Luke's Canadian Blog

Another new (to me) term I happened upon recently is "stan". Not as in Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan, where the "-sta...

I recently encountered the concept of an eruv (pl. eruvin ), and I can kind of see what it is not something that Jewish people talk about m...

Think what you will about Canada's legalization of cannabis last year, the commercial rollout of cannabis sales is generally considered ...

Here's a neat idea. The Great Salt Lick Contest in Baker City, Oregon is an annual event (since 2006) in which local farmers put out 50...

Tweedledum and Tweedledee? Laurel and Hardy? Think of them how you like. The comic duo hit the G7 summit at Biarritz in a big way this we...

If Donald Trump is vehemently denying something, you can bet your bottom dollar it's probably true. So, when he tweets, "The story ...

It's no coincidence that, less than a year after populist Jair Bolsonaro came to power in Brazil, satellite imagery shows vast tracts of...

Elections Canada has drawn a rather problematic line in the sand just two months before the Canadian federal election. It has ruled that any...