Jennifer and Lance Spencer live in a quiet, tree-lined, family neighbourhood in Winnipeg. He is a salesman, she is an emergency room nursing manager. They’ve just had their first child, Liam. Candidates in Winnipeg South are NDPer Sean Robert; Green David Cosby; Conservative Rod Bruinooge; Liberal John Loewen; and Heidi Loewen-Steffano, of the Christian Heritage Party of Canada.

Q: How would you describe your political involvement?

Jennifer: I read the newspaper daily... have been involved with policitical party in the past.. not actively right now...

Christopher and Carolyn Phillips live in a new subdivision in London, Ontario, near one of the hardest-hit manufacturing regions in Canada. Chris, 32, works in sales and belongs to the United Church. Carolyne, 31, is a Catholic stay-at-home mom of two daughters, Charlotte, 4, and Chloé, 17 months. Candidates in London North Centre are Green Mary Ann Hodge; Liberal Glen Pearson; Conservative Paul Van Meerbergen; and NDPer Steve Holmes.

Q: How would you describe your political involvement?

WonderCafe is featuring a series of interviews with families about their thoughts on the upcoming Federal election. See the Features section for more updates from around the country.. --Ed.

By Noelle Boughton

I remember being a young journalism student and feeling too shy to meet people. I read Barbara Walters’ 1970 classic, How to talk with practically anybody about practically anything, and discovered one of the keys to her social success was asking people about themselves because, she said, people always like to talk about themselves.

WonderCafe is featuring a series of interviews with families about their thoughts on the upcoming Federal election. Watch for more interviews in the coming days. --Ed.

Canada Votes: Hay River, NT

by Pieta Wooley

In an effort to improve the WonderCafe.ca experience we're undergoing a major overhaul of the site.

The Dark Knight use pop culture iconography to cut out the religious and cultural baggage we have in our society.I've been a fan of Batman since I was five years old and watched the Adam West TV series on WUTV Channel 29 every night at 5. I've collected the comics and watched the cartoons and read the graphic novels and seen the movies. I've owned more action figures than is strictly decent to mention.

Why are so many of us looking to Sex and the City to probe our deepest desires?Outside Vancouver's premier downtown multiplex June 1, gaggles of women waited to plunk down their $12.50 for Sex and the City: The Movie. They'd dressed up. Sadly, this is the West Coast, just about as far away as you can get from Manhattan yet remain in cosmopolitan North America. So by "dressed up," I mean that the women had donned their most fashionable flip-flops, jeans and t-shirts. There wasn't a Blahnik in sight let alone a Payless pump.