What it means to be Canadian by Kate Koepke
Canada a country celebrating 150 years. We have lost many soldiers and cried many tears. Where else in the world can you look out your […]
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Being Canadian! by Aramintha Bradford
Being Canadian! Free Verse Poem by Aramintha Bradford, Age 9, Grade 3
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What it means to be Canadian by James Welscott
Canadian – Living in one of Canada’s capitols, near the Arctic Circle Canadian – Including Canada’s unique makeup of nationalities and indigenous peoples cultures Canadian-
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What It Means To Be Canadian by Renate Schmid
A Rhyming Couplet inspired by the show “ Fly Over Canada” at Canada Place in Vancouver Spread your wings and leave your troubles at home
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What it Means to Be Canadian by Danielle Beaubien
What it Means to Be Canadian The rich and bountiful stolen land, connected by dreams of megalomania fallen into disrepair A land of space for
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What it means to be Canadian by Jeannine St. Marie
What it means to be Canadian We are a people like this land, wide open and wild, each of us as uniquely brilliant as the
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What it Means to be Canadian by Elise Maltinsky
What it Means to be Canadian What it means to be Canadian, it’s the essence of being free. It’s self determination and democracy, for family,
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Ode to a Canadian by John Birmingham
Ode to a Canadian It’s a feeling, an understanding of sorts It’s an emotion arriving without court That runs through the bones A quiet confidence
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Diverse Foliage by Jose Gonzalo
A poem from a reader. A leaf releases off its parent tree. The breeze carries me far away from home. I gently descend…
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Tudo Bem: It’s All Good
There is this Portuguese pastry I would kill or die for, whichever comes first: pastel de nata. Tudo Bem: It’s All Good. Food to Fly for.
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Food to Fly For
By all accounts, my partner’s grandmother was a tiny, independent, and generous woman that I would have loved. Proudly bearing the name Francis Minervini Arnone,
Tony and the Caribou
Setsko and I followed Barb and Dave over the rolling countryside below Sugarloaf on the Montana Mountain Massif. It was a blustery, but warm, August
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Christmas Comes to This
My best Christmas ever felt humdrum and boring at first. I was a first-year university student in a Greyhound bus for 10 hours to spend
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Home for Christmas
“You pour the brandy on the pudding and set fire to it?! You English are strange”. Whitehorse in the snowy grip of Winter 2001. Basement
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Enjoying the Hyper-Local
The restaurant might have had a name; I certainly didn’t notice it as we were walking down an ancient cobblestone street in Piacenza, a small
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Belgian Cream
I have been told that people with cardiac issues should not consume cream. I have heard that this is true the world over, except if
Food for Thought From My Wanderlust
In the autumn of 1971 I found myself, on my yearning to travel (Wanderlust), in Munchen, Bavaria, Germany. I was nearly broke and in need
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Sharing the Yukon With Seven Sled Dogs
Being an exchange student in the Yukon is fantastic! When I arrived in August 2008, I had read lots about the Territory and its nature.
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Warm Memories of Fruit Trees
As the temperature on my outside gauge hovers perilously close to the -30°C mark and my heating bill hovers perilously close to the ridiculous mark,
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Europe Can Teach Us Much
Europe is certainly a wonderful place to visit as many Canadians have roots in Europe and it was Europeans who “discovered” the “New World”. In
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The Passion of Bavaria
When Condor Airlines lands in Munich, Germany, it touches down in the capital city of Bavaria, a free state of Germany. I knew nothing of
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Germans Keep First Nations Traditions Alive
Three years ago, I met the biggest change in my life: my fiancée, Jennifer Fröhling. She is from East Germany, near Berlin; I am a
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2010 Condor Contest: The Enticement of Europe
The red beech trees swayed in a mysterious way shielding my view from the Kings Throne. Ah, the chalk cliffs of Rügen, songs should be
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Bicycle Races Are Coming Our Way
Europe is a fantastic place to visit because of the unexpected things that happen there. All we knew about the campsite my sister-in-law had reserved
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Go for the Veggies!
“Vegetables taste better in Europe.” That’s what Anthony Bourdain, renowned chef, author and television host, said on the Paris episode I was watching last night.
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Of Moose and Minarets
“Oh, the Yukon. I’m planning a moose hunting trip there.” Not the expected response from a Turkish rug salesman, as one wanders through the narrow
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Ah, Europe!
Ah, Europe. Sidewalk cafés by the Seine, stout Slovenian castles, rolling Tuscan fields. Expensive? Yes. Crowded? Yes. And still, a trip to the Continent is
The River’s History, Is Cyr History
BY ALICE CYR, Tagish OHMIGOD!! This river is seriously running downhill! I am the front paddler in the lead canoe poised on the brink of
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No Doubt About It
We came for our second visit, Our first was a decade ago, To this time less land of the midnight sun, We actually stayed on
End of the World Highway
It was spring of 1998, in San Diego, and I came across an article in a travel magazine: Klondike Gold Rush Centennial Celebration. I looked
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Joe Henry’s New Dog Team
Haven’t I already told you the story about my run-in with Joe Henry’s dog team? Well, many years ago, shortly after I came to the
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All Kinds of Yukoners
BY BARBARA HANULIK, Dawson City It takes all kinds of people to make up the Yukon – the young and the old, the educated and
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New Canadian Finds Her Green Acres
Story of a spoiled rotten Indonesian city slicker married to Canadian geologist BY JULIE ASPINALL, Whitehorse I remembered clearly, it was a nice sunny afternoon
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