Living

A number of readers have asked me to offer basic cooking techniques — skills they could learn or improve on while staying close to home during the COVID-19 pandemic.

A Times Colonist reader, Kevin, sent me an email asking if I had any recipes not requiring ingredients that are consistently out of stock at grocery stores during the pandemic.

Alicia Elliott’s A Mind Spread Out on the Ground is a book of autobiographical essays chronicling the author’s childhood in a biracial family living in poverty

Stuck at home? Browse digital magazines, watch documentaries, take video courses using Coquitlam Public Library’s website

With the Aquarium closed to the public, the penguins are free to explore the facility's empty hallways and visit some of their neighbours

If you're like all my arts- and entertainment-loving friends these days, you've been sitting in your home enjoying some aspects of self-isolation (the chance to read a book, for instance) but craving your fix of theatre or music.

Athena Leilani of Port Coquitlam is vying for a $25,000 prize and the cover of the tattoo magazine Inked

Today, with high-density living, containerization is a popular way of gardening.

When We Were Vikings by Andrew David MacDonald

Many surprises in store for visitors to the remote northern island