Greetings from the port of Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon [SPM], a French territory south of Newfoundland's eastern shores. This unexpected trip satisfies a desire my wife and I have had since childhood, fuelled by CBC's show St.-Pierre. Their famous old lighthouse on Pointe aux Canons, taken when entering the harbour on the ferry to Saint-Pierre from Miquelon. No, mine is not a travel blog, but with 500 years of European and Canadian history and a new television "cop and robber" show set here,...

School's out, and there's so much to do. Will part of that exploring be with books? Through young eyes, middle-grade books explore the future, the past, and now, how people survive difficulties and mistakes, and what makes the world, people, bugs, animals, and machines tick. I've been looking for authors writing fiction similar to mine. Most of what I've read is by Canadian authors whose middle-grade works were available at the Halifax Public Library. Some are available as eBooks, and a few...

Now four per cent of Canada's population, Ukrainians have been escaping difficulty at home over the past 130 years.