Ten years ago today, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) final report was officially released. One of the three commissioners, Marie Wilson, wrote a rich, detailed, and personal account of how the TRC unfolded. I review her book on my blog: livingthecanadalife.wordpress.com/2025/12/15/b...

Today, Editors Canada and a group of leading language experts sent a letter to the Prime Minister's Office to express concerns about a recent shift to British spelling in official Government of Canada documents. Learn more: editors.ca/news/letter-...

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This is quite wonderful.

Remembrance Day. Moose Jaw has a wonderful way to honour its soldiers. Banners showing photos of veterans are installed on streetlight poles in the downtown core during the month of November: moosejaw.ca/awards-progr...

Today is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, also known as Orange Shirt Day – a time to raise awareness for the ongoing impacts of residential school and remember the children who never came home.

Today, school starts at St. Lambert Elementary in St. Lambert, Quebec. Sixty years ago at that school, a brand-new experiment began: French Immersion. A year later, I stepped into the experiment. Here is my story of being an experimental French Immersion kid: 105yob.blogspot.com/2012/04/try-...

On National Indigenous Peoples Day, we honour the strength of First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities and the editors who carry our stories with respect and care. We celebrate Indigenous voices and support Indigenous-led storytelling. #IndigenousPeoplesDay

Good morning, beloved. It is one thing to proclaim liberation. It is another thing to realize it. Happy Juneteenth! Today is a great day to overcome evil with good.

@mark-carney.bsky.social Now is the time for Canada to stand against Israel's genocide in Gaza. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

May 5 is Red Dress Day, the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. Today is dedicated to honouring the thousands of lives of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and Two-Spirit people.

“In 2025, April 30 will be a Wednesday, as it was in 1975.” Kim Thúy in "em." Here is my book review of Kim Thúy's incredible account of the April 30, 1975, fall of Saigon and other details of those times: livingthecanadalife.wordpress.com/2025/04/30/b...

This is a great recap of a wild time in Canadian history.

Here is an interesting thread about the switch to metric that officially began in Canada 50 years ago. I well remember it 🙂. I wrote about it on my blog: 105yob.blogspot.com/2014/01/cold...

Canada is having an election! Here is my story of that time around the zero years when we had four elections in seven years -- and each of the four seasons got to host an election: 105yob.blogspot.com/2012/07/elec...

I added the loonie and toonie to my page of 100 Canadian Things. We really are quite a nice and unique country 🙂 #Canada: livingthecanadalife.wordpress.com/100-canadian...

#FlagDay (Image by OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay)

Today, we remember. On Jan 29, we mark the National Day of Remembrance of the Québec City Mosque Attack. Eight years ago, six worshippers lost their lives to hate. We stand with Muslim communities—Islamophobia has no place in Canada.

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The annual polar bear swim near my sister's house in North Hatley, Quebec, makes the front page of the local paper. Several members of my sister's family are in this photo: sherbrookerecord.pressreader.com/sherbrooke-r...

Since much of Saskatchewan is under an extreme cold warning, and since it was 50 years ago that Canada switched to Celcius, this seems like a good time to revisit a blog post about cold that I wrote in 2014: 105yob.blogspot.com/2014/01/cold...

Stepping into 2025 as a freelance copy editor...

With this beautiful living tree in the wilderness of the Yukon, I wish everyone a Merry Christmas 🎄

And, while Christmas isn’t part of my cultural traditions, I believe that sharing greetings and good vibes across faiths helps build much-needed bridges between cultures and faiths —especially important in our increasingly polarized world 🙏🏽❤️

My latest blog post is another tale to chronicle all the unfolding tech of our times: livingthecanadalife.wordpress.com/2024/12/21/t...

Dorothy Sayers is one my favourites for both fiction and non-fiction. She brings wisdom everywhere she goes.

Flags at City of Ottawa sites will be lowered to half-mast on Dec 6 for the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. We remember the 14 women lost at l'École Polytechnique in 1989 and commit to ending gender-based violence.