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It feels we just skipped from winter to summer. But is this one swallow or is it a trend? Will shoulder seasons like spring…
As a kid, I thought pilots in trouble screamed this from their cockpit to mark May Day, the start of summer in Europe…
Maye Musk was born in Regina 74 years ago. She moved to South Africa, then returned to Canada where she was a research officer…
Sixty years ago, a retired marine biologist with the US Fish and Wildlife Service wrote a book about how the pesticide DDT seemed to…
Enough to get the kayaks out of the garage onto the dock and into the water. Thus begins our annual rite of spring.
As…
“The grass has riz. I wonder where the birdies is?” Who knows if that was written by Ogden Nash, Henrik Ibsen, or e e…
My wife says don’t plant anything in Ontario until the May 24th weekend. But the impulse to declare winter over (spring officially started last…
Life’s a Venn Diagram these days. One crisis bleeds into another. Omicron mutates into BA.2. Gender collides with identity. Work and life become work/life….
Winter will repeat Mae West’s great line on Sunday when spring officially begins. But ‘official’ and ‘real’ are two different things, as Mr. Putin…
..to bring you odd news from its edges, like the Queen’s State Dinner for Vladimir Putin.; the collapse of Russian oligarchs’ wealth in the…
With those six words, President Volodymyr Zelensky has become the unlikeliest of war leaders. Before rising within 48 hours to be the most instantly…
And snowy and bleary and no fun because no sun. But here’s Michael Bublé and Idina Menzel singing (and dancing) the song that titles…
During Hurricane Katrina in 2005, many New Orleanians fled to the Louisiana Superdome which was high and dry. They waited for help to come,…
Of the hundreds of millions of dollars lost by merchants who can’t open their stores, or the billions more lost in trade because the…
It was on February 6th, 1952, when her father, King George VI, died. She was vacationing at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya at the…
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