Skip to content
Join our Newsletter

This is what's awesome in Canada this week!

The Canada Is Awesome network has websites and social media extensions in Vancouver , Squamish , Calgary and Toronto , with many more on the horizon.

The Canada Is Awesome network has websites and social media extensions in Vancouver, Squamish, Calgary and Toronto, with many more on the horizon. Our goal is simple: we let people know about all of the awesome things that make their Canadian cities great, despite the bad. I'm the founder of this network and each week in this What's Awesome post I bring you the top stories from each of our properties, giving you access to the best of our content all in one place.

CALGARY

YYC Pizza Week Comes to Calgary’s Pizza Fans

YYC Pizza Week has come to Calgary, running from Friday, Sept the 26th until Sunday, Oct the 5th. The sister festival to the highly successful YYC Burger Week in May, Pizza restaurants all over Calgary were invited to a battle of imagination, taste and style in the form of the humble Pizza. Competing in 3 categories, the classic thin crust, ever popular thick/american style crust and the very UNUSUAL category where virtually anything goes.

SQUAMISH

Vancouver Biennale Announces Bikennale/Walkennale Art Tours in Squamish, Vancouver and North Vancouver

Grab a friend and get ready to walk or hop on your bikes this weekend for a free semi-guided tour of the Vancouver Biennale public art installations in Vancouver, North Vancouver and Squamish. The tours, which are accessible online, include photos, videos, artist bios and audio. Docents will also be stationed at the installations to provide additional information pertaining to each piece.

TORONTO

Super Neighbours: Abandoned POW Camp in Bowmanville +

My homies at Toronto is Awesome asked me if I wanted to go on a photographic adventure that would be taking me all around the city and beyond. Having only been in Toronto for 6 months, I jumped at the opportunity to do some more exploring.

VANCOUVER

Our guide to 7 Vancouver restaurants to try this fall

When the temperatures start to drop and the rain returns to Vancouver, you might want to turn to these 7 restaurants for a warming meal and a cozy atmosphere. Scroll through the slideshow to check them out.

calgary sept 26 icon
squamish sept 26 icon
toronto sept 26 icon
vancouver sept 26 icon

Be sure to check back every week to see what's going on with Canada Is Awesome