Stanley Park

“The Blob” is indescribable, indestructible and nothing can stop it—at least in the movies. But in Vancouver’s Lost Lagoon, where a blob-like creature was recently uncovered, the best descriptions thus far from Celina Starnes of the Stanley Park Ecology Society is that it’s like a deflated basketball or week-old Jell-O. It’s gooey, yet firm, and also…

The ongoing onomastic revolution in British Columbia reached a new high-water mark this week when a Squamish elder proposed attaching the old Squamish name “X̱wáýx̱way” to Stanley Park, and B.C. officials practically drowned him out praising the idea:

No matter what you look at—efficiency, facilities, livability—Vancouver beats Toronto