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Windmills, Wildflowers, and Diamonds: Exploring Europe by River Cruise Aboard The Debussy

Once you step aboard Riverside Luxury Cruises ‘The Debussy,’ the ship handles the logistics. What follows is what happens when it does — three excursions drawn from a single itinerary that illustrate, without much argument required, why river cruising through Europe has become the preferred mode of travel for those who would rather spend their...

The Debussy: Journey Through the Netherlands on Riverside Luxury Cruises’ Latest Launch

Riverside Luxury Cruises’ newest and most refined vessel The Debussy delivers an award-winning standard of care across eight days on the waterways of the Netherlands and Belgium, where every port arrival is effortless, every departure is handled, and the only decision that genuinely requires your attention is how you intend to spend the afternoon. THE...

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The Morning CHANEL Came to Oakridge

Were you there when it arrived? When Oakridge Park opened its doors to the public last May, CHANEL was not yet among them. Pristine cladding concealed the facade entirely — no glimpse inside, no preview of what was coming. The wait made this moment all the more pronounced. Now the doors are open, and I...

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Paradise Events Presents: Winnie & Khairul: Where Two Worlds Become One

Winnie and Khairul’s introduction came the way some of the best ones do — long after they had already crossed paths, through friends, in its own unhurried time. By the evening they stood together in the Sapphire Ballroom of the Fairmont Pacific Rim — surrounded by nearly 200 guests who had travelled from China, Canada,...

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Amélie Thuy Nguyen: Sauces, Soul, and Something Much Bigger

She will tell you it started with a phone call. But really, it started long before that — in a family kitchen, watching her mother move through a restaurant with the kind of grace that only comes from loving what you do and meaning every bit of it. Amélie Thuy Nguyen has been absorbing that...

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How Aidan Faminoff Turned Seventeen Years of Competitive Diving into Vancouver’s Premier Drag Night

Before Hazel and the sequins, the stunts, and the sold-out rooms, there was a diving board. For seventeen years, Aidan Faminoff trained as a competitive diver, representing Team Canada at the national level and earning an athletic scholarship to Florida State University, where he completed a degree in Sports Management. That kind of career demands...

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The Rise of Sabyasachi Mukherjee: Holt Renfrew Extends an Invitation

The story of Sabyasachi Mukherjee is one of radical conviction. Born into a middle-class Bengali family in Kolkata, he initially set his sights on medicine — until the National Institute of Fashion Technology redirected the course of his life entirely. He graduated in 1999 with three major distinctions, rejected every job offer extended to him,...

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Future Geographies: The Only Question that Matters

What does it feel like to stand at the edge of ecological collapse — and still choose to imagine something worth saving? That is the provocation at the heart of Future Geographies: Art in the Century of Climate Change, opening this month at the Vancouver Art Gallery. It is not a comfortable question. It is,...

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Karen Lam: The Road That Keeps Opening

Fate, free will, and the things that chase you down a dark road — for most people, those are abstract concepts. For Karen Lam, they are a filmography. The Vancouver-based writer, director, and co-founder of Black Opiate Entertainment did not arrive at filmmaking by the obvious route. She came through law, tax credits, a Manitoba...

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Aphist Sid: The Shape of What Remains @ Gallery Merrick

It is not the most obvious pairing — a Bangkok-born conceptual painter and a gallery on the southern tip of Vancouver Island. Yet the representation of Aphist Sid by Gallery Merrick in Victoria, British Columbia feels less like an accident of geography than a curatorial statement of intent. Sid has been earning serious attention for...