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Reduce stress from your busy life

There are some simple things we can do to lessen the amount of stress in our lives...

Financial tips for common-law relationships

Ten tips for dealing with finances in common-law relationships
Owls at MARS these days

Owls at MARS these days

Since Halloween, five owls have been admitted to MARS, including the diminutive northern pygmy owl and the mid-sized short-eared owl...

Tow trucks should be treated as official vehicles on highways

The tow truck is a bit of an orphan when it comes to being an "official vehicle" as defined in our slow-down, move-over laws.

More on GMO and GE food and how to avoid it

Oh boy. It's a jungle in the grocery store. Far better to grow your food in your own back yard... Sorry. Better think again.

Mortgage life insurance versus personal life insurance

Let's look at the differences between mortgage life insurance offered by most lending institutions and personal life insurance

How much tire tread is safe?

This turned my thoughts to the tread on my tires and the question of how much tread is needed to stop and steer properly on wet roads

Why do intimate relationships continue to fail?

Relationship failures are never exclusively the fault of either individual...

A close look at mortgage insurance

Most lending institutions offer mortgage insurance when you arrange a mortgage but before you say yes, here are a few things to think about
As winter approaches so do trumpeter swans

As winter approaches so do trumpeter swans

Last year between Dec. 6 and Feb. 24, an average of 2,300 swans were counted on a weekly basis by Comox Valley Naturalists swan monitors