Articles tagged with: Culture

At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver and Whistler, which open this Friday, February 12, the action isn’t all on the snow or ice.
The region is also hosting the 2010 Cultural Olympiad — a …

Groundhog Day may not be an official holiday in Canada, but the country does have several groundhogs who forecast the weather every year on February 2nd.
According to legend, if the groundhog sees his shadow …

The Canadian media seems to take a perverse pride in pointing out how Americans are ignorant of, or at least oblivious to, Canadian culture.
A recent video feature in the Globe & Mail — …

Quick: when you think of the top “foodie” countries for expats, do you think of Canada?
Apparently, Britain’s Telegraph does.
Based on findings from the HSBC Expat Explorer Survey, the Telegraph created an “Expat …

When we first moved to Canada, one of the things that surprised me was that very few people wear their shoes in the house. Go into someone’s home, and you leave your shoes by …