Postcard from London
September 2025
We’re travelling this week, on track of our winter theme, Air, Check back next week for the first of our two-part chat with Linden MacIntyre about his new book, An Accidental Villain.
“Bee”lieve in the Newfoundland honey bees
BY Melissa Wong
Honey bees are threatened by habitat loss, pesticides, herbicides, parasites, and disease. Newfoundland, Western Australia and the Isle of Man are the only three places where they are safe from…
The Grammarians War
If I understand this correctly, The Grammarians War was a 16th-century, Tudor-era conflict (1519-1521) between rival methods of teaching Latin. The opposing sides were led, respectively, by schoolmasters William Horman (of…
Rick Mercer: Part 2: In show business, you should make it look easy
And sometimes when you’re starting something like setting up that petition to get Stockwell Day to change his name, you’re opening a big door and you’re not really sure what’s…