I moved to Vancouver from Montreal in the early summer of 1970. I was 14. It was my first time flying and the only memory I have of the...

When I was Editor-in-Chief of The Province, I had the privilege of going to the Merritt Mountain Music Festival every year and...

Mike Scott is the founding member, chief songwriter, guitar wizard and lead singer for The Waterboys, a band that has been an obsession...

Larry was the first person I loved who was not my mother, father, sister or brother. We met when I was 12 years old. Thirty months later,...

I stole a pack of cigarettes once. I was 15 years old. It was on the last day of a summer trip to Montreal. I wasn’t the best kid growing...

"Quitting seemed an unthinkable option. So, I pushed on, and, in that moment, in the instance of that decision, who I am changed."

In 1968, at the age of 12, I had my first best friend. Ricky was different from me in a number of ways, but those ways were not as...