As British Columbians were getting ready to vote, childcare boldly, albeit briefly, shifted centre-stage last week when Adrian Dix promised--again--to reduce childcare costs at one of his final campaign blitzes in Sidney.

The kids, Mr. Dix proclaimed, are going to be alright.

Proclamations and election mania aside, families may have...

It was the summer the Married Man asked me to have sex with him.

"Didn't your wife's mother just die of cancer?" I asked.

"Yeah" he said. "She's just not motivated these days." Apparently, he'd been fantasizing about sleeping with me since we started working together at the...

A few years ago, my friend Jenn and I attended an opening gala for the Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society (VAHMS). We were inundated with arias, appetizers and guest artists from Korea. Display tables were brimming with travel brochures and cheap flight information to Korea's best tourist destinations. We got...

It's pretty safe to say that when most folks think of the Philippines, Imelda Marcos and her legendary shoe collection takes centre-stage. In terms of Filipino pop-culture history, it's not surprising that she overshadows her cold-blooded dictator husband -- anybody remember what's his name? Even international best-selling Irish...