Glenn Kubish

Welcome to #PedalToTheMetal2020! PedalToTheMetal2020 is a lot of things. Above all, it is a community celebration of the art of Slavo Cech.  Slavo is cool. He is a metal sculptor who lives and works and thinks about living and working in Edmonton. That's him in the pic above all tuxed up after presenting the dude in the middle, Prince Edward, with a Slavo Cech bison sculpture during a City Hall ceremony with His Nibs, Mayor Don Iveson. We're lucky Slavo is creating in our midst.  So, the idea behind PedalToTheMetal2020 is to ride our bikes along an 18-km route in west Edmonton and stop at some of Slavo's art in yards along the way. You'll see bears, coyotes, magnificent gates, fences, trellises, bullrushes, lilies and gorgeous abstract shapes. Joe Biden endorses PedalToTheMetal2020, by the way. At each stop, Slavo, astride his trusted mountain bike, will talk about the artwork and take a question or two. You can also share your thoughts and questions with him along the ...

Bruny Surin knew before the rest of us did. As soon as the Canadian sprinter transferred the baton and the heart of a nation safely into the left hand of teammate Donovan Bailey, Surin raised his arms in victory. Roughly nine seconds later, his celebration was confirmed. The Canadian men's 4x100 relay team had won the gold medal at the Olympic Games in Atlanta. "Oh, if you're Canadian, you have to love Saturday nights in Georgia!" said CBC commentator Don Wittman as Bailey crossed the finish line. Today is the 24th anniversary of that consummate team accomplishment. It was later punctuated by a bit of Canadiana trope, as Bailey said sorry to his teammates—Surin, Glenroy Gilbert and Robert Esmie—for easing up at the finish line. Not easing up would have meant a world record and not just the gold medal. It was the second most amazing track victory I had ever seen. The most thrilling, of course, was Mario Nemec's win in the 1100 metre race at the zone...