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10+ Places To Take Your Kids When it Rains in Vancouver

September 19, 2019

Hey, what happened to the Summer? It seemed so easy when we could just tell them to play outside. Set up a pool or give them a soccer ball and be back in time for dinner. Now it’s raining, again, they’ve been stuck in the house all day and if you don’t take them somewhere, they’re gonna flip out. Kidtropolis – a miniaturized town inside a building in Richmond. It’s safe to let them just run around for hours, plus they sell snacks. This is always a winner. ...

opinion

The 20 Absolutely Must-Buy Vinyl Records – 2019 edition

September 18, 2019

We all know that listening to vinyl records is like CDs, only more expensive and honestly kind of a hassle. Every three or four songs comes time to flip over or change the record, you have to clean the dust off incredibly carefully and if you scratch it, it’s going to skip and the disc is ...

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5 Easy Back To School Pasta Dinners

August 27, 2019

It’s late and you’re hungry! Back to school season usually means that us parents are frantically trying to fuel our kids and offering a healthy option rather than just quick-fix snacks. I’m working with Catelli to come up with and share a few ideas that fill bellies with veggies and fibre. ...

opinion

The Most Outrageous Food of Vancouver’s PNE

August 22, 2019

The last few weeks of summer is a magical time. Children are getting excited for the new school year while at the same time, dreading ending their long days of freedom. The autumn is starting to make changes around the fringes of the trees and the air teases a cooler side to the heat it boasted ...

Cars and Trucks

Daddy Test Drive: Honda CR-V Touring 2019

August 18, 2019

And we’re off with another test drive. This time it’s with the stylish and very urban-looking Honda CR-V Touring. The Specs: Model: Honda CR-V MSRP: From CAN$39,090 Towing capacity: 680 kg Fuel economy: 8 L/100 km combined (8.7 city, 7.2 highway) ...

opinion

Seeking Inspiration from Internet Strangers: Who is Richienough?

August 13, 2019

We met only briefly at a housewares show in Chicago and I knew he was cool. While I was standing at my booth waiting for someone to ask me about my company’s exhibit I saw Richie and his colleague. They were talking to buyers and interested shoppers about their sustainable canvas tote bags. ...

Waste To Wonder – The Newest Exhibit at Metropolis at Metrotown

August 7, 2019

A one-of-a-kind art exhibit transforming flip flop pollution into life-size animal sculptures The Waste to Wonder exhibit consists of five life-size sculptures of Canadian at-risk wildlife; the narwhal, orca, bison, grizzly, and caribou, and they’re all made from recycled flip-flops! More ...

opinion

Five Under $500 – Budget Laptops For Back To School

August 1, 2019

*contains affiliate links Summer’s over and it’s time to get back to the real world. Homework, assignments, and all the things that as a parent, you have to relearn and spend just as much time as your kids, even after you come home from work. Awesome. I know I’m a couple of ...

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Passing on My Love for Photography

July 30, 2019

One of my first memories of photography was when I was four or five and my parents gave me a red 35mm Kodak camera. It was a simple point-and-shoot but it was mine. It came in cool clear dome packaging and I couldn’t wait to start taking photos. A few years later, I was given a pinhole ...