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Prescribed fire, a practice in which fire is intentionally applied to vegetation to meet land management goals, is a key contributor to restoring Canada’s endangered prairie grasslands. Join Cat Zens, Communications and Outreach Officer for the Canadian Prairies Prescribed Fire Exchange (CPPFE) — an inter-agency collective offering prescribed fire resources across the Canadian Prairies — as she explores how prescribed fire is helping protect Canada’s prairie grasslands, one guest at a time. This is Prairie Fire Lines - where we keep the conversation burning. Visit grasslandfire.ca to ...

Not every story has a happy ending. Since her brother's death, eight-year-old Egg Murakami has been living day-to-day on the family ostrich farm near Bittercreek, discovering life to be an ever-perplexing condition. Mama Murakami has curled up inside a bottle, and Papa has exiled himself to the barn with the birds. Big sister Kathy tells stories to Egg so that the world might not seem so awful.

L’adolescence n’est facile pour personne. On se cherche une identité à travers les nouvelles expériences, les jobines et les premières amours. Mais Mariana a un avantage sur les autres, elle sait déjà quoi faire de sa vie : si elle ne meurt pas – d’ennui dans un trop long trajet d’autobus ou d’un coup de couteau dans une bagarre –, avec son talent naturel, elle sera joueuse de soccer professionnelle! Rivière-des-Prairies, c’est l’intensité de l’adolescence combinée à celle de Mariana. Tenez-vous bien : ça va chauffer.

Following the fantastic success of his bestselling memoir, Where I Belong, Great Big Sea front man Alan Doyle returns with a hilarious, heartwarming account of leaving Newfoundland and discovering Canada for the first time. Armed with the same personable, candid style found in his first book...