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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, here's 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 steel ribbon had been laid, railway barons needed to fill those empty cars with freight and passeng...

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 collapse of oil prices in 2014 and the recession of 2008, Fort Mac is now confronting a stubborn pande...

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, pulling pints at pubs in Dublin and fitting out skiers at Whistler/Blackcomb resort on British Columbi...