Over the past six weeks, hundreds ofout-of-control wildfireshave spread across Canada, causing mass evacuations and burning through millions of acres. While theCanada wildfire seasonruns from May through October, such destruction this early in the 2023 season is rare. The first six weeks put it...
the idea of an initiation fee gets under my skin - big time. It's like you're telling me that I'm not good enough myself and I have to pay for the privilege to be a member? nah, I don't want any part of that.if the club is using the initiation fee to keep membership rates...
Ampeater Music is a website devoted to bridging the gap between unsigned (or just plain underexposed) artists and music lovers everywhere. Every day we feature a different artist on what we call The Ampeater Review. Each fea
Education in Canada is a provincial responsibility, but schools are administered by local school boards.Kindergarten is for children who are four or five years old. Children begin formal full-day schooling in Grade 1, when they are about six years old. They must stay in school at least until...
No vehicle is more closely associated with 1960s counterculture as theVW microbus, a frequent sightat the Woodstock music festival in 1969. The easily adaptable vehicle has appeared in many films, among them Oscar winners “Little Miss Sunshine” and “Argo.” It was also the vehicle o...
My short time in Riyadh got me really intrigued and I definitely hope to return to explore more. The country is massive, in fact it’s the biggest in the Middle East. Some parts of Saudi Arabia are off limits to foreign visitors (i.e. non-Muslims) — especially Mecca, the holy land...
The only thing the people who are arguing between China and the US being the gorilla of the 21st century will agree on is that the EU is *not* the next big thing. It's a stagnant raft of nationalities. If you're wondering, NAFTA (US-Canada-Mexico free trade zone) already outweighs...