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Cardio Kink

Cardio Kink

My new cardio amalgamation was designed to get me moving faster, harder, stronger. It is a playlist that was conceived on a stationary bike...and came to term on the elliptical. By the time my workout was over...
In today's B.C. budget, don’t bank on gas-revenue forecasts

In today's B.C. budget, don’t bank on gas-revenue forecasts

One sobering thing that shines through economist Tim O’Neill’s quick, partial review of B.C.’s budget process is that natural-gas-industry experts don’t have much of a clue.
Responsibility

Responsibility

This week during my birthday I felt a little mental tickle – in moments between everyday life, work, receiving birthday wishes, and enjoying treats, a question was niggling at me for attention: Responsibility, what is it? How would my life be differe
Comment: Why China’s new leaders will ignore foreign investors

Comment: Why China’s new leaders will ignore foreign investors

When China’s national legislature, the National People’s Congress, convenes in March, its new leaders will face many challenges, but enticing foreign investors will not be one of them.
Iain Hunter: The Senate needs more Mike Duffys

Iain Hunter: The Senate needs more Mike Duffys

The Senate rules say that “all personal, sharp or taxing speeches are unparliamentary and out of order.
Licia Corbella: Wrestling represents highest Olympic ideals

Licia Corbella: Wrestling represents highest Olympic ideals

Forget the lofty Olympic motto of higher, faster, stronger.
Learning to feed each other through the wisdom of our stories

Learning to feed each other through the wisdom of our stories

Our youngest son celebrated China’s Spring Festival this month in a village south of Kunming, a beautiful, ethnically diverse, medium-sized city of 6 million.
Les Leyne: Dix determined to take the high road

Les Leyne: Dix determined to take the high road

Opposition leader Adrian Dix reaffirmed this week that the New Democratic Party campaign will be high-road all the way. Positive. Respectful of opponents. Something of which the party will be proud.
Monique Keiran: ‘Invasive’ species in the eye of the beholder

Monique Keiran: ‘Invasive’ species in the eye of the beholder

When Nature Boy took down the backyard thicket of Himalayan blackberries, he gave little thought to what would come after. Thousands of broom and Daphne laureola seeds that had lain dormant for decades sprouted.
Comment: Can we stop talking about the HST now?

Comment: Can we stop talking about the HST now?

Like the proverbial girlfriend we just can’t seem to get over, the harmonized sales tax has dominated British Columbia’s collective political and economic mind for the past four years.
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