Youth Week Calgary will be taking place from April 21-28th. As a part of the celebrations, I, along with a few way cooler Calgarians shot a video, to share why we all that the week was so important.  I’m so excited to be a part of this really amazing event. You can check it out [...]

I’ve never even seen episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation and I know that this is crazy.  The Calgary Comic Expo has announced that the entire, the ENTIRE cast of TNG will be reuniting this April, here in Calgary.    Yes, in Calgary.  I’m surprised too. Those cast members already on board are Sir [...]

Never in my life would I have imagined that I would write that title for a blog post… . But yes, this weekend, I got the chance to see one of the most crazy, insane, hilarious shows that I might ever see in my entire life.  For two sold out nights, as a part of the [...]

Do you know what I hate doing?  Exercise.  It’s something that I’ve never really understood, but I get why it’s important.  I mean, the Gap sizes only go up so big, right?  This week’s Metro column is about my effort to get in more shape.  I’m not particularly overweight or anything like that, but I [...]

I don’t know if you realize how hard it was to make this list. There are quite a few movies that were made in Alberta. Unfortunately, most of those movies play off the prairie landscape and are ‘western’ films. Cowboys and stuff…not my thing (movies …

This weekend Calvary Grace Church in Calgary, AB, hosted its “Calvary Grace Conference” on the Reformation with Dr. Carl Trueman of Westminster Seminary (PA) and Clint Humfrey, the pastor of the church. The audio is now available on their website; … Continue reading →

If there is one thing that I love in the world it’s food. Seriously, I’m always hungry.  I love every kind of food, except parsnips, they are gross and should never be served.  But besides the Devil’s carrot, pretty much anything goes. I especially love eating out, with so many restaurants out there, how can [...]

This year, partially inspired by recent events, I’ve challenged myself to do things that scare me.  It’s not so much a New Year’s Resolution, as much as it is a much needed kick in the pants. There’s a whole lot of crazy fun things to do out there, and I’ve felt recently that I needed [...]

By Katie Schneider,Calgary Sun Target is taking aim at Calgary for the site of a 1.3 million sq. ft. distribution centre. The American retail giant is planning to open the distribution centre, its third in the country, on about 80 acres in Balzac, said spokeswoman Molly Snyder. “Target has selected sites for its distribution centres [...]

Did you make a New Year’s Resolution this year?  If so, how’s it going?  Probably not good, the thing about resolutions is that we don’t often know what’s best for us.  So instead of asking bloggers or other strangers, we trust our own judgement to help formulate a resolution that seems like a good one.  [...]

The number of men in nursing schools is growing (slowly)

Bam!  Another Canadian is taking over network television! Deadline wrote yesterday that NBC has bought a potential series from Calgarian Kelly Oxford!  Oxford, who is mother of three but is anything but a mommy blogger, has seen her popularity explode thanks to her hilarious (and biting) Twitter feed.  Right now,  Oxford has more than 267,700 [...]

Phew, good thing I didn’t buy those tickets to the LMFAO concert *snort*…the band cancelled their last three remaining shows in Canada due to lead singer, Sky Blue, suffering three herniated discs from falling. Their show last night was in Vegas…

The Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo announced that Hayden Panettiere, most commonly known in the nerd circles as the cheerleader from the cancelled show Heroes, will be attending the Expo at the end of April.Will she draw crowds? Not too sure…

Gilbert Gottfried is most famously known for playing Jaffar’s annoying little parrot, Iago, in the Aladdin movies.  Well, that was until he became famous for tweeting a series of jokes about the tsunamis in Japan shortly after they occur…

Love me some Robert Downey Jr. Thus, I love me some Sherlock Holmes. The second Holmes movie hits theatres next Friday. I did like the first one, much to my surprise…so I am thrilled to be able to get a jump on the second.If you are in Calgary and wo…

Oh, I haven’t laughed this hard in a long time. Last week, Tourism Calgary and the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra reached out to twitter users asking “How do you stay warm in #YYC?” The submitted tweets that used the hashtag #cpowarmup or replied to the @Calgary twitter handle were compiled and turned into a twitter first [...]

What are you doing this Christmas season?  Whether you’re a parent, a teen, a kid (why are you reading this blog), or a senior citizen, chances are you’re going to be going to the Santa Claus parade…unless you live Calgary. You see, I live in a city that for the past four years has not [...]

  Last week I got the chance to speak at a Pecha Kucha event. (If you’re not sure how to pronounce it, this will help.) Pecha Kucha asks its presenters to take on an interesting challenge, give a talk using only 20 slides and each slide can only be displayed for 20 seconds each. What [...]

I’ve written about Calgary’s weather before, mostly because it’s so crazy. Actually, as I write this, the entire downtown core of this city is shut down because of extreme winds. But it’s usually not the wind we have to worry about, but rather the cold. The cold that comes out of no where, the kind [...]