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It was on February 6th, 1952, when her father, King George VI, died. She was vacationing at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya at the…
Unless, of course, you’re getting old: you feel cold more no matter what you’re wearing. But there are other defences against the snowy blast….
Here we were all complaining that winters aren’t what they used to be. Gray and dark, with an odd sprinkling of indifferent snow, white…
Shakespeare’s words from Richard III express “the idea that we have reached the depth of our unhappiness and that better times are ahead.” That…
Well, it’s always darkest before the dawn, even if it takes the sun three years to rise.
“Cold and closed” sums up things nicely right…
This last collection of oddities from 2021 is awash with lists because, as one psychiatrist believes, lists satisfy four needs: catch-up, containment, crafting and…
Even though we’re late risers on Christmas Day, Santa still hasn’t arrived. We hear there were long delays since he has to show his…
Thank you for that, Noel Coward. It’s what oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed for lots of people this time of year….
That’s not how the snow’s lain round so far this year. Where are the snows of yesteryear? I remember growing up in Edmonton, we…
Here I was, so proud of my three jabs, and going out to a concert, and dining with friends, and getting on a plane…
Electrically-heated parkas, socks and gloves are all the rage this winter. But so are parkas with onboard Wifi Hot Spots and heated battery packs….
Three old Major League umpires were teaching their trainees how to call strikes.
“I calls ‘em as I sees ‘em,” the first umpire said.
“I calls…
In the pandemic’s early days, when 80% of Ontario’s COVID deaths were from people in long-term care homes, the province called the military for…
The weather this year in BC has been so extreme that it’s sprouted four new forbidding phrases: heat dome, weather bomb, bomb cyclone, and…
We went to the Toronto Symphony last week and heard their first live performance at Roy Thomson Hall in 20 months.
I got an e-mail…
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