Summer reads: The best of Canvas - part 3
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NZ Herald
The New Zealand Herald is bringing back some of the best premium stories of 2020. Today we look at five of the best Canvas stories of the year. Toy story: Pleasure and discomfort in the sex emporium
If you disregard the preliminary scoping visit I d made a few days prior and the visits I d made a few years earlier to Peaches and Cream, Peaches and Cream Extreme, D.Vice, The Basement and Nauti NZ and the visits I d made in my 20s to several tourist-friendly emporia overseas, I had never been in a sex shop before.
Premium summer big reads: The rise and fall of the office
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NZ Herald
The New Zealand Herald is bringing back some of the best stories of 2020 from our premium syndicators, including The New York Times, Financial Times and The Times of London. Today we look at how 2020 completely changed office lives, sports most famous whistleblower, Germany s problem of far-right extremism, Naomi Campbell turns 50 and the history of the Space Station.
Did 2020 kill the office?
In recent years, it has been hard to imagine a time when the office wasn t central to our cities and central to our lives, it had developed an atmosphere as distinctive as the sports stadium or the cathedral.
Cricket: India fight back on day two of third test against Australia
8 Jan, 2021 08:00 AM
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NZ Herald
Steve Smith scored his first century in Australia in over three years but India s bowlers sparked another batting collapse for the hosts before their batsmen made a solid start to reach 96-2 by the end of the second day of the third cricket test at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
Smith s 131, his first century since the 2019 Ashes and Australia s first this series, helped lift the hosts to 338 but Australia will be disappointed to have not scored more given their final eight wickets fell for 130 runs with India spinner Ravi Jadeja taking 4-62 and completing a spectacular run out to dismiss Smith and end the innings.
Havelock North boy makes decorations to fundraise for Fiji s Happy Chicken Project
7 Jan, 2021 07:19 PM
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Ten-year-old Xavier Lynch, from Havelock North, has helped raise more than $4500 for the Happy Chicken Project in Fiji. Photo / Paul Taylor
Ten-year-old Xavier Lynch, from Havelock North, has helped raise more than $4500 for the Happy Chicken Project in Fiji. Photo / Paul Taylor
Hawkes Bay Today
By: Gianina Schwanecke
Ten-year-old Xavier Lynch, from Havelock North, came back with a business and fundraising idea.
In 2017, Lynch and his family visited Fiji where they stayed at the Happy Chicken Project permaculture farm. I learned that they help the communities in the Fijian Islands to sustain an alternative food source while the reefs are closed to repopulate the fish.
Rotorua Daily Post Year in Review: October 2020
7 Jan, 2021 10:00 PM
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Despite being in the midst of a battle with cancer, Brett Bosley, 61, was in the thick of the action. Photo / File
Despite being in the midst of a battle with cancer, Brett Bosley, 61, was in the thick of the action. Photo / File
Rotorua Daily Post
The Rotorua Daily Post is looking back at the stories of 2020. Here s what made headlines in October.
October 2
Rotorua tourism braced for a summer without cruise ship visitors, which added another blow to Rotorua s embattled tourism sector.
New Zealand s borders remained closed under Covid-19 restrictions. It was unknown when they would reopen to allow ports to welcome cruise ships again.