It is rare, apparently, for human beings to experience total darkness or total silence. I contemplate this fact, supplied by...
There is something about a snowman that makes people smile. Perhaps it’s because so many of us have childhood memories...
It’s a finger-numbing January day on the Squamish River, and the world-famous Brackendale bald eagles are making themselves scarce. When...
Chris Harris is a lucky man. As a guide on the Bowron lakes—a route he has canoed 119 times—he often...
It isn’t easy keeping your hip mountain town a secret when everyone keeps talking about it. Though surrounded by a...
With rapacious glee, children are dashing in and out of the Free Store carrying armloads of junk. Gloves with missing...
I had been feeling rather grinchy about the coming holiday season. Making faces behind the backs of shopping-mall Santas, grumbling...
Time for a last-minute inspection of your beach bag for that long-awaited weekend in White Rock. Sun hat, check. Potboiler...
Two hours into dinner at The Country Squire, my partner and I are introduced to a unique Naramata dining custom....
A vintage silver dollar in the West Kootenay’s pocket. Atop 1,912-metre Mount Buchanan, deliriously high above the little Kootenay town...
A salty-dog charmer on the Sunshine Coast. In real life, my bedroom window overlooks an off-ramp of Vancouver’s Granville Street...