It's so good to be home again! We just spent the last couple weeks in Ontario. Stay tuned!



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One thing true crime podcasts are very good at, is, unfortunately, doing deep dives into true crime. Sometimes it's reopening an old case or shining a spotlight on an unsolved crime. Ambushed, which first aired in 2017, does a bit of both, trying to keep the deaths of a Southern Alberta couple alive on the Internet.

A well-liked couple - an RCMP ( Read more... )

One thing I love about podcasts is the deep dives into long ago events. What stories were untold? What was unknown? How has society changed since then ( Read more... )

Tomorrow, September 30th, is Canada's National Day for Truth and Reconciliation as well as Orange Shirt Day. Canada's past treatment of Indigenous people has, quite frankly, been absolutely terrible and atrocious. The day honours children who never returned home from residential schools as well as survivors, their families and communities ( Read more... )

CBC's long-running radio show Ideas launched in 1965, and is currently hosted by Nahlah Ayed. Sometimes they feature shows from the BBC, Australia's ABC and the topics tend to be mostly high-brow such as interviews with noteworthy people, environmental and cultural topics as well as Massey lectures ( Read more... )

We took some extra days off around Canada Day, and because my husband works for an American company now, he also had July 4th off. The weekend weather forecast wasn't looking too great--chances of rain or high temperatures--but we played it by ear and managed to get a lot of fun stuff done.

We road tripped down to the Alberta Birds of Prey Center ( Read more... )

So, I'll preface every true crime podcast by saying that I'm very picky about the true crime podcasts I listen too. I really dislike the exploitative, sensational, or unnecessarily gruesome shows. I prefer the ones that focus on marginalized cases or ones that are very thoughtful.

CBC's Someone Knows Something was one of the first podcasts I ( Read more... )

I suppose I should fill up the podcasts tag!

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is famous for its radio shows, but I was never really a CBC radio listener. Enter podcasts, which fit into one's schedule much better!

Two daily podcasts that I subscribe too are Front Burner and The Current.

Front Burner is a half-hour explainer on a timely ( Read more... )

I discovered that LJ's community has a back-up community on DW.

I'm going to try and crosspost when I remember.

Now, enjoy a festive ad from defunct Canadian discount retailer Zellers. How wild to think that at one point in time a whole ad would be shot just to advertise glue guns!!

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I was surprised at how out of sorts I was when I heard the news Queen Elizabeth passed. Whether or not you love/hate/meh the British monarchy, their role in colonialism or their place in a contemporary society, Queen Elizabeth was a huge part of Canadian culture. She's been on our money for decades. Her portrait graced classrooms and public ( Read more... )