At the end of March 2023, I used artificial intelligence to turn Canada’s prime ministers into 1980s hair metal singers and posted the results online.Amidst the responses many on social media were surprised at what some of the prime ministers looked...
Built by the White Star Line, it was the largest ship in the world at the time, because it was able to carry 1,317 passengers and 823 crew, from Europe to North America and back again. But…On her maiden voyage across the Atlantic, she struck an...
Long before explorers such as Anthony Henday, David Thompson, Alexander Mackenzie or Lewis and Clark were born, there was a young man with a sense of adventure that took him to North America as an apprentice for the Hudson’s Bay Company. He was the...
Over the Top is a famous Canadian photograph from the First World War which features Canadian soldiers, climbing over a trench, guns at the ready as they head out into the field of battle against Germans. It is an impactful photograph. It is also...
In the words of the legendary Paul McCartney, The party’s on The feeling’s here That only comes, This time of year Simply having a wonderful Holiday history time! I may have changed some lyrics at the end, but you get the point. This is the time of...
Depending on where you work… you might be k in an office, enjoying a morning cup of coffee while you peruse social media before getting down to work on those TPS Reports. Perhaps you’re in the service industry dealing with people all day or maybe...
For the past 1,290 days, I have been learning French on the most popular language learning app in the world. I thought as a Canadian podcaster, I should be bilingual, just like the country I profile. While it is nice to live in an era where it is...
History was made in 1991 when Nellie Cournoyea became premier of the Northwest Territories. Before we get to that, let’s look at her life. Nellie Cournoyea was born in Aklavik, Northwest Territories on March 4, 1940 and was of mixed Norwegian and...
On Oct. 12, 2012, a film directed by Ben Affleck, based on the book, The Master of Disguise, by Antonio Mendez, was released in North America telling the story of how six Americans escaped Iran in 1979.The critically acclaimed film, however...
We began the 1980s with the first premier, sort of, in the history of the Northwest Territories. Now we are finishing the decade with the fourth premier in our series.Dennis Patterson was born on Dec. 30, 1948 in Vancouver. He spent most of his...