Canada Travel News 11/10/2010

· BootsnAll

  • My favourite travel gadget: Heys xScale

    My review for Travel Gear Blog of the Heys xScale hand-held luggage scale.

  • Top 10 Vancouver Shopping Destinations

    An excellent round-up from the Inside Vancouver blog

  • On the ground with Manitoba’s polar bears

    Great photos accompany this Vancouver Sun story.

  • Socialite network: Queen Elizabeth joins Facebook

    The Globe and Mail reports Canada's Queen now has a Facebook page.

  • Canadian Folk Music Awards

    Coming up in Winnipeg, MB, Nov. 20, the awards will be streamed online.

  • Roots Music Canada

    Like Roots Music? Canada has some too and this blog knows the scene.

  • Girl Meets Canada

    An entertaining series of essays (from Life as a Human) written by Sarah Gignac as she travels across Canada by van…

  • Cheapcouver

    A new site for people looking to do Vancouver (one of Canada's most expensive cities) on the cheap

  • Twofer-High Tea at The Fairmont Empress, Victoria, BC

    "Like" Fairmont Hotels's The Empress on Facebook and get two-for-one high tea Nov. 8-12

  • Canada ranked No. 1 country brand in the world

    Canada is now the most-respected country brand in the world, bumping the US out of top spot