Category: Storytelling
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Bubna: An Idea is Born

I am writing a novel, an historical fiction called ‘Bubna’. It is a story about one of the most eccentric and impactful women to have ever emigrated to Canada. She arrived in 1914, eventually settling in Kelowna BC to build the Hotel Eldorado on the shores of Lake Okanagan. It was an astonishing achievement one…
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Revisiting ‘Nice’

‘Go Canada Go!’ It’s not exactly your heart pounding populist mantra. Even drunk it’s tough to get all lathered up about it. I know I’ve tried it. A few times. It’s so humiliating. Even ‘Go Canada Go’ is nice. Fact is we are nice. And it is more than just a few nice people, Canadians…