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FROM Apple's iPhone to Microsoft's Xbox, we're talking more to the gadgets and devices that share our lives. Increasingly they're talking back. But here's the problem: Talking to your gadget can be a lot like talking to a welltrained dog.

TEENAGERS who want to get in touch with their artistic side can head to one of the workshops being hosted this fall by the North Vancouver Community Arts Council.

THE look on Zumi's face said it all. She was more than unimpressed with my attempts at helping her. She might as well have been rolling her eyes at me in a dismissive gesture and holding up one paw saying, "Talk to the paw.

A Letter to My Dog, by Robin Layton, Chronicle Books, 180 pages, $28.95

THE stock market hasn't been the same since the credit crisis of 2008. Global economic uncertainty has resulted in a high level of volatility that continues to this day, which makes managing investments more difficult than ever.

Firemen featured in Hall of Flame calendar

THE word "Hollyburn" has significance far greater than the mere name of a mountain

Youth to help youth in new North Shore program

THERE are arguably few more potent winery teams in the Okanagan than Joie Farm's Heidi Noble and Michael Dinn.