Winter in Vancouver.
Blink and you miss it, they say.
Well, that's not the case this year. We've had four glorious days of winter, and even though it's drawing to a close, that's still four more than Canada's more temperate cities — say, Montreal or Ottawa — have had this year.
When it snows in Vancouver, the entire city comes to a halt. (Don't get excited. A sunny day and an ocean breeze bring Vancouver to a halt. For a town that's hooked on lattes, we're pretty damn relaxed about pace.) And that's just the human dimension.
For a young dog who's never really experienced snow before, it's a pretty transformative experience...
Sisko awoke
to a world he'd never seen before... where the entire surface of the planet, it seemed, had just become diggable...
At first,
he seemed lost in the vast Arctic expanse of McBride Park, unsure of himself, wondering, "Can it be that I am so insignificant against this vast white canvas?"
But he adapted.
Got to keep
your energy up when you're in Canada's windswept snowy wastelands.
It allows you
to perform the superhuman (ahem, sorry, supercanine) feats required of an Arctic adventurer.
Strange creatures
inhabit the Kitsilano tundra. Meet Squid.
Rule #1:
stay warm by sharing body heat.
Scientists have
puzzled for years over the origins of Kitsilano's mysterious Yellow-Flanked Snowman. Allow us to clear this all up.