MONTECRISTO

B.C. Professional Fire Fighters Association President Gord Ditchburn

“As a captain, I won’t send a firefighter into a burning building if I know there’s no one inside. We all need to go home at the end of the day.”

Sarah Wayne Callies

When it comes to the characters she plays on television, Sarah Wayne Callies doesn’t care about being liked. In fact, she would rather not be.

Karla Welch

One of Hollywood’s top celebrity stylists was raised in the unassuming town of Powell River, B.C.

Ruby’s Ukes

It may very well be the world’s biggest ukulele school outside of Hawaii—and it’s in Vancouver.

La Grotta del Formaggio

The story behind a Commercial Drive institution.

Notte’s Bon Ton

It shirks modernity, instead continuing to make pastries the same way they have been done since the bakery’s founding in 1926.

Craigsbest

Two Vancouver guys are sifting through the furniture on Craigslist so that you don’t have to.

Lisa Tant

The fashion and publishing influencer comes home.

Brian Wong

Sitting criss-cross applesauce in a studio in Vancouver’s Railtown neighbourhood, Wong, founder of mobile advertising platform Kiip, isn’t afraid to act his age.

Carola Bestetti of Living Divani

“For me, to know if a chair or a sofa is good, you can’t just look at it—you must sit on it.”