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The Fron2 instrument is featured heavily on the soundtrack for an international feature film called Resurrection by acclaimed Chinese filmmaker Bi Gan. The soundtrack was put together by the French electronic rock group M83 after Joe Berry, one of its members, became captivated by the unique instrument, which is made up of strings held between two wheels, played with a bow.
December 20, 2025 - 07:00 | | CBC News - Canada
The first person to get rich from the sweet products of maple trees was an American. George Clinton Cary was born in 1864 on a farm in Fort Fairfield, in eastern Maine, on the border of New Brunswick. As a boy of ten, Cary was already a budding farmer and had his own pair of steers. By age twenty-two, Cary was looking beyond the farming industry and became a travelling grocery salesman, moving goods by horse and buggy throughout Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire.
The legend of Cary’s start in the maple business began in the spring of 1886. Cary’s wagon, pulled by a team of horses, got...
December 20, 2025 - 06:30 | Peter Kuitenbrouwer | Walrus
The RCMP says it is actively investigating Ryan Wedding’s alleged criminal activities, in the hopes of laying criminal charges in Canada against members of the organization. In the wake of charges in the U.S. against Canadians allegedly tied to the Wedding organization, two senior Mounties told The Globe and Mail that they are continuing to pursue their own probe.
December 20, 2025 - 06:30 | Colin Freeze | The Globe and Mail
Jack Frieberg’s parents were Holocaust survivors. Louis and Gerda Frieberg came to Toronto in the 1950s to start a new life in the New World. He worked as a carpenter, she as a seamstress, making 70 cents a dress in a Spadina Avenue sweatshop. As Toronto boomed in the postwar years, they saw an opportunity and started a construction company.
December 20, 2025 - 06:15 | Marcus Gee | The Globe and Mail
If you didn’t know better, you would think you’d fallen straight into a Hallmark movie. When Trish Granger moved back to her small hometown of Hardisty, Alta., in 2013 after a divorce, she fell in love again with her town, a place where people wave to each other from their cars on the main street.
December 20, 2025 - 06:15 | Danielle Paradis, Photography by Amber Bracken | The Globe and Mail
When Ontario resident Cindy McKay was preparing for a month in Europe this year, travelling with her 12-year-old grandson and living out of the contents of two carry-on bags, she knew she had homework to do.
“British Airways, Ryanair, Scandinavian,” she says, ticking off the various airlines that would take them to Athens, Crete, Dubrovnik, Prague, London and back to Canada.
Her plan? “Make a spreadsheet of all of the different airlines, what their requirements are, their weight allowances, their centimetres, all of it for me and my grandson to not get, you know, buggered anywhere...
December 20, 2025 - 06:00 | Chris Knight | National Post
