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Convincing travel-starved Canadians to spend their precious staycation time hanging around politicians may have you reaching for the ceremonial Mace, but…

With Greyhound abandoning Canada, heres a fond look back riding via coach.

Article content But did you know we established the global template for railway hotels, a grandiose architectural form unique to our shores? We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or How Canada set the standard for ‘castle-in-the-sky’ railway hotels Back to video Given that construction of a transcontinental railway was instrumental in cobbling together the young Dominion in the first place, this is perhaps not a great revelation. And once that...

the northeastern Alberta city of Fort McMurray. Technically referred to as the sprawling municipality’s “urban service area” — they do love their limp labels — but more colloquially (and colourfully) called Fort Mac, the city at the junction of the Clearwater and Athabasca rivers is the administrative centre of the 63,780-square-kilometre RMWB and the sticky heart of Canada’s oilsands empire. It’s also in need of a big hug. Still smarting from devastating wildfires in 2016, the co...

Article content Young Kiwis have for decades crossed “the ditch” — the Tasman Sea — to work and play in Aussie metropolises like Sydney and Melbourne, and going “OS” — overseas — is a rite of passage for thousands of gap-year backpackers. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or New Zealand promotes its splendid isolation Back to video They’ve perfected the art of the working holiday, serving fancy coffee at Covent Garden in London, pu...

Article content The rugged rugby-loving citizens of New Zealand, that oft-overshadowed chunk of Down Under forever trying to distance itself from swaggering Australia next door, have long coped with isolation through a passion for foreign travel. Young Kiwis have for decades crossed “the ditch” — the Tasman Sea — to work and play in Aussie metropolises like Sydney and Melbourne, and going “OS” — overseas — is a rite of passage for thousands of gap-year backpackers. We apologize,...

Its been 30 years since the country saw off the Soviets in a singing revolution.

COVID-19 crushes Mayflower party, but city set to fete epic voyage

Free online experience lets you experience magnificent temple in Baalbek, Lebanon.

Article content Pop quiz for aficionados of antiquities: where are the biggest Roman ruins located? Not Rome, as you might be inclined to think, but rather the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon. With plague anxieties persisting, however, they might as well be on the surface of Mars. Which is why a new virtual-tourism venture exploring Baalbek, home to the largest Roman temple ever built, as well as an array of other grandiose ancient structures, is so well-timed. Known by the 4th-century Greeks as Heliop...