Life

Update: Jonathan Goldstein’s appearance at Alix Goolden Hall on Saturday is cancelled due to weather concerns.

While browsing Facebook one day, Salt Spring Island writer Margriet Ruurs’ eye was caught by a tender image of a mother holding her baby. Behind the mother, a father walked along carrying a heavy load. “It touched me deeply.

Not every high school graduate knows what they want to be when they grow up (some adults we know still don’t).

Archeologists and cultural workers at Parks Canada are mapping the European settlement of the Gulf Islands with the help of apple trees still found in former orchards.

Dear Tony: Our strata corporation is having our deck surfaces replaced on our external balconies. The owners approved $10,000 for engineering and we are being asked to approve $300,000 to proceed with the repairs.

Volunteer Victoria is pleased to invite you to our biggest event of the year — Volunteer Victoria’s Annual Volunteer Fair 2016.

There’s another election fraught with gender politics and global consequences, with one candidate braced to become a world leader — and no one is talking about it.

BELLA BELLA, B.C. — Prince William and Kate’s tour of British Columbia was knocked off course on Monday as the royal couple braved bad weather to add a unique area of rainforest coastline to a conservation effort started by the Queen.

Catherine Lindley’s eyes sparkle as she goes down memory lane, she easily makes her way around her new apartment without a walker or cane, and follows Canadian and American politics keenly. She’s a corker and a character.

All the world’s problems might be solved — if only there were more hours in a day. We might be exaggerating. But many Canadians don’t volunteer because they don’t have time, the top reason given in a national survey.