One of the world’s most famous paintings, Edvard Munch’s The Scream, is becoming discoloured, and conservationists have finally figured out why. The 1910 masterpiece, currently housed at the Munch Museum in Oslo, seems to have dimmed over the years. A research study led by Italy’s National Research Council found, in a paper published in Science […]

The government of Ontario Premier Doug Ford has announced a commission into concerns about long-term care facilities in Ontario, but is it the right way to go? Many observers feel that a government commission is the wrong way to address a critical problem, which has become a critical crisis in Ontario’s long-term care facilities. Government […]

It started young, as many passions do. You see something that inspires you, makes you wonder, makes you dream. The Canadian Forces Snowbirds did that for me; they still do. Canadian Forces Base Trenton (now 8 Wing Trenton) was home of the Quinte Air Show and where our family spent many wonderful days over the […]

AMSTERDAM/LONDON (Reuters) – Coffee maker JDE Peet’s BV is pressing ahead with plans to list on Euronext Amsterdam, saying on Tuesday that it aims to raise at least 700 million euros ($764 million) from the initial public offering. The world’s No. 2 packaged coffee maker – owner of brands including Peet’s Coffee, Douwe Egberts and […]

Several weeks after the COVID-19 pandemic forced the sports world to shut its doors, I find myself with mixed emotions as some leagues and events wake up from their hibernation. The UFC started the trend with live fights in Florida without fans in attendance earlier this month, and over the weekend Germany’s Bundesliga restarted, NASCAR […]

May is Asian Heritage Month in Canada. Over the last two centuries, immigrants from East Asia, Southern Asia, Western and Southeast Asia have journeyed to Canada, bringing our society a rich cultural heritage with an infusion of many languages, ethnicities and religious traditions. This month is meant to offer all Canadians an opportunity to learn […]

The crisis created by the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a generalized climate of anxiety, which has increased stress levels and which can lead to insomnia even in people who do not usually suffer from it. While it is true that good sleep is essential to health in normal times, it becomes even more so […]

It was somewhere around 8:30 on the evening of Sept. 7, 1977, when my young ears first heard an F-bomb sung by a rock star. Max Webster, led by Kim Mitchell, was opening for Rush on the Farewell to Kings tour. Before launching into a song called Oh, War from the High Class in Borrowed […]

The morning show team at CISN Country 103.9 is paying tribute to health-care workers by taking part in a 12-hour shift on Friday. Normally the show runs for 3.5 hours. “We’re just saying thank you. The reopening yesterday was a good sign of course and we wouldn’t have gotten there without the essential workers and […]

The political opportunist in Justin Trudeau must be screeching to engineer a snap federal election. The bruised Trudeau is having none of it. Opportunist Trudeau views dozens of daily national camera and microphone commanding appearances as a 24-karat opportunity to dispatch the yet again bumbling Conservative Party of Canada to the political sidelines. Bruised Trudeau, […]