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In the course of my work, I sometimes get to stay at really nice hotels like the Fairmont Chateau Laurier in Ottawa. We’re talkin’ personal service, great food and a centre-of-the-world piano bar I want to live in forever. Anyway, the best thing about these places is that I get to meet interesting people. I’ve [...]
A few years ago, while we were doing some PR work for the Hudson’s Bay Company, I ran across an amazing guy called Harold Tichenor. He’s a woodsy guy, makes films, likes to live off the grid. Smart. Unassuming. And he has a wicked fetish for Point blankets. There are few objects more quintessentially Canadian. [...]
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It’s summer in Canada and the big city is a little quieter these days. After a nine-day driving tour of the Canadian Badlands in southeastern Alberta, I was happy to spend a couple of days at a cottage near Georgian Bay in Ontario. It’s a very short walk to the “outhouse” and the water comes [...]
