If you haven’t stocked up on products to keep your organized in 2025, the art calendar featuring Susie’s work is a must. Susie Matthias is multi-talented. Her remarkable skill is evident in a gorgeous 2025 art calendar that has been shipped to homes far and wide. If you haven’t stocked up on products to keep your...
Tag - Jan/Feb 2025
By Brian Morin The idea that winter can be enjoyable is a concept that is foreign to a lot of Canadians. I know far too many who, like groundhogs, tend to hibernate from December through March, venturing out only for work, food or essential appointments. Of course, there are sports enthusiasts that revel in the sight of snow...
By George Coyle Sun, sand and warm hospitality await you in Barbados. The small, tropical island offers a big, friendly welcome along with diverse attractions. In fact, the cuisine and leisure options are as compelling as the famous beaches. We stayed on the island’s western side, in a villa arranged through Blue Sky Luxury...
Now and Then By Iris Winston The daily pills are all set out. Alongside the assorted prescription medications and vitamins for me and my husband are pills to protect the cat and dog from ticks and possible tapeworm incursions. The pile of meds is an indication that this is a senior household. As we grow older, keeping healthy...
Making Music and Warming our Hearts By Jennifer Hartley They took the Queen Street West bar scene in Toronto by storm in the 1980s and the rest of Canada soon followed. Forty years later, the country rockers behind Blue Rodeo are still making magic, through thick and thin, led by the dynamic songwriting duo of Jim Cuddy and...
by Dan Lalande In her poem Life Skills (3): Maximal density packing, Suzanne Nussey equates stacking a dishwasher with a Grade Five math problem: “How many unit cubes fit a solid square?” she asks. She follows this up with a dash of destiny: “Will spend her later life writing verse and placing everything she lost into small...
by Dan Lalande Imagine Ottawa without its architectural iconography. Strip its streets of the Parliament Buildings, the Chateau Laurier, the Aberdeen Pavilion and other cultural touchstones synonymous with the city. Imagine the disconnect with our history, our aesthetic, our civic and national pride. Imagine the blow to...
by Dan Lalande There’s no money in small market radio. That was the rationale behind the sale of a bevy of stations recently, when one of Canada’s broadcasting Fat Cats trimmed its assets. Hmmm … so how do they account for the long-term success of Lake 88.1, the Perth-based adult contemporary station proudly devoted to local...
By Rose Simpson Community activist Debra Davis is on a mission to recognize the contributions of women in Canadian history. After all, women have been at the forefront in science, innovation, politics, business, labour and social justice for decades, yet their achievements have largely gone undocumented. “We didn’t get here by...
