Pique'n Yer Interest

Growing up on the prairies, it was kind of weird if you said your favourite season was anything but summer.

Around the Pique newsroom, for all intents and purposes, I am known as the reporter on the "Bigfoot beat.

With the sweltering heat of late, I've started swimming in the evenings. I dive into water and race towards the dock. On the way back, I glide on my back, staring up at rich green forest and Whistler Mountain, basked in golden light.

From the time I first learned what it was, meditation never really appealed to me.

This past February marked my 25th anniversary as a vegetarian/almost vegan. This is also the first time I have ever written about my choice to go meatless in any professional sense, despite having a forum for the last 19 years.

Far too many times this summer, I've sent late-night messages to my Toronto friends, essentially to the effect of, "...

Every day for the last week, I've enjoyed a morning coffee overlooking a lake in Northern Alberta with an 18-month-old. Our ritual went something like this: Me: Lucy, do you want to go have coffee? She: Yeah.

A proposal to add a massive 616-seat bowling alley, restaurant and games facility to the village has stirred up a wide variety of reactions from both the public and local business community in recent weeks.

Social media has changed the way we live our lives more than any other development in the last two decades. I'll often marvel that my job, which includes managing Pique 's social media platforms, wouldn't have existed a few years ago.

Over the last few months, the NDP's new 30-Point Housing Affordability Plan has received its fair share of criticism. And while I can sympathize with some it, this latest chapter is out of control.