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When Merle Taylor joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1942, she proved to be such a whiz at Morse Code that she was assigned to train the air crews.

Mexico. Cuba. France. Australia. These are all amazing vacation spots and I know a lot of people take advantage of these warm locales during the winter months. But there is something special about summer. Summer is for visiting your own backyard.

After dedicating a whole editorial to the topic of singing the anthem not performing it in the February 24 edition of the Humboldt Journal it seems the issue has been opened back up.

In June, Canada’s finance ministers met in Vancouver and agreed in principle to the expansion of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) over a seven-year phase-in period, starting January 1, 2019.

The other day my wife, Michelle, started watching yet another realty show. You know, the ones where they look at three homes, then buy one. Next to zero in production costs, yet highly addictive to the viewers.

Many are still expecting the U.S. Federal Reserve to move rates higher again before they end of the year, which is likely to put some upward pressure on bond yields across the spectrum.

I woke up to a completely blank slate one fine Sunday morning. I knew I had to come up for air. I had to come upstairs, sit in the sun and inhale. I responded to one inbound piece of communication. My response was one word.

This week, I am determined to take on what most people find an impossible task. I am trying to make sense of Donald Trump’s rise to the top of the Republican Party.

With contributions by Margaret Atwood, Anne Carson, George Elliot Clarke, and others ISBN 9780889773714 $27.

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