After spending a month visiting family and friends in Australia, I decided to stop in Singapore for a few days with my Mum before heading back to Canada. I was excited at the prospect of not staying in backpacker hostels and the inviting smell of air pollution, humidity, spicy street food, incense and all manner of things mixed together that seems to define the vast Asian continent. As soon as you walk out the airport doors, it hits you and that feeling of famili...

There's no lack of dining options in the tourist driven towns of Canmore, Banff and Lake Louise in Banff National Park, Canada. Visitors can feast on just about anything you can think of - from traditional Korean to Canadian game and vegan fusion. But this only makes finding the real gems all the more difficult. The Tavern, Banff Excellent pizza with some creative combinations. My favourite is the Godfather - caramelized onions, prosciutto, tomato sauce base, k...

Geographically and topographically there's not a whole lot in common between the two nations, but historically and demographically it would appear at first that many similarities can be seen. Take the British colonialisation of apparently empty lands, poor treatment of indiginous communities and the sheer vastness of the land in comparison to its populations, for example. It seems both Canada and Australia had similar circumstances surrounding their births, but...