One thing is for sure, a new financial institution in Kerrisdale is not your grandmother’s bank.

Paradise doesnt always look the way you expect it to. My husband Harvey and I were just looking for sun, sand and lots of RR. What we got instead was IV antibiotics, nebulizers and anti-inflammatory drugs at a very efficient private hospital in Cancun, Mexico. All I can say is thank God we have travel medical insurance! My beloved Harvey started getting a nagging dry cough and a tight chest five days into our two-week vacation. The morning of day six, he said Maybe we should go to the resort doctor about my cough.

The hunt for a dream home is often focused on the physical: the type of house, the number of rooms, the neighbourhood it’s located in. But in truth, making the right choice involves all sorts of less visible but equally critical considerations – and key among them is the mortgage.

Is compound interest the eighth wonder of the world? According to Albert Einstein, who knew much about the effects of time, yes it is.

For a business owner, collecting and remitting sales tax, both GST and PST, is annoying enough without discovering that you may have been inadvertently overpaying the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA).

There are many ways you can refresh your house for the spring/summer season. These projects can provide your house with the additional resale value, give you a fulfilling leisurely pursuit, and create a much better living environment. Much of this refurbishing will also add a brighter quality to the aspects of your house that most []

Simple touches such as fresh flowers and cheery colours can really change the appearance of your home for the spring season.

While it’s a new experience for some, others — such as members of the capital region’s high-tech sector — are familiar with working remotely.

Just because you don’t own the space doesn’t mean you are forced to live with a design you don’t care for. Believe it or not, it’s easier than you think to update your rental apartment.

Windstars small sailing yacht the Wind Spirit can reach ports of French Polynesia larger cruise ships cant.

Looking up from the top deck of our rental houseboat on Lake Mead, the night sky above us was alive with stars — thanks to a lack of artificial light for miles. This being April, the start of houseboat season in Nevada, at night we literally had the lake to ourselves as far as we could see. And during the day we were also mostly alone, with the exception of the curious desert big-horned sheep we spotted one afternoon checking us out from above, numerous birds including vultures, and the odd hopeful fisherman casting for alarmingly large catfish and bluegills, which we watched trolling for food along the red canyon walls that rise above the blue-green lake.

U.S. News World Report revealed a list of the best hotels in Canada and a B.C. hotel claimed the top spot.

Century-old properties present business opportunities but require significant investments. By Glen Korstrom | June 13, 2019, 9:09am The necessary cost of investing to maintain hotels extends to newer hotels, said David Ferguson, who is a director at CBRE Inc.s hotels valuation and advisory services group in Canada.

You could say that event planning is in Soha Lavin’s blood. Indeed, the founder of Vancouver-based CountDown Events who, as a marketing professional saw a need to create an event planning agency 14 years ago at a time when few existed in this country, grew up in Iran surrounded by parties.