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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 ...

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    Susan Musgrave: The Poet

    Writer and poet Susan Musgrave’s life is a far cry from the mundane. In fact, she says her role as a “soc ...

    Writer and poet Susan Musgrave’s life is a far cry from the mundane. In fact, she says her role as a “social misfit” started early in life, when she was kicked out of her kindergarten class for laughi ...

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    A Serendipitous Legacy Lives On

    When Dennis Minaker was growing up in Coquitlam, he never envisioned he would one day become a writer. In ...

    When Dennis Minaker was growing up in Coquitlam, he never envisioned he would one day become a writer. In fact, he pursued a profession in nursing. Drawn by the flexibility of the job and the opportun ...

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    Volunteering

    When I took the buy-out from Victoria’s Times Colonist after over two decades as their popular music colu ...

    When I took the buy-out from Victoria’s Times Colonist after over two decades as their popular music columnist and later, Go-Explore page and travel writer, I never imagined I'd spend the rest of my l ...

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    Reboot - April 2019

    JIM HARCOTT says it was his dad who advised both him and his brother to transition into retirement instea ...

    JIM HARCOTT says it was his dad who advised both him and his brother to transition into retirement instead of going “cold turkey.” And that’s exactly what the former Vancouver teacher did. Post retire ...

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    I Walk Alone

    When asked how he felt about growing old, a 50-year-old acquaintance said, “I didn't think I was going to ...

    When asked how he felt about growing old, a 50-year-old acquaintance said, “I didn't think I was going to live past 18… so every day is just one big miserable surprise. I doubt if it will be much diff ...

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    Reboot - November 2018

    PEPPA MARTIN sees the world through the frame of a photographer’s lens. “I am perpetually hungry to delig ...

    PEPPA MARTIN sees the world through the frame of a photographer’s lens. “I am perpetually hungry to delight the eye,” says the former advertising agency owner. “I needed to step aside from that and pu ...

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    The Enduring Charm of Italy's Positano - Then and Now

    Reflections on John Steinbeck’s 1953 Harper’s Bazaar Article Positano, the world’s most photographed fish ...

    Reflections on John Steinbeck’s 1953 Harper’s Bazaar Article Positano, the world’s most photographed fishing village, shines as the jewel of Italy’s Amalfi Coast. Its houses, built up the steep side o ...

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    A Safe Harbour

    “Just about everything in my life is because I was blown off course. I never intended to sail to Saturna ...

    “Just about everything in my life is because I was blown off course. I never intended to sail to Saturna (her Gulf Island home) but I got blown off course. I never intended to leave the newspaper busi ...

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    Late Bloomer

    It’s never too late. And if you bristle at that old adage, allow me to try to change your mind. Meet Lona ...

    It’s never too late. And if you bristle at that old adage, allow me to try to change your mind. Meet Lona Manning. She has done something for the first time at the age of 60. It’s something she’d alwa ...

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    Reboot July 2018

    JIM WALCHUK can best be described as a 21st century Renaissance man. A 2013 inductee into the BC Entertai ...

    JIM WALCHUK can best be described as a 21st century Renaissance man. A 2013 inductee into the BC Entertainment Hall of Fame for his (and sister Judy Ginn Walchuk’s) musical contributions, Jim is still ...

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    Peter Legge: Empire Builder

    If you watch TV and purchase TV Week to check the listings – and 30,000 people do – you’ve met Peter Legg ...

    If you watch TV and purchase TV Week to check the listings – and 30,000 people do – you’ve met Peter Legge or at least one of his publications. TV Week is one of 30 print and digital properties that m ...

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    Never Too Late to Launch a Writing Life

    At age 64, while Leslie A. Davidson was awaiting the release of her first published book, she heard she h ...

    At age 64, while Leslie A. Davidson was awaiting the release of her first published book, she heard she had won the CBC Literary Prize for Creative Non-Fiction. She was sure neither luck nor magic had ...

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    Stolen Moments

    “Philomela and I sometimes see our sentences slurring with alliterations – caused perhaps by verse writin ...

    “Philomela and I sometimes see our sentences slurring with alliterations – caused perhaps by verse writing. We also both like shoes,” says Benni Chisholm, on Philomela Nightingale, the protagonist in ...

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    Retooling Not Retiring

    "Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have ...

    "Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest." –Georgia O'Keefe, famed American artist Hudson Mack may not ...

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