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In Quebec, where the Magpie River in 2021 was recognized as a legal person with nine legal rights, including the right to flow, to…
Question: do we enjoy things because they’re new or because they’re old?
Answer: Yes.
This is true in every endeavour, culture, life, and even secret life….
I asked myself this on Monday when I and 600 others gathered at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto to hear the British writer…
I wish they had the grace to be content being all four of those things.
But no.
So many of them, especially in America,…
Anthony Burgess wrote that, and as someone accused of rushing to go to the opening of an envelope, Not Going couldn’t come a moment…
In 2015, billionaire John Paulson donated $400 million to Harvard, the largest donation in its history. This prompted Malcolm Gladwell to enquire what …
Twenty years ago, at 4:10 p.m. on August 14, the power went out across eastern Canada and the US, sparking the largest blackout in…
Hard time finding a family doctor? Scads of them have left town or stopped running clinics. It will get worse. Nearly 20% of Toronto…
Whatever happened to the good old days when the US government could hush up any news of UFOs?
Now renamed UAPs (Unidentified Aerial…
On Tuesday, Fijian Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka announced he would make a state visit to China to meet Xi Jinping.
By Thursday, however, that…
We are avid kayakers who have paddled the waters of Georgian Bay for 30 years. There’s one big risk known to everyone there: the…
I’ll be 74 next month, so I’m used to forgetting things like my best friend’s name, or my PIN number, or my glasses and…
The caboose here is the submersible Titan which imploded with all five souls aboard on its way to visit the RMS Titanic, resting 12,500…
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