Unpublished Newswire
Sometime in the seventeenth century, during military operations in the Netherlands, British soldiers came across a particularly strong juniper-flavoured Dutch spirit called genever. When they brought it back to the homeland, it quickly became the drink of the masses—easy to produce and cheap to access. What followed was the “gin craze” of the 1600s and 1700s, an epoch in Britain marked by a boom in gin manufacturing, consumption, and, eventually, its regulation.
By the nineteenth century, gin was becoming known as a British classic. The spirit had cemented its reputation and...
April 10, 2025 - 06:30 | Sheima Benembarek | Walrus
Packs of lupins parade through
the ditches, unfazed when cars whip by.
They’re tall, they’re overdressed,
but they own it, looking like Disney
princesses and smelling like pepper.
The day wilts around them,
but still they rise into the near-blue sky,
scaffolds of pink and purple vertebrae,
spine enough for every one of us who hesitates.The post Darlings first appeared on The Walrus.
April 10, 2025 - 06:29 | Sue Sinclair | Walrus
OTTAWA — With over a million views, the most popular Liberal ad on Facebook and Instagram doesn’t quite fit the conventional profile of viral internet content.
The video is only six seconds long and it features Liberal Leader Mark Carney in a blue sweater, telling the viewer that “we will build a Canada that you can afford....
April 10, 2025 - 06:00 | Stuart Thomson | National Post
I’m reading my six-year-old son Lewis Carroll’s classic Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There, with all its delightful nonsense talk about shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings.
But, in the words of the Red Queen, life through the looking glass is “as sensible as a dictionary” when ranked against what is happening in the real world...
April 10, 2025 - 06:00 | John Ivison | National Post
A Brazilian man says he was misled into working illegally in Winnipeg based on the promise he would eventually get a work permit.
April 10, 2025 - 06:00 | | CBC News - Canada
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April 10, 2025 - 05:00 | Doug Menary, Ottawa Citizen | Ottawa Sun
