It’s not like in the United States, where election day occurs like clockwork on the same week every four years — and has since before Canada was a country. North of the 49th parallel, the mechanics of calling voters to the polls are a little more complicated, with convention...
Several mariners were killed in early March by a Houthi rocket that struck a commercial vessel — the first deadly strike since the rebels started launching their attacks. Below is a look at who the Houthis are, how they became such a formidable, if unofficial, military power, and why ...
So must his $150,000 modern house, set on the site of an ancient monastery nearly an hour from London in the green suburban stockbroker belt. The walls of the bar are painted in a Marvel Comics hero-villain motif and the ceiling is draped like a sultan’s tent. The sitting roo...
In his 13 years of volunteering at the station in Hammonds Plains, Zawidzki — a civilian employee of the Defence Department — had seen brush fires, but he said the wildfire that began Sunday afternoon was a "completely different beast." It tore through the Upper Tantallo...
except for one thing:she still hadn't seen another woman in her role — not in a magazine,not on television,not in real life.Even today,less than five percent of firefighters in Canada are women.Speranza decided that she wanted to help young women see that they,too,...
It was a Friday afternoon when we arrived at the festival, at Greenwaters Park, Oakridge. I would not describe the festival site as having much in the way of ambience. The park is next to a major highway, and forest fires further upstate meant the air had a beige, dusty quality. The...
Lilly was a French Canadian girl who grew up in the farming community.When she was 16.her father her to drop out of school to contribute to the family income.With English as her second language and education.the didn’t look bright for Lilly.Lilly’s
She is the author of three novels: The Fires (1999), Holy Skirts (2005), and Friendswood (2014). Holy Skirts, a novel based on the life of the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, was a finalist for the 2005 National Book Award. Her essays and articles have appeared in The New ...
For the last 82 years, Sweden's Nobel Academy has decided who will receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, that means 36 who will be raised from the great and the near great to the living for ever. 37 today the Academy is coming under heavy critic
The movement for the fries to be declared official cultural heritage was started by UNAFRI, also known as the national association of fritkot owners. They claim that their establishments represent Belgium very well. “A cone of potato chips is Belgium in miniature(微模型). What's amazing is ...