Preparations are taking shape for my upcoming trip to Québec’s Basse-Côte-Nord (Lower North Shore), a remote section of coast adjoining Labrador. As part of an assignment for Canadian Geographic, I’ll be ski-dooing from Natashquan to Blanc Sablon.
I first became interested in this trip a couple summer ago, when Kathleen and I drove Hwy 138 out […]

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Yesterday, George Bush completed his doughy pretzel of logic: as recently as early fall it was “we’re winning in Iraq”; then, in the wake of compelling election results & the findings of his own Iraq commission he admits it’s time to listen & be open to alternative ideas; now, while confessing he’s ultimately responsible for […]

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Now that a massive chunk of the Arctic ice shelf has calved itself off like a drifting tundra cracker—due to a variety of factors, all of which could be swept under the header of ‘global warming’—we have our second symbolic event to cast a shadow over the new year. The execution of Saddam Hussein was […]

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so sayeth photographer Russell Monk, as a caption to this pic he sent me to celebrate the new year. now, just how do we go about climbing that thing?

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