I made my way up to Whistler on Thursday on the Alberta Train to catch some Vancouver 2010 Olympics events. First up was the Ladies’ 4×5 km Relay Classic/Free event at Whistler Olympic Park. After a bus ride from Whistler village and an almost 20-minute walk up the gravel path to the venue, I could [...]

My alarm woke me up at 4:30 am yesterday in order to get me to the shuttle by 5:30 am. After a short bus ride to the Whistler Mountaineer station in North Vancouver, Canada and I was boarding the privately-run Alberta train up to Whistler to catch some of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games action from [...]

Although Chinese New Years is over and we’ve gone into the year of the tiger, the folks at Aberdeen Centre (4151 Hazelbridge Way), in Richmond, Canada, are keeping the tradition alive. Chinese Lion Dancing I hopped on the Canada Line this week and made my way to Richmond to see the Chinese lion dancers in [...]

It’s impossible to think of the Yukon, Canada without smiling. I went up there for the first time last summer and was stunned day after day by the landscapes that unfolded everywhere I looked. Sunsets at midnight? I dig it. Yukon, Canada Travel Here are a few of my favourite Yukon adventures: Sushi in Whitehorse Dawson [...]

I wasn’t planning on seeing any of the Olympics sports competitions during the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games. Tickets are expensive to the events I want to see and I just wasn’t interested in spending the time to find them. So I was delighted when a friend of mine was able to get me a single [...]

History was made yesterday when Alexandre Bilodeau won Canada’s first gold medal on home soil in the Men’s Freestyle Moguls competition. The 22 year old has been a gracious and overwhelmed winner since his winning run on Cypress Mountain. He told media today that he wanted to “clarify something” in the midst of all the [...]