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 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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– by Gillian Crowley – Tech-savvy pet owners can now choose all kinds of gizmos to make life easier. We sure do love our furry and feathered friends: Time magazine reported in March 2014 that Americans spent almost $56 billion – yes, billion – on their pets. Canada’ population is one-tenth the size, so do
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Living in a NatureHood has a pleasant ring to it, don’t you think? Well now, if you live on the Saanich Peninsula, you can say you do! The Saanich Peninsula is now officially – as declared during last month’s All Buffleheads Day celebration – a Nature Canada NatureHood. Piloted in 2012 at Ottawa’s Lac Deschênes,
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