The joy of preparing freezer jam
July, and the morning sun blazes over fields of pick-your-own strawberries. The black bears scope out the blueberry patches in…
Mark Carney won’t change Canada for the better
Apparently Canada hasn’t taken enough punishment yet. After a close, hard-fought race that extended into the wee hours of the morning, Mark…
Canadians need saving from Mark Carney, not Donald Trump
Tomorrow’s election will be one of the most important in Canadian history. The results hang on one crucial question: what’s…
Why have Canada’s conservatives backed euthanasia?
There’s two weeks left before Canada’s federal election, and we’re dying over here. Former Bank of England governor Mark Carney…
Trump is making showers great again
Sometimes it’s the little things. Get ready, world. America is back – with shiny, clean hair, glowing skin and a faint…
Fishy business
Britain’s most popular fish comes with batter, not scales – but America can virtuously say its favorite fish is salmon.…
Canada is more conservative than politicians think
Finally, some good news for Canada’s Conservative party. For the first time since the federal election was announced, a poll…
The small town in Ontario with a world-class chocolatier
I’m sipping Madagascan hot chocolate out of white-and-gold Haviland Limoges, and nibbling on Venezuelan milk-chocolate bonbons, under an oil painting…
Is Canada doing enough to stop the US trade war?
There’s such a thing as cutting off your nose to spite your face, and the tariff war between Canada and…
Canada can do more to address the fentanyl crisis
It was a field day for the Canadian freight industry on Monday. Every truck in the country, stuffed to the gills…
The dark legacy of Justin Trudeau
He’s gone – but he’s not gone. As per his announcement in Ottawa on Monday, one of Canada’s most disliked prime…
Prepare for the National Suicide Service
Tragically, British lawmakers voted on Friday in favour of a bill legalising medically assisted dying. Despite all the talk of…
Kombucha future: my scoby is taking over my life
I once read the back cover of a book with a brilliant premise: a Silicon Valley wage-slave with a dull,…
Pavlova: a dessert inspired by the Dying Swan
Pastry chef Alistair Wise says never to make pavlova on a rainy day. “Just forget about it,” he advises. And…
Summer flavor pairings
Does anything say “June” quite like strawberries and cream? The sweetness of sun-ripened strawberries allowed to remain on the plant…
Don’t bother avoiding microplastics
They’re everywhere, it seems: in the oceans, the fish, the soil, our drinking water, our vegetables, our grains and cereals,…
Canada’s Orwellian online harms Bill
There’s a way of getting children to eat something they dislike – medicine, for example – where you bury the goods in…
A culinary tour of southern France and northern Spain
If I’d known what a whole monkfish looks like, I would never have ordered it. It was only weeks later…
Canada’s parents are taking to the streets
In the biggest demonstration since the Freedom Convoy, large numbers of Canadian families and supporters took to the streets across…
In praise of the Moscow mule
If called upon to declare the seven greatest cocktails of all time — a Magnificent Seven, as it were —…
Climate change didn’t cause Canada’s wildfires
Is the hazy stuff out there smoke billowing down from Québec, or hot air emitted from smoggy-brained politicians and journalists?…
In praise of burnt Basque cheesecake
Spring, as Chaucer pointed out, occasionally has the curious effect of making people “long on pilgrimage to go / And…
Don’t spare us the asparagus
Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts, or so said Charles Lamb in an essay about grace before meals. Other vegetables had come…
Did China influence the Canadian elections for Trudeau?
It’s been a sticky couple of weeks for Canada’s natural governing party, as the Liberals like to call themselves. Anonymous…
What Lenten fasting has in common with Tough Mudder
The prospect of meatless Lenten days does not thrill me
