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Even the groundhog stayed in as storm cancels Groundhog Day event

A major winter storm on the East Coast disrupted one of Canada’s best-known Groundhog Day traditions this year, keeping Shubenacadie Sam out of public view on Feb. 2. Officials at...

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From roadside to shoreline

I never thought we would get one, but we did. Our family recently inherited...

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The Most Unusual 911 Calls in Canada in 2025

Every year, police services and emergency communications centres across Canada issue reminders about what...

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EUROPE FROM $700 A DAY

“Do you know where you are going?” the flight attendant asks. It doesn’t matter...

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January Change

It is January. It is a dark month, full of weather delays and changing...

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A plan to retire really rich on Haida Gwaii

As I was driving home from work the other day, I was musing that I really do have one of the most wonderful commutes...

Picking up a mixed message

Dear Annie, My partner and I have been dating for more than five years. I was using their tablet this week, and a message popped...

On eating trees

While prepping one of our most popular desserts — the now iconic Spruce Tip Key Lime Pie — I finally exhausted our coveted stockpile...

Relationship rhododendrons

When I was a child, my Scottish mother would refer to the beautiful, huge flowering bushes in our yard as “rhoddies.” As a result, I...

Risk Taking = Community Need

I've been called a lot of things in my life. Everything from “acrimonious mustard stain” to “zit-producing anxiety dumpling.” But never, and I mean never...

Tll.aal ~ Giid Tll’juus (Tlell ~ Balance)

Giid Tll’juus means balance in X̱aayda Kil. It’s a state of being we necessarily strive for in every moment of our lives. What hangs in...

Mother’s Day letdown

Dear Annie, Yet another Mother’s Day has come and gone, and yet another huge letdown. Not to mention the same treatment for our anniversary and...

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