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maybeedmonton: Another view of Fort Edmonton and the newly built Legislature Building, Edmonton, Alberta, 1915.

maybeedmonton:

Another view of Fort Edmonton and the newly built Legislature Building, Edmonton, Alberta, 1915.

ois:   This is the waterpark at West Edmonton Mall. It looks very different now, but this is what the tube ride looked like when I was a kid. I went on those rides so many times in my childhood, I can still picture every turn and waterfall in my head. One time I got stuck and couldn’t get myself moving again and my family was swept onwards with the current and other people kept going past and none of the lifeguards were around to help me and I thought I was going to be stuck there forever. Tube rides still make me feel very anxious.

ois:

 

This is the waterpark at West Edmonton Mall. It looks very different now, but this is what the tube ride looked like when I was a kid. I went on those rides so many times in my childhood, I can still picture every turn and waterfall in my head.

One time I got stuck and couldn’t get myself moving again and my family was swept onwards with the current and other people kept going past and none of the lifeguards were around to help me and I thought I was going to be stuck there forever. Tube rides still make me feel very anxious.

dustypink

pppapaya: I’ve always loved this mural. Yep, makes me smile every time I walk by.

pppapaya:

I’ve always loved this mural.

Yep, makes me smile every time I walk by.

pointandclickphilistine

New Music Sunday

Sundays are made for new music. At least, in my world they are. Nothing better than sitting down with a cup of tea on a quiet Sunday and finding some new tunes to get me through the coming week.

This Sunday is all about Christmas albums. I’ve become addicted to tracking down Christmas music that I actually like. Turns out, my friends and favourite artists actually make that task fairly easy. Here are a few of the albums I’ll be treating myself to this week:

(Click through to download. Most are available on bandcamp. All are reasonably priced. Some are free. A few support excellent causes.)

I’d love to hear your recommendations - anything I’m missing out on?

southernsouls:

Wool On Wolves performing “Love Is Learned” in a friends basement while in Toronto

designator: Sometimes it’s hard to remember that this is downtown Edmonton… (well, just down the hill from downtown) It looks like the middle of nowhere. Good?

designator:

Sometimes it’s hard to remember that this is downtown Edmonton… (well, just down the hill from downtown) It looks like the middle of nowhere. Good?

designator

I have a very distinct memory of my grandma insisting on us eating by this statue when I was a child. theblanketfort: Share a burger, enjoy some public art. (Taken with instagram)

I have a very distinct memory of my grandma insisting on us eating by this statue when I was a child.

theblanketfort:

Share a burger, enjoy some public art. (Taken with instagram)

maybeedmonton: Dolores, the Studebaker, and a friendly deer near Jasper, on the road to Lac Beauvert, Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada, summer 1955.

maybeedmonton:

Dolores, the Studebaker, and a friendly deer near Jasper, on the road to Lac Beauvert, Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canada, summer 1955.

I think about this every time I see a five dollar bill now. lumberjack: Wilfrid Laurier makes a good Snape. I wish I had thought of this.

I think about this every time I see a five dollar bill now.

lumberjack:

Wilfrid Laurier makes a good Snape.

I wish I had thought of this.

lumberjack

To help warm up the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra Chorus this season, we asked Calgarians to tweet their tips on how to keep warm in Calgary’s winter wonderland.

calgaryherald:

Every year, noted Calgary photographer George Webber climbs behind the wheel and takes off across Alberta. With a seasoned eye, he captures the unique images of the cities, towns and villages Albertans call home.

I would love to do this.

calgaryherald

beatingaroundthebush: best of times in calgary Bon Iver on “Calgary”: This is an album about places — including Calgary. What’s behind that song? It doesn’t seem to be directly about Calgary. Each song is different. Calgary is a place I’ve never been, for example. So I was able to look at it in a certain way. It’s like a wedding-vow song between two people that haven’t met. Having never been to Calgary, you tend to beautify it or put it into some form in your mind. When I think of Calgary, I think of an isolated capital city. I think about the Rockies. I think about high places. I’ve always sort of dreamt about it. So Calgary became this place that true love comes from. Are you more eager to visit there now to see how it compares, or more wary of having the reality burst your bubble? Kind of neither. If I went to Calgary, I would probably be there for a total of 36 hours. That’s not how you experience a place or judge a place. So it works just as well as a dream as it would if I moved there tomorrow and lived there every single day for the rest of my life. I would still have questions about it. I’ve spent a lot of time in Calgary. I still romanticize it. There’s something special about that city.

beatingaroundthebush:

best of times in calgary

Bon Iver on “Calgary”:

This is an album about places — including Calgary. What’s behind that song? It doesn’t seem to be directly about Calgary.

Each song is different. Calgary is a place I’ve never been, for example. So I was able to look at it in a certain way. It’s like a wedding-vow song between two people that haven’t met. Having never been to Calgary, you tend to beautify it or put it into some form in your mind. When I think of Calgary, I think of an isolated capital city. I think about the Rockies. I think about high places. I’ve always sort of dreamt about it. So Calgary became this place that true love comes from.

Are you more eager to visit there now to see how it compares, or more wary of having the reality burst your bubble?

Kind of neither. If I went to Calgary, I would probably be there for a total of 36 hours. That’s not how you experience a place or judge a place. So it works just as well as a dream as it would if I moved there tomorrow and lived there every single day for the rest of my life. I would still have questions about it.

I’ve spent a lot of time in Calgary. I still romanticize it. There’s something special about that city.

Honeybee - Wool on Wolves

Oh Canada… so much Edmonton love!

Love this! maybeedmonton: “The first of a new monthly ten jam compilation featuring Edmonton talent. These little compilations are for everyone but they are mainly curated from the perspective of introducing the world outside Edmonton to the exhaustive wealth hiding within it.” Get it on bandcamp.

Love this!

maybeedmonton:

“The first of a new monthly ten jam compilation featuring Edmonton talent. These little compilations are for everyone but they are mainly curated from the perspective of introducing the world outside Edmonton to the exhaustive wealth hiding within it.”

Get it on bandcamp.

Canadians voted today…

…or at least 57%* of us did.

I recently taught a grade six class about the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Part of the curriculum focuses on how each right has an accompanying responsibility.

Yes, Canadians have a right to vote. We’re lucky. This is a right many around the world do not have. It is a right many are willing to die for. But with that right to vote comes a responsiblity to vote. That is your duty as a member of this democracy. If you do not vote, you fail to uphold your end of the deal. Without your participation, democracy fails.

A classroom full of twelve year olds understood this perfectly. Did half of Canada miss that lesson?

(*votes are still being counted, that number might change slightly)