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Eight years ago I moved to the best coast and immediately fell in love with Vancouver. Having grown up in suburban Toronto, I was instantly enamoured with the mountains, the ocean and the absence of temperatures below freezing.

Downtown The Four Seasons Hotel Vancouver and the upper lobby of the Pacific Centre Mall are aglow once again with the annual Festival of Trees.

STRIKING GOLD: Chef Mark Filatow of Kelowna's Waterfront Restaurant a Wine Bar bested nine of B.C.'s finest culinary talents to win the prestigious Gold Medal Plates competition.

CITY HALL FIGHT The Pivot Legal Society filed a lawsuit Nov. 22 in B.C. Supreme Court on behalf of a formerly homeless man.

Cinema celebrates 40 years of moving pictures

Downtown Eastside store celebrates one year of helping struggling artists

The Vancouver Aquarium is bringing back its popular underwater Santa this year as part of Luminescence , perhaps the worlds only aquatic-themed holiday light show. From Nov. 22 to Jan.

1 Deloittes Power of the Best co-author Peter Brown (left), and fellow Deloitte co-authorJohn Hughes (right), celebrate with Nuheat presidentand CEO John Rose (centre) at Canadas Best Managed Companies 20th anniversary celebration event for BC finali

Downtown Several years ago, I won the Ugliest Christmas Sweater contest at a Courier holiday party, partly because when I washed my second-hand treasure prior to wearing it, the dye ran.