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I have an addiction. I can just about remember what it felt like before, back when I was a teenager, a little moody, prone to time brooding in my bedroom. In my 20s I got by with just a few binges a year, usually around the holidays when there was time off work. But since […]

There is a reason why “new car smell” holds a place of affection for some people: newness signifies perfection, that moment before something pure and clean and fresh becomes, well, something average. Before the cookie crumbs get between the seats, before the coffee spills in the cup holder, before life turns something ephemerally beautiful into

by Natalie Bell –  My parents enrolled me in a French immersion school right from the get-go; they wanted me to have a possible advantage later on in life with a second language under my belt, or maybe just wanted someone to translate if we found ourselves in a French-speaking city and they needed to

by Dan Adair, Island Savings Brentwood Bay –  I can’t recall the last time I used calculus or quadratic functions in my day-to-day life, but I can tell you that I’ve had several conversations about compound interest and mortgages already this week. Granted, I am a financial advisor, but I think most Canadians would agree