Pique'n Yer Interest

I've never been very good at long, drawn-out, tearful goodbyes, so I'll make this pretty easy on everyone. I'm already gone.

In the 1980s and '90s, a lucrative and well-organized drug-smuggling network spanning Mexico, the U.S. and Canada had northern beachheads in a handful of small farming towns in southwestern Ontario and southern Manitoba.

Canada is a big country. Big enough that you can never really know everything happening in its multitudinous corners.

I was taking the dog for a walk near my home in Squamish last Friday when I saw a street fight narrowly avoided.

I totally had Jon Montgomery right in front of me two weeks ago and forgot to ask the most important of questions. "When can we expect the first season of The Amazing Naked Race Canada to air?" OK, that's probably not going to happen.

As you're reading this, 1,000 of the world's most tech-savvy minds are attending weird seminars in Whistler in a language you probably don't speak.

Sadly, one of the greatest festivals the Sea to Sky has ever known is coming to an end this weekend with one final, massive blow out. Goodbye, Two Acre Shaker. I'll miss you dearly.

As a kid, I was obsessed with the U.S.A.

Midsummer is already being steamrolled into late summer. Silly season is upon us — a.k.a. August — usually a time of fun for us in a newsroom while we wait for the "serious stuff" to restart in the fall.

Picking just a few highlights from the Pemberton Music Festival is tough, and with so many things to take in over the weekend, it's likely that no two festival-goers would have the same list of favourites.