British Columbia

It was a great weekend for beer lovers in the mountain town of Squamish. On Saturday, July 11, IT hosted the first annual Squamish Beer Festival, and it was a deliciously sudsy success. 

It’s easy to feel connected to nature when you’re standing amid lush, green hillsides covered in blooming alpine wildflowers in a rainbow of colours.

It is rare to find a concert venue that also boasts mountains, bike paths, hiking or picnicking among alpine flowers, fine and casual dining, shopping and golf all in one. 

The wild West Coast of Vancouver Island has plenty of traditions that run as deep as the ocean: think a stickered up VW bus, loaded up with surf boards and Jack Johnson tunes going as the surf repo

'A party on the coast for the coast' is how the Otalith Festival is described by one local organizer.

When I asked Shara where we should meet for our interview, she said, “Why not at my house?

It’s not all about downward dog and chanting at Wanderlust Festival Whistler, held over five days beginning July 30.

For the past 25 years, attendees of Vancouver’s Honda Celebration of Light have been wowed with some of the best pyrotechnic shows the world has ever seen.

The 5th annual Wapiti Music Festival takes place in Fernie, BC, Aug. 7-8, 2015, featuring fresh Canadian indie music.

This year, festival-goers will be treated to Lady Antebellum, Big & Rich and Dierks Bentley, just several of more than 20 bands on three stages.

Heading to the provinces’ wilderness side, I’ll be packing my canoe and hiking gear because ArtsWells is a festival located smack dab in the centre of all things outdoors.

If you can roll a ceramic ball on a strip of lawn that looks like a bowling alley, you can learn to play bocce in a matter of minutes — perhaps not well, but enough to have some fun.