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WW’s Top 3 Worldly Reads

Posted on 23. Nov, 2009 by BCAA.

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Gifts to Grab: Stocking Stuffers to Soothe Any Travel Itch
by Rob Howatson
1. TALK ABOUT GOOD INTENTIONS GONE BAD. In 1850, the HMS Investigator departed England in search of the Franklin expedition, which had disappeared in the Arctic five years earlier. Yet not only did the rescue ship fail to find Franklin survivors, the Investigator became [...]

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Travel-Themed Luggage Tags with B.C. Art

Posted on 23. Nov, 2009 by BCAA.

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The Casa Collection is a Vancouver-based art bank of 600-plus archival prints by 110 artists, most of them from B.C. – with imagery ranging from whimsical paper-collage interpretations of iconic Vancouver scenes to early 20th-century travel posters.

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WW’s Top 7 B.C. Reads

Posted on 23. Nov, 2009 by BCAA.

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There’s a distinct back-to-the-land theme in this year’s top crop of B.C. tomes to own (and give), as the global warming threat has writers nervously testing local soil – including Araxi: Seasonal Recipes from the Celebrated Whistler Restaurant. So you lost season six of Hell’s Kitchen and the chance to be head chef at Araxi? No worries. The restaurant’s real head chef, James Walt, shares his culinary secrets in this gorgeously illustrated tribute to local fare.

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WW Interview: Jeff Pain, Skeleton’s “Most Decorated Canadian Athlete”

Posted on 23. Nov, 2009 by BCAA.

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by Rob Howatson
Skeleton is one of the fastest sports on ice, with sleds reaching speeds of 140 km/h, and Jeff Pain its most decorated Canadian athlete. Pain helped pioneer the sport in the years leading up to its debut as a permanent Olympic event at Salt Lake City in 2002. And the tall, lanky Calgarian [...]