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Come along for the ride as this expert skier goes off-trail and carves some tracks in fresh powder at Whistler, Canada’s premier ski and snowboard destination.

Have you ever wondered what it takes to barrel down Red Bull’s Crashed Ice course in front of 70,000 cheering spectators? This puts you right in the middle of all the action, as these extreme skaters jostle to win the ice-cross downhill world championship held in Edmonton.

Watch as this teacher from Toronto’s Regent Park School of Music leads his students through the classic jam “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.” This is what it’s like to play as a pint-sized musician in a steel pan orchestra.

Pond hockey is a rite of passage for many Canadians. If you’ve always wanted to experience the winter pastime and see what it takes to create an outdoor rink, now’s your chance. Game on!

Have you ever wanted to take on a chess champion? The match might be over faster than you hoped. This is what it’s like to lose—badly—to Canadian grandmaster Eric Hansen.

Home to the highest tides in the world and some of Canada’s most stunning natural landmarks, the Bay of Fundy in New Brunswick is a must for those who love the great outdoors. Join these adventurers as they kayak through the national park.

It’s lunchtime for these endangered African penguins that currently reside at a special exhibit at the Toronto Zoo. This is your VIP pass to go feed fish to the zoo’s black-footed penguins.

From icy snow banks to grassy fields, this dashcam montage shows you what it’s like to drive along the same stretch of road in Charlottetown in both spring and winter.

It takes a serious adrenaline junkie to attempt something this wild. Meet Will Gadd, one of the world’s best ice climbers, who took on the dangerous challenge of scaling Niagara Falls in the winter. Yes, he climbed up the 51-m frozen falls.

Get pumped up for Canada’s epic Mud Hero obstacle race, one of the messiest athletic events you can do to raise money for cancer charities. This is what it feels like to run over six kilometres through gruelling obstacles and, of course, mud.