March came in like a lion. As COVID-19 claws its way through cities, more people find themselves in or on the edge of lockdown. For those who tire of the same old walls, dream of cancelled trips, or ache for a visual break from virtual work, several museums offer online

‘Huckleberries are one of my favourite summer treats,’ DL Acken writes in Cedar + Salt, the cookbook she created with fellow author Emily Lycopolus. Their focus? ‘Vancouver Island Recipes from Forest, Farm, Field, and Sea.’ Acken, a recipe developer who also took the gorgeous photos in this 2019 tome continues:

Blimey. The King and Queen are coming to … Rest easy, Carson. Downton has done its bit. It’s May, 1939 and King George VI and Queen Elizabeth I are coming to Vancouver. Their official duty? To open the Lions Gate Bridge. This landmark suspension bridge has been a long time

‘”Making art is a way of taking possession,” says talented Vancouver artist Jamie Evrard, “a way of finding out how things really are, or perhaps of making them as I would like them to be. If a few days go by without my having drawn or painted, I become completely