The Best Music Festivals in Canada
I got my first real taste of music festival fever at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in my native Victoria. Nightly, Canadian stars like Jann Arden … Continue Reading
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Sam Roberts, Part 2: Favourite Canadian Tour Stops
Last week we talked to six-time JUNO Award winner Sam Roberts about his deep family history with trains, adventures in South Africa, what … Continue Reading
Winnipeg Dining: The Best Way to Get Through Winter
Winnipeggers take pride and get quite territorial when it comes to their food scene. I’ve noticed this over the past five years of living here … Continue Reading
Discover Canada as You’ve Never Seen it Before
132 years ago, the Last Spike was driven in Craigellachie, British Columbia, marking the completion of Canada’s first transcontinental railroad. The railway united … Continue Reading
Canada’s Best Christmas Markets
Across Germany, Austria, Eastern France and Northern Italy, during the cold dark winter months, people have for centuries gathered at Christmas markets to clink mugs … Continue Reading
Churchill, Manitoba: Aurora and Art in the Sub-Arctic
The sky glows pink as my mother and I disembark from the train in Churchill, Manitoba, ready to discover the northern lights. We’d spent the … Continue Reading
A Summer by Rail: Our Great Canadian Train Trip
The summer after university is the ultimate blank slate: you can go back to camp, rediscover reading for pleasure, work at an ice cream shop, … Continue Reading