When I was in Nunavut in December working on travel stories, I quickly learned that northern hotels have quirky rules. You get a bed — not a room — so if the hotels get crowded, you've got to share space with a…
I'm an awards junkie. My OCD side loves the fussy way you have to put together entries — often cutting and pasting a story into a new document and stripping out your name and publication. It's always a thrill to…
Come travel Canada and the world with me in search of quirk. Where can you hunt Sasquatch and UFOs? Go to the edge of the ice floe to watch for narwhal? Take a walking polar bear safari? Gather for a…
Who knew that Canada was home to two UFO encounter sites that are so famous (famous as in well-documented) that the Royal Canadian Mint created a collector's coin immortalizing one of them? I dragged my family to Manitoba last summer…
I live on the Danforth in Toronto near one of the city's main Ethiopian restaurant strips, but my favourite Ethiopian restaurant in Canada is actually in Yellowknife. That's right — Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, population 20,000 has an excellent, diverse food scene.…
We grow hay at our Alberta bison ranch but don't do anything creative with it like they do in Montana. I stumbled upon "Medusa-Hay" in the summer, grabbed a few photos and discovered the Montana Bale Trail's annual "What the…
Two things I learned last summer in Newfoundland: Baby puffins are called pufflings, and pufflings are relatively cute but don't yet have that distinctive orange striped beak that makes us fall so hard for them. I spent a day with the…
So after 18 years covering food and travel at the same newspaper, I wasn't sure what my writing life would be like if I cut myself loose and took a buyout. I made a very modest goal — five travel…
Calgary travel writer Jennifer Allford contributed this guest post. Crossing the street in Phnom Penh is an adventure all its own. The Cambodian city has 2.3 million people and at least 2 million of them appear to be jostling for…
Muskoka—Deep in the heart of Ontario’s maple syrup country, we wrap ourselves in lumberjack fleece blankets and join Bill Statten and his horse Eddie for a wagon ride through the forest. If only there had been more snow, we could…