My article on Québec’s Lower North Shore is finally out in the current issue of Canadian Geographic. You can find a snippet here. Comments most welcome, especially if you’re a Coaster.
To supplement the magazine story they also had me draft a web journal of my journey by snowmobile.
Material from the trip will likely find it’s […]

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The South Pacific nation of Vanuatu (220,000 people dispersed over a vast archipelago) has long been an incubator for some of the more curious manifestations of human culture. Most famously, in the aftermath of World War II Vanuatu became a hotbed of cargo cults, one of which still worships noted xenophobe Price Philip. Less known […]

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Successfully completed one leg of the journey to Blanc Sablon, where temperatures were suspiciously mild–around -1 to -5 C in the daytime. Enjoyed mostly clear blue skies all the way, and no breakdowns or accidents as I learn to make nice with my “snow machine” over 440km of varying trail conditions. As the big storm […]

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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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Two magazine articles I recently wrote are now out. First, Maisonneuve’s latest has my feature on ’60s experimental filmmaker Arthur Lipsett and the excellent new documentary about his life, Remembering Arthur. Lipsett’s first short for the NFB, Very Nice, Very Nice (1961) helped revolutionize avant-garde and mainstream cinema; its non-linear editing juxtaposed faces and architecture, […]

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