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A dramatic rock slide on the Stawamus Chief Mountain shook Squamish, B.C. on Sunday. Kirsten Andrews watched the slide unfold from her home a few kilometres away and posted a video to Facebook . "Never heard anything like this before," she wrote. "A huge chunk of The Chief just came down in front of our place. That was completely terrifying if I'm honest." RCMP estimated a slab about 1,000 cubic metres in size fell off the granite monolith about 60 kilometres north of Vancouver around noon. Never heard anything like this before. A huge chunk of The Chief just came down in front of our place. That was... Posted by Kirsten Andrews on Sunday, April 19, 2015 The Chief is a popular hiking and rock-climbing site. The slide occurred in the North Walls area of the north peak near a climbing route. "This particular area is really only for highly skilled rock climbers , not your more tourist-orientated climbs," Mayor Patricia Heintzman told CBC News. A prelim...

These videos will break the silence and send shivers down your back. An ad campaign by Mexican non-profit organization Dif Zapopan — which promotes social and human development — lays bare the problem of child abuse in a recently released series of powerful videos. DIF ZAPOPAN - HARD TO SEE - UNCLE from Publicis México on Vimeo . The videos unravel the disturbing truth of family-related sexual abuse, that often goes unreported. The people in the videos are left faceless, in fact invisible, showing the underlying fact that it could anybody. The terrified silhouettes of the child trying to move away from the larger ones fade as image turns to message. DIF ZAPOPAN - HARD TO SEE - GRANDPA from Publicis México on Vimeo . Although Dif Zapopan is headquartered in Mexico, the message is not a far cry from issues here in Canada, with one in three Canadian adults reporting that they had suffered from childhood abuse , according to a 2014 study. The Canadian government’s most recent report...

For anyone who lives in the beautiful city of Toronto, we often do feel like we're in the centre of the universe. We have a great urban landscape, blocks and blocks of diverse neighbourhoods, and you can say our restaurant scene is pretty up to par with the rest of the culinary world. So when we get a chance to listen to a song about Toronto from the people of Toronto, we can't help but show off our city pride. Lilly Singh, now know worldwide as YouTuber and comedian (and of course, from Toronto) iiSuperwomanii, teamed up with fellow Canadian Humble The Poet to release their second track (if you remember, we got a taste of #Leh last year ), called "#IVIVI." And of course, if you're a native of the 6ix, you know IVIVI stands for 416 (our most popular area code). And the 6ix, well the 6ix is a nickname given by native Torontonian Drake, who needs no further introduction. The 4:29 music video, which was released on April 16 (416, get it?), features an array of shout-...

Wow!! Burning Ship at the Squamish Terminals. Posted by Christina Forsyth on Thursday, April 16, 2015 A huge fire at the Squamish docks sent huge plumes of thick smoke over the district on Thursday night. The blaze appears to have started near the Star Atlantic ship , carrying timber, Mayor Patricia Heintzman told CTV News. “There was a significant amount of billowing and dark-looking smoke coming off the ship at the terminal," she said in a CKNW interview. “It’s pretty smelly, pretty toxic smelling . There was a number of people down there and the RCMP has asked us to move away because not knowing the air quality issues which might arise from this.” She urged people to stay inside to avoid the smoke , reported Global News. Vancouver Fire Rescue tweeted that its fire boat was on its way to Squamish, which is about 60 kilometres north of Vancouver. Squamish Terminals fire. Pilings on fire. #Squamish http://ift.tt/1J9pQGz — Krystal H (@ProphecyGirl369) April 17, 2015 VFRS Fire...

I remember in 2010, before I knew my future lay in Canada, I was in Scotland enjoying my Canadian friend's pride over hosting the Winter Olympics. One detail that twigged my attention at the time was the fact that snow was being trucked to the slopes surrounding Vancouver, because it was unusually warm that winter and they desperately needed it for the alpine events. When I asked whether or not trucking in snow was commonplace in Canada, I got a clear and uncompromising response: no, this was freakish, an uncommon practice born out of bad natural luck. In 2015, as a resident of North Vancouver, I climbed the very same slopes that hosted those Olympic Games. I marvelled at the beauty, the clean air, and the warmth. I was deeply at peace, except for one unavoidable reality -- it was mid-February, temperatures were in the high teens and the slopes were as bare as could be expected in high summer. The limited snowfall of 2010 has been bested by this year's total failure to deliver ...