They also build a support system.

Joanne Toupin and Beau Burton opened Sleepy Owl Bread on Wall Street in 2013, with baked goods that highlight flavours of local ingredients, from prairie berry Danish pastries to round rustic loaves of whole wheat sourdough miche.

Luke Nolan knows noggins. Whether yours is a small, average, or an orange-on-a-toothpick, Sputnik-sized noggin, his Exchange District shop has a style that will capture your cranium …and your personal style.

Dr. Hajra Mirza opened the Rossmere Pharmacy in North Kildonan in 2005. “Fate brought me here,” she says.

In the two years since opening Next Level Escapes with his wife and co-owner, Meghan Pesclovitch, Daniel Gravenor has taken a generic storefront in a suburban strip mall and created a place where problem-solving and imagination take hold.

So what does it mean to be vegan? No meat, no poultry, no fish, no dairy, no eggs, no honey. But a huge world of plant-based goodness and flavour awaits.