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Q. Can anything be done to stop suckers from growing up around the base of my prune tree? I have cut them off, put landscape paper around the base of the tree and even sprayed some weatherproofing tar on them, but they keep coming back.

With fall arriving, let’s catch up with a couple of items left over from summer. First up, in August Rogers and Shaw announced they’ve teamed up to offer Shomi , which has been described as their “Netflix competitor.

I’ve always remembered a story activist Jim Deva told me during an interview in 2008, not long after he and his lifelong partner Bruce Smyth made the difficult decision to sell their business, Little Sister’s Book and Art Emporium on Davie Street.

Imagine being in Madrid or Barcelona, eating a paella filled to the rim with rice covered with seafood, chorizo, chicken, peas, red and green peppers, while sipping on sangria by the beach. Sounds great doesn’t it? Depends on who you ask.

SCENE | HEARD Vancouver’s hospitality industry is rallying around well-loved and respected chef Tina Fineza , one-half of Service Excellence, a well-regarded local hospitality consultancy group.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): It's no secret. The wealthy one percent of the population has been getting progressively wealthier. Meanwhile, the poor are becoming steadily poorer. I'm worried there is a metaphorically similar trend in your life.

Q: “I have several boxwood which I hope one day will grow together and make a small hedge. Most of them have some part of the bush now turning orange in colour. It started last year and is getting worse. I can’t see any bugs or webs on the bush.

My legs are shaking and it isn’t from the cool, early morning air. I’m paddling on Kennedy Lake in Tofino and I’m repeating a mantra in my head — please don’t let me fall, please don’t let me fall.

Building upon a strong image

It's made for the explorer-style road-trip