Life

This house makes a theatrical statement — whether you walk in through the garage, across its highly polished concrete floor and full-length curtains worthy of a stage show, or arrive via a floating walkway and into an entry featuring a two-storey flo

Sip and eat the afternoon away at Feast of Fields in Metchosin The 16th annual Vancouver Island Feast of Fields takes place Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m., at Metchosin Farm, 542 Wootton Rd., in Metchosin.

When two people agree on a deal, it can turn out to be a sweet situation for many. Such was the case with Ruth Wakefield and Andrew Nestlé, whose business arrangement caused countless people they didn’t know to make a lot of dough.

Longtime athlete Adam deLevie doesn’t let his wheelchair prevent him from staying fit. But deLevie is uncomfortable when his wheelchair gets in the way of the workouts of others.

CHRISTOPHER PAGE On Tuesday, Bernard Drainville, Quebec’s minister responsible for democratic institutions and active citizenship, introduced in that province’s National Assembly the Charter of Quebec Values.

The worst thing about dyslexia is not reading difficulties, but the emotional damage if it’s not diagnosed early, says an expert who is giving a free talk in Victoria this month.

Terry Fox ran nearly 42 kilometres each day of his Marathon of Hope, before cancer forced him to stop at Thunder Bay, Ont.

There were about 50 of them. One by one, hour by hour, these brave souls rappelled from the top of the downtown CIBC building, like public-spirited lemmings. One of the last on Thursday afternoon was 78-year-old Hermann Nieweler.

Convoy PQ-17, one of the worst maritime disasters of the Second World War, will be memorialized with sight and sound beginning next month. The Anglo-American convoy was travelling to Russia in July 1942, loaded with supplies.

Wildlife photographs, Vikings and native languages are all featured in the upcoming year at the Royal B.C. Museum.