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JACK WHYTE: History, Brogue and Talent

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JACK WHYTE: History, Brogue and Talent

Photo by John Lehmann The Canadian National Exhibition field in Toronto is crowded with 1,100 musicians a ...

Photo by John Lehmann The Canadian National Exhibition field in Toronto is crowded with 1,100 musicians as world-renowned regimental bands and a huge array of pipe bands enthrall 33,000 spectators at ...

January 02, 2021
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Unearthing Some of Canada’s Most Notable Historical Events

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Unearthing Some of Canada’s Most Notable Historical Events

“May you live all the days of your life.” –Jonathan Swift Esquimalt resident Michael Dupuis has truly liv ...

“May you live all the days of your life.” –Jonathan Swift Esquimalt resident Michael Dupuis has truly lived – and is continuing to live – all the days of his life. This 71-year-old author and historia ...

March 01, 2020
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George Zukerman: Bassoon at the Ready

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George Zukerman: Bassoon at the Ready

George Zukerman, internationally renowned bassoon soloist, recipient of the Order of Canada, the Order of ...

George Zukerman, internationally renowned bassoon soloist, recipient of the Order of Canada, the Order of BC and a National Arts Centre Award, among others, slides a disc into his CD player. I’m with ...

October 01, 2019
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Keep Going at 85 with Zest in Life

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Keep Going at 85 with Zest in Life

To retire into idleness is to die. This opinion is supported by a recent Wall Street Journal report, “The ...

To retire into idleness is to die. This opinion is supported by a recent Wall Street Journal report, “The Case Against Early Retirement,” which states that like “many other pleasures, [retirement] may ...

September 17, 2019
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Before & After: Joan Thompson

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Before & After: Joan Thompson

Joan Thompson has a long road ahead – 8,000km long! The retired music teacher, writer, keen traveller and ...

Joan Thompson has a long road ahead – 8,000km long! The retired music teacher, writer, keen traveller and dedicated volunteer will be hitting the road this month to cycle across Canada to raise awaren ...

May 01, 2019
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Reboot – May 2019

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Reboot – May 2019

ROD MACLEAN volunteers once a week conducting sing-a-long and cartoon sketching sessions at his Vancouver ...

ROD MACLEAN volunteers once a week conducting sing-a-long and cartoon sketching sessions at his Vancouver neighbourhood elementary school in False Creek. He first engages students with his voice and g ...

May 01, 2019
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Forging a Dichotomous Path

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Forging a Dichotomous Path

Barbara Allyn’s widespread legacy as a beacon of light and support to others began on a boat in the Victo ...

Barbara Allyn’s widespread legacy as a beacon of light and support to others began on a boat in the Victoria harbour in the 1970s. An unlikely place to launch a career as a trauma counsellor to be sur ...

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A Love of Grandparenting

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A Love of Grandparenting

The bond between grandparents and grandchildren can often be a special one. No one knows that better than ...

The bond between grandparents and grandchildren can often be a special one. No one knows that better than Pauline Daniel, author of Tuesdays with Jack, a compilation of memoirs and reflections of her ...

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Reboot – March 2019

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Reboot – March 2019

DR. FIORENZA ALBERT-HOWARD, a native of Rome who is descended from a long line of prominent Italian archi ...

DR. FIORENZA ALBERT-HOWARD, a native of Rome who is descended from a long line of prominent Italian architects and engineers, was a pioneer in her fields of civic and computer engineering. “I was the ...

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Reboot – February 2019

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Reboot – February 2019

IAN WADDELL, the energetic and exuberant long-time federal MP and provincial MLA, now turned filmmaker (T ...

IAN WADDELL, the energetic and exuberant long-time federal MP and provincial MLA, now turned filmmaker (The Drop – Why Young People Don’t Vote) and author, recently launched his newest work to an audi ...

February 01, 2019
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Off the Cuff by Design

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Off the Cuff by Design

“Carve your own course on the sea, or risk being lulled by the wind and coerced by the current.” -Alfred ...

“Carve your own course on the sea, or risk being lulled by the wind and coerced by the current.” -Alfred J. Beckwith If you have never commissioned or captained an enormous and beautiful yacht, you mi ...

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Louise Penny: From the Great Silence to Fame

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Louise Penny: From the Great Silence to Fame

Louise Penny makes writing best-selling books look easy. After all, since she published her first mystery ...

Louise Penny makes writing best-selling books look easy. After all, since she published her first mystery novel, Still Life, 13 years ago, she's banged out an amazing book a year in her Armand Gamache ...

November 01, 2018
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Be Open to “Reaching Out”

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Be Open to “Reaching Out”

Aldo Nazarko spent his formative years in war-torn northeastern Italy, in the Adriatic city of Fiume. As ...

Aldo Nazarko spent his formative years in war-torn northeastern Italy, in the Adriatic city of Fiume. As a young person, he was a refugee and “displaced person.” In all his eight decades, however, he ...

November 01, 2018
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Are You Retired Yet?

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Are You Retired Yet?

“Are you retired yet?” was the most common question people would ask me before I closed my law practice. ...

“Are you retired yet?” was the most common question people would ask me before I closed my law practice. The second most common question was, “When are you retiring?” I actually stopped practicing in ...

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Reboot – October 2018

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Reboot – October 2018

DAVID WONG, an accomplished architect and author with a biology background that led him to initiate Save ...

DAVID WONG, an accomplished architect and author with a biology background that led him to initiate Save the Frogs Day in Vancouver schools, is adamant about leaving a civic legacy of diversity that e ...

October 01, 2018
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