Old Gems shared in New Ways: Since I grew up in India, I realize I view life with a traditional lens when it comes to food and relationships (the collective) but also a cosmopolitan lens since I am discovering new...

Valemount Elementary school teacher Susan Prue (who has since retired) had a new tool to work with her class a few years ago after an experiment with her grade 5/6 class last year. Sue Prue had been handing out multiplication quizzes...

If you’re craving chocolate, there’s probably more than just the particular taste that your body desires. An absence of essential vitamins and minerals in our diet often attracts us to unhealthy foods. Let’s take the craving for oily snacks or...

Is this really a tomato? Symmetrical, red, big and firm! This was one of the first discoveries I made when I first came to Canada from India in 1993. The first set of pictures I sent home was in the...

I am a small business owner in Valemount and will have owned my retail store for 10 years in October 2015. I find that living locally I am able to have my finger on the pulse, be flexible and innovative...

I adopted circle dance as my spiritual practice in 2009 while going through some personal challenges as it was the quickest way to connect to my divine self. Turn on the music and I was transported to another dimension where...

I feel relieved after the Valemount Glacier Destinations resort’s presentation of its Master Plan for a few reasons: By involving the Simpcw First Nations from the beginning, the developers want to get this right. The Developers have the money to...

After growing up in India’s commercial capital – Mumbai, Jamshedpur took me by surprise. The minute I stepped off the train at Tatanagar in February 2015, I knew I was in another world. The station was immaculate with sweepers cleaning...

Preamble The story I still find myself trying to run away from is the need to fit in. I remember an incident when I was a teenager shopping for shoes in Mumbai, India, on a street famous for footwear vendors....