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TARA NOLAN Tara Nolan is a freelance journalist based in Dundas, Ontario. Her byline has appeared in CBC Life, the Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, The Guardian, CAA magazine and Canadian Cycling, among others. An avid mountain biker (and fan of alliteration), many of Tara’s travel adventures are on two wheels, but she’s also happy roaming around cities and hiking challenging trail networks. Tara is also a co-owner of the award-winning website Savvy Gardening, and her second book, Gardening Your Front Yard, will be published in March 2020 by Cool Springs Press.
SUZANNE MORPHET Suzanne Morphet writes exclusively about travel. She focuses on active outdoor adventures from climbing via ferrata in the Dolomites and staying in rustic Italian mountain huts, to snorkelling in the Seychelles with its luxury hotels. She launched her journalism career as a reporter with CBC Radio News and for the last decade has freelanced as a travel writer and photographer. She’s based in North Saanich, BC, where Prince Harry and Meghan Markle recently holidayed. Suzanne wrote about the rural municipality for The Globe and Mail, giving readers the scoop on how and where to vacation in Canada like the Royals.
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MIRIAM PORTER Miriam Porter is an award-winning Canadian journalist with thousands of published articles. She writes about travel, social justice issues, and veganism. Her articles have been published in The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, Eater, Travel + Leisure, Fodor’s Travel, Forbes, Today’s Parent Magazine, The Toronto Star, Sierra Magazine, and many more. She loves learning about cultures around the world from people that live there and meeting animals in the wild. She has lived in New York City and Los Angeles and currently resides in Toronto with her son and rescued furry friends. She speaks up for those that have no voice.
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DEBBIE OLSEN Debbie Olsen is the original wander woman. Her globetrotting adventures include such activities as cycling in Spain, sailing a yacht through the Whitsunday Islands in Australia, photographing polar bears in Manitoba, snorkelling with whale sharks in Mexico and chasing the Northern Lights in the Yukon. She has contributed to 10 Fodor’s guidebooks and is a Globe and Mail bestselling author. Her articles have been published by numerous outlets including BBC Travel, Canadian Geographic, TravelAge West and the Calgary Herald. Follow her adventures at wanderwoman.ca.
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