What do you get when you cross a passion for hockey with a summer road-trip and a desire to do good?
If you’re 21-year-old Vancouver hockey blogger Richard Loat, you get Five Hole for Food, a 10-day traveling road hockey game that’s helping to replenish the shelves of Canada’s food banks.
The first ball dropped on June [...]
I’ve just returned from the Travel Blog Exchange conference–aka TBEX10–in New York.
If you are a travel blogger, or a travel writer whose traditional media markets are rapidly drying up, or a travel industry PR person looking to keep your career currency high, then you were there too.
Or you should have been.
Depending on how active you [...]
In the so-obvious-why-hasn’t-anyone-thought-of-it-before department: my friendly neighbourhood culdesactivist James Glave just tipped me off to the news that Vancouver’s new Fairmont Pacific Rim is giving guests a greener option when it comes to bottled water.
In support of Metro Vancouver’s recent campaign to promote the city’s excellent tap water (and significantly reduce plastic waste) the hotel is [...]
I recently received a snarky tweet from someone who asked outright if I had paid for the delicious New Year’s meal I recently enjoyed at the Wickaninnish Inn in Tofino.
Indeed I had–and offered to provide the VISA bill to prove it.
But it raised the age-old question (well, age-old for those of us who started our [...]
From the downy comfort of my king-size bed at Tofino’s Wickaninnish Inn, I’m watching die-hard surfers brave the frigid Pacific and being reminded of some of life’s great lessons: take risks; trust; share what you know–and get back on the board when you fall down.
The view from my picture window over Chesterman Beach on the [...]
[This post originally appeared on Sept. 24/09, but since we're just a month out from the start of the 2010 Winter Games, I've brought it back...]
Just back from Whistler where a small group of international travel writers were this week treated to an impressive dog-and-pony about British Columbia’s upcoming Winter Olympics.
Let it be said that [...]
Just posted this news over at InsideVancouver.ca, but short story shorter: if you’re travelling through YVR (and it’s not pretty at the moment), the new Twitter stream from @YVRAirport might be a helpful resource for news and updates.
Are there other Canadian airports on Twitter? If you know, can you please add the ID in the [...]
Until I visited Haida Gwaii in the summer of 2007, I felt awkward and frankly a little pretentious using the aboriginal name for the remote archipelago off British Columbia’s northern coast.
I was more comfortable saying “Queen Charlotte Islands”–the name that had been printed on every grade school map I’d ever studied.
But last week, the Globe [...]
If ya gotta live abroad, ya wanna live in Canada.
The don of social media, Guy Kawasaki, just tweeted a Holy Kaw blog post about the HSBC Expat Experience Survey that names Canada as the best place in the world to be an expat:
“Expats in Canada reported the highest overall increase in their quality of life [...]
Once upon a time a ferry boat was the only way to get to West Vancouver from Vancouver, BC. Now it’s an option again thanks to Coastal Link Ferries which is expanding its Bowen Island commuter run to include West Vancouver.
Starting Tuesday, Nov. 17 (and not Nov. 2 as previously reported), Captain Ihab Shaker will [...]
