Stargazing – The Last of the Summer Fireballs
For anyone involved in public education, August is a strange month. The weather is still warm, flowers are blooming, and summer’s unrelenting cacophony of lawnmowers, chainsaws, and assorted internal-combustion engines continues unabated. One might not even notice the shortening days or the crickets warming up in the grass. And yet September is coming, with…
Meghan Murphy Takes on Many Roles to Tell True Tales
Meghan Murphy is compulsively curious. This has served her well. She is a capable broadcaster, documentary filmmaker, actor, writer and public speaker. Work in the arts usually comes in the form of gigs- temporary, diverse, sometimes sporadic. Asked if her diversity of experience is the result of choice or necessity, Meghan affirms that it…
Another Tranche of 2021 Census Data Released
More information obtained through the 2021 Census exercise was released in mid-July, offering details about the changing demographics in our nation and our small corner of the country. The size of the average family in Canada continues to shrink, from 4.2 people in 1931 to 2.9 in 2021. The proportion of one-parent families in…