A suprising Canadian medical headline today may shed light on the study of linguistics. An Ontario woman, with no personal ties to the Canadian Maritimes, began speaking with a Newfoundland accent after suffering a stroke.
Following her stroke in 2006, Rose Dore checked herself into a Hamilton, Ont., hospital where staff assumed she was from the [...]
George W. Bush is arguably the least popular American president ever. He certainly has the lowest approval ratings in the 7 decades the Gallup Poll has been in use. As a Canadian, there is a vague sense of the familiar in all of this, as we look back and consider our own country’s past leadership. [...]
When the fifth human foot washed up on BC shores, it was the first I’d ever heard of it. Then a sixth, this one with evidence of actually being severed, washed up yesterday:
The black running shoe, wrapped in seaweed, didn’t stand out on the pebbled beach near Campbell River yesterday. It was the stomach-turning sight [...]
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