Apparently I’m the last person to read Elizabeth Hay’s “Late Nights on Air”, it’s already a #1 Canadian Bestseller and it picked up the 2007 Giller Prize. For the two of you who haven’t read it yet, I offer this glowing review.
Elizabeth Hay’s depiction of  life at Yellowknife’s remote CBC radio station is lyrical – [...]

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Natasha got me a fantastic birthday gift, but there’s a bit of a backstory behind it.
As a cool work perk, every now and then I get tickets to go see the Senators. The last set that came up were to see Philadelphia visiting, and on the way to the stadium in the car I kept [...]

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Anyone want to guess what this is? I think this will be a short-lived game, but I’m hoping the weird sea-creature-esque tendrils (I wasn’t expecting to see them!) throw some people off. To the first correct guesser goes a photo from the pile I’m putting together for a little show in February. (not [...]

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We parked the other night at the grocery store next to a spot that had a bit of trash in it, hopped out of the car (with our re-useable bags!) and went grocery shopping, but came back to a grisly scene. Unbeknown to us there was a full can of orange juice among the litter [...]

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One more flick to add to this flurry of reviews – while we were in Winnipeg last week we caught 2012, still playing (for only $2!)  at the cheapy theatres on McGillivray. Thank you Winnipeg, for your outrageously affordable movie houses.
As a connoisseur of disaster flicks, I can say that 2012 is an epic masterpiece [...]

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Natasha and I took my very awesome god-daughter out to see Alvin and the Chipmunks 2 this afternoon, which was a lot of fun. Sortof disappointed that they didn’t sing more, but the story was cute and made a weird sort of “chipmunks go to highschool” sense even though I never saw the first one.
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Every time I saw the cover to Gregory Maguire’s sequel to Wicked, “Son of a Witch”, I’d start hearing the cowbells and baseline to Nazareth’s ‘Hair of the Dog‘. That’s about the only pleasure I got out of reading this 300+ page piece of dreck. While “Wicked” was the brilliant story of the Wicked Witch [...]

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I was listening to Q on CBC late one night as Natasha and I often do while getting ready for bed, and there was a panel of people (who I thought were “Canada Reads” panelists) discussing books. One panelist, with only a few seconds to pitch “The Book of Night Women” by James Marlon, described [...]

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Natasha and I bought our Chapters gift cards into the store after the holidays, gritting our teeth and embarking on the excruciating task of picking a handful of books from the many thousands available on the shelves. Don’t get me wrong, I love the end result of going book shopping, but it’s agonizing to have [...]

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