August is prime time for accessing seasonal produce at farmer’s markets

August 6, 2026 · 0 Comments

How often have you thrown out produce you bought only a few days ago? One of the best ways to avoid that waste is to ...

Russia: Home of the Potemkin nuclear weapons?

By Gwynne Dyer There’s a lot of performative militarism in Russia at the moment, which is unsurprising given that the Russian invasion of Ukraine is ...

Perseverance

By Brian Lockhart There are people who like to fly under the radar and not really accomplish a whole lot in life. Others take a ...

My Sister’s Place reflects on decades of support for women and children

My Sister’s Place’s history, or as we like to call it, “her story,” began long before the shelter itself opened. We have served the ...

Courts are the last defence against tyranny

By Gwynne Dyer India and the United States are the world’s two biggest democracies, and both of them seem to be in danger. In each ...

If you build it…

By Brian Lockhart If you have been around long enough, you may remember the old TV show, WKRP in Cincinnati. Maybe you have seen it ...

Op-ed: Canada Post and the shuttering of community newspapers

The shuttering of Winnipeg’s Community Review means 200,000 households will no longer get the benefit of a free community newspaper delivered to their door. It ...

Power of (Dogeared) Pages

By Brock Weir I’ve never really been a morning person. Then again, I haven’t really been a coffee person until relatively recently, so maybe that ...

Home is where you make it

By Brian Lockhart My ideal day is around 78°F, no humidity at all, sunny, with the odd puffy cloud passing across the sun just to ...

Netanyahu’s remaining options

By Gwynne Dyer “The graveyards are full of indispensable men,” said former French Premier Georges Clemenceau about a century ago, and it’s still true. Israel’s ...

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