Driving past Calgary I was struck by the way it had grown in the two and a half years since I was last here. Wooden suburban family houses roll out over the bare hills. It's the oil money that makes Alberta rich and Calgary is the commercial centre for the lucrative tar sand extraction that…Read more Canada Blog #2

Dawn over the Bow River outside Banff a couple of days ago. It's often hard to get out into some of the beautiful places I go to but I've never been to Banff without taking a hike.

Canada again, for maybe the 10th time with Oysterband. I'm sitting in the tour bus rolling over the brown prairies of Alberta, the Rockies a distant icy crust on the horizon. We flew in to Toronto last week and I remember waking in the night to look down on the vast St Lawrence river, imagining…Read more Canada Blog #1