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Honours celebrate adventurous learning experiences for Ontarians of all ages...

TOBERMORY — Over the past 20 years quadrillions of invasive mussels have been sucking the life out of the Great Lakes. They’re trapping nutrients, the basic building blocks of life, on the lake bottom. Without nutrients, organisms of all kinds - from the tiniest plankton to the largest fish - are vanishing. In Lakes Huron, Michigan, and Ontario, vast offshore areas have become “biological deserts,” heralding one of the biggest changes to the Earth’s freshwaters in 10,000 years.

The ninth annual Canadian Screen Awards held their final night’s gala on Thursday, awarding the big prizes in film and television. Tracey Deer’s Oka-inspired Beans won both the John Dunning best first feature film award and best motion picture. This comes after her TIFF emerging talent award last year. Indigenous zombie feature Blood Quantum, which was leading with 10 nominations, won seven awards, including for Montreal-based Mi’kmaq writer-director Jeff Barnaby and best lead actor for...

Darwins Arch, featured in the award-winning film Sharkwater by Rob Stewart, collapsed last week. The M/Y Sharkwater was nearby and