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Three tech devices I really want but won't buy this holiday season

Sometimes life on the surface seems easier. Health care on the surface would go for the quick fix.

Children are the most precious of life's gifts

Walking into the room where a Joey Group staff meeting is taking place, I see three employees, lined up, side by side, on their toes and elbows, shakily passing a 5lb-pound weight back and forth to each other, sweat dripping on the large green mat.

Im gonna come clean here. I dont know much about Sake. Ive sat through seminars, Ive read up on it and, of course, Ive had my fair share of the stuff at more than a few Izakayas around town.

A group of students from the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Torino, Italy (pictured below), are currently touring several local food centres in Metro Vancouver, Victoria and the Cowichan Valley during a two-week visit to Canada.

Christmas is a time of tradition, and for Rob Feenie, the multi award-winning executive chef at Cactus Club , and his family, that means apple pie. It not only tastes delicious but also fills the kitchen with the smell of love and happy memories.

Christmas in Vancouver isnt akin to Christmas in the rest of the country; December 25 in the Lower Mainland is, more often than not, a cloudy, drizzly day, more green on the ground than white.

Radicchio is a bright purple ball of crunch, bitterness and colour. From the chicory family, radicchio is revered in Italy as a welcome addition to salads, pasta, risotto and pizza.