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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...

The Most Unusual 911 Calls in Canada in 2025

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

EUROPE FROM $700 A DAY

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

January Change

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

Whimsy

Here we are, half way through the longest shortest month of the year. How do we keep going? With whimsy. The world is particularly bleak at...

Alberta coal fiasco unearths billionaire power grab

Former Premier Jason Kenney opened the province to coal mining in 2020 but backed down under public pressure in 2022, reinstating an eastern slopes moratorium that had been in place since 1976. Four coal companies are now suing the government for $13.8 billion.

A Northern Haida Gwaii Perspective

I’ve been listening to pieces of other people’s lives and their conversations with one another while traveling into the snow and sun, and back....

Freedom to Read Week reminds us to act in solidarity and fight fascism

“We can stay up late, swapping manly stories, and in the morning, I’m making waffles!” Are you hearing that in Donkey’s voice? I’ve probably taken...

Who cares about climate change anyways

On clear nights, I like to stare up at the stars and wonder about all the incredible cosmic phenomena happening out there. From small...

A viral post of an unwanted nature

As a columnist, I spend time considering what I’m going to write and the audience that is likely to enjoy it. I try to...

Backyard rinks, 

swimming  & Jenna Inglis! Hello, good people of Haida Gwaii. This week, I had the good fortune of skating and playing a bit of shinny at...

Science Matters

Fires scorching California, floods inundating Spain, heat killing and knocking monkeys from trees in Mexico, droughts scouring southern Africa, hurricanes ripping through the U.S....

My first business

I was maybe 13 years old when I started my first business. I spent most of the summer of 1990 playing soccer on the...

Trees

When was the last time you spoke to a tree? When was the first time you heard a tree talk back? Never? That’s common....

Observational Astronomy 101

Gazing up at the sky on dark winter nights can inspire a sense of wonder and curiosity about the heavens above. What is that...

Waking Up is Hard to Do

Wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up - Zack de la Rocha (Rage Against the...

Have a heart

In the summer of 2022, blue spray-painted hearts began to appear at the end of Wiggins Road in Tlell. I had to look up...

Bill Rieger: Anchored in Sandspit

Good day to the good people of Sandspit and throughout Haida Gwaii. No public service announcements from me this week. I haven’t seen anyone...

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