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Five tips to help your car keep its cool this holiday weekend

Five tips to help your car keep its cool this holiday weekend

After sweating through the first heatwave of the year, it’s time to start planning for summer in the city
Five tips to help your car keep its cool this holiday weekend

Five tips to help your car keep its cool this holiday weekend

After sweating through the first heatwave of the year, it’s time to start planning for summer in the city
Column: Doobie, doobie do…or don’t

Column: Doobie, doobie do…or don’t

It’s come to my attention that marijuana will be legalized in Canada on Oct. 17, 2018. That’s a red-letter day (make that a green-letter day) for us Boomers who may or may not have inhaled (who am I kidding?) the wacky weed in the 70s.
Carb-less diet prompts dreams of pizza

Carb-less diet prompts dreams of pizza

We decided to do the carb thing. There’d be health benefits, we understood. There’d be a trimming back of the waistline. We’d look, oh, 10 years younger, and have more zip than we’d had in eons. We were pumped. And I mean pumped.
Column: Young champions of food security

Column: Young champions of food security

In Terra Nova Park , The Sharing Farm (TSF) is immediate neighbours with the fantastic Terra Nova Nature School (TNNS), operated by Thompson Community Association. TNNS offers educational programs for children and families in an outdoor setting.
Book Review: Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner

Book Review: Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner

The Geography of Bliss: One grump’s search for the happiest place on earth. The title says it all really. Using data from the Happiness Research Institute, Eric Weiner travels the globe to explore the world’s happiest and least happy places.
Facebook Messenger Kids app launches in Canada

Facebook Messenger Kids app launches in Canada

Facebook Messenger Kids launches in Canada and Peru today and has generated controversy since it became available in the U.S. in December, 2017.
Column: The barber of Richmond

Column: The barber of Richmond

Barbers have been around since time immemorial. Although their services have varied over the centuries, tending scalp and facial hair has remained a constant.
Column: What to do with those garlic scapes

Column: What to do with those garlic scapes

Consider roasting or grilling entire scapes to serve as a side dish.
Check out an all-ages craft beer garden and 3 new murals at this Vancouver street party

Check out an all-ages craft beer garden and 3 new murals at this Vancouver street party

Give summer a very Vancouver welcome this weekend with this family-friendly event that will include the unveiling of three new murals, five live artists, and that unicorn of the public drinking realm: a licensed craft beer garden that’s also all-ages