Hockey hotbed Nashville in Stanley Cup final?

Okay, surely you imagined my tongue firmly planted in my cheek with that headline! Is this the travesty that hockey has come to? Isn’t this supposed to be a Canadian sport? Yet, no Canadian team has won the Stanley Cup since 1993. Instead, we get hockey towns...

What to do on a long weekend?

Summer starts this weekend. At least that’s what we tend to think: Victoria Day to Labour Day, that’s summer. Ask anyone in the seasonal tourism industry.   The highways will be crowded, to be sure, as people try to stretch out the season as long as...

Who’s the boss?

It was a feeling of ultimate vulnerability! I was up at the Shuswap this past weekend, Sicamous to be exact. Now, for those who may be geographically challenged, or have never driven through the BC interior to the Rocky Mountains (a travesty, IMHO), Sicamous is on the...
How could the election affect Rent 2 Own?

How could the election affect Rent 2 Own?

We’re just a week away from the election and the latest poll shows the parties in a dead heat. Will the election outcome make a difference in the prospects for renters to become home-owners? On the one hand, one could be totally skeptical. Does it really matter...
Can this really be happening in this high-tech age?

Can this really be happening in this high-tech age?

The contrast was astounding! The ultra-high-tech with the “old way” in a high-tech atmosphere. We take a lot of internet/hi-tech stuff for-granted: the availability of the world-wide web, the ability to communicate via email around the world—in...