Why We Travel

Kaitlin Ellen Bardswich imagines a world where she doesn’t have to mask being queer while travelling abroad.
Three intrepid travellers share their best tips for losing the jitters and seizing the opportunities.
Cathy Hue works crazy hours, lives in a little wooden shed and spends three out of four weeks in the bush. She wouldn't trade it for anything.
The start of menarche signals the exciting transition to womanhood. But for girls in Central Africa, it can also mark a new period of isolation and fear.
An organization founded in love, the 5 Gyres is researching the world's plastic problem. 
Vancouver’s Sol Guy is mixing music, celebrity and social activism to spark real change in the entertainment and non-profit worlds.
Why young people need to experience the world firsthand.
An award-winning documentary draws attention to a Canadian company's role in Ecuador's oil mess.
War reporting for the plugged-in generation.  It’s fast, mobile and to the point. It’s also deadly serious.
Robert Young Pelton has found his way into, and out of, more conflict zones than most can name. 
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