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Today’s generation of students face many complex challenges, from artificial intelligence and a global climate crisis to increasing mental health concerns. Young learners require adaptable, innovative curricula with tailored support to navigate a changing and unpredictable world. Mulgrave School in West Vancouver is designed to meet students where they are at and support them as they journey to where they want to be.

As a child, Tracy Medve would go flying with her father in a two-seat Cessna 150 airplane over the countryside near her home in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. “He was an insurance salesman, but all he loved was flying,” she recalls. After graduating from law school in 1981, Medve got a job she wasn’t too fond of in Regina. So, she called a friend of her father, Albert Ethier, who owned a small air service in Saskatoon at the time called Norcanair. Medve begged him for a job.

Planning for a laidback long weekend at a friend’s mid-century cabin on Mayne Island is a strange exercise in time management. There are great places to eat and shop and explore on this sleepy-yet-scenic Gulf Island, but thanks to what locals refer to as “island time,” you’ve got an extremely limited window in which to visit or you’re simply out of luck.

As affordability challenges continue to shape Metro Vancouver’s housing market, Gibsons is attracting buyers looking for a different pace of life. One property drawing interest is a newly built home overlooking Pasley Island and the Salish Sea, listed end of April for $1.8 million following a price reduction from $2,450,000 in September 2025 with a different brokerage.

Today, business leaders are more connected than ever. Yet many have never felt more alone in their roles. The pressure to constantly perform, the responsibility of guiding teams through change, the isolation that can come with success—this emotional weight of leadership doesn’t just impact presidents and CEOs. Few spaces in British Columbia are dedicated to key associates, second-in-command leaders, C-suite executives, vice presidents and directors.

Despite helming an international mega-grocer, CEO Tina Lee is all about homegrown family values. She’s both heiress and leader of the Richmond-born grocery chain T&T Supermarket, which was started by her parents, Cindy and Jack Lee, back in 1993.

The business world has long recognized the powerful parallels between competitive sports and executive leadership. At Glenlyon Norfolk School (GNS) in Victoria, B.C., Vancouver Island’s only International Baccalaureate (IB) Continuum school, university-focused golfers in grades 9 through 12 can now get world-class athletic training alongside rigorous, inquiry-based learning.

By the time I’m two ciders deep at a picnic table in an apple orchard that looks suspiciously like a Mumford and Sons music video, trying to keep blue cheese from sliding off my pizza while a bluegrass band covers Taylor Swift and a flock of sheep stares from next door, it hits me: this so-called “art crawl” on the Sunshine Coast has quietly turned into a full reset. Most people come here for the scenery.

When Stephanie Simmons was 16, the Institute for Quantum Computing changed the trajectory of her life. A newspaper article about the Ontario-based research hub introduced her to quantum technologies and their phenomenal potential. “From that point on, I focused my education and my career on learning all I could to figure out how to solve the challenges that stand in the way of creating these systems,” Simmons says.

“I think I just saw a whale!” exclaims my mom over the phone from her top-floor balcony. The funny thing is, we’re both staring at the same patch of ocean—from separate balconies and separate rooms at the same resort—but I’ve yet to see one, as much as I’ve been yearning to spot an orca leaping out of the water. Exterior view of Sooke Harbour House.