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Carrie Serwetnyk: Canada needs extra jolt at World Cup
MONTREAL — TransLink riders, it’s time to count your blessings — we have it good. In Montreal, a trip to the Big O appeared to be a skip and jump by Metro. That is until we bought our tickets. They had...
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World Cup: Women’s soccer is no longer a few ‘haves’ and a host of ‘have nots’
VANCOUVER — The taut matches and upset scares along the American team’s troublesome path to Sunday’s World Cup championship game illustrate the evolving landscape of women’s soccer and the challenge...
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WOW! Huge savings on Avalan for a month
If France is on your radar for 2016, Avalon has a sale that’s good until September 15. Avalon is saying you will save as much as $1,192 per person in Canadian pricing as a starting point. Here are the...
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Hollywood can’t compete with real-world inventiveness
Our world doesn’t look much like the ones envisioned in sci-fi flicks like Star Trek or Back to the Future, let alone the latest instalment of Star Wars. Kids aren’t buzzing around on flying...
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Avalon Felicity launched more than a river ship
River cruising was the furthest thing on my mind when I started writing about cruising. I had zero interest…for years. However, it finally dawned on me if I was going to cover cruising, rivers had to...
View ArticleJapan downs the Netherlands to advance to Women’s World Cup quarter-finals
By Joshua Clipperton VANCOUVER — Saori Ariyoshi and Mizuho Sakaguchi scored as Japan survived a late push to beat the Netherlands 2-1 on Tuesday and advance to the quarter-finals at the Women’s World...
View ArticleCanadian Ryder Hesjedal optimistic going into seventh Tour de France
TORONTO — Coming off a fifth-place finish at the Giro D’Italia, Canadian Ryder Hesjedal embarks on his seventh Tour de France campaign Saturday. And the 34-year-old from Victoria, one of three...
View ArticleChris Froome wins first high-mountain stage in style at Tour de France
LA PIERRE-SAINT-MARTIN, France — Chris Froome used the first high-mountain stage of this year’s Tour de France to take control of the race, powering up a punishing climb in the Pyrenees on Tuesday at a...
View ArticleExploring Holland, from KLM to Rembrandt and the Golden Age
It’s a country smaller than the province of Nova Scotia, with no domestic market whatsoever—although, long ago, their planes, re-purposed First World War bombers, once flew passengers from Amsterdam...
View ArticleFive reasons to visit Rotterdam
Surrounded by water and sitting less than an hour south of the nation’s top destination, Netherlands; second city, Rotterdam, is everything that Amsterdam isn’t—quirky, cool and filled with local...
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