– by Al Duncan – Well, at least some folks think so! Toyota’s RAV4 has been around since 1996, when it resembled a pumped-up station wagon in four-door trim and a fun looking PEZ dispenser in two-door trim. This ultra reliable Toyota, known as the RAV4, is actually a “Recreational Active Vehicle with 4-wheel drive;” […]
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– by Susan Dafoe, Investment Advisor, National Bank Financial Wealth Management – Well, the RRSP season is over and if you haven’t already filed your income tax, you’re probably about to. If you are lucky enough to get a refund, what are you going to do with the money? If you have a mortgage, the
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– by Doreen Marion Gee – The cultural myth that aging inevitably means deterioration is being turned on its head in the new millennium. Instead of winding down, people in their ’80s are winning marathons and going to university. A remarkable new partnership between Panorama Recreation Centre and Sidney SeniorCare is connecting seniors to the
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– by Trysh Ashby-Rolls – It used to be said you are what you eat. So, if you’re one of the Tea ‘n Toastie brigade – y’know, only eating toast and spread and drinking tea – what does that make you? Not very healthy. As we age, it’s important to nourish our minds, bodies and
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– by Steve Sakiyama – During my younger, wilder years I had the brilliant idea of driving mom’s blue convertible with the roof down during a beautiful, calm starry night. Sounds good, except it was January in Northern Ontario when the temperature was a balmy three zillion degrees below zero. I bundled up and quietly
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– by Linda Hunter – When asked why the restaurant business, Donna replies “after 40 years, it’s what we know.” The popular owners of Sidney’s Beacon Landing Restaurant and Lounge, Donna and Bill Phillips, have been involved in the industry for decades and combining Donna’s background in interior design and Bill’s chartered accounting expertise has
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– by Steve Sheppard – When I was a teenager, a group of six or seven of us would meet up after dinner at a local restaurant to talk and drink cup upon cup of coffee (when refills were free and the coffee tragic). We would add lots of cream and a couple of sugars,
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– by Barry Mathias – This is the fifth in a six-part series of profiles on some great local businesses that are working to keep us all in good health. If you are aware of a gradual or sudden loss of hearing, you need to consult an audiologist. If you live near Brentwood Bay, you
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– by Barry Mathias – When the tourist season is over, Islanders’ minds turn to holidays. In its simpler form, a “holiday” was literally a “holy day” – a day off work. Now, it has come to mean seemingly endless weeks of enforced inactivity, sweating in unpronounceable foreign places, where the food causes havoc with
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– by Sean McNeill – Victoria born and a graduate of Claremont High School, I began my online career in Victoria in 2006, shortly thereafter moving to Vancouver in 2008 while working with a group of young entrepreneurs. We began building an online marketing company specializing in product sales and customer acquisition, and during the
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