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Category: Life in Canada
The Coldest February Since Eighteen-Something
They said on the radio today this was the coldest February since eighteen-something. After a certain point cold is cold is cold.
Butterflies in the Canadian Classroom
The Monarch butterfly’s migration is one of the most amazing in the insect world – which makes for a fascinating school science project.
Point & Shoot: Shopping in a snowstorm
Our weekends generally follow a familiar pattern: breakfast like kings, lounge around in PJ’s until the afternoon, then get out and do something with the remainder of the day…
Point & Shoot: Flash Freeze
I’m starting to think I should get my own map and ten minute slot as everything I post recently revolves around the weather, but it’s unavoidably the big story here in Canada right now. After a couple of years of unseasonably warm winters, this ‘mutha’ has left us reeling…
Point & Shoot: Polar Plunge
I skipped breakfast, grabbed my camera and jumped in the jeep. The Polar Plunge started at 11am and I knew from past experience a couple of minutes delay would mean missing the whole thing…
Point & Shoot: The Icestorm Cometh
I fell asleep to the sound of ice pellets tapping the window while blue-white flashes from exploding transformers and arcing power lines lit up the sky. In the early hours of the morning the power finally failed…
Christmas, You’ve Changed!
Christmas in another country brings a curious reminder of the diversity to be found in the universal…
Childhood Is A Foreign Country
At five I played ‘Ring-O-Ring-O-Roses’ and ‘What’s The Time Mr Wolf’. I went to birthday parties, passed the parcel, ate cubes of pineapple and cheese off cocktail sticks without ever wondering why, and danced unabashedly to ‘The Birdie Song’…
Back-To-School With A Snowbird Fly-Past
For the students of Captain Michael VandenBos Public School here in Whitby, the first day back after summer break holds an extra frisson of excitement…