All the recent natural and unnatural disasters in this country — city-paralyzing changing-climate-induced floods in Calgary and then Toronto, an oil-tanker train disaster that derailed an entire…

My nephew is about to launch. Freshly freed from high school, he’ll soon be flying high at the National Circus School in Montreal. If there is one kid who would run away and join the circus, Domenic…

Having spent the last several years taking painting into sculpture and sculpture into painting ,  I fell in love with the  Saddle Up! group art show that wrapped up last week at Hot Art Wet City…

You might have heard the hammering this week of the final nail in the coffin of a well-known cartoonist’s career with the Province newspaper. After more than 30 years, Bob Krieger joined the legions…

It’s funny how some learning moments can be instantly locked into your hard drive forever while others will keep smacking you in the face, like Sideshow Bob stepping on rakes. I look forward to the…

In case you want to know, this is a picture of what is called beaching gear  — at least in Prince Rupert, B.C. It’s the kind of passing sight that makes a city girl demand  that the car we’re in…

I’m deluded enough to believe I can survive on an art practice in Vancouver  but I am under no illusion that my Sanitary Doily will be selected to grace the city’s sanitary sewer covers for the next…

I can barely remember this city before community gardens. They’re so integral to my neighbourhood, and I don’t even have a plot of my own. Aside from the obvious benefit of providing people ways to…

Touring the Emily Carr University graduation show (aka The Show) can be exhausting. There’s work by more than 300 grads packed into those halls and classrooms — too much to take in just one…

I know I should be researching or finishing or conceiving or cleaning or thanking or discussing or working on proposals. But like everyone else in the northern Northern Hemisphere, I can barely…