Six-year-olds who could not tell time. A baseline test confirming it. Then two sessions with performance visual artists teaching through play and joy. Every child could tell the time. Every child moved up an attainment bracket. Dr. Jacqueline Harding ran that experiment, and the result is not a curiosity. It is a blueprint. When children…
Jacqueline Harding tells Shane Hewitt that classrooms built on joy, creativity, and laughter are more effective than fear-based teaching models. She argues that hopeful learning environments benefit both teachers and students and are key to long-term success in schools. Connect with 580 CFRA Online: Subscribe to 580 CFRA: https://bit.ly/4o8AKWp Visit the website: https://www.cfra.com/ Likes us…
Ottawa nostalgia and urban development collide when the place that held your childhood firsts starts coming down by machine. Stefan Keyes grew up in Ottawa’s West End, close enough to walk to Westgate Shopping Centre. He watched his first movie there. He got his first passport photo there. He has not been inside in years…
Good news Tuesday Canada brings Krista Richard out of Moncton, New Brunswick, where her Bikes and Trikes for Everyone program has put wheels under thousands of kids over 14 years. She collects them, fixes them, and sends them out the door. That is the whole program. The phones and texts fill in the rest. Arthur…
A Canadian peacekeeper deploys to Croatia in 1993 to separate armies that want nothing to do with peace. He comes home carrying wounds nobody can see. Decades later, a daughter he never knew existed makes her way across the country to find him. The Peace Thieves is Brent Van Staalduinen’s sixth novel, built around a…
Three robots walked into the show tonight – all of them fun. One is in a university cafeteria doing something 2.5 million times that humans have never quite managed to do consistently. One is in a litter box, quietly learning things. And one was built in someone’s garage from plans posted online, for a reason…
Canada is technically in a recession and the prime minister won’t say the word. Matt Gurney thinks the more important conversation is the one hiding underneath it. For years, the answer to flat economic productivity was simple: put more people in the country. More people at Tim Hortons, more people at Canadian Tire, more dollars…
Bob Addison went back to read the label on a six-foot Canada Day flag at Costco. Made in Canada, imported fabric, pole and bracket from China. Fifty dollars. The irony runs deeper when you consider Canada probably sold them the coal that fired the furnace that made the pole. That observation opens into something the…
Counterfeit sports jerseys are everywhere, and the reasons people buy them are more complicated than the law makes room for. The conversation draws a hard line between two kinds of fakes. A counterfeit Rolex or a fake designer bag is about passing yourself off as something you’re not. A fake jersey is about wanting to…
From wildflower yards to self-cleaning robot vacuums, this week’s DIY conversation goes places you won’t expect. The neighbours want a perfect lawn. The bees want you to stop. Chaos gardening is the TikTok trend where you scatter wildflower seeds and let mother nature take over — no mowing, no maintenance, full pollinator habitat. Andy Baryer…