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Nov 26, 2024 | 
onnaturemagazine.com | Caroline M. Schultz |Brian Banks |Ian Coutts |Julia Zarankin
All our relations. By Caroline SchultzThe environmental benefits of wind energy come with a significant downside: turbines kill wildlife, especially migratory bats. Solutions exist, if wind-farm operators choose to embrace them. By Brian BanksDam-building is how beavers engineer their own habitat, but their labours can cause trouble for their human neighbours. How can these species get along? By Ian CouttsBirds that stay in Ontario through the winter have adapted to cold temperatures in amazing ways.
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Jun 6, 2024 | 
onnaturemagazine.com | Caroline M. Schultz |Ian Coutts |Jade Prévost-Manuel |Conor Mihell
Farewell to Ontario Nature’s sage. By Caroline SchultzHydro power may be cleaner than energy from fossil fuels, but dams exact a high cost from river ecosystems. There are ways to minimize the damage if people are willing to think greener. By Ian CouttsFor the past six decades, common terns in Presqu’ile Provincial Park have been teetering on the brink of a colony collapse. Two scientists and the local community have given terns a second chance.
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May 22, 2024 | 
everythingzoomer.com | Ian Coutts
Tied up and in flames: That’s the image most of us have of St. Jean de Brébeuf, the 1649 French Jesuit martyr and namesake of Catholic high schools nationwide. In our memories, we see Brébeuf dressed in a long black robe, sometimes looking heavenward as the fire burns around him. If we’re a little more historically aware, we may know he converted the Huron people to Catholicism – and the Iroquois burned him for his trouble. The final tally: Brébeuf saintly; Hurons good; Iroquois bad.
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May 10, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Ian Coutts
These Stars Weren’t Pretending But Actually Doing The Deed While Filming Racy ScenesIn the pursuit of cinematic truth, some filmmakers and actors go the extra mile to ensure every little detail on screen is as authentic as possible. …
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May 10, 2024 | 
theglobeandmail.com | Ian Coutts
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Apr 12, 2024 | 
everythingzoomer.com | Ian Coutts
The first impression upon reading General Roméo Dallaire’s new book The Peace: A Warrior’s Journey is a muttered “Oh, come on.” Then you remember. Thirty years ago in April, Dallaire was commanding an understaffed UN peacekeeping mission in the middle of a full-blown genocide in Rwanda, as mobs of Hutus attacked and murdered Tutsis during a 100-day civil war.
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Mar 8, 2024 | 
onnaturemagazine.com | Caroline M. Schultz |Celia Milne |Conor Mihell |Ian Coutts
Diversifying the conservation movement. By Caroline SchultzA comprehensive guide to reptiles and amphibians in Ontario highlights profound threats to many of these creatures. Newly gathered data, however, can inform ways to help them survive. By Celia Milne Ontario’s alvars are biodiversity hot spots, but they are misunderstood, underappreciated and critically imperilled. By Conor MihellThe practice of forest therapy promises to help people put modern life on pause and reconnect with nature.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
everythingzoomer.com | Ian Coutts
Fans of Stephen Soderbergh’s film The Limey might recognize the line, “more like a vibe,” which the very young girlfriend of Valentine, played by Peter Fonda, uses to describe his personality. You might use the same four words to explain what the famed former Toronto restaurant, The Depanneur – named for the scrappy little Montreal convenience stores offering late-night smokes and beer – was to its followers.
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Nov 23, 2023 | 
everythingzoomer.com | Ian Coutts
It’s a common impulse to look back on our past – to high school, say – and wonder whatever happened to the girl you had the hots for in Grade 10 or the guy who stuffed you into a locker. We’ll probably never know and, in fact, we’ll probably never attempt to find out. That, among a score of other accomplishments, is what separates us from Ken Dryden, the one-time Montreal Canadiens goalkeeper, former member of Parliament, lawyer and bestselling author.
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Nov 2, 2023 | 
everythingzoomer.com | Ian Coutts
You don’t want to be rich. Oh, you may think you do, and heaven knows you’re told that often enough, but you really don’t want it. Being famous is just as bad. And rich and famous? That’s the absolute worst. That’s the gist of journalist Paul Berton’s latest book, Misfortune and Fame. In 10 chapters, the editor-in-chief of the Hamilton Spectator newspaper outlines precisely why being rich isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be.
