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Thank you, Dan Currie and D-sisive, for the chance to collaborate on this track/drama, in which I get to play a villain. Finally. Me, a bad guy. Hear that, ex-girlfriends who thought I was "too nice"? Yeah, thought so.

Read more: New Track with D-Sisive and Currie: "Lights On/Lights Off"

At the 2012 Alberta Magazine Publisher Association's (AMPA) Awards Showcase, "Under the Veil," my Eighteen Bridges article about my sister's decision to wear hijabs, won the top editorial prize, "Best Alberta Story."

To win was thrilling and flattering, and for the rest of the conference the second-most popular thing people congratulated me on (the first being my beard; see photo). I was surprised to have to make a speech (ever watch an awards show and roll your eyes at the recipient who "didn't prepare a speech," because, come one, really — who doesn't prepare a speech? Yeah, well, I get it now). So I threw out thanks to the terrific editors Curtis Gillespie and Lynn Coady, and publishers Joyce Byrne and Ruth Kelly. But I forgot Kim Larson (who got some prizes herself, as always) and Jessica Fern Facette, the incredible art team who did in pictures what I could never do in words. So, thanks to everyone for making it happen! Read the article here.

Well. this was a surprise. I wrote an article for AOL Travel Canada and it was published in Huffington Post Canada. Cool with me. Enjoy.

5 Favourite 'Planter-To-Plate' Restaurants: Urban Agriculture Expert Shares Picks

Community gardens, backyard coops, patio-grown tomatoes, rooftop beekeepers - these were the signs that sent writer Jennifer Cockrall-King, who blogs at FoodGirl.ca, around the world to France, the U.K., Cuba and the United States to find out why, exactly, people are bringing farms into cities. In Food and the City: Urban Agriculture and the New Food Revolution (Prometheus Books), Cockrall-King audits the trends, the history and the future of city farming for a comprehensive look at our changing eating culture.

Here's one more sign of the times: menus built around house-grown ingredients. From Calgary to Toronto, more Canadian chefs are plucking their own greens. These aren't farm-to-table eateries so much as they are planter-to-plate.I asked Cockrall-King for her five favourite Canadian places to dine that have urban agriculture initiatives. [continue reading]

In the spring 2012 issue of Leap, the Alberta Cancer Foundation's health prevention magazine. you'll find this article I wrote about what it means to be a man exposed to HPV — who likely passed it to his partner — and why it's about to become as much of a men's health issue as prostate cancer. My infinite gratitude goes to Janae, my soon-to-be wife, for bravely letting me use us as subjects to discuss an important issue. Read the full article.