Month: <span>January 2023</span>

Trees being so visible in the landscape are also the most exposed. I am always amazed by trees in the landscape but especially on the coldest days of winter. Days that are so cold that cars won’t run and the human factor hardly strays outside. Those days of -40 C with a windchill make the...

Karen Kobussen and her family are big, big, BIG sports fans. So when COVID-19 came along and plunged us all into lockdown in March 2020, it’s fair to understate that disappointment reigned in the household. By early April 2020, the family was waiting with bated breath to see if major league baseball, their favourite game,...

When Ken died in February 2021, we had an outpouring of messages from readers, with many telling us how much his columns meant to them. In light of that, we thought we would go back through our files and re-publish some of his columns. Ken would be flattered by the kind words readers expressed. We...

There are many people over 60 wanting to retire from their conventional jobs and finally work for themselves. There are even those that may be older and now retired who want to return to work but require a flexible schedule. So, why shouldn’t you consider working in retirement? Today, we look at five options that...

In Barcelona in 2018, The Esteve Foundation held a panel discussion with 24 professionals from many disciplines. They presented“over 700 diseases where gender differences in the manifestation of diseases result in poorer diagnosis and treatment for women“. This has long been recognized in women where traditionally studies included more men than women, therefore they did...

World No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler, via Golf.com reporter Claire Rogers: “I don’t know how much money I’ve made this year, but it’s definitely more than I deserve for whacking a little golf ball around.”

I remember the beginning of 2021, when I was writing something like,“Wow, wasn’t that a crazy year?” Well, we are now entering 2023, three full years since COVID-19 was discovered in China’s Wuhan province in late December 2019. Three. Full.Years. When that entered my consciousness mid last month, I had to Google it, just to...

Tim Hortons and the Brier seemed so right for each other. There are few things more Canadian than Tim Hortons. And there are few sports more Canadian than curling. The two will go their separate ways after this year’s Brier. The relationship ends after 18 years with Tim Hortons as the title sponsor of the...