Life

The official opening of the Victoria Public Market at the Hudson is just six days away, but who’s counting? A whole lot of fans of local fruits, vegetables, meat, cheese, herbs and more, that’s who.

Getting old isn’t all bad news. For the first time, come Saturday, I will be eligible for a 20 per cent discount at Shoppers Drug Mart (at least, on the last Thursday of every month).

TORONTO — Zannat Reza says the worst part of packing school lunches is when the food is brought home uneaten.

Two years ago, when my daughter Naomi was in kindergarten, she plunked her Hello Kitty lunch box on the kitchen counter and announced, “Mom, I am the only kid in my class who makes their own lunch.

If you’re looking for some tasty, relatively quick lunch ideas, get folding and rolling and make a wrap. It’s a fun way of making a sandwich and there are myriad ways to fill them.

When Times Colonist cartoonist Adrian Raeside speaks of the 1911 expeditions to Antarctica, he is drawing upon family connections.

Watch your mouth around your unborn child — he or she could be listening in. Babies can pick up language skills while they’re still in the womb, Finnish researchers say.

The irony wasn’t lost on Tim Cormode as he multi-tasked before Power to Golf’s shotgun start at Victoria Golf Club Thursday morning. After a dazzlingly sunny summer, Cormode woke up to clouds and drizzle. “Really?” he asked with a laugh.

I recently applauded the province of Quebec, which is attempting to legalize assisted death. An example of what’s wrong with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms is that it does not allow freedom from pain on the deathbed.

Brendan Harris likely caught the foraging bug as a child watching his father dive off a sailboat into the Caribbean Sea and come up with fresh lobster, among other bounty.