Life

‘What would the community look like? What would change if volunteers withdrew their services?” asked Linda Graff, an internationally…

In May 1981, a new engineering consulting firm from Edmonton set up shop in Whitehorse with one engineer and a technologist.

MARSH LAKEMickey Lammers opens a VIA Rail brochure and traces the route of a recent trip she took from Vancouver to Toronto.

Using only a thin, twisted, piece of plastic wire, Urs Schirmer reads the ground like a psychic.The slight, Swiss baker gives his fingers a shake,…

While Mission: Impossible III is playing in local theatres, the real-life version is playing out on city streets.

HAINES JUNCTIONEllie Parmentier is a self-acclaimed mystery man and cowboy without a ranch.But he considers his spacious cabin and one-acre…

By Leighann ChalykoffNews ReporterKaren LaPrairie meets people in the last few days of their lives.

It was a parking lot, but it resembled a wrecking yard.And, on the street lay more shattered hulks, many burned to the shell.

It was a vacation to a sun-drenched, exotic location — complete with long beaches, thick rainforest and lava-spewing volcanoes.

There are about 150 million square kilometres of space on the Earth.Scientists estimate there are between 30 and 50 million animal species and 6.