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Kingston dairy farm over the moon with calf's unique marking
An aptly-named calf born near Kingston, Ont., is causing quite a stir due to her unusual markings. Eclipse was born with a white crescent moon-shaped mark on her forehead. Not only that, but she was born on Apr. 8, the same day a historic total solar eclipse briefly plunged the region into darkness. Laura Carey owns Carey Farm with her husband Michael and his brother Neil. The dairy farm has been in Michael's family for four generations and has 150 cows, 65 of them used for milking. Carey was mi
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The Trans Mountain saga is nearing its end — the larger debate will go on
In November 2018, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau went to Calgary to speak to the chamber of commerce. A crowd gathered outside the venue and chanted, "Build that pipe."Trudeau might have responded that he was trying to do just that — at least in regards to one pipeline. Trudeau's government had actually purchased the Trans Mountain pipeline six months earlier, with the stated purpose of ensuring its expansion could be completed.Five and a half years later, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland used
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As Russia presses forward, Ukraine pleads with Canada for armour, air defence
A leading member of the Ukrainian parliament delivered stark warnings to Canadian politicians and top defence officials this week in a series of mostly under-the-radar meetings in Ottawa ahead of the long-anticipated aid vote in the U.S. Congress.Oleksandra Ustinova, the head of Ukraine's special parliamentary commission on arms and munitions, told Defence Minister Bill Blair, members of key House of Commons committees and military leaders that both time and weapons stocks are running out for he
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Yellowknife's Janet Pacey got her pins back
Janet Pacey has her pins back. The well-known Arctic Winter Games pin collector lost her massive collection while travelling to the games in Alaska last month. Upon arrival, she discovered her collection never made it off the plane. She said her box of 30,000 pins, weighing some 200 pounds, was being held up at customs in Memphis, Tenn.Now, they're back. "These things are more well-travelled than I am," Pacey said. Pacey said she got a call from a friend at Canadian North shortly after sharing h
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Danielle Smith wants ideology 'balance' at universities. Alberta academics wonder what she's tilting at
From the exam-marking trenches to the ivory tower executive suites, Premier Danielle Smith has injected nervousness throughout Alberta's post-secondary sector.It initially seemed her Bill 18, the Provincial Priorities Act, was intended to make her government play checkstop or gatekeeper whenever the federal government and mayors made deals without provincial involvement.Then it became apparent that Smith's government would apply the same scrutiny to the higher-learning sector, and the premier's
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Queen's to launch Taylor Swift law class this fall
A professor at Queen's University is launching a Taylor Swift-themed law course this September to make entertainment law more relatable and relevant for students. A self-described Swiftie, Mohamed Khimji is also a professor of business law at the Kingston, Ont., university and will be teaching "Law (Taylor's Version)" in the fall. Khimji said he expects the demand for spots in the class will be high. He said the idea came to him while discussing Swift's re-recordings with a colleague."She asked
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Canada's entry at Venice Biennale shows how glass beads shaped the modern world
Over the years, 60 Canadian artists have won the honour of showing their work in a small, angular, wood-and-glass pavilion that sits on the end of the Venice lagoon.But this is the first time an artist has draped the pavilion in luscious strings of cobalt-blue beads that shift and soften the outline of the building.The beads provide the opening glance of Trinket by Hamilton-born, Paris-based artist Kapwani Kiwanga, Canada's representative at this year's Venice Biennale, the world's most prestigi
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