Many family businesses are built from the ground up, but Woodopolis Home Centre literally started with hardwood flooring. The Maple Ridge company started out as a flooring company, Woodopolis Wood Products Ltd., seven years ago, but has since expanded to offer remodelling and renovation services.

A small home office doesn’t have to be expensive, but it’s important to carefully plan out your space.

If you are new to running you’ll soon learn it’s more than putting one foot in front of the other. Running requires proper footwear, gear and to follow a program that facilitates improvement yet keeps you injury-free, to enjoy everything the sport has to offer.

Paying $160 for the year was a pretty good price for a vacation property. Only eight minutes from Ben’s downtown apartment, there was 1,000 square feet of fertile soil with direct water access. Well, irrigation access. Pitching his fiancé Sam on an allotment garden also known as a community garden was a surprisingly easy sell.

Everything we do is a choice. From the moment we wake up in the morning, until the time we come to the days end, we choose everything we do and the way we react to every situation.

On a visit to the small Texas town of Amarillo last year, I attended the World Championship Ranch Rodeo a global gathering of the nation’s best working ranch cowboys, and as I strolled through the sea of competitors and their families, something stood out for me when it came to the children that the ranchers had in tow: none of the kids had phones in their hands. Instead of sitting in solitude, hunched over devices with their eyes glued to screens, I saw clusters of children huddled together on the floor, playing with horse figurines and toy trucks. I watched on as they trotted and teetered their trinkets along surfaces, completely immersed in imaginative play while their parents chatted nearby.

Snoring might seem like a weird way to start a food blog about desserts, but trust me – there is a connection. See, I snore. Like, loudly. See, I snore. Like, loudly.

Atlas Steak + Fish may be the crown jewel at Gateway Casinos’ Grand Villa Casino in Burnaby, but it’s only one of a host of impressive gems within the property that are some of the region’s best kept dining secrets.

Our family has adopted an eight-week-old puppy from a pet rescue a sweet Dalmatian who had been rejected for being “too ugly” due to her sparse display of spots. While we are delighted to have added a dog to our family, it seems as though puppies especially Dalmatians spark an urge in strangers to give unsolicited advice.

For those of us who endured years of metal wires and brackets cemented to our teeth, the arrival of Invisalign seems almost too good to be true.

What might be the root cause of the great problems of the world: poverty, homelessness, crime, violence, war, racism, discrimination, hunger and global climate change? I contend that it is a case of mistaken identity a false sense of self.

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.

Eating five times daily, as most know we should, is difficult if you also want to eat cleanly by limiting artificial and processed ingredients. That’s partly why so many have recently turned to weekly meal prepping.

Consider this the treasure map to a hidden gem in the heart of Burnaby and just moments away from downtown Vancouver: Grand Villa Casino. The flagship property of Gateway Casinos Entertainment, the 300,000-square foot facility includes nine distinctive food and beverage outlets, the Delta Hotel and Conference Centre with 189 hotel rooms, six luxury suites and over 12,000 square feet of meeting space, along with a casino complete with 64 table games, 11 poker tables, 1,200 slot machines, and VIP gaming areas.