I've written holiday posts somewhat sporadically in the past...I was really regular about it in 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010, but then didn't post another one until 2013In the interests of trying to make it more of a regular habit, though, I'll offer up something I've been meaning to feature for a while--a rendition of "Little Drummer Boy" by ( Read more... )

This has been an election-rich year in Canada.

Besides the federal election, whose results were exactly the opposite of what I'd hoped, there were also provincial elections here in Manitoba as well as in neighbouring Ontario this week, with more provincial elections in most of Canada throughout the year ( Read more... )

Those of you who've known me for a while will already be aware that I occasionally do a bit of film work, though I don't talk about it that much. Most of what gets filmed in Winnipeg is made for television or direct-to-video, so (even though I've plugged some things I've worked on in the past) I tend to think of it now as something I quietly do on ( Read more... )

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I'd like to be able to say that I enjoyed this weekend's Central Canada Comic Con as much as or more than I have in the past few years, but the con has definitely taken a step down in quality.

I gave the event a full con report in 2008 because I enjoyed it so much, and even though I didn't do the same thing in 2009, I thought they were growing at ( Read more... )

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After all of the planning and the worrying and the hustle and the bustle around Kimberly's visit to Winnipeg since I first brought it up, how did everything work out?

Pretty relaxed, actually.

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The rental car is being picked up in a couple of hours, and the apartment is on track to getting (somewhat) more organised, which means the pieces are slowly coming together for Kimberly's arrival in Winnipeg tomorrow...

Unfortunately, however, she just sprained her ankle, and the weather forecast for this weekend is colder than I'd hoped, so we' ( Read more... )

Trying to make sure Winnipeg doesn't prove to be a massive letdown during Kimberly's visit has yielded better results lately than it did last week--thanks in no small part to the excellent feedback on my original entry mentioning it, along with offline input from a variety of local sources ( Read more... )