Orion The Hunter
by Gary Boyle - The Backyard Astronomer
For obvious reasons, winter in Canada does not entice people to venture outdoors to stargaze. The nights can...
One week to World Cancer Day 2021
We are one week away from World Cancer Day 2021 on February 4. Led by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), World Cancer...
Isolation, Solitude, Evolution
by Elva Patterson Rutters RSSW
Strange words to lump together, yet full of relative connotations. With Covid, the order has been to "stay at home";...
Rural Internet Access
No doubt many of us have felt the frustration or despair of sketchy internet over the last ten months. Since March 2020, kids have...
WSIB denies most workers claiming for Sexual Harassment
by Anne-Marie Langan
Were you aware that a large portion of claims made to WSIB by workers who have experienced sexual harassment at work are...
Sustainability
This is the first in a series of articles on sustainability. Going forward, there is a space for discussion of all things sustainable: local...
Tiffanny the Tea Trickster
by Isabelle Nadeau
Once upon a time, there were two sisters living together in an old farmhouse. Both these sisters were vile, and the people...
What is Roblox?
by Naomi Jackson
You may have heard kids talk about something called Roblox, and are wondering what it is. Is it a game, and why...
That’s not the way we used to do it!
by Bob Porteous
Remember when we used to have to go outside to go to the toilet? Maybe some of you who were raised in...
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...