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I almost forgot we won
The other day a friend asked me (delicately), “What’s it like having a government that hates you?” I laughed, partly because he assumed I agreed with the premise of his question, and partly because I do. It’s crushing. It’s been hard since Alberta’s provincial ...
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The other day a friend asked me (delicately), “What’s it like having a government that hates you?” I laughed, partly because he assumed I agreed with the premise of his question, and partly because I do. It’s crushing. It’s been hard since Alberta’s provincial ...
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Is Edmonton a prairie city?
One of my favourite parts of making Let’s Find Out is taking on questions that have never even occurred to me. The latest episode is a great example of that. Dustin Bajer (a friend of mine from back in the Shareable Neighbourhood days who I love chatting with about nature) was the curious E...
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One of my favourite parts of making Let’s Find Out is taking on questions that have never even occurred to me. The latest episode is a great example of that. Dustin Bajer (a friend of mine from back in the Shareable Neighbourhood days who I love chatting with about nature) was the curious E...
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Thanks for letting me be your historian laureate, Edmonton
Today is my last real day as Edmonton’s 4th Historian Laureate. It’s been an honour, and it’s been a blast. So many amazing Edmontonians have made my work possible. I just want to shine a little light on some of them. I am eternally grateful to City Council, the Edmonton Histori...
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Today is my last real day as Edmonton’s 4th Historian Laureate. It’s been an honour, and it’s been a blast. So many amazing Edmontonians have made my work possible. I just want to shine a little light on some of them. I am eternally grateful to City Council, the Edmonton Histori...
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5 Things I’ve Learned As Edmonton’s Historian Laureate
It’s been a year now since I was appointed as Edmonton’s Historian Laureate, and I’ve got a year to go before I pass the baton. The Edmonton Heritage Council asked me to share some of the thing I’ve learned in that time, and you can read that over on their blog.
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It’s been a year now since I was appointed as Edmonton’s Historian Laureate, and I’ve got a year to go before I pass the baton. The Edmonton Heritage Council asked me to share some of the thing I’ve learned in that time, and you can read that over on their blog.
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We Go Farther Together
I have neglected to write about the projects I’ve been doing since I was appointed Historian Laureate for the City of Edmonton (including my new history podcast, Let’s Find Out), mostly because I’ve been too busy actually working on them! There’s one I’d like to shar...
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I have neglected to write about the projects I’ve been doing since I was appointed Historian Laureate for the City of Edmonton (including my new history podcast, Let’s Find Out), mostly because I’ve been too busy actually working on them! There’s one I’d like to shar...
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Many Thanks
There are so many things I have not had the time to mention here (hello Historian Laureate adventures!), but I am too blissed out not to share this news: My latest show at CJSR – All That Matters – just won a national award and a listener-voted award back in Edmonton! It’s been ...
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There are so many things I have not had the time to mention here (hello Historian Laureate adventures!), but I am too blissed out not to share this news: My latest show at CJSR – All That Matters – just won a national award and a listener-voted award back in Edmonton! It’s been ...
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Real experts for real life
Not long ago, I wandered into a deep debate with myself after listening to Gimlet’s excellent podcast Startup. As usual, they were offering a peek into how they make their own sausage as a podcasting company. They’d been approached about the idea of doing branded podcasts for outside ...
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Not long ago, I wandered into a deep debate with myself after listening to Gimlet’s excellent podcast Startup. As usual, they were offering a peek into how they make their own sausage as a podcasting company. They’d been approached about the idea of doing branded podcasts for outside ...
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Onward
So it’ll be easier to type this online than it was to say it all teary-eyed on Friday night. When I started Shareable Neighbourhood in 2012, it was literally just me and a clipboard and a dream to encourage the folks in my community to feel like they could make it a better place. It …...
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So it’ll be easier to type this online than it was to say it all teary-eyed on Friday night. When I started Shareable Neighbourhood in 2012, it was literally just me and a clipboard and a dream to encourage the folks in my community to feel like they could make it a better place. It …...
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Shareables levels up
So it’s been a long time since I’ve written about Shareable Neighbourhood, and it’s grown a lot over the last year. As you might know, it’s the little volunteer-run community group I started back in 2012 to get people sharing knowledge about local history, nature, and cult...
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So it’s been a long time since I’ve written about Shareable Neighbourhood, and it’s grown a lot over the last year. As you might know, it’s the little volunteer-run community group I started back in 2012 to get people sharing knowledge about local history, nature, and cult...
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In times of change
It is never more important for us to be brave and present than in times of change. This provincial election campaign has certainly shown that Albertans’ political appetites are changing. But that is just the manifestation of larger changes taking place around us. Our province’s popula...
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It is never more important for us to be brave and present than in times of change. This provincial election campaign has certainly shown that Albertans’ political appetites are changing. But that is just the manifestation of larger changes taking place around us. Our province’s popula...
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Nobody Does This Alone
I don’t consider myself a social media maven, but there’s something I really like about the hashtag #QTheFuture. Not long after the revelations about Jian Gomeshi’s string of abuses came out, the team of CBCers behind Q started asking their audience to use it to make Twitter, Fa...
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I don’t consider myself a social media maven, but there’s something I really like about the hashtag #QTheFuture. Not long after the revelations about Jian Gomeshi’s string of abuses came out, the team of CBCers behind Q started asking their audience to use it to make Twitter, Fa...
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Give Me Homework
Before I worked at CBC, I used to think hosts like Eleanor Wachtel and Jian Gomeshi were superhuman. Not only had they read all the books they were interviewing authors about, they had beautifully well-developed questions ready in a tidy narrative arc. Then I started working as a producer behind ...
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Before I worked at CBC, I used to think hosts like Eleanor Wachtel and Jian Gomeshi were superhuman. Not only had they read all the books they were interviewing authors about, they had beautifully well-developed questions ready in a tidy narrative arc. Then I started working as a producer behind ...
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Radio Geeks Wanted
I’m about to take a big move. After two years working at the Alberta Council for Global Cooperation, I’ve decided to take a leap into a job in radio. This month I will become the News Coordinator at CJSR 88.5 FM, the Edmonton community radio station where I’ve been working on Te...
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I’m about to take a big move. After two years working at the Alberta Council for Global Cooperation, I’ve decided to take a leap into a job in radio. This month I will become the News Coordinator at CJSR 88.5 FM, the Edmonton community radio station where I’ve been working on Te...
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Red Mountain Fragments strewn across Whyte Ave
Finn Sound’s paintings are riddles in geometry, abstract symbol, and colour. They’re like individual cells of an unseen body, each one containing the DNA of the larger coded and playful landscape. Finn Sound is my boyfriend. And this weekend, that landscape is on display at Art Walk o...
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Finn Sound’s paintings are riddles in geometry, abstract symbol, and colour. They’re like individual cells of an unseen body, each one containing the DNA of the larger coded and playful landscape. Finn Sound is my boyfriend. And this weekend, that landscape is on display at Art Walk o...
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Scott Vaughan, What Páll Makes, and Life Without ID
This spring, I’ve had the chance to peek into what life without ID looks like in Canada, interview one of Canada’s most interesting authorities on environmental policy, and produce the most music-centred story I’ve ever done for Terra Informa. First off, the story I made for the...
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This spring, I’ve had the chance to peek into what life without ID looks like in Canada, interview one of Canada’s most interesting authorities on environmental policy, and produce the most music-centred story I’ve ever done for Terra Informa. First off, the story I made for the...
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