Maple syrup

A list of 30 ways to scratch the maple itch, from The Canadian Encyclopedia’s 30th-anniversary compilation of what makes us proud to be Canadian

Book review: ‘The Sugar Season,’ by Douglas Whynott

Canadian Business reporter acts as an informant

From syrup to slurpees, food and drink made their mark in 2012

The Ocean’s Eleven gang attempt a sweet and sticky $30M score

From the headlines of Aug. 30-Sept. 6, 2012

Arcade Fire, James Holmes, professor pay and maple syrup

A grim breakfast in Scotland became Sasha Saunders’ defining patriotic moment

He and his wife of six decades, Shirley, were inseparable. Around her, he would really open up.

I wonder if any of the other Macbloggers have been straining at their imaginations trying to find a PG-rated way to talk about the name change over at Canada’s second-oldest magazine. It took me a while to remember that General Semantics has an answer for this. So: The Beaver, now to become Canada’s History, was named in 1920 for what we’ll call beaver1, the rodent Castor canadensis. The periodical was obliged to make the change because of jokes about and search-engine confusion with beaver2, a colloquialism for an anatomical neighbourhood in the human female.