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We are not to be found in the virtual racks of Best Beach Holiday Destinations. This, like most sweeping generalizations, does not tell the whole story, however. Canada has a bumper crop of beaches, if not the climate to enjoy them year-round, and the coronavirus that has clobbered those Caribbean sun plans is poised to give our oft-neglected shorelines their moment in the sun. With some 250,000 km of coastline, it’s a geographic given that this country will have beaches worth boasting about. Here a few worth investigating: British Columbia’s wild west coast off Vancouver Island is raved ...

Article content One-industry towns face a formidable and familiar hurdle when that industry, for reasons of economics or obsolescence, goes kaput. For one soon-to-be fading settlement in the Kootenays region of southeast British Columbia, the answer was schnitzel, schnapps and sauerkraut. In the 1970s, confronting the inevitable conclusion that its mineral resources would soon be spent, the alpine community of Kimberley embarked on an ambitious scheme of downtown renewal. With mock-chalet facades, an outdoor pedestrian mall — known as the Platzl — and no shortage of hanging flower baskets...

Try refreshing your browser, or Today's letters: On 15-minute neighbourhoods, queue-jumpers and Black athletes Back to video Over the past few years, I have been doing very informal surveys of businesses similar to those destroyed by the Beechwood fire in 2011. I told them that we really needed them on Beechwood and asked if they had ever considered locating there. Without fail, I was told that they had looked into Beechwood but that the rents were too high for them to survive. Businesses that are surviving on Beechwood are located in older buildings where I assume the rents are more afford...