Our stomachs are rumbling after a strenuous trek to the 806-metre summit of Gros Morne, the highest peak in the national park along Newfoundland's stunning west coast.

In defiance of the housing crisis that has sent the U.S. economy deeper into its slump, a massive new $2.1 billion (U.S.) real estate project bankrolled by a Washington firm is rising from the sloping east bank of the Potomac River near Washington, D.C.

John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono and his admirers are so protective of his legacy they don't want any of his original drawings photographed in full.

New Brunswick's business and political elite loosened their ties and traded power suits for straw hats and breezy summer attire July 27 at a lavish garden party hosted by Jacqueline Robichaud, widow of the late New Brunswick premier Louis Robichaud, at her home overlooking the Baie de Bouctouche.

WHAT: Germ-Free Pak by Flight 001. This little kit will be your best friend and saving grace on a packed or long-haul flight.

Maybe it was that neighbours didn't exactly roll out the welcome wagon when she began filming her new reality TV show at home, or maybe it's that, as she says, she wants to be closer to her kids' school.

If you're like us, by the time August rolls around even your go-to sundress seems a bit tired.

Ray Fraser published his first poetry (For the Miramichi) in 1966 when he was about 25. In the last 42 years, he's gone on to publish poetry, novels, novellas, biographies, essays and to edit magazines. He started young but it wasn't a whim of his youth.

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At Badaling, the Great Wall rides the ridgelines like a dragon, its grey brick scales glinting and its crenelated spine writhing. Built at a strategic pass in the mountains north of Beijing, it crosses stout gates, plunges into narrow defiles, climbs back up to the heights and seems to go on forever.