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Archive for the ‘Canada’ Category
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P A P A N A C K
Papanack zoo is currently boarded up for the winter, but in the summer months it overflows with visitors. From all over the Ottawa region, parents bring their children to see Keith Forgie’s collection of exotic animals. But some of his…
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Visualization: Money In, Money Out
The weighty tome that outlined the Canadian government’s 2013-2014 budget was a veritable doorstep, crammed full of confounding fiscalspeak, graphs and tabular data.
No doubt this data makes perfect sense to economists or budget-scarred journalists, but how do you make…
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From Igloos, To Microwaves
Abbygail Noah was driven south from Nunavut by a desire for an education, and by the high food prices in the north, where 70% of the population is food insecure.
Abbygail blames the high cost of food on changes in…
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Bleed for your (adopted) country
I must have missed the disclaimer on the citizenship pamphlet: becoming a Canadian may result in serious physical scarring.
There I lay on the ice of the curling rink like a crumpled snow angel, a small claret cloud of blood…
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Children Of The Snow
More than 20 Somali youths have been murdered in the last three years across Canada. Unable to assimilate into Canadian culture, unable to find work, many have become involved in drugs and criminal activity. But community groups in Ottawa, buoyed…
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Ain’t idle no more
From Winnipeg gangbanger to Keystone Cop, Clayton Thomas-Müller’s life story reads like a paint-by-the-numbers, Hollywood movie script.
Brought up by a single mother (“poppa was a rolling stone”), in and out of over 40 schools by Grade Eight, incarcerated in…
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The Puppetmaster
Groans emanate from the depths of the old house. Walking down the winding stairs, the decaying head of a zombie comes into view. Its torn, blood-spattered clothing gives way to the arm of Matt Ficner – founder of Creepy Puppets…
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picket-2-go
As the Fraser Canyon scenery screams by in a torrent of copper and viridian, Kim Marshall takes one hand off the steering wheel to point excitedly at the blue and gold train as it emerges from the tree line on…
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Tucson: an unexpected muse
Desert noir and Tex-Mex folk rock.
These are just a couple of the terms that have been bandied about by critics to describe the catalogue of young Mexican-American musician Brian Lopez.
Such genre-straddling labels may sound frivolous until you hear…
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Help me please so that this freakazoide can be put in jail
Diane Simpson has barely slept since her son Apollo-Lyn was gunned down earlier this week, in what was the latest in a rash of fatal shootings that plagued Metro Vancouver over the Christmas long weekend.
In a voice thick with…
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White minefield
Mountain passes ranging all the way from the B.C. coast to the Alberta border are on high alert against avalanches – but the real danger comes when the winter snowstorms end, a senior forecaster says.
The Sea-to-Sky, Kootenay Boundary, Purcells,…
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Four days, four fatal shootings
With four fatal shootings in as many days and fears that the Lower Mainland is about to fall witness to another bloody gang war, police did their best to alleviate the public’s concerns by announcing the incidents weren’t linked to…
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The appeal of polygamy
A court-appointed lawyer will not appeal a B.C. Supreme Court ruling that upheld Canada’s ban on polygamy, leaving the federal and provincial attorneys-general only two days to decide what to do next.
The decision announced on Wednesday by George Macintosh,…
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Bad mushrooms
The province’s chief coroner has ordered a public inquest into how three employees of a Langley mushroom farm died in 2008, after inhaling noxious fumes, in the hopes that a broader examination of the incident can prevent similar deaths from…