This ancient bug was found in Port Alberni and it’s species has been around for 26,500 years! A newly discovered insect that is believed to have been around since the last ice age has recently appeared in BC. How fitting that we find this ice age bug now seeing as we are experiencing this frigid cold front! This cave dwelling, cold-loving bug was found living on Vancouver Island and according […]
We all know Canada is a beautiful place to live – but sometimes it takes a visitor from overseas, like Andrew Cooney, to remind us. The Australian photographer and filmmaker spent two months exploring Canada earlier this year, and his latest video will blow your mind. Cooney travelled 11,000 km in BC and Alberta, capturing 130,000 shots of our majestic mountains and glacial lakes, as well as grizzlies and wolf […]
They don’t call Steve Kaye the Sturgeon Hunter for nothing. The longtime fishing guide just reeled in a “river monster” sturgeon on B.C.’s Fraser River, in the biggest catch so far this year for the popular fishing destination. Based on its 54-inch circumference, it’s estimated the 11.2-foot long behemoth tips the scales at 750-pounds. “It was only when I landed it that I realized it was a true monster,” the […]
When festive lights go up, the spirit of the season comes alive and the magic of the holidays warms Vancouver, Canada unlike any other time of year but unless you’re here, it’s hard to put in words the joyous feeling around the city. Luckily for us, this time lapse video does a fabulous job of capturing the energy of being in Vancouver, BC during Christmas. Created by a local action […]
OTTAWA – A Conservative MP is backtracking on her claim that Canada’s spy agency knew there was a bomb on an Air India plane that exploded in flight three decades ago, killing 329 people. In a late June speech at a Vancouver church, Tory MP Wai Young said the laws at the time prevented the Canadian Security Intelligence Service from telling the RCMP about the explosive device. Young told the […]
A new smartphone app for monitoring skin cancer made its debut at the World Congress of Dermatology in Vancouver on Tuesday. Maryam Sadeghi, director of the Digital Health Hub, designed the MoleScope app and device during her PhD research at Simon Fraser University. “It enables patients to have access to the same system that doctors have in their clinic,” said Sadeghi. “As a patient, I don’t have to wait 12 […]
VANCOUVER – Vancouver’s economy could suffer a $1.2-billion blow in the case of a major oil spill caused by Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, concludes a new report released by the city. The report, conducted by the University of B.C.’s Fisheries Economics Research Unit, examined the potential economic costs of a 16-million litre spill in Burrard Inlet, the body of water bordering to the city that is busy […]
VANCOUVER – An orphaned, yearling grizzly dubbed Littlefoot is once again wandering free in the wilds of southeastern British Columbia, saved by a unique pilot project between the province and two animal welfare groups. The little bear weighed just under 13 kilograms when he was found in the spring after hibernating alone, following the death of his mother last fall. Although older than most bears accepted by the Northern Lights […]
Annual Mercer list shows Vancouver in top spot over Toronto again. For the second year in a row, Vancouver has been deemed the most expensive city in Canada in which to live. Vancouver tops the list of most expensive Canadian cities to live in, surpassing Toronto for the second year in a row, according to an annual cost of living survey. But life is still expensive in Toronto, as well […]
It probably comes as no surprise to those living there (full disclosure, that includes me), but Vancouver has been rated North America’s best city in terms of quality of life. Top quality of living cities in North America: 1. Vancouver, BC 2. Ottawa, ON 3. Toronto, ON 4. Montreal, QC 5. San Francisco, CALowest quality of living cities in North America: 5. Miami, Fla. 4. Houston, Tex. 3. St. Louis, […]
