February 2016 - The Great Canadian Bucket List

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02/2016

Hike Across a Glacier

| Adventure, Alberta, Outdoors, Spring, Summer

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The Athabasca Glacier is a popular attraction along the Icefields parkway. You could trundle alongside it on a big-wheeled bus, but the more adventurous have a bucket list option: why not hike across it? Nicole Kobie puts on the crampons for this report.

Craft Beer in Vancouver: A Primer

By Robin Esrock

| British Columbia, Commentary, Food

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Hollywood North now resembles Portland North, with an explosion of microbreweries offering outstanding craft beers. Gary Kalmek visits several microbreweries to sample a bucket list flight of craft beer in Vancouver.

How to Ice Canoe in Quebec City

By Robin Esrock

| Adventure, Outdoors, Quebec, Quirky, Winter

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Ice canoeing is a sport that is unique to Quebec. Each Winter Carnaval, teams of competitors hoist, haul, push, pull, and paddle heavy wooden canoes across ice sheets and water channels of the St Lawrence River. And now you can join them.

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