All Entries in the "Canada" Catégorie
The island storytellers
You can’t escape the irony of talking about a road-trip when traveling along a single road of a sparsely populated set of windswept islands in the middle of the Gulf of the St-Lawrence.
Self-serve Judaism
At a recent service of a nascent Jewish group, a woman announced her coming out in front of her community. But the point was not that she was gay. Her friends already knew that, she said. It was because, she admitted, she didn’t believe in God.
My life on the ranch
I may have looked silly rounding up cattle on western prairie. What kind of a cowboy wears a helmet and rides a stubborn half-breed painter horse through the Western Canadian landscape? Yet while I may have been a strange looking cowboy, there was nothing unauthentic about my experience on the edges of the baby-green rolling Cypress Hills in the southern corner of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan.
Travels with tollbooths
With less flights taking off, airlines have increased prices and passengers are forced to grapple with a plethora of taxes, fuel surcharges, baggage fees and pay-for-service in-flight entertainment and even food and beverage services. Passengers are forced to acquiesce to a flying experience that has turned into tollbooth-style air-travel.
Northern healing
While I set out on a journey to experience luxurious spas in order to tiptoe into the good life, it did have the inadvertent result of undoing some of the tension that I had acquired during a long and painful year living with a severely herniated disc. More than pampering; this became a journey of healing.
Life through the lens of a cultural navigator
The recent volcanic chaos over the skies of Europe were a jolting reminder of our society’s dependence on air travel, accustomed as we are to jet off to far-flung lands. But do we really know about the cultures of the places that we visit? All too often left out of the mix of our busy lives are the very reasons why travel and tourism are so magical.
Historic city a creative cooperative
Quebec City is very much a community. It takes advantage of a small-town atmosphere to hone an ambiance of artist friendly spaces where creative collaborations work side-by-side socially innovative concepts.
Watching the dogs run
She was an unlikely poet, being a bush-girl and all. But she was not an unlikely musher. Kyla Boivin looked awkward last year at the banquet of the Yukon Quest dog sledding race in her small fitting black dress, freshly painted red nail polish and dancing shoes. Her appearance led me to a double take.
The seaweed ladies of Sooke
If Muir Creek is where Sooke hides some of the best of its seaweed, not far down the road is a focal hub for local seaweed culture. Sooke Harbour House overlooks a stunning bay that looks like a remote corner of the Galapagos Islands. Here too the lazy seals rest; an otter swims about gleefully, and eagles fly overhead in an area that is characterized by its sheer scenic beauty.