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Eric Akis: With icebox cookies, you can have freshly baked treats all week

Eric Akis / Times Colonist

It’s March break, and if you’re looking for something to do with your out-of-school kids or grandkids, baking cookies can be a very sweet activity. Refrigerator cookies, also known...

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Anatomy of a heart attack, Part 1: ‘Every part of me felt really awful’

David Sovka / Times Colonist

David Sovka had just returned from a cycling trip in Central America when he had a heart attack. In a five-part series, Sovka describes what it is like to suffer a heart attack and recover from one. . .

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Anatomy of a heart attack, Part 2: ‘Exceptional medical talent’ at Royal Jubilee Hospital

David Sovka / Times Colonist

If you have to suffer a heart attack, one of the best places for it is in Greater Victoria, and the closer to the Royal Jubilee Hospital, the better.

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Anatomy of a heart attack, Part 3: Risk factors and the French Paradox

David Sovka / Times Colonist

People say such silly things! For example, here is a list of silly — by which I mean awful — things people have recently said to me.

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Anatomy of a heart attack, Part 4: Stress test and a sweaty gym visit

David Sovka / Times Colonist

There are three kinds of heart attacks: bad, really bad and permanent. The first two require immediate intervention. The third kind is not a problem for you to worry about, which is not necessarily a good thing.

Life

Anatomy of a heart attack, Part 5: Grow up and eat your vegetables

David Sovka / Times Colonist

A large section in the Heart and Stroke Foundation’s excellent Living Well with Heart Disease booklet is devoted to healthy eating, the gist of which is, unfortunately, eat more vegetables. A pretty good case is made for eating a healthy diet to help reduce the risk of heart disease by:

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An ocean of plastic changes everything — even what we eat

Carla Wilson / Times Colonist

Walk along any beach on B.C.’s coast and you will likely spot bits of plastic. Go out into the middle of the Gulf of Alaska in the middle of winter and it’s there, too. “Even here on the . . .

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Woman sexually assaulted by man with a knife in Gordon Head area

Cindy E. Harnett ,  Jeff Bell / Times Colonist

Neighbours are concerned after a report of a sexual assault with a weapon early Sunday at a normally quiet townhouse complex in Gordon Head. Saanich police said the attack happened about 2 a.m. . . .

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Second heart transplant for former soccer star Simon Keith

Cleve Dheensaw / Times Colonist

Victoria-raised former soccer star Simon Keith, who made world headlines as the first player to play pro soccer after a heart transplant, received a second heart transplant Sunday and a kidney . . .

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Family searches for man who went missing while on healing journey near Tofino

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The evidence of Travis Damon Thomas's survival is scarce but his uncle says it's scattered around a remote island off the coast of Vancouver Island: a circle of footprints, the remains of a sea . . .

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This isn’t what voters wanted, councillor says of Victoria’s vision

Bill Cleverley / Times Colonist

From pioneering zero-waste initiatives to replacing non-native flowers with native plantings, Victoria’s strategic plan is full of a lot of expensive actions that residents never said they wanted, . . .

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Hundreds of tiny tremors recorded between Victoria and Seattle

Louise Dickson / Times Colonist

It’s not the type of tweet you want to read just before bedtime. “Several hundred tiny tremors (not felt) between Victoria and Seattle in the past 24 hours,” Earthquake guy posted Tuesday night. . . .

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Lifetime ban from Empress for pepperoni seagull fiasco has been lifted

Katie DeRosa / Times Colonist

After he inadvertently trashed one of its room with packs of pepperoni and a flock of seagulls, the Empress Hotel has granted a Nova Scotia man a pardon and lifted a lifetime ban. Seventeen years. . .

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