Gulf Islands Adventure: Victoria
Only in Victoria, would there be a Feast Concierge. Karma Brophy leads us on a merry three hour tour of Oak Bay and its delightful gastronomy scene, one bite at a time. We taste...
Toronto Celebrates The 30th Annual Dragon Ball Gala
The 30th annual Dragon Ball kicked off this week to celebrate Year of the Pig. Dragon Ball, one of Toronto’s premier gala events, is the largest fundraising gala celebrating Chinese New Year in Canada....
Gulf Islands Adventure: Salt Spring Island
Driving into Salt Spring Island in the rain is like entering the pages of an old picture book. A rustic road leads to Hastings House Country House Hotel, in an 11th century Sussex style...
Gulf Islands Adventure: Tofino
From Tofino at Mile 1 of the Trans Canada Highway, to Saltspring Island and the manicured landscape of Victoria, it’s all “peace and love, man.”
It was raining when I arrived in Vancouver, and the...
The Ballad of John and Yoko
In 1969, when John Lennon and Yoko Ono staged their infamous “Bed-In for Peace” at the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, the staff refused to touch their clothes for dry-cleaning and shoes for...
Ottawa: Capital Cool
Lazily drifting along a slow moving river with Owl Rafting as the sun sparkles off the ripples in our wake, we hear the distant rush of falls closer and closer until voom! We’ve got...
Savouring Outaouais
In the Outaouais region, we come upon the world’s grandest, most dramatic log cabin, standing like a beacon of hospitality in the rolling countryside. Fairmont Le Château Montebello, more than 80 years old, still...
Savouring Montreal
MONTREAL
Montreal is a city of many religions, including the big five: Hockey, Dining, Cycling, Dancing and L’Amour. From Plateau-Mont-Royal to Westmount, Outremont to Mile End, hundreds of kilometres of bicycle paths weave through the...
Savouring Quebec City
QUEBEC CITY
Beyond the thick, exposed-stone walls and wooden beams of our cottage is a unique jewel, as if set in a snow globe: North America’s oldest and only fortified city, Quebec. When the French...
Rocky Mountaineer: All Aboard!
On a trip aboard the Rocky Mountaineer, the transportation itself is the destination...
The best way to see Canada is by train. The wheels churn, the whistle blows, a seat beneath a panoramic glass dome,...
