by Jim Algie | Oct 14, 2025 | Blog, Stories
Canadian Thanksgiving on Monday, October 13, 2025 will be a more subdued affair this year with up to 25 percent of the country’s citizens suffering from food insecurity. Around the world food prices are surging while wages stagnate. For these belt-tightening...
by Jim Algie | Jul 27, 2022 | Blog, Book Reviews, Press, Stories
Steph Johnson gives Jim Algie’s short story collection The Phantom Lover two thumbs up on Thailand website. “People are a lot like snakes. They’re very fast and tricky, and you can never predict how harmless or dangerous they might turn out to be.”...
by Jim Algie | Jul 20, 2020 | Blog, My Writings, Personalities, Stories
What sort of cold-blooded executioner leans over a sub-machine-gun bolted to the floor, takes aim at a target on a white curtain in front of a condemned man strapped to a cross, and then pumps 10 to 15 bullets into his back? A family man, a rock musician, an altruist,...
by Jim Algie | Jun 9, 2020 | Blog, Features, Music, Personalities, Profiles, Stories
On the first anniversary of the passing of Anthony Bourdain, Jim Algie looks at the spiking suicide rate in the West and how a man who survived a leap from the Golden Gate Bridge is leading a revolution in suicide prevention and awareness. My brother and I were nine...
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