Canadian Badlands

Glenn on April 20th, 2012

Red Rock Coulee will make you feel like you’ve visited the planet Mars. In this part of the Canadian Badlands, about 50-60 kilometres southwest of Medicine Hat , Alberta, when the sun is low in the sky, the entire landscape burns with a golden, orange glow that I have never seen before. The best time [...]

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Judy on October 16th, 2011

In Canada, it’s darker at this time of year. There are fewer waking hours and dusk and darkness are often inhabited by unexplained events and ghostly phenomena. We are not a superstitious people, not susceptable to assumptions of supernatural causation. But facts are facts, and we are a curious bunch. So every year at about [...]

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Judy on October 14th, 2010

I’m hooked on cemeteries. They hold so much potential for great stories. My fascination started years ago on a high school exchange to Boston. I was strolling through Boston Common and the Granary Burying Ground where Benjamin Franklin, Paul Revere and John Adams are buried along with “Mother Goose”. Mother Goose? What a surprise and [...]

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Glenn on July 27th, 2010

” The sky is ever sensed above Canada.” – Russian writer Andrei Voznesensky in 1971 Travellers headed west out of Calgary towards the mountains are focused on the growing Rockies, but the first thing that strikes me every time I drive east from the stampede city is the big sky. Perhaps it’s because I can’t [...]

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Judy on April 24th, 2010

Chambers’ Dictionary of Etymology defines the term “mascot” as an animal, person or thing that is supposed to bring good luck. According to the dictionary, the word is borrowed from the french word, “mascotte” meaning sorcerer’s charm or good luck piece. Canada is a land of mascots. I’m not sure why but they’re plentiful here. [...]

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