SPONSORED The American Express Promise: Superlative Service

Coldplay Unstaged is brought to you by American Express Canada. Sometimes being the best just isn’t enough. American Express Canada doesn’t want to be known as the best credit card business in the world, according to VP David Barnes — they want to be known the world’s best service business, period. A … Read More

Driving Distance, Vancouver: The North Shore

Originally known as Moodyville, Vancouver’s North Shore was the first settlement where Western Canada’s vibrant forestry industry began. Full of activities and sites, this is one of the few spots where you can golf in the morning, ski in the afternoon and dine exquisitely in the evening. Stay The staycation … Read More

Calgary Halloween Parties

As you get older, Halloween shifts from a sacred holiday where strange people give you mountains of candy for knocking on their doors to yearly ritual where strange women try to inject sex appeal into the most harmless costume concept (sexy husky anyone?), drinking on moving school buses is condoned … Read More

Da Vinci in Toronto

Skill-testing question: Who invented the airplane? If you are thinking the Wright brothers, you are wrong. At least partially. Bringing new meaning to “ahead of his time,” Leonardo da Vinci conceptualized the airplane in his Codex of Flight, where he studied the flight of birds and used his findings to … Read More

Toronto Costume Shops

You have exactly four days to figure out, and acquire, a Halloween costume. At this point, you have either the foggiest of directions in mind (funny, serious, scary) or possibly one concrete idea (Sergio Flores of Sexy Sax Man fame, take it, it’s yours). While it’s easy to climb down an internet rabbit … Read More

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