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Fiction Sneak Peek: April 10, 2021 Issue By Short stories “More Than This” is our opener. In the Peak District, Marcia wonders if she’s missed out on something in life . . . Our “Hopewell ” stories by Rebecca Holmes are illustrated by Mandy Dixon. “The Future’s Bright” in our second story — after the most unusual of years, there seems to be light on the horizon. Written by Gabrielle Mullarkey, with a lovely illustration by Sarah Holliday. A young couple agree to appear on a ...

By Mark Wegierski web posted April 5, 2021 There have been throughout Western Canada’s history a number of regionalist or outrightly separatist parties that are usually considered as being on the fringe. These have included, among others, the Western Canada Concept, West-Fed, and so forth. The Social Credit Party (based loosely on the ideas of C. H. Douglas) was a right-wing populist party that arose in response to the Great Depression. It held the governments of Alberta and British C...

Part Four of OUR PANDEMIC YEAR, a week-long series examining how the Covid pandemic has changed our local Jewish world. “I think we’re all wondering what’s going to happen.” That was Contra Costa Jewish Day School parent Liat Egel speaking to J. a year ago. It was March 2020 and her two kids, like all children in the Bay Area, were suddenly faced with shuttered schools and an abrupt switch to online learning. It was a time of uncertainty as teachers and parents tried to cope with a worl...

EVERY MORNING,  TheJournal.ie brings you all the news you need to know as you start the day. 1. #EYES RIGHT: Part Four of an investigation by Noteworthy and The Journal on the growth of far-right ideology on Irish online networks looks at the growth of activity on messaging app Telegram.  2. #LEO VARADKAR: Fine Gael, despite mutterings of deep unhappiness at the leaking of a confidential report and the damage it has done to the party, are sticking by Tánaiste Leo Varadkar. 3. #FLU VACCINE:...

Zack Snyders Justice League Review: A Dark Superhero Epic That Obliterates the Original Zack Snyders Justice League Review: A Dark Superhero Epic That Obliterates the Original The Snyder Cut fulfills the directors vision and rewards his ardent supporters with a stunning film, streaming exclusively on HBO Max. Director Zack Snyders epic vision of the Justice League delivers the hopes, dreams, and expectations of the dedicated fans that demanded it. The Snyder Cut washes away the crushing disapp...

, Naomi Bailey, Mary Harriet Talbut, and Illiana Gonzales write their responses. Today, it’s the turn of Jane Russell Valezy, Ann Radefeld, Theresa Gaetjens, and Donna Martinez to discuss what they have learned over the past several months. The ‘Split-Attention Model’ Jane Russell Valezy has been teaching English-language learners for 20 years in Canada, Japan, Germany, and Hungary. She can be reached on Twitter @TeachELLs Context: Our school is an international school with students from ...

Having grown up with the Apollo program and as an inveterate reader of science fiction, my baseline attitude toward human space exploration has long been positive. This attitude was given a more intellectual foundation in college, when one of my professors of political philosophy suggested that the space program fell into the category of the “noble and beautiful,” a translation of the Greek phrase “kalos kagathos,” which he summarized as the unnecessary things which we do or make that g...

Brexit Please see the Other Developments section for the MoU agreed between the ECB, FCA and BoE on post-Brexit supervisory cooperation, effective from 1 January. Capital Markets Please see the Markets and Markets Infrastructure section for a speech by Mairead McGuinness, European Commissioner for Financial Services, Financial Stability, and Capital Markets Union on future regulatory developments. Consumer / Retail  Please see the Markets and Markets Infrastructure section for a statement by S...

Expert Take Cointelegraph is following the development of an entirely new blockchain from inception to mainnet and beyond through its series, Inside the Blockchain Developer’s Mind. In Part Four, Andrew Levine of Koinos Group discusses some of the challenges the team has faced since identifying the key issues they intend to solve. Earlier in this series I outlined three of the “crises” that are holding back blockchain adoption; upgradeability, scalability, and governance. In th...

Philip Roth: The Biography, by Blake Bailey. W. W. Norton. 912 pages. $40. I ’ve never understood what others make out of non-fiction. Me, I used to make fiction out of it, but that was a while ago and I’m talking about regular people. I’m talking about you people, who apparently even now keep buying and library-borrowing, perhaps even reading, masses of these vast, fact-teeming books whose genre swears to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help me God. What exactly do y...