Brian Minter: Fragrance will elevate your garden to the next levelvancouversun.com - Brian Minter Updated: August 23, 2019 As we move into late summer, it should be one of the most enjoyable times in our gardens — a time to truly appreciate the results of all the effort …
Lighting up our lives (and trees)vancouversun.com - Brian Minter Updated: August 24, 2019 As we move into a cooler time of year, don’t abandon your patio—instead, realign it for the next season. Lighting our decks has become far more …
World News Barcelona police spare bathers' blushes with clothing 'robbery kits'The Guardian - Stephen Burgen in BarcelonaPolice in Barcelona have handed out more than 100 emergency clothing kits to bathers who return from a swim to find everything they left on the beach has been stolen by the thieves who plague the city’s
Opinion Homophobic? Maybe. But at least Midnight Cowboy showed me gay men on screenThe Guardian - Ryan GilbeyMidnight Cowboy moseys into UK cinemas again next month on the occasion of its 50th anniversary, and with it comes another opportunity to ask whether this is a film about homophobia or a homophobic film.
UK News Tourists down, costs up: recession looms on Highlands horizonThe Guardian - Libby Brooks Scotland correspondentTanja Lister is addressing her fears of a looming recession one dinner plate at a time. “We spent about £3,000 on new crockery,” she explains. She has been running the Kylesku hotel, a former coaching
Northern Ireland On the Irish border lanes of Fermanagh, the bad old days are returningThe Guardian - Rory CarrollBoris Johnson vowed to preserve peace in Northern Ireland during diplomatic forays to Germany and France last week, saying “under no circumstances” would the UK put checks and controls on the border. prime
Rugby Union Maitland and Harris edge Scotland to comeback victory over FranceThe Guardian - Bryn Palmer at BT MurrayfieldA week after being obliterated in Nice, Scotland turned the tables on France to end a run of five Tests without a win and bolster their World Cup preparations with a comeback victory at Murrayfield. Down
Food Bank Flowers, friendship and food bank donations: readers' allotments – in picturesThe Guardian - Guardian readers This year’s National Allotment Week celebrated shared harvest. From beetroot to zinnias, here are some of your best pictures
Nagoya The Perfect Nagoya Itinerarytravel2next.com - The Editor Nagoya, the 4th largest city of Japan, is often overlooked by travellers in favour of bigger cities like Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, and Hiroshima. …
Canadian News Sikh teacher moves to B.C. over Quebec law banning religious symbols in public-sector jobsCBC News - Meera Bains Amrit Kaur, who recently graduated to become a teacher, has moved across the country from her Montreal-area home to B.C. so she can work while …
Indigenous Peoples Contemporary Indigenous arts festival launches in VictoriaCBC News - CBC News · Indigifest, a festival that celebrates contemporary Indigenous artists, launches Friday in Victoria. The festival is a free, one-day event at the …
travel news Great parks and green spaces in the UK: readers’ travel tipsThe Guardian - Guardian readersSkirting the southern edge of Manchester, Turn Moss and Chorlton water meadows offer a huge swathe of countryside just five miles from the city centre. Bisected by the River Mersey, they are home to at
United Kingdom How is Boris Johnson’s Britain viewed in other G7 countries? Our panel respondsThe Guardian - Roland Kelts, Sarah Jones, Jan Fleischhauer and Pauline BockRoland Kelts: ‘Seen from Japan, Britain is no longer recognisably British’ A nation of islands shaped by limited space and imperial ambitions, garden aesthetics and ceremonial teas – and stoic, stiff-lipped
World News Molotov-Ribbentrop: why is Moscow trying to justify Nazi pact?The Guardian - Andrew Roth in MoscowEighty years after the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany signed a non-aggression treaty dividing Europe into spheres of influence, Russia has put the original Molotov-Ribbentrop pact and its secret protocol
World News Town near Barcelona uses wolf urine to keep wild boar awayThe Guardian - Stephen Burgen in BarcelonaA small town outside Barcelona is using wolf urine to deter wild boar that have been coming in from the surrounding countryside. After trying a variety of deterrents, the town council of Aiguafreda has
Whales Fossil Hunters Found Bones From an Ancient Whale... and Then They Saw the Bite MarksGizmodo - Jeanne Timmons There was tremendous turmoil at the top of the water’s surface. An island of flesh, once living and swimming gracefully through these ancient seas, …
SNC-Lavalin Liberals unhurt, Tories not helped by scathing SNC-Lavalin report: Poll | The Starthestar.com - Joan Bryden OTTAWA—A new poll suggests a scathing ethics report on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s handling of the SNC-Lavalin affair hasn’t so far hurt the …
CrossFit 10 CrossFit Games Athletes Share Their Favorite WODsMen's Journal - by Spenser Mestel The CrossFit Games are over, but with the CrossFit Open starting in October this year, now isn’t the time to dial back your conditioning, cardio …
UK News Scotland's deficit seven times higher than UK as a whole last yearThe Guardian - Severin Carrell Scotland editorScotland ran a deficit seven times higher than the UK as a whole last year, despite again cutting its overspend on public services. The latest Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland (Gers) figures
Play buttonNews Macron tells Johnson Brexit backstop is indispensableThe Guardian - Angelique Chrisafis in Paris and Jennifer Rankin in BrusselsEmmanuel Macron has described the Irish backstop as “indispensable” to a Brexit deal and urged Boris Johnson to set out his proposed alternatives as soon as possible, as he met the British prime minister
Pierre Trudeau Justin Trudeau: the rise and fall of a political brandThe Guardian - Ashifa KassamOn the last night of March 2012, Justin Trudeau climbed into a boxing ring in downtown Ottawa, the Canadian capital, intent on rescuing his public image. He was clad in a lustrous red robe, the colour
UK News What is 'blobology' and how is it transforming biology?bbc.co.uk - Pallab Ghosh Spectacularly detailed videos from an advanced microscope are sparking a biology "revolution", scientists say.
UK News Brexit: What are EU countries doing to prepare for no deal?bbc.co.uk - Reality Check team The UK government has stepped up its planning for leaving the EU without a deal, covering areas such as transport, healthcare, energy, food and water.
Barcelona Barcelona crime wave tarnishes boom in tourismbbc.co.uk - Guy Hedgecoe Several violent robberies, including the mugging of a foreign diplomat, have drawn attention to a wave of crime in Barcelona that is alarming residents and the local authorities.
Owen Farrell England v Ireland: George Ford and Owen Farrell both startbbc.co.uk - By Chris JonesGeorge Ford and Owen Farrell will start together for the first time in over a year when they line up for England against Ireland on Saturday. Captain Farrell partners Manu Tuilagi in the centres for the
Asia South Korea and Japan's feud explainedbbc.co.uk - BBC News South Korea has terminated its military intelligence-sharing pact with Japan in the latest tit-for-tat dispute that has hit diplomatic and trade ties.
Vancouver, BC City says 75 Oppenheimer Park residents have accepted housing offers as eviction deadline passesCBC News - CBC News · The city of Vancouver says 75 residents of Oppenheimer Park, a tent city in the Downtown Eastside, have accepted offers to move into housing as the …
Vancouver, BC The biggest change in the Downtown Eastside isn't the crime or homelessness. It's the geography.CBC News - Justin McElroy The state of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, long one of the most discussed neighbourhoods in Canada, has gotten dramatically worse in the last couple …
Vancouver, BC Broadway Subway Project lane closures begin ThursdayCBC News - CBC News · Temporary traffic lane closures will be in place this month as work on the Broadway Subway Project on Vancouver's West Side gets underway. The …
Canadian News Reservist suspected of neo-Nazi ties raises questions whether 'signals missed' by militaryCBC News - Bryce Hoye The military needs to be more proactive about weeding out white supremacists from its ranks in light of an Armed Forces reservist being investigated …
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