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Cloned foods are coming to a grocer near you

November 6, 2025   ·   0 Comments

By Sylvain Charlebois Cloned-animal foods could soon enter Canada’s food supply with no labels identifying them as cloned and no warning to consumers—a move that ...

Denmark vs. the shadow fleet

By Gwynne Dyer Back in the 16th and 17th centuries, two-thirds of the Danish kingdom’s income came from taxes paid by every ship passing through the ...

Monthly Message: November brings gratitude, giving, and gatherings at the Orangeville Food Bank

As the temperature drops and we cozy into the rhythm of November, the festive season is one of the most exciting times of year for ...

Mother Nature

By Brian Lockhart I was watching a YouTube video a few years ago filmed by a bunch of college ‘frat boys’ in the US. They ...

Monthly Message: Downtown Orangeville gears up for back-to-back holiday celebrations

Downtown Orangeville is set to sparkle brighter than ever this year with the return — and expansion — of the Joy + Lights Festival, a ...

‘Just pencil it in…’

By Constance Scrafield A person used to say, “We’ll just pencil that in …” and it meant that a meeting or occasion was proposed but ...

Jack Daniels and grape juice?

By Brian Lockhart Six large glasses of water a day – or maybe it was eight. That’s a theory someone came up with several years ...

The coming crash

by Gwynne Dyer “The thing that comforts me,” said Jeff Boudier at Hugging Face, the leading open platform for AI builders, “is that the internet ...

Canada cannot cozy up to China

By Scott McGregor The Globe and Mail column, “Let’s free ourselves of the U.S. and forge closer ties with China”, by Julian Karaguesian and Robin ...

What are you afraid of?

By Brian Lockhart Phobia – the extreme or irrational fear of, or aversion to something. I don’t like spiders. Insects in general don’t bother me ...

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