#PhotographicAwe – Kahli

Episode Five – Northern Latitudes: Find Your Way PodCast Kahli is a landscape, night and travel photographer originally from Australia. Having lived in many countries around the world, Kahli now calls the Canadian Rockies home…most of the time. Kahli and I talk about the inspiration and passion that she draws from nature for her photography. …

Wildfire Management – Andrew Base

Episode Four – Northern Latitudes: Find Your Way PodCast In this episode guest, Andrew Base and I discuss the past present and future of wildfire management in Canada. Andrew is an Initial Attack Incident Commander for the Aviation, Forest Fire, & Emergency Services branch of the MNRF, Founder & Content Manager at The Canadian Wildfire …

Nature As Nurture

Episode Two – Northern Latitudes: Find Your Way PodCast In recent years studies have shown what many have intuitively known that nature may be the best doctor of all. “The physician heals, Nature makes well.” – Aristotle From the time of Greek philosophers to present-day writers like Florence Williams we have long explored the notion …

Find Your Way – Adam Shoalts

Adam Shoalts is a historian, archaeologist, geographer and Westway Explorer in Residence at the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. Shoalts holds a Ph.D. from McMaster University where his research examined the influence Indigenous oral traditions had on the fur traders in the sub-Arctic and the Pacific Northwest. The author of A History of Canada in Ten …

Wildfire Season Underway Across Canada

The 2021 Canadian wildfire season is off to a fast start and combined with thousands of Canadians hoping to stretch their legs out after lockdowns and slowdowns of the past year while sitting around the campfire that could dampen expectations.

Celebrating Winter

Visited two of my favourite Canadian cities (it’s a short list 2/4 in 24 hours) Ottawa and Kingston as they both shook off the winter blahs and celebrated the season. Winter no matter how long is always too long in the mind of most Canadians and despite modern homes, central heating and non frozen pipes …

Fire Before the Storm

Winter rolls on. A storm, the worst of the winter so far (according to the forecast), is set to roll through Eastern Ontario in the next 24 hours or so. The old saw, “Red in the morning, sailors take warning..”, despite the fact we’ll see no sailors in these parts for at least a couple …

Baby, It’s Cold Outside

A few weeks late to capitalize on the Christmas angst caused by someone, somewhere the tune was no longer appropriate for modern times… But Baby it is cold outside. But you had to know it was coming. Cold on January as predictable as the climate change denier standard response, “Gee yeah where’s your global warming …