Garden and Water Birds
This week has seen a few different Spring arrivals, despite the changeable and quite cold weather! Previously, I had a fleeting glimpse of a...
Scouts Canada’s Ultimate Camping Hacks for winter camping
from News Media Canada
Winter and camping, an oxymoron? Or the ultimate outdoor adventure? The experts at Scouts Canada agree with the latter! Picture this,...
A second day of spring surprise
On this second day of Spring whilst driving home, after my customary Tuesday morning breakfast with friends, I was intent on taking the scenic...
Bring On The Sun
by Gary Boyle - The Backyard Astronomer
Our daytime star is an enormous ball of hot plasma. Like a string of pearls, 109 earths line up...
Reconciliation needs truth
Next Saturday, September 30, is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, and the main emphasis will be, as it ought to be, on...
BLACK HISTORY MONTH: Canada’s only surviving quadruple amputee of the First World War
As February marks Black History Month, The War Amps is paying tribute to Ethelbert “Curley” Christian (1883-1954), one of the Association’s founding members who...
OFA identifies opportunities for economic growth
by Paul Maurice, Director, Ontario Federation of Agriculture
We’re now into the final weeks of the provincial election, and Election Day will soon be upon...
Christmas 2020
by Laurie Hicks
For the night before Christmas it was awfully dead,
Nothing to do so we’d just gone to bed.
The stockings were hung, of course...
Can you afford to get married?
by David Herman
I am considered one of “the most vulnerable”, over 70 with a compromised immune system, I have been spending most of my...
Auntie Anabel
Amazon made $386 billion in the pandemic last year. Amazon made off like a bunch of bandits in this lockdown too, while the average...