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As the Vancouver Pride Parade celebrates its 38th year, the LGBTQ rights movement continues to evolve, with many battles still to be fought

This week I’ve rounded up my top five picks to step up your outdoor adventure style and easily transition from camping to glamping. Lotus Bud tent ; available at LotusBelle.com ($950USD).

Nightingale 1017 West Hastings | 604-695-9500 | HawkNightingale.com Open daily, 11am-midnight Vancouver has had a love-hate relationship with chef David Hawksworth’s eponymous restaurant since it opened over five years ago.

Kim Kardashian can suck it. Any fool knows that if you really want to master high-maintenance makeup, you need to take advice from a real queen – a drag queen.

What do the legendary Elton John, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Richard Ford and prominent wine critic Antonio Galloni all have in common? Well, for one thing, they were all wandering the streets of Barolo at the same time last week.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) Free your body. Don't ruminate and agonize about it. FREE YOUR BODY! Be brave and forceful. Do it simply and easily. Free your gorgeously imperfect, wildly intelligent body. Allow it to be itself in all of its glory.

Dan Small had finally discovered Kokanee. The avid homebrewer had stopped in Revelstoke overnight while moving to Vancouver from Toronto. At the bar, he saw a beer label he didn’t recognize.

We have control over very little in life, least of all the weather. Vancouver is well known for its unique month of Jun-uary and as much as we complain, it’s soon forgotten when fairer July rolls around. This year, we’re still waiting.

Canada is so incredibly vast, the best way to gain any sense of its size and scale is to travel across it overland. And taking the train is a great way to see it without the discomfort or worry of driving a car or riding a bus.

In days of yore, our hand luggage contained six paperbacks and a Walkman. But that was before the Kindle, the iPhone, and a missed connection that led to an unexpected night in the Holiday Inn, Ronkonkoma Long Island.