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A shot across the brow

Dr. Fred Weksberg injects Botox, made from botulism bacteria, to battle the wrinkles on 42-year-old Angelo Nasato’s forehead and the New You 2002 anti-aging and cosmetic surgery show. The event attracted 12,000 people to the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on the weekend. Download this article (PDF)


Putting your best face forward

By Serena French Canada’s first major anti-ageing exhibition will demonstrate the benefits of collagen, botox, eyebrow transplants and chemical peels You’re invited to a coming-out party: for cosmetic surgery and self­-improvement of the human surface. The New You 2002 may be the first event of its kind in North America on such a scale. Certainly…


Firm banks on elective surgery

By Heidi Staseson Medicard finds niche selling loans for everything from face-lifts to liposuction A Vancouver company is capi­talizing on people’s hunger for 20-20 vision, the perfect nose, a full head of hair or buoyant breasts. You no longer have to be rich to afford these things, says entrepreneur Ann Kaplan, president and chief executive…


Hats off

Ann Kaplan has been chosen winner of the start-up award from the Canadian Woman Entrepreneur of the Year program. Kaplan stated Medicard Finance in 1996 and has grown the company, which finances medical procedures not covered by the health-care system, to the point where it now has more than 3,500 plastic, reconstructive and dental physicians…


Canadian Woman Entrepreneur of the Year Awards 2000

CWEA 2000 Recognize Five Outstanding Canadian Business Owners TORONTO, November 23, 2000 — The Canadian Woman Entrepreneur of the Year Awards 2000 recipients were announced tonight in Toronto during a dinner and awards ceremony. The Awards are an annual initiative of the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. “As a leading business…