On a trip that took me to Africa, I found my grandfather’s lasting legacy—the continent’s signature scent—in a market in Sudan. This story “The Bint Formula” was published in the December 2009 issue of Reader’s Digest Canada magazine. For more information about Bint el Sudan, see the following: * Surprise in the Souk * Memories of Bint el...

“I’m one of those people who embellishes everything,” Vancouver Poet Laureate George McWhirter told the first-ever festival for the written arts on Bowen Island this weekend. “I can’t leave anything alone,” he said, before launching into a series of poems on opening night at Cates Hill...