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1 week ago | 
thesarniajournal.ca | Andrew Wilton
Bird lovers and local conservation groups invite the community to Canatara Park this Saturday, May 10, to celebrate World Migratory Bird Day.
This day is a global bird conservation education campaign that is officially celebrated every year on the second Saturday of May in Canada and the U.S. Each year has a theme, and this year the focus is on shared spaces and making our communities, cities, and towns more bird-friendly.
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1 week ago | 
thespec.com | Andrew Wilton
Bluewater Health is currently amid another temporary closure of their emergency general surgery, from May 5 to May 9, 2025. General surgery pertains to abdominal or gastrointestinal issues. This means patients requiring emergency surgery for things such as appendicitis, gall bladder attacks, bowel obstructions will likely need to be transferred by ambulance to another hospital.
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1 week ago | 
pentictonherald.ca | Andrew Wilton
Bluewater Health is currently amid another temporary closure of their emergency general surgery, from May 5 to May 9, 2025. General surgery pertains to abdominal or gastrointestinal issues. This means patients requiring emergency surgery for things such as appendicitis, gall bladder attacks, bowel obstructions will likely need to be transferred by ambulance to another hospital.
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1 week ago | 
thesarniajournal.ca | Andrew Wilton
Bluewater Health is currently amid another temporary closure of their emergency general surgery, from May 5 to May 9, 2025.
General surgery pertains to abdominal or gastrointestinal issues. This means patients requiring emergency surgery for things such as appendicitis, gall bladder attacks, bowel obstructions will likely need to be transferred by ambulance to another hospital.
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4 weeks ago | 
reaction.life | Andrew Wilton
Francis Williams was an eighteenth-century Jamaican whose parents were freed slaves. He was educated in England, and took English nationality. He was a poet, a thinker, and also exceptionally learned in matters scientific. He attended at least one meeting of the Royal Society, and was on intimate terms with some of the great minds of the age.
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4 weeks ago | 
thesarniajournal.ca | Andrew Wilton
Cash & Carry Feed Bin, a staple of the Petrolia community for over 30 years, has been served a sudden eviction notice, to make way for a corporate competitor. The local, independent retailer of pet and agricultural supplies was given 30 days notice at the end of March to vacate their location.
Two neighbouring businesses in the same plaza, Petrolia Foot Clinic and Digital Ink Graphics and Printing received identical eviction notices.
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1 month ago | 
reaction.life | Andrew Wilton
Drysdale’s view of Australia is bleak: his streets are empty, his people glum. His scenes are often without charm, but his view of the place here is of course not a literal transcription. It's a fantasy of the modern world, in which life is almost lost in meaningless devastation; the single figure incongruously pursuing a commonplace activity in a landscape from which all signs of normality have been expunged.
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1 month ago | 
reaction.life | Andrew Wilton
“I am as intelligent as you”. Here’s a formulation that has begun to invade a completely different construction, of the type “Much as I should like to come, I’m afraid I am otherwise engaged”. Now we find that the first “as” from the other phrase can be found in sentences that do not require it: “As painful as the David Blaine endurance ordeal must be for him …” (Daily Telegraph leader, 15 September 2003).
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2 months ago | 
reaction.life | Andrew Wilton
“Creative Debuts is a platform on a mission to disrupt and democratise the art world. They focus on championing artists from marginalised communities and provide a wide range of services” – announcement by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, November 2024. Fascinating how “disrupt” has become a term of generalised commendation.
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Jan 31, 2025 | 
reaction.life | Andrew Wilton
A vast literature has grown up round this famous painting. It is indeed enigmatic, not to say incomprehensible, and was much more so when it was painted at the very start of the twentieth century. From our standpoint a hundred or more years later, we can perhaps assess it more coolly. Its first title was “A Brothel in Avignon” and, unbelievably, it has been seen as an erotic work.
