originally published September 21, 2014 Newcomers to the city of Edmonton inevitably have questions regarding our perpetual rivals to the south, or what has come to be known as the Battle of Alberta. They don’t ask me – I purposely sport a fanny-pack and 20 pounds of camera gear when I wander about the city […]

originally published September 9, 2014 Allow us a moment to reflect upon our broken culture and praise the glorious days of yore – the days of righteous morality, of a productive and contributory collective ethos, and of… duelling. Stupid friggin’ duelling. Of all the ridiculous traditions that we hauled on our societal backs from the […]

originally published August 14, 2014 When I rolled this project over and booted it out of bed more than two and a half years ago, I had to decide where to place that bar of ethics beneath which my words would never limbo. I have never sold out to become a corporate shill (yes, my […]

originally published July 17, 2014 If I was asked, “Where in the world would you least like to live?”, I might reply with an active war zone, or one of those places along the infamous Axis of Evil (Iran, North Korea, and Foxboro, Massachusetts). But let’s narrow it down – where in the United States […]

originally published June 21, 2014 What’s in a name? That which we call a prairie By any other name would smell as grainy; So Saskatchewan would, were it not Saskatchewan call’d, Retain that weird insect surplus which it owes Without that title. So begins an unimpressively cutesy introduction to today’s discussion about the hallowed names […]

originally published May 13, 2014 “The antediluvian kings colonized the world; all the gods who play in the mythological dramas in all legends from all lands were in Atlantis.” This is an excerpt from the legend of Atlantis – or more accurately from the 1968 Donovan song “Atlantis”, but it makes my point. Since the […]

originally published May 4, 2014 It only took 14,465 days for me to figure it out, but I think I finally know what I want to do when I grow up. No, it’s not writing; that’s my fall-back option if the real dream doesn’t pan out. Don’t get me wrong – I enjoy plucking fancifully […]

originally published May 2, 2014 There are many reasons why one would construct a house. You might be tearing down an old dilapidated monstrosity, or maybe you’re breaking fresh ground that was once farmland – doing your part to fly the banner of urban sprawl. Perhaps you’re on estate land that has been re-zoned and […]

originally published April 26, 2014 If I were to brainstorm everything I know about the Statue of Liberty it would look like this: The French donated it as a gift to mark the United States’ centennial (and probably as a thank-you for having whomped their perpetual enemy, the British, in the Revolutionary War). It blows […]