Cast the net far and wide
Ratisser large-to cast the net far and wide in French.
There are more than 4000 emojis in 2026.Only a few of them are used regularly or semi-regularly.
Emojis are digital paralinguistics.
The Kingston Penitentiary has been dubbed 'The Alcatraz of The North's;it is Canada's most notorious prison.It has held some of the worst offenders in Canada.
Over 178 years the Kingdom Penitentiary has held serial killer Paul Bernardo and child murderer Clifford Olson along with many other rotten specimens of humanity.
Kingston Penitentiary closed on September 30,2013,ending 178 years of operation .The federal government announced the closure in April 2012 due to the high cost of maintaining the aging infrastructure.
The first Repair Cafe started in Amsterdam,where people bring broken lamps,toasters,clothes and other household things,so volunteers can fix them instead of letting them go straight to the bin.
Earth Song(1995)-song by Michael Jackson.
This song contains the lines'What about sunrise?What about rain' ?
Ethan Zuckerberg,the man who invented popup ads, apologized to the world for unintentionally creating one of the Internet 's most hated forms of advertising.
Q.Who was the first indigenous person to win the Boston Marathon?
Answer.Tom Longboat.
He was an Onondaga runner from the Six Nations of the Grand River in Canada.
Rue des Futailles in east end Montreal near the Longue Pointe region is named in reference to the presence of distillery warehouses and wine/spirits storage in that area.Futailles refers to barrels ,casks,or wine kegs,reflecting the industrial,wine and liquor storage facilities that historically occupied this sector,often associated with the Maison des Futailles.
Rue des Futailles is near metro Honore Beaugrand.Rue Tellier intersects rue des Futailles.
Don't feed every dog that you see suffering,some of them just need the strength to bite you.-African proverb
The wind that carried the mortar will not fail to carry the pestle.-African proverb
The monkey that laughs at the crocodile has never crossed the river.-African proverb
The Boundary Waters are a pristine network of lakes and rivers in Minnesota,just south of the Ontario border.A mere 160 kilometres from Thunder Bay.
The Boundary Waters is kind of a watery wilderness of interconnected waterways,separated by short streams and rivers that flow out into these large,island studded lakes.Sometimes you'll hear loons calling there.If you're lucky,you'll see a moose feeding in shallow waters.These waters are great for fishing,just lakes full of bass and walleye and pike and lake trout.
It's a pretty magical place where you would feel a lack of the sense of time.Once you get into the wilderness for a couple of days,all of a sudden the time on your wristwatch doesn't matter.
The beauty of the Boundary Waters must be protected and safeguarded for the generations to come
He who announced that he was going to hunt elephants and came back home with a rat mole cannot announce the results of his catch.-African proverb
If you appoint a toothless man to look after a pot of soup with much meat,he won't steal the meat but will drink the soup.-African proverb
Rue Montjoie,rue d'Abancourt,rue Dollier,rue Verdier and rue Lisieux are small streets in the borough of Saint Leonard,Montreal that run parallel to rue Michelet.
Rue Michelet in Montreal is named after Jules Michelet(1798-1874),a prominent French historian,writer and professor.
Rue Michelet is in the borough of St.Leonard and runs parallel to rue Viau,just east of Viau .
Rue Michelet is a short street that runs between rue Jean Talon and rue Belanger.
Rue Arthur-Buies in Tetreaultville, Montreal is named after Arthur-Buies(1840-1901),a notable French-Canadian writer, journalist and pamphleter born in Montreal.
He founded La Lanterne in 1868,a newspaper noted for its radical opposition to politician George-Etienne Cartier.
As a young man in 1860,he fought for Italy's unification in Garibaldi's troops.
Rue Massicotte in Tetreaultville,Montreal is named in honor of Edouard-Zotique Massicotte(1867-1947),a prominent Montreal lawyer, journalist,activist,folklorist and historian.
He served as an archivist and historian for the city of Montreal.
Starman(1972)-song by David Bowie.
This song contains the line 'There's a starman waiting in the sky.'
There is a Montreal Memory Museum ,Centre des Memories Montrealaises.It is located in downtown at 1210 Boulevard Saint Laurent.
Black pepper fraud involves adulterating pure pepper with cheaper fillers to increase profits,often using papaya seeds,spent pepper(previously extracted for oil),or coffee husks.These adulterant can be detected at home by placing pepper in water;pure pepper sinks,while fillers like papaya seeds float.
Similar to Key Lime pie,this Hawaii delicacy is made with Hawaiian grown passionfruit.Lilikoi pie is delicious.Passionfruit is known as lilikoi in Hawaii.
Campus radio stations are the voice of students across the country,but many of them are in danger of going silent in 2025.
The media landscape has changed.Campus radio stations are getting lost in the noise of social media.Radio feels outdated to many in 2026.
But there is a renewed push to see an on-campus radio resurgence.Many people are starting to look for alternatives to big tech filled with AI content.
Radio is live,radio is local,radio is immediate.Campus radio stations strengthen student democracy and must stay strong.
Cayenne pepper is frequently subject to food fraud, often involving adulteration with fillers like sawdust or stone dust to increase weight,and artificial dyes to enhance color.Serious health risks can arise from the use of banned substances,such as red lead oxide or carcinogenic Sudan dyes,to mimic a rich red color.
Many campus radio stations are fading away in 2025,drowned out by the chorus of social media.
Scilla Chionodoxa flowers sprout very early in spring in Montreal.They are also called Glory of the Snow because they sometimes start sprouting even before the snow has fully melted.
They can resemble forget-me-nots from a distance due to their color or size.However,they are easily distinguished by their white centers,whereas true forget-me-nots typically have yellow centers.
To check turmeric purity at home,add a teaspoon of powder to a glass of water without stirring;pure turmeric will slowly settle at the bottom,leaving the water mostly clear with a light yellow tint.Adulterated turmeric often floats,causes the water to turn a strong,bright yellow instantly,or reveals streaks of orange.
Turmeric food fraud,estimated at a 20% adulteration rate globally,involves replacing or bulking genuine turmeric with cheaper materials like starches or toxic industrial dyes to enhance color.The most dangerous adulterant is lead chromate,a neurotoxic pigment added to boost yellow vibrancy ,which can cause severe lead poisoning.
Soccer is the most watched sport in the world in 2025.
Strangely cricket is the second most watched sport in the world in 2025.
Some dark truths
1.People respect outcomes,not results.
2.Being feared often takes you further than being liked.
3.Stay around five lazy people,and you'll become the sixth.
You Must Be Out Of Your Mind-song by The Magnetic Fields.
Rue Claudel in the Saint Leonard borough of Montreal is named in honor of Paul Claudel(1868-1955).He was a renowned French diplomat,poet and playwright,as well as a member of the Academie Francaise.
On Saturday,April 18,2026 I walked along Fletcher Avenue in Tetreaultville,Montreal from Sherbrooke Street to rue Souligny for the first time in my life,passing rue de Marseille,rue Ste.Claire,rue Pierre de Coubertin and rue Hochelaga along the way.Fletcher Avenue is lined with small houses and a couple of duplexes or triplexes.
Then I walked on Bilaudeau Avenue from Souligny to Pierre de Coubertin.Then I walked along the entire length of rue Joseph -Nolin.After that I walked along rue Paul Pau from rue de Marseille up to Sherbrooke Street.There on Sherbrooke Street I took the 186 metro to Honore Beaugrand metro.
High in the Tianshan Mountains of Central Asia,the snow lotus(Saussurea involucrata)grows in harsh,cold conditions at high altitudes.It develops slowly over several years and is valued in traditional medicine.Due to overharvesting and climate change,this rare plant is now under threat.
From 1970 to 1974,a man named David Kunst(born 1939) walked around the entire Earth on foot-14,450 miles across four continents -it took him four years and he wore out 21 pairs of shoes.
I Don't Want To Get Over You-song by Magnetic Fields.
The wonderful bass voice of Stephin Merritt needs to be more appreciated.Radio stations in Montreal never seem to play this song,and they must be urged to .
Paint The Town Red-song by Doja Cat.
This song samples the 1964 hit song 'Walk On By' from Dionne Warwick throughout the track.
This song is very artfully done. Dionne Warwick was actually thrilled her song sample was used for this track.
Mile High(2021)-song by Astrocolor.
Astrocolor is a band from Victoria, British Columbia.
I know once I open the floodgates of feeling sorry for myself,I'll get a taste for it and it will destroy me.-Kelly Rimmer
I don't expect to get a standing ovation from businessmen when I call for higher wages.-Peter Bofinger
Dubai has a dazzling skyline;with its dazzling skyscrapers Dubai is a huge draw for tourists and the ultra-rich.
Dubai is a metropolis on steroids;there are lots and lots of shopping malls in Dubai.Since Dubai is brutally hot for half of the year,people often hang out in shopping malls there.Shopping malls are kind of the town square in Dubai.
Dubai is an aviation hub.90% of the population of Dubai consists of foreign nationals; most of the people who live in Dubai are on short-term work visas, typically two-year work visas that can be renewed.
There is no pathway to permanent citizenship in Dubai for foreigners.People can live as foreigners in Dubai,but they will never become citizens.
Seafood fraud is very common;consumers need to keep their eyes open to it.
Fish fraud involves species substitution or mislabeling.Lower-value species such as tilapia are sometimes marketed as expensive ones like red snapper.
Fish is labeled as cod sometimes when it's really Pollock.
"White tuna" sold in sushi restaurants is often actually escolar,a fish that can cause digestive issues such as diarrhea.
Until the late 19th century,many Japanese women practised ''ohaguro"-dyeing their teeth black as a beauty custom.The glossy black finish was considered elegant and refined, especially among married women band aristocrats.
Leafcutter ants look like they are stealing leaves for dinner,but they are really farming.They carry leaf pieces underground,use them to grow fungus,and then eat the fungus instead.
In Tokyo,Shoji Morimoto rents himself out to "do nothing"-offering silent company for meals,events or just sitting together.After being fired for lacking initiative,he turned it into a full business earning around $80,000 a year.
Congratulations are in order for him.
In Thailand it's illegal to step on money because it has the king's image.