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Since the turn of the millennium, Karen Solie has been the coolest of cool new things in Canadian poetry—a mysterious figure, everywhere and nowhere at once. Everywhere because her books have received almost universal acclaim. And nowhere because, for all their hints of hard living and their undercurrent of despair, her poems divulge little of the author herself. But time happens to the best of us. Her first book, Short Haul Engine, was published in 2001—nearly a quarter century ago. Now Solie is pushing sixty, and I feel old.
Born in 1966, Solie is roughly the same age as...
June 13, 2025 - 06:30 | Nicholas Bradley | Walrus
Amid signs that the North Atlantic’s great white shark population is growing, popular Cape Cod beaches are using technology to warn swimmers and surfers when it’s time to get out of the water.
And while Nova Scotia is only 265 nautical miles away from Boston, as the shark swims, beachgoers in Canada’s ocean playground have no such protections.
“We are able to detect tagged sharks — sharks that are carrying acoustic transmitters — and those transmitters are emitting a very high frequency sound that’s detected by an array of acoustic receivers that we have set up around some of the...
June 13, 2025 - 06:00 | Chris Lambie | National Post
The Waterloo Region District School Board has issued two separate statements on the word "family" after alternative media websites have posted stories about how a training session in November 2023 said teachers were told the word was "harmful" and "racist."
June 13, 2025 - 06:00 | | CBC News - Canada
June 13, 2025 - 05:25 | | CBC News - Canada
A former Nova Scotia police detective says he believes the search for two missing children in Pictou County that has lasted more than a month is now a criminal investigation.
June 13, 2025 - 05:00 | Rebecca Lau | Global News - Canada
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June 13, 2025 - 05:00 | Doug Menary, Ottawa Citizen | Ottawa Sun
