Chandra Clarke

It’s true what you’ve heard: farm animals have joined the rat race. That’s because farms themselves are moving into cities, with ‘vertical farms’ taking over skyscrapers and high rise buildings. Critics of say that it industrializes farming to an alarming degree. Proponents say it makes for a more efficient farm footprint, allowing more land to […]

There’s been a lot of talk about Nobel prizes lately, because some dude in the US is jealous of some other dude receiving it. But the Nobel peace prize has not been without controversy in the past. Once, a Swedish legislator, Lars Gustafsson, nominated the game of soccer (known as football everywhere but North America) […]

Like more than 38% of Canadians aged 20 and up, I have some hearing loss. Some of it, I’ve had since birth: I have never been able to hear certain high tones with one ear. The rest of it is cumulative damage (thanks, high school cafeteria speakers) and age. It’s minor, but annoying enough that […]

Holidays are hard for many people for many reasons, one of which can be realizing who’s not around the dinner table with you this year. That includes fur kids, because they’re family too. We lost one of our [deep breath] Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retrievers this year. Ginger’s passing was an especially hard one for […]

Just like any other middle-class parent, I’ve taken my kids to all sorts of activities over the years. Soccer, language classes, swim lessons. Piano and music theory. Art camps and Scouts. One they all stuck with was karate, and they have all earned their junior black belts. My two oldest children have since gone away […]