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A Winter World at Your Feet: Snowshoeing for the Entire Family It’s a mild winter day at Petroglyphs Provincial Park and Alana Callan, her husband, Kevin, and 6-year old daughter, Kyla, are taking a break from snowshoeing. The sun is shining. It’s been a lovely morning. It’s been even more lovely because they’ve been moving […]

odd to have back to back on “the game.” tomorrow: snowshoeing in central ontario. featuring interviews with local parents, as well as experts.

I’m going to go on record here as saying that I don’t give a flying puck about the fate of the Toronto Maple Leafs. At least not from a hockey standpoint. On a purely economic front, well… They do capture a bit of my attention. My wife, you see, is a teacher. And there is […]

today in the blog, a repeat of sorts. new to you, old to me. i wrote this back in the fall of 2002. i dashed it off when a local publication asked me for a piece on hockey. i composed it in an hour and a half — without time for an edit — and […]

my coverage of the trent northern studies colloquium can be found here. “While the weather outside of Traill College was chilly, there was a feeling of warm camaraderie inside during the wrap-up of the Trent northern studies student colloquium on Thursday, December 9, 2010. An enthusiastic audience packed Bagnani Hall to celebrate the research of […]

“going global: the canadian arctic as an international zone,” a lecture presented by dr. ken coates, researcher, historian and author of “arctic front.” bagnani hall, traill college. thursday, december 9th, 7:15pm. preceded by a student poster session at 6:30pm. for more information, please click here. i’ll be covering it here in the small print blog […]

i was covering a colloquium for trent university’s communications department. check out my report here. “Trent University students gathered to present and discuss works on the Bayeux Tapestry at Traill College on Friday, December 3 2010. A total of seven papers were presented by undergraduate and graduate students, each exploring an aspect of the Tapestry’s […]

today i’m off to cover: “Weaving History: Unravelling the Bayeux Tapestry” December 3, 2010: 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Bagnani Hall, Catharine Parr Traill College “The Bayeux Tapestry is not only a phenomenal work of art but also a fascinating historical artifact that seems to generate more questions than answers. Join us as we present […]

this just in from my friend jill staveley from trent radio: “Hello Trent Radio Lovers “As you have probably already heard, Trent Radio is in the middle of a small crisis. “Tuesday morning we went off the air due to technical malfunctions with our transmission equipment. We are still programming as usual, and can be […]