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Drawing water from a spring inspires reflection on where this essential resource comes from.
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Buffy Sainte-Marie never falls behind. Her new album Power In The Blood, released when she’s 74, appears to coincide with the conclusion of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. In this June 2015 interview with Wendy Mesley on CBC’s The National … Continue reading
The charming wildflower, goldthread, is one of the earliest to appear in Central Ontario woodlands, even before trilliums. The ground around our cottage is covered with it, so I had a chance to take photographs when we visited for a … Continue reading
Well-known Canadian author and environmentalist Farley Mowat has died at 92. His 1963 bestseller, Never Cry Wolf, is credited with changing public perception of wolves as savage killers to one more sympathetic. His environmental advocacy and ability to spin a … Continue reading
A sudden, massive die-off of bumblebees in Oregon is blamed on application of pesticide to trees for cosmetic purposes. President Barack Obama released a Climate Action Plan aimed at cutting carbon pollution, preparing the United States for impacts of climate … Continue reading
Eden Mills Writers’ Festival on Sunday devoted one session to ecopoetry. To my shame I was unfamiliar with all three writers, apparently established voices in Canada’s living literary pantheon. I missed the first one, Roo Borson, because I wanted to … Continue reading
It is hard to know the Arctic. The idea of north is difficult to verbalize even here in Canada where we have so much of it. It is particularly awkward relating to such vast territory that belongs in our national … Continue reading