Bananas and other oddities

September 25, 2025 · 0 Comments

by BRIAN LOCKHART I like to have a variety of fruit in my diet. Apples are good. So are pears, plums, apricots, kiwi, pineapple – ...

Qatar and Poland

by GWYNNE DYER I’ll get to the Russian drones shot down over Poland, but I’ll start with the Israeli air strikes on Qatar because that’s ...

The Simpsons were right

by BRIAN LOCKHART The Simpsons is the longest-running animated TV show in history, having debuted in December 1989. I used to watch the show, but ...

Monthly Message: At Streams, discovery is always on the menu

Every summer, for one week, I take off my Executive Director hat and slip on an apron. I teach Blissful Baking, a full-day program where ...

Gaza – not so much a genocide; more a real estate opportunity

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Self defence

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Greenland, Ukraine and all that

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You don’t agree?

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Africa: The cartographic and demographic

by GWYNNE DYER Two Africa-based advocacy groups, ‘Africa No Filter’ and ‘Speak Up Africa’, launched a “Change the Map” campaign in April. “When whole generations, ...