Cycling is becoming as much a symbol of Montreal as smoked meat sandwiches and poutine. Cycling as a mode of transportation and recreational activity has grown by leaps and bounds in the past 30 years – and it’s a good…

I thought I was becoming obsessed with Mount Everest while reading my fifth book on the world’s highest mountain. The book in question is Into the Silence by Wade Davis and I found it difficult to put down until I…

A construction company bulldozed a Mayan pyramid in Belize as a source of rock for a new road. Check out the story here: http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Mayan+pyramid+bulldozed+Belize+construction+company/8378308/story.html

There will be lobsters, mollusks, shrimp and fish – and more fish. It may be the feed of a lifetime as my friends and I head out on an eight-day cycling trip along the St. Lawrence River on June 10.…