Life

A local art school is getting a new look, a young composer is recording his first album and both are turning to the online community, an increasingly common place for support.

Dear Dr Roach: My daughter is 53 and has suffered terribly with migraines since she was 16. She experiences these episodes anywhere from once per week to as many as three times per week. She is presently on Zomig.

Last year, we ordered a magazine subscription from a fundraiser our oldest child was doing for his school band. When the copies of Macleans started arriving at the house, something odd happened: We could never find them.

As the celebrity photo-hacking scandal has made clear, privacy isn’t what it used to be.

As a male, have you lost the “tiger-in-the-tank”? Possibly you are more irritable, suffer insomnia, have problems at work, lost height, lack energy and lack erections? Perhaps you wonder if testosterone therapy is what’s needed to restore your male v

In the small First Nations community of Moricetown, north of Smithers, teens haunt the convenience stores and gas bars, their lives adrift. Locals call them “phantoms.” Cain Michell, then 14, was one of them.

We are fortunate today to have so many inspirational designs, styles and all their essential elements literally at our fingertips.

Dear Eric: What is the difference between a crumble and a crisp? Marjorie Dear Marjorie: I often forget what the difference is between these two baked items.

Victoria’s Hana Kinsman never wanted to stop moving, despite osteoarthritis and two hip-replacement operations one after the other. Kinsman, now 65, has always enjoyed skiing, cycling, swimming and once played a “vicious” game of tennis.

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 78-year-old woman who would be embarrassed to go to a doctor with my complaint. I have been having a brown vaginal discharge for a couple of months.