Canada

Around the airport in 80 days

Around the airport in 80 days

Getting stuck at an airport overnight due to bad weather or mechanical problems? Unfortunate. Two nights?  Horrible. Eighty nights? Unthinkable. Not so for twenty-nine-year old Jaeger Mah, a blogger based in the Vancouver area who recently—and willingly— won a contest to stay overnight for eighty evenings at the Vancouver International Airport. Mah competed against...

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Vancouver Celebrates 2nd Place

Vancouver Celebrates 2nd Place

Last evening, the Vancouver Canucks lost at home in game seven of the Stanley Cup finals to the Boston Bruins. Call this a rematch of Canada vs. the USA in 2010′s winter Olympic games, and this time, the USA won. After losing, the Canucks shook the Bruins’ hands and skated off the ice. The...

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Yoga and Alberta and Canada and other things that end with a

Yoga and Alberta and Canada and other things that end with a

We’re not always the fastest travel news site — we’ll admit it. Part of this is due to us have day jobs and social lives and things like that. It can make life pretty hectic and, well, we’ll miss stuff. For example on Tuesday, Tricia Helfer, a star on Battlestar Galatica (the new version,...

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Don’t Ski Jasper: Live it

Don’t Ski Jasper: Live it

They tell me the skiing is stellar in this part of the Rockies. I wouldn’t know. Sure I ski, but I also have an exceedingly short attention span. Swoosh down the mountain once, twice, three times—I’m done. What’s next? So that’s why I passed on an invitation to attach a lift ticket for Marmot...

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Fly the friendly disguise

Fly the friendly disguise

Who said Halloween was over? A young Asian man disguised himself as an elderly senior and boarded a flight bound for Vancouver, Canada, from Hong Kong on an Air Canada flight. Authorities from the Border Services Officers apprehended him upon landing in Canada. The plan was brilliantly simple: He flew with a disguise kit,...

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Vancouver the best city in North America

Vancouver the best city in North America

We’ve always liked Vancouver. It’s one of the few cities in the world that actually makes you want to go for a hike or ski or just be outside. Now, Conde Nast has given it the ultimate honor in the New World, naming it The Best City in the Americas, according to a reader’s...

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Steep discounts on Canadian Rail: Urine smell still free

Steep discounts on Canadian Rail: Urine smell still free

All aboard, eh? Canada is slashing its prices on city to city trips by as much as 75 percent.

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Not going to the Olympics? Lie

Not going to the Olympics? Lie

In the coming years, it will sound like 10 million people were at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Of course, many of these visitors will actually be liars -- so why not join them in the tall tale? Here's how to do it.

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Great Canadian skiing opens early

Great Canadian skiing opens early

Forget global warming, at least for a long weekend of skiing in British Columbia, as Whistler Blackcomb announced Friday that it would open two weeks early, and offer almost 40 percent off for rooms if you book now. Right now.

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Wash that flu right out of your hands

Wash that flu right out of your hands

If cleanliness is next to Godliness, St.Regis seems armed for a holy war -- at least a germ free one. The hotel has started providing guests with personal hand sanitizers to help thwart swine flu.

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