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Halloween events around Greater Victoria: sweet treats, creepy places, pumpkin smashing

Halloween events around Greater Victoria: sweet treats, creepy places, pumpkin smashing

Halloween events around the capital region, from bonfires in Colwood and Metchosin to Treat Street in downtown Sidney.
Add your display to our map of Vancouver Island's scariest Halloween houses

Add your display to our map of Vancouver Island's scariest Halloween houses

Check out our interactive map featuring frightful displays and Halloween events around the capital region and Vancouver Island— and be sure to add your own!
Ask Lisi: Feuding boyfriends are ruining sisters' Halloween fun

Ask Lisi: Feuding boyfriends are ruining sisters' Halloween fun

Advice: Halloween parties are for fun, not for fighting. Your boyfriends need to grow up.
Your Good Health: Understanding laser for venous insufficiency

Your Good Health: Understanding laser for venous insufficiency

What happens to the blood that tries to go through the vein, which doesn’t work once the vein is killed by a laser?
October 31: Your Daily Horoscope

October 31: Your Daily Horoscope

Thursday, October 31st ARIES (March 21 - April 20): Guilt is a useless emotion and the sooner you get over what is preying on your mind the better.
Winter depression is real and there are many ways to fight back

Winter depression is real and there are many ways to fight back

People with seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, typically have episodes of depression that begin in the fall and ease in the spring or summer.
Eric Akis: Chinese-style corn soup makes tasty, comforting fall meal

Eric Akis: Chinese-style corn soup makes tasty, comforting fall meal

This hearty and filling corn soup is rich with shreds of tender chicken and flavoured with ginger, soy sauce and sesame oil.
Ask Lisi: Six months together is too soon for lifelong decisions

Ask Lisi: Six months together is too soon for lifelong decisions

Planning your life out is an amazing way to stay on track, however, it doesn’t allow for spontaneity and change.
Your Good Health: Even after surgery, man can’t bend knees without pain

Your Good Health: Even after surgery, man can’t bend knees without pain

The key to improvement is usually gradual exercises to flex the knee.
More than a quarter of Canadians will spend at least 100 bones on Halloween: poll

More than a quarter of Canadians will spend at least 100 bones on Halloween: poll

A new poll suggests more than a quarter of Canadians will spend $100 or more on Halloween, with roughly 70 per cent of respondents saying they'll fork over as much money as they did last year on candy and costumes.