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Walking up to Princess Auto Stadium with hundreds of other ticket holding Bomber fans is a feeling like few other. Win or lose, it’s going to be a good day. The sentiment holds true because it’s the pre-season and what’s on the scoreboard doesn’t matter. The game won’t even be televised but myself and 27 thousand others are here to watch it go down in real time.
In the late hours of April 28th, I stayed up to watch the polls reporting the results of the 2025 federal election. The winning party faces the tyranny of the American presidency which may last as long as the reign of the Prime Minister elected on this night.
From the turn of the 20th century, when cars first replaced the horse and the outrage that came with it, to the modern era of transitioning from the internal combustion engines to electric vehicles, Appleyard tells the story of how cars changed the world.
In Autumn of 2023 I conducted what may be my favourite interview of all time when I spoke with Beatrice Mosionier, author of In Search of April Raintree. I’m grateful for every interview I get to conduct but this one was particularly special. 40 years after publication April Raintree is still in libraries and book stores across the country telling the story of a Métis family from Manitoba.