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At the moment, I am looking forward to the date this column will be published and I just want to say . . . sorry. This topic is not exactly very, uh, palatable, before a big sit-down dinner, even if Fido is present.

Almost everyone has heard the age-old fitness question: What do you bench? It relates to your one-rep maximum for the bench press, a foundational strength exercise. Here's a hint, in certain circles, an answer less than 1.

Device features pronged claw, magnet and LED light

We want to share the photos you take of your homemade culinary masterpieces on the Taste page of our website (nsnews.com/living/taste), starting with your Easter meal.

One thing about Bernie Hadley-Beauregard is you never know what the guy's going to come up with next.

From annual classics like floral dresses and crisp white shirts, to statement-making wide-leg culottes and floppy-brimmed hats, the spring season brings with it a bevy of classic and cutting-edge trends sure to please every fashionista.

Endless Biking coach Jordan Drinovz descends a North Shore trail in Sombrio riding gear.

I may have mentioned before how much I love brunch. Breakfast is hands down my favourite meal, but I find it hard to stomach more than a cup of tea and a piece of toast before 10 o’clock-ish. Ta-da! Enter the perfect solution: breakfast at lunchtime.

If you had to choose between being consistently, incomparably proficient at a limited skill set and being sporadically, unreliably proficient at a broad range of skills, what would be your preference? The risk-taker in me says I’d likely opt to tackl

The North Vancouver Spring 2015 Home Expo, organized by Evergreen Exhibitions, was held March 20-22 at Karen Magnussen Arena. PHOTOS PAUL MCGRATH