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The Big Box Effect

A new wave of soulless retail developments, often tied to condo projects, are erasing the character of our cities.

The Lost Art of Window Gazing

Some airlines are forcibly darkening airplane windows and cockpits on short-haul day flights, taking the magic out of flying.

Adventure, Features

Hyder & Stewart: A Tale of Two Border Towns

Welcome to Hyder, Alaska and Stewart, B.C., where Canada plays big brother to the USA in an unusual relationship.

Environment, Indigenous

Canada's Disappearing Giants

Over a century of commercial logging has placed primeval forests, and their thriving ecosystems, on the cusp of extinction.

Features, Indigenous, Travel

Quebec's Lost Coast

A journey by ship along Quebec's remote Lower North Shore reveals distinct cultures, wild landscapes, and a controversial broken...

The Big Box Effect

The Lost Art of Window Gazing

Adventure, Features

Hyder & Stewart: A Tale of Two Border Towns

Environment, Indigenous

Canada's Disappearing Giants

Features, Indigenous, Travel

Quebec's Lost Coast

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John Zada is an author and journalist who writes about travel, culture and the interplay between psychology, culture and politics. He is a former news journalist with CBC News and Al Jazeera and has worked in over two dozen countries. John has produced work for the Globe & Mail, Toronto Star, explore, BBC, Maisonneuve, Literary Review of Canada, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.

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The border crossing at Hyder Alaska, USA.

Adventure, Features

Hyder & Stewart: A Tale of Two Border Towns

September 4, 2018

Welcome to Hyder, Alaska and Stewart, B.C., where Canada plays big brother to the USA in an unusual relationship.

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Unalaska Islands, in the Aleutian Islands chain, Alaska

Indigenous, Travel

Unalaska: The US Island Once Ruled By Russia

July 25, 2018

Unalaska Island, in the Aleutian archipelago of Alaska, is home to the largest commercial fishing port in the United States and was part of a forgotten military campaign against Japan in World War Two.

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The Valais Swiss Wine Trail, on the edge of the southern Alps in Switzerland

The Swiss Wine Trail

January 11, 2018

Switzerland, famous for its watches and chocolate, is fast becoming known for its award-winning wine. A multi-day hiking trail in Valais takes you through Rhone Valley vineyards.

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On a boat travelling the Moose River to James Bay, Ontario

Adventure, Features, Indigenous

Moose Factory Tough

August 24, 2017

Though located at the same latitude as Calgary, Alberta, the town of Moose Factory, Ontario has the feel of any place in Canada’s far north.

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A giant old growth Sitka spruce on Vancouver Island

Environment, Indigenous

Canada’s Disappearing Giants

May 29, 2017

Over a century of commercial logging has placed primeval forests, and their thriving ecosystems, on the cusp of extinction.

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Idries Shah

Middle East, Reviews

A Beacon of Sanity in Our Age of Polarity

March 3, 2017

The nuanced and flexible thinking of Sufism, embodied in the work of Idries Shah, makes it an antidote to the fanaticism of our polarized times.

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