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Vancouver traveller reflects on Syrian refugee crisis and the kindness of strangers

Backpacking through Syria long ago was a pivotal experience

Take a leap and go coasteering in Wales

“This,” she says, grimacing and shivering, “is bat-shit crazy.”

England's Lake District promises civilized ambling, Beatrix Potter, drunken ducks

Some would argue that the quest for the Drunken Duck began at the home of Peter Rabbit.

Blues cruise puts on the groove on high seas

Doom and gloom are the twins in every headline bearing news of disaster while my husband and I knock back margaritas in the glow of a Pacific Ocean on a blues cruise.

The Funeral-Directing Biz Is Alive and Well

Raeanne Leduc smiles a Colgate-perfect smile as she reminisces about one of her more unusual burials: a 570-pound man whose special-order, double-wide coffin sported an antler...