In his well known song Mon Pays, the Quebec poet and singer Gilles Vigneault famously sings: "My country is not a country, it's the winter."And in this seemingly never ending one, this Winter from Hell, I think we can all relate to that. But since just a few weeks ago during the
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Montreal Simon: The Dead Swan and the Maple Tree That Lived Forever
Two days ago in the freezing cold of this never-ending winter, I noticed a swan lying weak from hunger on the frozen lake, while its partner looked anxiously on.Unable to understand what was happening, why there is almost no open water this year. No place to draw the food from it needs
Continue readingMontreal Simon: The Big Ice Hole and the Con Climate Change Deniers
In the 1970's a Nimbus satellite first revealed a giant hole in the sea ice around Antarctica, which appeared every winter for three years.Only to disappear and not be seen again since.Now some Canadian scientists have figured out why, and the implications couldn't be more ominous. Read more »
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