Walking with dinosaurs
Toronto Star, Feb 3, 2017, WEMBLEY, ALTA. You spin through hundreds of millions of years of the earth’s history in about 30 seconds. As you turn a dial, you watch […]
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Go wild in Montebello
Toronto Star Jan 13, 2017, MONTEBELLO, QUE. It’s a remarkable feeling watching a pack of wolves just chillin’ in their hood. A couple are roughhousing — wolf wrestling — a […]
Stories in the walls
Toronto Star, Dec 9, 2016: GATINEAU, QUE. The British Hotel had been doing a booming business on the main drag here when real-estate developer and investment adviser Mike Clemann bought […]
Walking below the ice
Toronto Star Nov 12, 2016 PEMBERTON ICECAP, B.C.: We walk into the ice cave — fingers skimming the frozen wall, boots and hiking pole picking over boulders and a little […]
Where the buffalo roam(ed)
Toronto Star, Oct 29, 2016: FORT MACLEOD, ALTA.—The elder scoops the smoke from the little pile of burning sweetgrass and moves it over either side of her body, careful to […]
Going with the flow in Hawaii
Toronto Star, Oct 29, 2016: HAWAII ISLAND, HAWAII-We’re walking down a gravel road toward the spot where lava is pouring into the ocean like cake batter into a pan. It’s […]
Santa Fe serves a feast of native culture
Toronto Star, Oct 21, 2016: SANTA FE, N.M.-The swirl of red pepper sauce in the spicy corn soup is pretty, and pretty meaningful: “It’s the knowledge of our ancestors spiralling […]
The other bounty on Florida’s Treasure Coast
Toronto Star, Oct 27, 2016: VERO BEACH, FLA.-The spinner shark jumped out of the water, propelling itself into the air — joyously, surely — and before you could say “Look […]
Seeing Sonora
Toronto Star, Oct 16, 2016: SONORA ISLAND, B.C.-The nearby evergreens start dancing as the helicopter descends onto the landing pad. The trees are swaying, their boughs waving wildly and offering […]
Paddling Whistler’s River of Golden Dreams
Toronto Star, Sept 14, 2016, WHISTLER, B.C.—Picking your paddle is one thing, but for this canoe ride — down Whistler’s River of Golden Dreams — it may be more important […]
