Zucchini. Zoo-keen-knee. What a disconnect between its name, free-spirited and lyrical, and the vegetable, ubiquitous and obese, tasteless and dull. (I cringe at the uppityness
Vancouver, alas, subscribes to what I call “Hello Kitty” street art. Birds, bees, butterflies, sanctioned mural festival art that, for the most part, doesn’t challenge
A cone, a dish, a bar—how will you have your ice cream today—the 40th anniversary of Ice Cream Day in Canada? Canadians, on average, each
It was 11:40 and the line was already snaking around the corner. This was lucky for the four of us: there’s no sign above the
Until the last decade, we never paid much attention to eagles. Then the Vancouver Park Board built a BMX bike park in the small forest
What is it about waterfalls? Rushing over cliffs. Free-falling. Misting the air. A ceaseless torrent of everlasting hurry that ends, quietly, in placid tranquillity in
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