Residential Care: The big step

Residential Care: The big step

Canadians now live an average of nearly two decades past their 65th birthday, often forcing boomer generation kids and aging spouses to make the heart-wrenching decision to place a loved one in residential care … Wendy and Terry L. are faced with that tough...
Sustainability Built In

Sustainability Built In

New building projects are a common sight in the Central Okanagan. We decided to get to know some of the people behind the steel and concrete of today’s forward thinking residential developments. JoAnne Adamson development manager, Mission Group   JoAnne Adamson...
CBC Rant

CBC Rant

It’s lunch time. Early 1950s suburban Toronto. My siblings and I burst into the kitchen, hungry for the sound of our favourite CBC radio program. The dial of our brown plastic Westinghouse is set. We munch egg sandwiches to the lyrics of the Teddy Bears’ Picnic, eager...
Lake-to-Lake Artist Studio Tour

Lake-to-Lake Artist Studio Tour

I love improv. Seeing people spontaneously come up with fresh ideas lets me not only feel like there’s a bit of genius in all of us, but that it’s quite normal to have ideas that flop. For example, acting like an epileptic penguin on stage is only funny for so long....