November 11 is Remembrance Day in Canada.

Last year, we blogged about “Why is everyone wearing poppies?” to explain Canada’s Remembrance Day traditions:

A national public holiday, Remembrance Day is celebrated at the …

Most Americans, Brits, Australians, or other English-speakers who move to Canada assume that they’ll be able to understand Canadian English.

In fact, before we relocated to Canada from the U.S., it didn’t occur to me …

Before I moved to Canada, I was a pecan pie girl.

But I’ve been traveling around Ontario recently (you can read dispatches from my travels here: A Superior Travel Day and here: Going Where No …

If you’re house-hunting in Vancouver, you’ll likely see some houses that are marketed as “Vancouver Specials.”

Built in the 1960s and ’70s, these flat-fronted two-story homes were constructed quickly, when baby boomers and …

“If you were born today, which country would provide you the very best opportunity to live a healthy, safe, reasonably prosperous, and upwardly mobile life?”

That’s the question that Newsweek magazine set out to …