Vancouver’s One-Tank Camping Adventures

Vancouver offers some top-notch scenery, but nature isn’t nature if your BlackBerry’s buzzing. Before summer ends, fall off the grid for a weekend and go camping at one of these spots, our favourite campsites within a couple hours of home. Birkenhead Lake Provincial Park Just 210 km away. These campgrounds, … Read More

Dip and Dive: Toronto’s Best Pools

With August about halfway over, the weather and the city workers are both finally cooperating. If there’s any justice in this world, heat waves will carry us through to October. But there isn’t. Which is why you should seize the hot, hot days and get out to one of these … Read More

The $162 Workout: Back & Chest

Last week I wrote about building your own home gym for $162. Over the next few weeks I’m going to give you guys a new total body workout that you can complete using nothing but the equipment I mentioned in the home gym. For this workout, all you need is … Read More

Running, Naturally

Bruce Springsteen was onto something: We were, in fact, born to run. The notion that jogging is bad, that it’s too hard on our joints and muscles, defies human history, which dates back to hunter-gatherer days when we chased down animals by foot. The culprit of running injuries, it turns … Read More

Knock It Off!

It seems that these days, every little boutique furniture store has Asian-made reproductions of modern classics. Most clients asking to source either the originals or the knock-offs can describe the shape of these pieces, but don’t really have an idea as to the name of the piece or name of … Read More

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