Lifestyle
Ski The City
Despite hopeful pleas winter has decided to show up for another year, but that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy the outdoors. Now that Calgary is covered in a blanket of the white stuff, it’s the […]
Lifestyle
Fitness
Beakerhead Revisited – Yoga in a Sandbox
Lying with my head in a sandpit in Fort Calgary, I couldn’t help but ask existential questions like how did I get here? Why did I decide this was a good idea? The answer to […]
Lifestyle
Of Feminism, Nerds, Tech and Sarcasm: Meet the Women Behind NerdLab YYC
When Hannah Sanford, Heather Tovey and Jenn Fitzgerald started a Meetup group last November for ‘intersectional feminist nerds who work in tech’, they expected to draw in (at most) thirty to fifty members. Imagine their surprise […]
Health
Why Calgarians Are Susceptible To SAD, And Tips For Treatment
Holiday season has just begun, and there are still a few months of winter left for us to weather (pardon the pun). Unfortunately, while we might be great at dealing with cold weather, our position […]
Lifestyle
Wild Jobs Part Four: Search & Rescue
In the early 1990’s it was identified there was need for organized search and rescue (SAR) in Alberta to search for lost/missing persons in wilderness settings. The response started at the grass roots level and […]
Lifestyle
Enter The Rat’s Nest: Caving in the Bow Valley
I found myself in a precarious position. Lying on my stomach, face in the dirt, sandwiched between limestone on all sides. Swallowed in darkness, except for the beam of light projecting from my headlamp. Moments […]
Community
Twitter Meetups: Get to Know Your Followers
I love Twitter. It is a perfect way to keep up with what my favorite people are up to, and all the happenings around the world. And recently, it is become the place to make […]
History
Searching For Wild Bill
“I headed downslope to where the cubs were feeding and came up at them, hoping to scare them into one or another of my mining shafts for protection. It worked perfectly, as they ran for […]
Arts
Living Analogue in a Digital World
We live in a digital age. I don’t really need to tell you that, you know. We write emails to our friends, not letters. We write notes on laptops, instead of notebooks, and I doubt […]
History
Jurassic Province
When Jurassic Park opened in theaters back in 1993 it sparked dinosaur fever. The massive blockbuster, directed by Steven Spielberg and based on Michael Crichton’s 1990 novel of the same name, grossed $900 million worldwide in it’s […]