#1. I adore the show Food Jammers, in which “Three backyard mechanics make homebrew cooking equipment using junkyard parts, found objects, and locally sourced ingredients.” It redefines the DIY cooking show…

Stumbled over it a while back and had this zoinks! moment where I realized one of the hosts is a guy I went to middle school with (Chris Martin). Then I discovered one of the other hosts is the brilliant Nobu Adilman. I can’t describe just how awesome it is. So watch it on the Food Network Canada! Or just check out their website to be convinced.

#2. Steven Keewatin Sanderson’s very powerful (and sadly sold-out) comic book “Darkness Calls” has been turned into an animation by the suicide prevention team of the Gitksan Wet’suwet’en Education Society.

I’ve been trying to get my hands on a print copy of this ever since he gave me one when we were on a Canada Council for the Arts jury together a couple years ago. Sanderson created it to: “address the epidemic suicide rate among First Nations youth. It was a project designed to introduce kids to the subject in a medium they might be more familiar with.”