Go on, make your jokes. But the giant Nanaimo bar is no trifle. It’s a 500-kilogram sign of things to come. Big things are being cooked up in Western Canada — from Nanaimo to Alberta, the knives are ...

Amanda Follett Hosgood is The Tyee’s northern B.C. reporter. She lives on Wet’suwet’en territory. Find her on Bluesky ...