FestivalSeeker Stories

March 16 is a big day in this northern Alberta city with two major events taking place – the Race of Vermilion and the Beckie Scott Loppet.

Fort McMurray, AB – No play on words here or mistyped font either. Winter in the Reginal Municipality of Wood Buffalo is all about PLAY.

Is a slightly off-the-beaten-path destination the best place to hold a film festival?

“This area is about boats, entirely about boats,” said Mark Brezer of SloCat Tours after he picked my mother and I up from John Henry’s Resort & Marina.

Halfmoon Bay, B.C. – Located just up the road from Sechelt on B.C.’s Sunshine Coast, Halfmoon Bay celebrates the “forbidden fruit” all through October, with everything coming together on Oct.

Lethbridge, AB – With autumn lingering on the horizon, Whoop-Up Days in Lethbridge is the perfect way to end the summer.

Williams Lake was once a patchwork of ranches until the railway came through in 1919.

All around me there’s medieval mayhem and much merriment. Standing at the tournament ring, fighters head to toe in steel armour try to knock each other down to the ground.

"Take a look at you. Lord have mercy!” Gordie Johnson exclaimed as he took the stage at Sun Peaks Resort on Canada Day weekend. “Canada, I know you can handle it."

Tis the season to test your limits in the great outdoors. Throughout Alberta and B.C.

Texada is one of Canada’s largest islands. Ever heard of it? If not, you should because it rocks.

Chances are if you pop into a cafe, boutique, or gift shop in the Cariboo, you’ll see Pharis and Jason Romero’s latest album.

The first day of summer is rapidly approaching and with it comes festival season and all the delicious food and drink they have to offer.

Unzip your tent, take a stretch in the sweet forest air, walk down the lawn past the old steam engine, past the historic sawmill, hear the buzz of guitar amps receivin

“We had the first bathtub in town,” Barb Dodge said from behind her laptop. I did a double-take and looked at my surroundings. I was in an office at the RBC Building on St. Laurent Ave.