Selling isn't so sweet for some ice-cream truck vendors

They may bring lip-smacking joy to children and adults, but for some of Canada's ice-cream truck vendors, it's another summer of discontent as they wrestle with municipalities over restrictions on where they can sell.

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Feds drop trans-fat monitoring in foods, despite expert advice

Health Canada has rejected the advice of its own advisory panel of food experts to renew monitoring of trans-fat levels in processed foods and send a "strong signal" to companies that regulations are on the table if levels don't drop.

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• Making sense of tricky food labels
• Stars to guide you in the grocery aisle
• Food chains fail to meet self-declared fat content limits
• Federal agency says low fat foods not always as advertised

Selling isn`t so sweet for some ice-cream truck vendors

They may bring lip-smacking joy to children and adults, especially in this summer of record heat.

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Notebook: McIlroy takes care of beaned spectator

LYTHAM ST. ANNES, England - If you`re planning to attend an Open Championship and intend to get hit on the head by a golf ball, you should try to make sure it`s Rory McIlroy`s ball.

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Moving Day: Compared to Trailer Park Boys, watching this film feels like heavy lifting

Starring: Gabriel Hogan, Will Sasso and Victor Garber

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First Position offers real black and white swans: Bess Kargman`s debut doc takes us into the ballet world

First Position -- A documentary directed by Bess Kargman

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Michael Winterbottom`s Trishna a clumsy seduction. Movie Review

Trishna -- Starring Freida Pinto, Riz Ahmed, Anurag Kashyap.

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Sportsplex in financial jeopardy

North Cowichan's taxpayers may be solely on the hook for the Cowichan Sportsplex if all local governments don't step up funding for Cowichan's most diverse athletics facility, Chesterfield Sports Society President Don McClintock warned North Cowichan council on Wednesday.

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For the record

On the front page of Wednesday's edition we ran a photo of the co-winner of Duncan's Got Talent, identifying him as Vince Driver. His name is, in fact, Vance.

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Duncan does it first!

The City of Duncan made history last Sunday when 45 supermoto riders raced on the streets - a first not only for the community but also for the province.

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Sign vandals targeting St. Peters

The St. Peter's Anglican Church sign on the fence at Tzouhalem and Maple Bay Roads has again been vandalized leaving Reverend Deborah Rivet to speak out publicly.

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Fire found after police get break-in call

Thanks to a reported break-in on Wednesday night, Mounties were in the right place at the right time.

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Compensation has not kept up with demands

Now that the tempest in a very small teapot of Duncan councillors raising their remuneration a wee bit has steeped, I feel some perspective from a close observer is safe to offer...sort of.

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Most of us use some kind of informal language

I'm all in favour of good grammar and punctuation and have followed recent letters on the subject in your paper with interest. I write in response to the letter from George Spong ("Terms used incorrectly", Citizen, 13 July 2012), who notes three cases of misuse of words.

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Separate facility issues all lead to same place

It's endlessly frustrating that the Cowichan Valley Regional District, after decades of fruitless wrangling, still remains unable to agree on a regional recreation plan.

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Funding and flowers

The Mill Bay Garden Club's 65th annual Community Flower and Garden Show chairperson Heather Gibbins and other members of the planning committee present a $1,000 cheque to the CMS Food Bank executive board. It is the first time that proceeds from the event are being donated to this worthy cause.

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Less sensational turtle evaluation needed

I write about two points in the article "Snapping turtle finds s