Last week, CBC Radio invited British Columbia Magazine to share some budget-conscious spring-break travel ideas on their B.C. Almanac program. The half...
“Island magic works on Island souls.” Observed by Sabine Strohem, a character in Nick Bantock’s bestselling book, Griffin & Sabine: An Extraordinary...
“Exhilarating.” That’s how Prince George photographer Lenard Sanders describes his backcountry ski trips into nearby Sugarbowl-Grizzly Den Provincial Park &...
People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. They also shouldn’t wander around in their PJs. That second revelation dawns as...
Come January 2009, it will be “Auf Wiedersehen, Germany” and “Hello, British Columbia!” for BC Ferries’ new northern vessel, the Northern...
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...