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“Protect Nature and Wildlife species at risk now!” Sea Otter & Greater Sage Grouse LIVING PLANET REPORT: “Starkest Picture of Wildlife Loss in Canada Yet!” Yes, that Canada. Our Canada. “Where pines and maples grow. Great prairies spread and lordly rivers flow.” Remember? The newly released World Wildlife Fund Canada’s Living Planet […]
Teddy Bear Hero Program Paramedics serving their community… TEDDY BEAR HERO Free Teddy Bears for Children Given by Canadian Paramedics “Teddy bears are now riding along with paramedics. Who are helping ease fear during emergencies!” The Teddy Bear Hero program donates bears to first responders for children in crisis, providing comfort to children in […]
Woodland Cree History WOODLAND CREE HISTORY Hunters, Trappers, Scouts, Soldiers, Residential Students, Entrepreneurs I learned something of the Northern Woodland Cree from my father. Dad had served in the Algonquin Regiment during WWII. Some of his fellow members had been Cree. “They were the best of friends — they always had your […]
World Animal Day is here. We celebrate World Animal Day because we love animals! You too, eh? Or you wouldn’t be reading this. It’s a time when the world is a fractured place. But this one thing we have in common. We love ’em all — those living creatures we share this planet with. And […]
Dog Rescue – Latest Story Amazing Dog Rescue Stories DOG RESCUE STORIES Animal Rescue Corps rescues 57 dogs from backyard breeder GOOD NEWS! Dog rescue. Animal Rescue Corps rescues 57 dogs from backyard breeder in Lexington, Tennessee Animal Rescue Corps (ARC), a national nonprofit animal protection organization, rescued 57 dogs and puppies from a […]
How to stop Global Warming? What is climate change? It’s mid-winter in Canada as I write this. Haven’t forgot Climate Change, of course. But it’s drifted a bit off the Inner Radar, eh? Those Wildfires won’t be here till the dry Spring. Same with Storm damage. And Floods. We’ve got other things demanding […]
Mulan Dance Drama… The story of MULAN is one of the most evocative tales to reach our shores in a generation. An absolutely beautiful and stirring story of Hua Mulan, who disguises herself as a man in order to join the Chinese army. It’s a timeless legend of courage and honour. Hua Mulan, […]
To celebrate “Random Acts of Kindness Week” from February 12th – 19th, author H.D. Ronay is accepting random acts of kindness as payment for his new book MAGOO AND HIS MAGIC POO. “During the week that inspires good deeds and selfless acts, the first 100 people to share their random act of kindness on Instagram […]
Mountie Books and more… Posted on Canada Day, 2022 in honour of the heroic men and women who have served in the red serge uniform as members of the historic Force known today as the Royal Canadian Mounted Police… And the writers of all those Mountie Books! The RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police, originally called […]
Canadian Mountie novel… Excerpt from SPIRIT-OF-IRON Canadian Mountie Novel by Harwood Steele SPIRIT-OF-IRON, Manitou-Pewabic: An Authentic Novel of the North-West Mounted Police – A Mountie Secret Revealed NOTE: Harwood Steele wrote his classic novel, SPIRIT-OF-IRON, based on the life of his famous father — Sam Steele of the Mounted. This exciting excerpt from the novel […]
Northern Canada Book review The Canadian Northern (or Northwestern) novel once had a high place in the Best Seller fiction lists — back in the first half of the 20th Century. From the release of Jack London’s masterwork THE CALL OF THE WILD in 1903, stories of the Land of the Northern Lights drew an […]
Patriotic voices… Patriotic Voices: We were living in Post-War Yorkshire then. It had been a few months since we’d moved from Canada, but my memories of that forevergreen land were strong and I missed it. I had started school outside Mirfield, just turned age 5. When Dad saw I wasn’t being taught much about our […]
Our Two Great Canadian Literary Genres “The animals are us.” – Margaret Atwood When Charles G D Roberts created the Realistic Animal Story in the 1890’s, he gave the world the first Canadian Literary Genre. When the Reverend Charles William Gordon followed with his Corporal Cameron novels, he perfected the second great Canadian […]
THE DOG STORIES OF MAX BRAND Today, we think more of dog stories by James Herriot than by a popular pulp fiction writer. But listen… Frederick Faust has been called “The Shakespeare of the Western Range.” (Kirkus Reviews). Faust published over 300 Western novels in his lifetime, using nineteen pseudonyms, of which he’s […]
“Just you and the love of your life and a happy team of sled dogs, alone together in the Great White North — that’s the last act of pure Freedom still available on the planet.” – Brian Alan Burhoe CALL OF THE NORTHWESTERN GENRE: BEST BOOKS, ANIMAL STORIES & MOUNTIE FICTION The […]
