The birth of mighty micro-nation Outer Baldonia

In 1949, Russell Moore Arundel bought a three-acre island off the coast of southwest Nova Scotia called Outer Bald Island. When he later proceeded to create his own nation — The Principality of Outer Baldonia — things got interesting.

First, a little background

Outer Bald Island is part of the Tusket Islands. As the crow flies, this archipelago stretches about 32 kilometres from Robert’s Island off Yarmouth to Seal Island off Shag Harbour. 

Local lore says there are 365 islands, one for...

Published in - – Red Deer Advocate – March 15, 2015

Canada’s Da Vinci Code Capital

Manitoba’s legislative building was designed more than 100 years ago, yet only recently has its freemason heritage and symbolism been discovered.

The Manitoba legislature is one of the last places you would expect to find hieroglyphics, Egyptian sphinxes, a bust of Medusa, Greek gods, hidden symbols and other elements of the occult. But all of those things were hidden in plain sight by the original architect and the builders, who were all freemasons....

Published in – The Globe and Mail – January 20, 2015

Welcome to Koreatown: Los Angeles nightlife like you haven’t seen before

Once a no-go zone, the area has evolved into an urban, textured neighbourhood, one visitors aren’t used to seeing in Southern California

It doesn’t get more quintessentially L.A. than the evening a friend, an Angeleno, recently described to me: After catching a movie in Hollywood, she and her son went to Mel’s Drive-In, a diner on the Sunset Strip that’s open round the clock...