Shooting a micro-budget horror film with a crew of seniors
Sep 08, 2025
As someone who has worked across a range of budgets in film and television, I know that constraints often lead to the most creative solutions. But The Rug - a short horror film made with a crew of ine
Spring thinking in autumn
Sep 08, 2025
We’re in the final month of the gardening season, and it’s time to think about spring. I want to wander the garden and wistfully caress each bloom and plant, sit on the step and drink it all in. A har
Thriving in life's prime
Sep 05, 2025
I just returned from a wonderful beach vacation with my wife. Ironically, while I was enjoying all the food and drink that comes with a decadent all-inclusive vacation, I was reading a book called You
How community built the Veiner Centre
Sep 02, 2025
Medicine Hat may be celebrating the Unison Veiner Centre’s 50th anniversary, but the roots of this community hub reach back much further. In many ways, the story began with a boy growing up on a Saska
Anna, the speedy Nana
Sep 01, 2025
They called her speedy. My Nana, Anna, a petite Lithuanian beauty, used to zip around the hallways of her apartment building in Montreal North, getting in her steps decades before pedometers told us t
Measles in Alberta
Aug 21, 2025
Dr. Sunil Sookram, Alberta interim Chief Medical Officer of Health Measles remains one of the most contagious illnesses in the world, spreading through the air when an infected person breathes, coughs