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06/2019

Canada is not Australia

| Commentary, Family, New Brunswick, Quirky

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For all the comments that Australia is Canada with better weather, I discovered this is not at all the case. For Canada Day, the guy who wrote the bestselling books about travel in both Canada and Australia muses on why Canada is not Australia.

01
05/2019

Outrun the World’s Highest Tide

By Robin Esrock

| Adventure, Family, Festivals, Nova Scotia, Outdoors, Quirky, Summer

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The Bay of Fundy is home to the world's highest tide. Not Since Moses has there been a race against such a powerful foe, hence the name of this quirky five and ten kilometre annual run along Five Islands in Nova Scotia.

02
10/2018

Hallucinating with the Northern Lights

By Robin Esrock

| Autumn, Family, NWT, Outdoors, Quirky

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Chasing the mythical Northern Lights, Robin and his Dad visit Yellowknife, where locals might be participating in a mass hallucination.

01
05/2018

Visiting the Crooked Bush in Saskatchewan

By Robin Esrock

| Commentary, Family, Quirky, Roadtrip, Saskatchewan

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The Crooked Bush in Saskatchewan is a grove of aspen trees that mysteriously twist, bend and rope around each other. A wooded boardwalk allows you to walk amongst the crooked trees, the result of a mutation, or, as some locals like to believe, a visiting UFO.

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