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 [...]

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A few weeks ago I found out that I was lucky enough to be chosen to speak at the Pecha Kucha, which if you’ve never heard of, it’s okay.  I actually went to my first Pecha Kucha event only a few months ago! Devised in Tokyo in 2003, PechaKucha Nights are now taking place in [...]

I’ve seldom seen a journalist whine so much about politicians who are too accessible to the public. Look no further, you can find them in the Calgary Herald. Mayor Nenshi has even replied to a tweet from me, and I don’t even live in Calgary, so obviously he must be wasting time. Right, right? Ugh. [...]

This weekend in Calgary was cold, like really, really cold.  I believe at one point the wind chill dipped down to -30.  And while I’m used to this city, that is nestled beside the mountains, getting cold, this seems an awfully early time of the year for it to be that cold. But luckily, I [...]

Tonight was a really special night in Calgary. CBC Radio’s most popular program ever, Q with Jian Ghomeshi taped an episode of the program right here in the city. Now, to you Toronto and Vancouver folk, you might not think this is a big deal. But here in Calgary, we don’t get a lot of [...]

It may not exactly look like Christmas is right around the corner, but with only six weeks until the big day, Wednesday marked the kick off of the 23rd annual Mayor’s Food Drive.   About a dozen or so organizations and media groups joined together to help celebrate the launch with a very special scavenger hunt [...]

Paul Brandt was in the CORE Downtown Calgary today to launch his World Jr Hockey Championship anthem I Was There. Paul Brandt – I Was There by Calgary Herald I am completely devastated that I missed it because there was a flash mob. Crashing a f…

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