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Support East Van’s Small Businesses During Dine Strathcona
‘By-the-Community, For-the-Community’ Initiative Helps Diners Show Support for Strathcona Small Businesses While Raising Funds for WISH Drop-In Centre.
Drive-thru, Contactless Grocery Shopping Comes to Vancouver
With G3 by Fed, Vancouverites can now go grocery shopping right from the comfort of their vehicles.
Heartbreaker Salon
Want to trade frizzy, unruly hair for a straight and sleek mane? We stopped at Vancouver’s Heartbreaker Salon for an affordable hair straightening treatment that won’t ruin your hair.
Jackson’s General Store
Set in the up-and-coming Cedar Cottage neighbourhood of East Van, Jackson’s General Store offers an array of sustainable, local, high quality lifestyle brands from British Columbia and across Canada.
Matchstick Fraser
At Matchstick, coffee lovers can get a shot of single-origin coffee roasted on site and served with tender loving care by friendly, tattooed baristas.
Travel
A collection of ideas and explorations closer to home
Tips For Safe Travel This Summer
Do Your Research
Take extra time to research and plan your trip in advance, and make sure you have a Plan B if your activity is at capacity. Many businesses and services in BC have adopted new protocols, and changes to their schedules or policies to ensure your safety. You’ll want to become familiar with them ahead of time.
Take Your Time
Consider a slower travel pace this summer to help curb the spread. Instead of checking in and out of multiple destinations during one trip, choose one destination and one accommodation for your entire trip, and use that as a ‘home-base’ for exploring all the destinations nearby.
Be Respectful
While many communities in BC will be welcoming people back this summer, some, such as many of BC’s Indigenous communities, can’t welcome you just yet. Please be respectful of these communities and know that they’ll welcome you when they are ready.
Pack Essentials
If you’re heading to a more rural area of the province, stock up with the essentials before you leave home (i.e. groceries). This helps lessen your impact on BC communities who may be experiencing supply issues, and reduces your touchpoints within communities who may have limited health care facilities.
Travel In Small Groups
If you normally travel with extended family or with several friends, consider travelling in a smaller group this summer. Travelling with fewer people makes it easier for you to practise physical distancing in public, and may have less of an impact on the destination.
Stay Apart
Practice physical distancing and frequent hand washing to help prevent the spread of Covid. Follow the recommendations from BC Centre for Disease Control to learn about preventative activities, and talk to the tourism businesses you are visiting about the steps they are taking to keep you and their staff safe.
Homebody
Staying home? We got you with this collection of things to do—from fitness to entertainment and DIY ideas and ways to kill the time, all from the comfort of home.