featuresBy Luke Bowles

While the rest of Canada is seeing temperatures near -15˚C and below, here on Vancouver Island we’re enjoying a turbulent winter featuring the Pineapple Express, rain, sunshine, and cozy fireplaces. Ontario gets snowfall warnings while we enjoy the first buds. Ottawa’s Rideau Canal is open for skaters while our first flowers are blooming. The West Coast may be a lot of things—green, wet, warm, windy, foggy—but one thing it is not is freezing cold and waist-deep in snow.

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