The news brief I read last week about the two boys who were lost in -50C temperatures while out polar bear hunting on snowmobile several weeks ago got me thinking about a once-in-a-lifetime trip I’d like to take someday. There’s several different companies based in Churchill, MB that offer polar bear sightseeing tours, which give […]
Polar bear hunting anyone?
I read a random little factoid in our daily newspaper The Saskatoon StarPhoenix the other day, which got me thinking about how many people live completely different lifestyles from my own in this country. The news brief recounted how two teen hunters from Inukjuak, Quebec (a place I’ve never heard of) are lucky to be […]
Vancouver named most livable city in the world
Vancouver was recently named the most livable city in the world by The Economist Intelligence Unit. In fact, two other Canadian cities were in the top ten – Calgary and Toronto (they missed Saskatoon but I’ll forgive it this time). Jeff Lee, a columnist for The Vancouver Sun wrote a great piece about receiving this […]