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With avalanches, no one is immune to danger

Alas, this winter’s snowpack still has not reached Mt. Washington’s mythical five-metre base (last seen in 2012). Still, a 106 cm base is better than last January’s paltry 30. A…

Personal Paradise: Point Holmes

This is the beach at Point Holmes in the Comox Valley where families have put up memorial benches for their loved ones to look out on the shores of the…

For Wiggins, the best is yet to come

Andrew Wiggins burst onto the NBA radar while still in high school. Christened “Maple Jordan” and “The Next LeBron,” and proclaimed to be the undisputed number-one pick two years before…

Toronto FC breaking the bank. Again.

Toronto FC are on another spending spree. After three high-profile signings failed to bring the team its first-ever playoff appearance in 2014, the perennial basement-dwellers of Major League Soccer (MLS)…

The most exciting team you haven’t been watching

Alright, I’ll admit it. I am a major Florida Panthers fan, and apparently I’m not the only one getting jazzed about a hockey club located 5561 kilometres away. Over the…

Royals mid-season review

Plenty of transactions highlight a busy start to 2014-15 campaign

Vikes rebound for weekend split

It was a frantic and nervous weekend for Vikes basketball fans who saw their UVic men’s team go 1-1 with the Winnipeg Wesmen in two hotly-contested games. After losing the…

Stargazing 101

Capturing ancient light on sleepless nights

Two-time offseason champs

Blue Jays enter season with big expectations...again.