by Mike Strobel | Nov 30, 2021 | Mikes Musings
KAGAWONG, Ont. — We hear Toronto City Hall has just ordered a probe into whether its backyard chicken program passes the “equity test.” Staff overseeing UrbanHensTO consulted with the city’s anti-racism and social development units and decided “further analysis is...
by Mike Strobel | Nov 30, 2021 | Variety Village
Our Madi is growing up, and fast. Madison “Madi” Ambos, 8, returns this year as chairkid of my Sun Christmas Fund for Variety Village, which launches today. She will surely remain a reader favourite — but she’s a very different girl than the mighty mite readers and I...
by Mike Strobel | Nov 30, 2021 | Variety Village
In its half-century, the Sun has taken up many noble causes. There was the original Adopt-A-Family for Christmas, then food for starving Ethiopia, mittens for cold-averse quarterback Doug Flutie, myriad tax revolts by business editor Linda Leatherdale and a successful...
by Mike Strobel | Nov 30, 2021 | Tulip's Adventures
Animals around the cabin are getting ready for winter in their own ways. As reported earlier, Pee Wee, our snowshoe hare, is turning white. The snakes are in brumation, a lethargic state similar to hibernation. Squirrels have cached seeds everywhere. Geese and...
by Mike Strobel | Nov 30, 2021 | Tulip's Adventures
Remember Pee Wee? In late spring, he emerged from under our bunkie, a baby snowshoe hare with absolutely no fear of us. He ate all our weeds, then started to roam and we saw him only occasionally this summer and not for the past month. But last night, he dropped by to...
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