Michael Gurney

Matthew Douglas, a teenage UBC political science student and graduate of Chatelech Secondary School, completed a solo bicycle crossing from Vancouver to Halifax just before the summer solstice. The trip took 46 days of peddling, including a few days’ rest in Montreal.

The Sunshine Coast's Jesse O’Leary and Gabriel Ditmars launched the Live Action Medieval Battle Society and are leading pint-sized military campaigns in Gibsons and Sechelt parks

The annual Davis Bay Sandcastle Competition attracted 29 teams and hundreds of spectators to the sandy shores of Mission Point on Sunday, July 16.

Animated series hopes to introduce beloved characters to new generation with 'humour and heart'

In an unassuming shed on the evergreen slopes above Roberts Creek, weaver and entrepreneur Pam Magee is doing more than producing heirloom fabrics on century-old looms. Magee is also pulling strings to patch Canada’s reputation among the world’s textile-producing nations.

Episodes of the long-running program are famously inaccessible. Although some overseas broadcasters still run the program in syndication, in Canada only a limited number of half-hour shows have been recently available on the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network. 

The Tetrahedron Outdoor Club has moved the Sunshine Coast’s biggest one-night cultural event to a new time of year, uniting skiers and cinephiles alike for the annual Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour. Doors open at Elphinstone Secondary at 5:45 p.m. on Feb. 3; films begin at 7 p.m. 

When Ohio-born objector to the Vietnam War Jon Van Arsdell landed in Garden Bay in 1970, he was greeted by a sign proclaiming "No Longhairs." Van Arsdell’s autobiography 'No Longhairs: The Odyssey of a Vietnam Draft Dodger' shows that countercultural expatriates were hard-working contributors to the interdependent idyll of the Sunshine Coast, writes Michael Gurney.

Gibsons citizens shine in a TV travelogue

A cedar weaver from the shíshálh Nation is restoring ceremonial regalia that was confiscated and destroyed in an attempt to sever ties to tradition.