Just Chilling This made me laugh. Only in Canada! That's why I love this place. http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Growers+guard+grow+with+live+black+bears/3414755/story.html Police investigating an outdoor pot farm at Christina Lake stumbled across a strange menagerie of guards. Between 10 and 15 amiable black bears popped out of the Kootenay woods to greet the officers, Sgt. Fred Mansveld said. They were extraordinarily docile and mellow, Mansveld sa...

Festivals: A City in Celebration Now we are in the thick of summer and have enjoyed weeks and weeks of hot, sunny and high temperature weather there is some kind of festival every week in Toronto. The winter is a distant memory like a hazy dream you aren't sure you had. There are flashbacks of iced windows and gloves in a drawer act as a reminder to when it really was too cold to spend too much time out doors. But now the sun shines every day and we sweat in the...

A City on Lockdown When G20 came to Toronto, the fences went up, the protesters came out, police cars went up in flames and windows came down. "We have never seen that level of wanton criminality and vandalism and destruction on our streets,"Toronto Police Chief

The River Wild After partying in Brampton and 2 hours sleep we left for the Ottawa river at 2am. Empty highways rocked me to sleep and I awoke in the early hours of the morning to dense forests and crisp air. Wow this was the country! We travelled for 5 and a half hours by car to Beachburg which is close to Ottawa. Country roads lead to the home of Wilderness Tours. It was a beautiful location by the river with the sun glistening off the water. Even at 7.30am th...

Let's Show Them Whose Game It Is The ice was ready. The players were ready. We were ready. The time had come. A nation's pride rested on the game of the century. Canada Vs USA. Having already lost to the American's the week before, the wounds were fresh, the pain of loss real. It was time to show the world whose game they were playing and to bring the gold medal home. We gathered early at Paupers Pub on Bloor and Bathurst. We came in our Canada tops ready to sh...