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• 'The team is gone’
  Several former NHL players — including Pavol Demitra, Brad McCrimmon and Karel Rachunek — are reported among the dead after a Russian jet ...
• No timetable for Crosby’s return, concussion...
  PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh Penguins star Sidney Crosby will miss the NHL team’s training camp and his status for the 2011-12 season is unclear due ...
• Layton battling new form of cancer
  A frail-looking and raspy-voiced NDP leader Jack Layton announced Monday that his battle with cancer isn't over. The official Opposition ...
• A bar car with a view
  By the time the train pulls into the station at Revelstoke, B.C., it is nearly 4 p.m. and my companions and I are hungry. It's been five ...
• A savoury taste of London
  Let's be honest. Travel is really about food. We might dress it up with delusions of culture, that great quest for the obscure and the ...
• Sweet simplicity
  The word dances from the lips with the promise of flirtatious beauty.I’d heard about Sayulita for years, little whispers of a town not far from ...
• Test Your Travel Trivia Knowledge
  1. Which country made it easier for its citizens to visit Canada in 2010? A. Uzbekistan. B. China C. Sri Lanka • 2. Which natural occurring event ...
• Street life
  The line stretches well over 50 metres — half a block by Montreal measure. Parisians, not always the most patient, wait for up to 30 minutes for ...
• Oregon coast brings bikers back for more
  YAKIMA, Washington —We were eyeing the ominous black clouds on the horizon from a gas bar in Yakima, Wash., when a deputy sheriff sauntered over ...
• Esterel Suites, Spa & Lake reopens with a renewed glam
  It’s back to the glamour days, but this time the style is 2011.The reopening a few weeks ago of the rebuilt Esterel Suites, Spa & Lake, a ...
• Another urban legend bites the dust — you can walk...
  Eighties New Wave band Missing Persons had it all wrong. People do walk in L.A.Sure, the City of Angels is arguably one of the most car-friendly ...
• Aahhh-ll inclusives for families
  Sometimes it’s nice just to relax in a beautiful, exotic place where you don’t have to worry about anything. All inclusive vacations are gaining ...
• Blown away by the Windy City
  With frequent and affordable air connections and lots to keep a person busy, Chicago is a great city to spend a three-day weekend. Whether it’s ...
• Chateau Cartier gives itself a birthday gift
  The Chateau Cartier Hotel in Gatineau, just across the river from Ottawa, is marking its 20th anniversary in 2011, and to celebrate the ...
• Amanyara: Like cottage country, only warmer
  Nestled in a nature preserve, Amanyara sits on the west end of the island of Providenciales, Turks & Caicos, and is worlds away from the ...
• The Mystique Of The Matterhorn
  The iconic Swiss resort area of Zermatt is high on any down-hiller’s "best" list for its sweeping size and year-round skiing and riding. Add the ...
• Yukon’s northern charm beckons
  At the Air North check-in, it’s easy to spot "Cheechakos." The first-timers are all decked out in high-tech Patagonia duds, unscuffed hiking ...
• Convicts and wild things in W. Australia
  FREMANTLE, Australia — You don’t often get to tour a maximum-security prison that captures Australia’s convict history and still housed offenders ...
• Murder conviction sheds light on 'cult of Indian...
  By Richard FootPostmedia NewsHALIFAX - For 35 years, Denise Maloney has lived at the centre of one of the most sensational aboriginal ...
• Travel Talk
  Delayed? Time To Get Creative At The Airport: As any seasoned traveller knows, the second-most maddening word at an airport, right after ...
• Old donation scam given new spin by using Lower...
  TRURO – Allen and Violet Large were responsible for one of the most generous acts in the country this year, donating to family, friends, schools, ...
• Beauty in the heart of New York: the Brooklyn...
  Over the past few years, I have been lucky enough to visit quite a few of the world's great botanical gardens. Last year, I was in Padua and ...
• Havana: Five important ways travel can heal you
  So, I'm in Cuba watching a donkey drink a beer. The donkey, inexplicably, is wearing a tight little T-shirt. How did I get here? And does the ...
• Category 1 Hurricane Earl moves eastward as surfers...
  By Richard Foot Kelley’s Cove, N.S. — While hundreds of thousands took shelter as Hurricane Earl struck Nova Scotia on Saturday, Jason Murray and ...
• Zeeland:as different as chalk from cheese from the...
  By Peter WilsonZEELAND, Holland — “Bike or hike?’’That was the cheerful challenge offered by the hotel desk clerk on a bright, sunny morning as I ...
• A foodies’ guide to the Cowboy Trail
  By Liane FaulderThough it’s only 6:30 a.m., and my brain is still struggling to wake up, the yeasty smell of the kitchen and the big white mug of ...
• A Bounty of delights awaits in Tahiti
  By Shannon MelnykIt wasn’t until flying over Tahiti and her islands Moorea and Bora Bora — channels of multi-hued indigos staggering to the naked ...
• Adolescent adventure peaks at B.C. resort
  By Neville JuddHanging by threads, suspended nearly 20 metres up, between two Douglas Firs, my mind wanders to the Okiek tribes people of ...
• Conjuring up some fresh magic
  By Debbie OlsenWhen Walt Disney was asked how he dreamt up the idea for Disneyland, he had a simple reply: he thought there ought to be a place ...
• Steam train transports adventurous visitors back in...
  By Shirley CulpinEchoes of yesteryear are resonating through Vancouver Island’s Alberni Valley as the historic McLean Mill and the Alberni ...