by Jim Algie | May 24, 2025 | Blog
Jim Algie reminisces about the last time he saw the Stanley Cup celebrations in person and how they stacked up against the bedlam in Barcelona after a football victory by Barca against their chief nemeses from Real Madrid. The Oilers’ overtime winner to...
by Jim Algie | May 4, 2025 | Blog
It’s great to see five Canadian teams make the NHL playoffs this year, but nostalgic or sentimental allegiances can make it the thorny task of untangling the winners from the losers and the roses from the pricks all the more difficult, writes Jim Algie. ...
by Jim Algie | Oct 18, 2024 | Blog, Music, Travel Tales
Jim Algie talks about the most representative photo he has ever taken of his home province of Alberta, which he snapped at the Sasquatch Music and Arts Festival in Alberta’s Drayton Valley in 2007. We were walking towards the main music stage and had to pass by...
by Jim Algie | Sep 18, 2024 | Blog, Book Reviews
The Trial by Franz Kafka is one of those books that continues to bewilder many readers even a century after it was written. As a student and critic of existential lit and philosophy, Jim Algie makes a case for the novel’s ongoing relevance. Among the dwindling...
by Jim Algie | May 21, 2024 | Blog, Music, Personalities
Jim Algie extols the virtues of breaking free from his maximum security comfort zone for a rocking trip to Mexico City, the biggest megalopolis in the Americas, to see the Buzzcocks and Modern English. . When Rhishja and I were doing our wedding party/honeymoon at...
by Jim Algie | Oct 24, 2023 | Blog, Personalities
For what would have been Melanie Klimchuk’s 60th birthday this year, which was commemorated by an event in Toronto, I wrote this appreciation of her and our four decades of friendship. In the early 1980s, I was hosting a music-comedy show on the University of...
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