Travel Guides & City Tips
Toronto isn’t usually the first city that comes to mind when you think about beach destinations, which makes it all the more surprising when you actually visit the waterfront on a July afternoon. The city has 14 supervised beaches along Lake Ontario, most of them sandy, most of them easily reached by transit, and several […]
One of Toronto’s less-celebrated advantages is its geography. Within a three-hour drive, you can reach a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, one of the seven natural wonders of the world, a wine region that produces genuinely world-class Pinot Noir, ski hills, and some of the quietest, most beautiful lake country in Ontario. Here are the best day […]
Vancouver is the kind of city that makes you stop mid-sentence. You’re talking about something entirely unrelated and then you look up, and there are mountains — actual snow-capped mountains — rising directly behind the downtown skyline, with the Pacific Ocean sitting in front of it all. It’s genuinely one of the most physically striking […]
Whitehorse doesn’t make most people’s Canada travel shortlist. It probably should. The capital of the Yukon sits in the heart of one of the most dramatic, least-visited landscapes in North America — boreal forest, mountain ranges, the Yukon River, and skies that, for a few months each year, put on one of the most spectacular […]
There’s a moment that happens to almost everyone on their first drive into Banff. You’ve been on the Trans-Canada Highway for a while, the land has been opening up around you, and then the Rocky Mountains appear — not gradually, not subtly, but all at once, filling your entire windshield with something that doesn’t quite […]
There’s a small park tucked behind Mississauga’s Civic Centre that most people drive past without ever knowing it’s there. No big signage, no parking lot crowds, nothing that announces itself the way Square One does just a few minutes away. And yet Kariya Park might be the single most photographed, most quietly beloved green space […]
Mississauga doesn’t get the spotlight that Toronto does — and honestly, that’s part of what makes it great. As Canada’s sixth-largest city and the backyard of the Greater Toronto Area, Mississauga has quietly built one of the most diverse, walkable, and genuinely livable urban landscapes in the country. Waterfront trails, world-class shopping, food from nearly […]
Toronto is one of the most neighbourhood-defined cities in Canada. Unlike cities where the downtown core is everything, Toronto is really a collection of distinct districts — each with its own character, food scene, and feel. Knowing which neighbourhoods to spend time in, and what you’re actually looking for in each, makes the difference between […]
Toronto’s restaurant scene has gone from “underrated” to “genuinely world-class” in the span of a decade. With over 9,000 restaurants in the city — one of the highest concentrations per capita in North America — the challenge isn’t finding somewhere good to eat. It’s knowing where to actually go. Here’s a guide organized by neighbourhood […]
Oakville sits quietly between Mississauga and Burlington along the Lake Ontario shoreline, and most people drive past it on the QEW without realizing what’s behind the highway exits. That’s largely fine with Oakville — it’s one of those places that thrives on being slightly underappreciated, which means uncrowded harbours, well-maintained waterfront trails, and a downtown […]