Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park – review

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And the wind cries, “who the hell would want to live here?!?!”  This is what courses through my mind every time we head to Southern Alberta for camping.  If you’re going south of Calgary you just can’t avoid the wind.  Places like Lethbridge and Pincher Creek are famous for it and for good reason.  Those … Read more

Little Bow Provincial Park – Review

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Victoria Day.  The long weekend with the antiquated name, unless you use the more colloquial May Two-Four, marks the unofficial start to summer for Canadians.  There are spring cleaning and summer projects, sure, but more importantly BBQs and camping.  Unless, of course, you live in Alberta where we’ve become all too familiar with everything from … Read more

13 Bits of Advice for Future Stay At Home Dads

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A few weeks from now I mark my ninth anniversary of being a stay-at-home dad, or SAHD if you’re really into horrible acronyms.  That is damn near a decade!  I’m also well past those demanding first years of my children’s lives, those years before the glorious respite that is grade school.  The ones that society … Read more

What If The Dukes of Hazzard Had Been A CBC Show?

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Imagine, for a moment, an alternate universe where Canada is the dominant entertainment production force on the planet rather than the United States of America.  Everything about the two countries is exactly as it is now the only exception is that Hollywood is in Vancouver and the major television networks dominating North American television since … Read more