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Dec 19, 2024 | 
canadiangeographic.ca | Monica Kidd
Centuries before it was drawn on a map, Canada’s Northwest Passage was a place of desire and empire. Hoping for a western route between Europe and Asia, England sent John Cabot to search for it in 1497. Following in his wake went explorers the likes of Martin Frobisher, William Edward Parry and John Franklin, who was declared missing, along with his two ships Erebus and Terror and his crew of 129 men, in 1848.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
canadiangeographic.ca | Monica Kidd
Des siècles avant d’être tracé sur une carte, le passage du Nord-Ouest du Canada était un lieu de désir et d’empire. Espérant une route vers l’Ouest entre l’Europe et l’Asie, l’Angleterre a envoyé Jean Cabot à sa recherche en 1497. Dans son sillage, des explorateurs comme Martin Frobisher, William Edward Parry et John Franklin, porté disparu avec ses deux navires Erebus et Terror et son équipage de 129 hommes, en 1848.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
thewalrus.ca | Monica Kidd
When Elizabeth Fox moved from Athabasca to the central Alberta hamlet of Elnora in 2013, finding a family doctor close to home was a breeze. “I was pregnant,” she says, “so they’ll all take you.”But seven or eight years later, Fox’s clinic emailed her to say she was being de-rostered—removed from her doctor’s list of patients—and would have to find a new doctor. The doctor didn’t come in very much, and they needed her for other patients.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
theindependent.ca | Monica Kidd
Just before midnight on Thursday, Sept. 26, Hurricane Helene slammed into Florida’s Big Bend area at the top the panhandle. The Category 4 storm packed winds that topped 225 km per hour, caused storm surges taller than a bungalow, and mulched whole neighbourhoods in a matter of minutes.
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Oct 22, 2024 | 
theindependent.ca | Monica Kidd
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Oct 1, 2024 | 
albertaviews.ca | Monica Kidd
When Elizabeth Fox moved from Athabasca to the central Alberta hamlet of Elnora in 2013, finding a family doctor close to home was a breeze. “I was pregnant,” she says, “so they’ll all take you.”But seven or eight years later, her clinic emailed Fox to tell her she was being de-rostered—removed from her doctor’s list of patients—and would have to find a new doctor. She didn’t come in very much, and they needed the doctor for other patients.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
shop.canadiangeographic.ca | Monica Kidd |Thomas Lundy |David Geselbracht |Cara McKenna
FEATURESTHE POLITICS OF WILDFree-roaming horses have existed in Alberta for hundreds of years. Some say they're a nuisance, while others believe they have their own place in the landscape. By Monica KiddPhotography by Sandy SharkeyPROTECTORS OF AQVIQTUUQThe northern tip of mainland Canada is a paradise undisturbed by mining. Residents of Taloyoak, Nunavut, are fighting to keep it that way.
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Mar 18, 2024 | 
thewalrus.ca | Monica Kidd
Infectious diseases physician Stephen Vaughan stands at a sink in Calgary’s South Health Campus wearing a surgeon’s scrubs, cap, and mask, washing up with orthopaedic surgeon Stephen Hunt. Inside the operating room, the two men receive sterile towels and gowns and take their place next to seventy-four-year-old Boyd English, already asleep on the table. English has a hip infection and he needs to have the joint washed out. Again. Hunt draws a scalpel across English’s right hip.
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Dec 13, 2023 | 
tnq.ca | Monica Kidd
I want to be a plotter. Oh, how I want to be a plotter. In the way I want my car to stay clean or to keep my spice drawer organized, I want to be a plotter. Each time I start a new project, I delude myself with an outline and visions of stepwise arguments, character development, of writing with the end in mind. But — and this is not an insouciant gesture toward having some rare and untameable intelligence — I just can’t do it.
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Oct 10, 2023 | 
canadiangeographic.ca | Monica Kidd
On the counter of Fudge’s Store on the McCallum waterfront sits one beauty of a scale. It’s high-gloss white with a little rust around the edge of the pan. Over the years, it’s become more than a mere official instrument of Canada’s weights and measures. A smile peeks from behind Michelle Durnford’s mask as she describes how people used to bring babies to the store to weigh them. She was one of them.
