I am not a fan of skyscrapers. When I was in Toronto in 2024, I kept my eyes fixed on the ground. I stayed at the Sheraton and the first thing I did when I got to my room on the 28th floor was close my curtains. I did my best to ignore the feeling...
About two hours northeast of Edmonton, is the town of Elk Point. You wouldn’t know it to look at it, but this small community of 1,300 people has a deep history dating back to the 1790s when both the Hudson’s Bay Company and the North West Company...
In 2004, the Austrian Mint minted a €1,000 coin that weighed 31.1 kilograms and measured 37 centimetres in diameter. A total of 15 coins were minted, which honoured the Austrian Philharmonic Orchestra, earning the nickname of “Big Phil”. One side...
At the lowest point of The Great Depression this artist didn’t have to share the stage with anyone else For the first time in her career no one would outshine her or steal the spotlight she worked so hard for It had taken 60 years, but she was...
2010 at the Ogden Ice Sheet during the Vancouver Winter Olympics. Team Canada in the Gold Medal match against Norway. They’re the returning champions and on the tenth end…Canada is up 6-3. The tension is palpable, the host country can taste the win...
On Jan. 15, 2025, outgoing President of the United States Joe Biden stated in his farewell address that an oligarchy was taking shape in America. He feared that a tech-industrial complex would threaten democracy, basic rights and freedoms. When I...
Carol William Wilson was born on June 5, 1892 in Winnipeg. As a young man, Wilson started playing hockey in the arenas and frozen ice surfaces of the city. This included playing in the church leagues of the city where he quickly excelled. In one of...
In the mid-1840s, the docks of Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia could be a rough place. With so much traffic coming and going from the harbour, there were a plethora of ne’er-do-wells passing through. Like a gang of droogs from A Clockwork Orange, they...
He isn’t well-known today, but Sylvio Mantha was one of the most reliable players of his era. A star with the Montreal Canadiens, he helped lead the team to glory in his career. Sylvio Mantha was born on April 14, 1902 in Montreal. When he was 17...
To everyone who passed him on the streets of New York City, he was just another unhoused person. He seemed to be almost skin and bones as his clothes hung loosely, barely providing enough warmth to keep the chill of the wind out. No one stopped to...