Life

February is the month when “love is in the air.”

It is fortunate that this type of collision is relatively rare, because the consequences are severe.

Renowned historian Richard Mackie will be the guest speaker this Saturday at the Comox Archives and Museum Society annual general meeting.

“A lack of sight is not a lack of vision” is the slogan of the Canadian Council of the Blind.

A family member is having a rough time since one of her adult children went in to a treatment centre for alcohol and drug addiction. I’m concerned that the family needs some help, too, because all of this has been very stressful. This has been a very difficult time for us. Can you help?

CHENNAI, India — The Grade 1 classroom in St. Joseph’s school is a buzz of kinetic energy.

Lovely music, graceful dancing, beautiful frame and form — such images associate with ballroom dancing, especially the popular waltz.

Old sayings usually hang around for a long time for a good reason – there’s some profound wisdom in them.

Fact No. 1: Bees are responsible for pollinating at least a third of our food crops.

HAARLEM, Netherlands—Not everybody likes Rembrandt. Lovely work with the honeyed hues, but overall too dark, too sombre! Try some Frans Hals, then. Hals (1580-1666) was a contemporary of Rembrandt’s and another Dutch master, but where Rembrandt was gold, Hals was silver; where Rembrandt was moody, Hals was exuberant. To some he was the first Impressionist, eschewing finicky detail for broad, confident strokes. He influenced Monet and Manet; van Gogh loved him.