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- Oh Canada! Marathon, ONAugust 5
- It’s a long and winding road going around the Great Lakes the Canadian way. It’s magnificent. Travelling east on the Trans-Canada (Highway 17) along Lake Superior, the dense wall of conifers north of Thunder Bay makes way for slender pillars of sun-dappled white birch. The road snakes close enough to the water [...]
- Oh Canada! Medicine Hat, ABJuly 11
- I’m in Medicine Hat this week, up to my elbows in pork. 22 pounds of pork shoulder, to be exact, in addition to a fridge full of belly, bones, beef, and bison, from Lynn and Alastair Olsen of TLC Farms in Whitla, Alberta. I haven’t had a chance to meet Lynn yet, but my [...]
- Tea Drinkers of the World Unite!July 8
- My friend Jillian is a tea drinker. Tea drinkers have it rough. Tea drinkers are often treated like second class citizens in a coffee world, and there’s nowhere where tea drinkers have it worse than at scientific conferences. Jill and I recently attended an academic conference in Gatineau, Quebec, and as usual, the tea [...]
- Market Report: Berry, Berry GoodJuly 3
- Well, we’re in the thick of it. Local strawberries! Do you have some at your house? No? Well WHAT are you waiting for? TRINITY-BELLWOODS, Tuesday, July 1 Strawberries. Trinity Bellwoods was packed this week with Canada Day revellers. Strawberries were in full swing and the first of the season’s [...]
- Happy Canada Day!July 1
- I’m baaaack! I thought Canada Day would be as good a day as any to start telling you about my travels this summer: Canada, by plane, train, and automobile. We didn’t start out planning a Great Canadian Summer. The conferences and family visits started adding up, though, and the travelling soon became [...]