Edna O’Brien, Ireland’s literary pride and outlaw who scandalized her native land with her debut novel, The Country Girls, before gaining international acclaim as a storyteller and iconoclast that found her welcomed everywhere from Dublin to the White House, has died. She was 93. O’Brien died Saturday after a long illness, according to a statement by … Read more
Christine Moses was playing Scrabble with her husband in their Ottawa home this spring when she looked outside the window and shrieked. “I just saw this gigantic beast crawling up the window,” Moses said. After taking a picture of the giant insect, Moses asked her husband to eliminate the intruder with a fly swatter. She then posted … Read more
One of the core policies the Liberals introduced to protect Canada’s elections has been criticized again for failing to alert Canadians to foreign interference it observed in the 2019 and 2021 federal elections. In a recent report, the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency (NSIRA), one of Canada’s intelligence watchdog bodies, criticized the Critical Election Incident … Read more
When I was young, my mom’s friend’s kids came over to watch DreamWorks’ 1998 classic The Prince of Egypt. Less than 10 minutes in, they tearily demanded we turn it off. It wasn’t the violence against the enslaved people that was getting to them. When they watched those people’s backs cut up by whips, they weren’t … Read more
As It Happens6:05Spider webs catch more than prey. They’re also jam-packed with animal DNA Josh Newton probably isn’t very popular with spiders. After all, the Australian scientist has a tendency to go around undoing their hard work. “I liken it to when Princess Fiona in Shrek makes some cotton candy for Shrek from spider webs, where … Read more
