The deadline for bidding online on their wine & others is Wed 22 April. The charity auction supports Tree Canada, Nature Conservancy of Canada, & Ontario Conservation Accelerator.
www.grapesforhumanity.com/fine-wine-au...
4 @brocku.ca students & 2 alumni collaborated to produce a special "Cuvée from the Heart Sparkling Riesling" for the Grapes for Humanity Charity Fine Wine Auction.
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brocku.ca/brock-news/2...
"methodological curiosity, understood as a sustained openness to unfamiliar research methods, is a key to practice not only innovative, but also rigorous scholarship"
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universityaffairs.ca/opinion/curi...
This line chart shows the monthly Consumer Price Index for gasoline in Canada. It rose 21% in March 2026, relative to February. That meant a 5.9% increase relative to 1 year ago.
Canadian gasoline prices surged 21% in March, their biggest monthly jump ever, thanks to the USA-Israel-Iran War. Fuel oil prices rose 26%.
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#EconSky
In recognition of "420" Day, on Apr 20 I'll join Devon Peacock of CFPL London to discuss Canada's 7+ years with legal cannabis.
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Ontario's government now spends more on loan interest payments than on post-secondary education ... but it's buying the premier a jet airplane.
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www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Good question.
Wikipedia pays nothing to authors & charges nothing to readers.
The Conversation pays nothing to authors & charges nothing to readers.
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The Conversation is basically a PR agency & wire service for universities. It pays nothing to authors but charges nothing to readers or to re-publishers of its articles.
All the authors are univ profs (+ some PhD students?). Outside freelancers can't write for them.
Agreed. I do like the Made Local cookies better than some competing products that resemble synthetic fudge.
Canada's foreign student rules forced universities & colleges to "make cuts to cope with the loss of international student tuition revenue: 35 site closures, 863 programs suspended and 10,000 jobs lost"
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universityaffairs.ca/news/committ...
I like the bars by Simply Protein. 13g of protein, a rice-crispy-like texture, and minimal sweetness. Made in Canada, though not organic.
Ontario winemakers have once again joined forces to create unique, small-batch wines for the Grapes for Humanity charity auction. Under the Cuvée from the Heart label, the vintners have collaborated to produce 12 wines, which are up for bidding tomorrow.
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Ontario politicians want high school students to get 10% of their marks simply for showing up.
"these measures are symbolic, relatively cheap ways of saying, 'we care about these problems' without actually doing things that are going to address the problems"
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
In their Maid Mayhem game, players compete to clean grandma's house. 2/2
store.steampowered.com/app/4329840/...
A Brock University team won the People's Choice Award at the recent Level-Up computer game design competition. They also took 2nd place for audio. 1/2
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brocku.ca/brock-news/2...
Alexandra Lawson will be joining Brock University in May as our new Vice President, External.
brocku.ca/brock-news/2...
This might (?) be more natural to those of us writing on defense topics, which tend to appear in more right-leaning outlets anyway. 🪖
I imagine it's harder (but still necessary) for folks discussing social policies. 👨👩👧👦
"Glooscap is asking whether it wants cannabis sold on the reserve at all. If the answer is yes, who should sell it and profit from it."
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www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
'When it comes to Ontario wine grapes, industry experts say it's still too early to assess the full scale of damage, but there appears to be at least some loss in Niagara-on-the-Lake, and a higher level of damage in Lake Erie North Shore"
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www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
"officers seized more than 450 bottles of hard alcohol worth almost $20,000 from a home"
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www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Two centuries ago, a young USA fought wars that stopped merchant ships from needing to pay tribute to foreign warlords. (Barbary Wars etc.)
Now it fights wars so that merchant ships end up paying tribute.
history.state.gov/milestones/1...
In Israel's past deals with Gaza, the IDF kept aircraft flying over it right up to the designated time, ready to bomb any last minute rocket launches.
Israel has had a "cease fire" with Gaza for 6 months and they're still dropping bombs.
In 2024, life expectancy in Canada rose slightly.
In USA, it recovered from COVID dip but remained far behind other developed countries.
Expectancy in years:
84.2 Switzerland
82.2 Canada
79.0 USA
#EpiSky
www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collec...
I used rowing machines when I was younger. I listened to music on headphones. Much less boring, especially when tunes had the same beat as my exercise pace.
Yes. Israel struggled to suppress rocket fire from Gaza using airpower alone, despite the far smaller land area there.
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The IDF had to put boots on the ground to do that.
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theconversation.com/irans-attack...
FYI @cynthb.bsky.social @bretdevereaux.bsky.social ?
