Canada’s west coast is undeniably bear country. White bears, black bears, grizzly bears – they’re all here in the Great Bear Rainforest, one of the largest coastal temperate rainforests in the world.
Come winter at the junction of the Red and Assiniboine rivers—known as The Forks—the sound of laughter, stones on stones and blades on ice carries up in the cold air as teams in thick, colourful sweaters square off in a curling bonspiel and others begin their gliding journey down the
There are precious few music festivals north of the Arctic Circle so the new kid on the block, the second annual Rockin’ Walrus Arts Festival in Igloolik (population: 1,700) in Nunavut, is a welcome event.