– by Valerie Green – Throughout history, women have lost children for many different reasons such as difficult births resulting in stillborn infants or deaths from such diseases as pneumonia, scarlet fever or smallpox. Today, parents are losing children to an equally horrific kind of death. The tragic end of young lives, which can no […]
When you’re young, getting caught up in the spirit of the holiday season is easy: Santa, his reindeer, the possibility of a white Christmas, gifts under the tree and countless other things all combine to make December simply magical. Speaking of magic, I believed in Santa Claus until I was 12 years old. Yes: 12!
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Forget everything you know and love about physical magazines. Forget their length. Forget their size. Forget their publishing schedule. Forget everything but what it’s like to come to the end, and to take a deep breath. Doesn’t it feel great? Over the years, we’ve watched technology grow like a child: it starts out mostly crying
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– by Deborah Rogers – While manufacturing across Canada has seen a decline in the past decade, the Saanich Peninsula tells a story of successful investment, development and training that has created a strong commercial sector right within our community. Quietly providing millions of dollars in payroll to the workers of our local economy
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– by Julian Sale – It’s a bold new automotive landscape. Things started to change in the early 1970s with respect to oil prices, and consumers’ hunger for fuel-efficient cars. North America was accustomed to burning colossal amounts of diesel and gasoline to travel. Japanese and German carmakers offered smaller cars with four-cylinder engines. Drivers
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