January 2010

Winter Cycling

I hate taking the bus. I absolutely despise it. I’ve lived in Winnipeg for 22 years and yet, no amount of Winnipeg Transit experience prepares…


Are you SAD?

The acronym for “seasonal affective disorder,” SAD, seems quite appropriate when you consider that this condition is a form of clinical depression. The disorder is…


Winter Fucking Rules

Often, disparaging things are said about winter, but I believe that winter is one of the best seasons — second only to summer. Sure, sure,…


Wear Abouts

The feeling of sockless toes freezing in patent leather ballet flats while walking through unshovelled sidewalks in mid-December is really an experience like none other….




Life in the Cretaceous Period

As a kid, visiting the Manitoba Museum (then known as the Manitoba Museum of Man and Nature) was always an adventure. There was the Polar…


DR. Know

Ah genetics. There was a time — quite recently in fact — when I thought that the study of the infinite dimensions, which compose our…


Plasma Rockets

It’s been 38 years since humans last stepped foot on a planet other than this pale blue dot. Now, with new technology being developed at…


Awkward Overtures

With cameras and photographs so readily available, photographic art has some challenges ahead in order to define itself. How does a contemporary photographer make work…