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0 My husband’s smart phone tells me I’m 500 metres—as the crow flies—from our Ottawa home. At the minute, he and I are wandering into a thicket of bushes near the historic Rideau Canal. I’ve probably passed this spot hundreds of times, but until recently, I... -
0 A mock battle unfolds as part of Camp Husky at Ottawa in 2008. PHOTO: DAN BLACK Every teacher since Plato has probably heard the same complaint more than once: “History is nothing but a bunch of boring names and dates!” For a number of Canadian...
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1 The sun sets on Lund marina and boardwalk. PHOTO: SUNSHINE COAST TOURISM In Powell River, B.C., a small balcony at the Manzanita Restaurant overlooks what was once the city’s biggest employer, the Catalyst Paper mill. By 2010, the mill will have just 350 employees, a...
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0 PHOTO: METROPOLIS STUDIO Your insurance company wants to know if you’ve ever had jaundice. Your children want information about a blood disease that runs in your family. You want to find out if you’ve ever been prescribed a medication that’s now making headlines for long-term...
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0 PHOTOS: PATRICK BERNATH; NATIONAL CIRCUS SCHOOL; LAURENT GUÉRIN Clockwise from top: Cirque du Soleil costume designer Eilo Ishioka adds colour to body skaters; training for Cirque in Montreal; and learing the ropes at the National Circus School. Every audience member seems to take away a...
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0 PHOTO: Ontario tourism Youngsters visit the pictographs at the Agawa site along Lake Superior. Imagine you’re the curator of a huge museum, full of so many precious works that most of them haven’t even been catalogued. Yet even as you’re racing to document and interpret...
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