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By Tooker Gomberg, Montreal, Canada. Spacecraft pose catastrophic nuclear threat. Something fell from the sky Sunday night, and it wasn’t a lucky star. News stories reported how the Mars space probe “harmlessly” crashed back to […]

By Tooker Gomberg, Montreal, Canada. Montreal’s great growing pains. To survive in Montreal one must learn a special dance. The dance of the jaywalker. Apparently the word doesn’t exist in French. If you’re here, and […]

By Tooker Gomberg, Montreal Canada. The World Conservation Union eats Caribou while species disappear. Bring together 2500 environmentalists and what do they talk about? Aliens. What do they distribute? Photos of John Bobbitt’s severed penis. […]

By Tooker Gomberg, Montreal, Canada. Car sharing is a convenient and economical alternative to ownership. Any city dweller would agree: there are too many cars, and we all suffer the consequences. From air pollution to […]

By Tooker Gomberg, Temagami, Ontario. What a lovely place for a protest camp. “We will do whatever we can to create jobs” I heard federal Finance Minister Paul Martin say the other day on the […]

By Tooker Gomberg. Glacier, Montana. Cliff hangers, storm water, and Green politics. Cafes are often breeding grounds for strange tales. And here we were, not far from the Alberta border in a Montana cafe, listening […]

By Tooker Gomberg, Pincher Creek, Alberta. Wind as a clean energy source. Everybody talks about the weather. Occasionally I curse it. Frankly, I get a bit uptight trying to pedal when the wind blasts my […]

By Tooker Gomberg, Banff, Alberta. Cyclist’s fuel, mountain wildlife, and cool clean water. Never before have I felt self-conscious about my weight. But everybody seems to be commenting: “Quite a load you have there,” or […]

By Tooker Gomberg, Jasper, Alberta. Music, ducks, and late night riding… Yes, we kind of cheated. We didn’t ride our bikes all the way from Edmonton to Jasper. The train helped us out. Then again, […]

By Tooker Gomberg, Riverdale, Alberta. The angels smiled on Tooker and Angela’s ceremony. A couple lurked in the bushes – uninvited guests watching the ceremony… It happened on Sunday in Riverdale, out of doors and […]