The lonely death of Chanie Wenjack

 

Secret Path, by Gord Downie and Jeff Lemire

In 1967, Maclean's published a story about a 12-year-old boy named Chanie Wenjack, an Ojibwe who had been taken from his family and sent to a residential school in Northern Ontario. This happened for years to native children in Canada.

The residential schools were places of abuse, usually run by churches, where natives had their identities stripped from them. Chanie ran away and tried to walk back to his family, but died of exposure. Even after this story, the schools remained open until the last one closed in 1996. Mike Downie gave the article to his brother Gord, lead singer of Kingston's Tragically Hip. 

Gord did a CD, graphic novel and film called Secret Path in collaboration with artist Jeff Lemire, even though he was dying of cancer. 

Wendy the Chihuahua mix in Value Village

I think it was a Yorkie mix.

 

Space food stick memories

 

Image via General Mills

We had them in Grade 6, 1971 or1972, where we were following an educational TV show in our class - we were supposed to be on a space ship, made a wall out of cardboard to separate the class into two groups, and the educational part seemed to be record keeping - we had to keep track of who got what stick, and decode a message that told us that some of them might have been contaminated and we should isolate the ones that had eaten them. I've never used that particular skill in my later life.

They weren't particularly tasty, and they were marked with a square, triangle or circle on the foil wrapper for us to keep records of.

Stereotypical Canadian Scene

CSL Welland heading for Montreal. Canada Goose overhead. In St. Lawrence River.

 

Marc-Antoine Gagnier, author from Embrum, Ontario, and his series «Renarde-Woman»

Marc-Antoine Gagnier, author from Embrum, Ontario, and his series «Renarde-Woman». at École élémentaire publique Rose des Vents, Cornwall, Ontario

 

Woman's laugh made the show

Hash the 1, https://www.instagram.com/hash_the1/, 

had this woman in stiches.

I was sitting right behind her! April 17, 2026, 

420  Comedy Show, 

LoL Entertainment, MO Events Cornwall SD&G, 

17369 Cornwall Centre Rd, Cornwall, Ontario

Osprey in rain

 

Osprey in rain, Glen Walter, Ontario, (Pandion haliaetus), Balbuzard pêcheur