Fort McMurray, Canada

Well the time has come. I've resigned from my job, packed all my bags, sold my truck (which everybody knows was heart breaking) and ate a meal with everybody I know. Nothing left to do but.. PARTY. Last weekend I had three parties all different and all ...

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When I was three, my parents took me to Montreal to go Christmas shopping. We went to La Baie and got lost in the city's underground maze of stores. I don't know if it was my first time outside the country of my birth. If you asked my parents, they ...

The story of this trip begins on a snowy, cold, and truly miserable day in Fredericton, New Brunswick last February. Fredericton is a lovely town, beautiful in the summer, but the outdoor life of a student coupled with two weeks of -20 something weather ...

I have decided to return to Fort McMurray to work. Like many Albertans, like many Canadians in fact, I leave the comforts of home, friends, family and the familiar, to seek my income from the cold Alberta North oil industry. Why would anyone do this? It ...