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CALGARY: Stampede planner

It’s that time of year again in Calgary. Suits are replaced by plaid shirts and shiny belt buckles. Hay bales become a normal decoration for restaurants and bars. And douches who don straw cowboy hats and skanks who slip on too-short jean skirts and get disgustingly loaded need to apologize to real, live cowboys and [...]

VANCOUVER: Finally Japadog

I’ve wanted to try Japadog forever, but the timing or the locations were never quite right on my trips back to Vancouver. This time I was determined.

I was downtown around 11:30 a.m. but hadn’t eaten breakfast yet and didn’t relish the idea of a hot dog being my first meal of the day. So [...]

CALGARY: Of hot dogs & bread for charity

Here’s how you can get fantastic fresh bread in Calgary while supporting a good cause at the same time. U of C graduate student Aviv Fried, who bakes organic bread at home, decided to put his talent toward helping CODE, which builds and supports libraries and schools across Africa.

Every Monday afternoon, he delivers his freshly [...]

CALGARY: Obama dog

My office is very politically astute at lunch time. When Parliament got prorogued, we marked the occasion with perogies.

While a lovely meal was served to U.S. President Barack Obama on his first official visit to Canada on Thursday, we knew we had to have some sort of American food for lunch. We knew it [...]

CALGARY: Sled Island hot dogs

I’m interrupting my SF trip (a little slow on finishing up all the eating we did there) to talk about why I’m a tad sunburned.

The Sled Island festival was in full force in Calgary this weekend, and what a weekend it was. One cloudless sky, dozens of mostly indie, mostly unknown rock and folk bands [...]