Monthly Archives: July 2017

magpies and crows in residential neighborhoods. A relentless, bothersome screeching and caw-cawphony. At this point, Alberta has definitely gone to the birds. Oddly enough, a male Northern flicker dropped by the feeding tray. Don’t usually see those till autumn and … Continue reading →

our master of public speaking, Justin, doesn’t know his basic geography of this country. Alberta has been a province for over a century. A slap in the AB NDP face?

Friday in Edmonton. Now the home A/Cs can be pulled out as it finally heads toward 30! Hard to imagine (for many Edmontonians)what it would be like to live in Phoenix or Vegas in the summer. And hard, too, to … Continue reading →

  “Canada is the only country in the world that has never had a national identity.” –Marshall McLuhan –“Historically, a Canadian is an American who rejects the Revolution.” –Northrop Frye, Letters in Canada, 1952 “We have often been told of … Continue reading →