Coming from landlocked Alberta, the maritime culture is something that we have never quite understood. After several weeks in Atlantic Canada we saw lobster traps pulled and even dug for…
We’ve been to many restaurants over the years that claim “farm-to-table” menus, and they all do provide that, to some extent. Before dining at Maison de Soma, however, we had…
I am finally writing this as snow flies outside for the first time since early spring of this year. As soon as I woke I opened the front door a…
As a child, Pete camped in Prince Albert National Park with his family a couple of times. Too young to remember many details, he said the strongest memory he has…
5 am and the sun is just rolling over the horizon. I’m already on the road and can see the rays finding their way through the idle rail cars along…
On our first night in Churchill, Pete packed up his camera gear and set out at about 10 pm. Rustled into action by the Aurora app flashing on his phone,…
We all have those places – spots we’ve been to frequently but have never really visited. And such is the case of us with the city of Medicine Hat in…
I’m not a person who believes in making resolutions, or the fact that a turn in the calendar is required in order to start anew. But somehow 2015 feels different.I…
“There’s an Einstein!” our guide Hayley called out, referring to the mother and two cubs (mc2, get it?) a few hundred metres away. Polar bears, despite what I had expected,…
Space. It’s the final frontier. And for most, it will never be reachable. But we can wonder and learn from the select few who have been there, and lucky for…