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Nia: Unleash Your Happy Warrior

Nia combines yoga, martial arts and dance.

Nov 20, 2018

Keeping Pace with Mike Winter

Slowing down doesn’t have to mean giving up.

Nov 20, 2018

John Wheelwright

John Wheelwright, 89, paddled 300 kilometres on the Upper Horton River north of the Arctic Circle this past summer.

Nov 20, 2018

A Puzzling Conclusion: Winter 2018

Bonnie skips the garage sales, all over the hills on a cube and looking at numbers in two different ways.

Nov 20, 2018

Confessions of a Railfan

To the railways themselves, we are generally another set of eyes trackside, helping to keep things running smoothly.

Sep 19, 2018

Local Buys: Hike in Style

The line is called One Made Beaver, a reference to the beaver-pelt-backed currency the Hudson’s Bay Company devised to trade with Indigenous peoples.

Sep 18, 2018

Nordic Pole Walking

Walking with poles: the fashionable walking stick morphs into essential hiking gear.

Sep 18, 2018

A Puzzling Conclusion: Autumn 2018

A synonym / antonym adventure, Silas Renarm visits Creemore and a bad day on the farm.

Sep 18, 2018

E-Bikes: The Skeptic and the Fan

Are e-bikes cheating or are they the perfect solution for our hills? Two very different local cyclists take their e-bikes out for a spin, and weigh in on the experience.

Jun 19, 2018

Can an E-bike Help you Shave Minutes off your Time?

Manpower vs horsepower: How Don Coats, the owner of Caledon Hills Cycling in Inglewood, fared using an e-bike to race his faster employee, Sean Bechtel.

Jun 19, 2018

What About Guns?

Hunters, range shooters, collectors – they’re part of rural culture. But with gun violence making headlines, gun enthusiasts are mostly choosing to lie low, and some residents are wondering how safe our countryside really is. Anthony Jenkins decided to find out.

Jun 19, 2018

Swimming Buddies: Virginia Ridpath and Richie Castillo

A former Olympic swimmer and her Philippines-born caregiver swam together for less than a year – but the experience changed both their lives profoundly.

Jun 19, 2018