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by The Narwhal on Wednesday Dec 30 2020 Forester and ecologist Sybille Haeussler is searching for ways to save the whitebark pine, Western Canada’s only endangered tree, from extinction. Photo: Marty Clemens / The Narwhal A surprising thing happened at The Narwhal during the very-bad-not-at-all-good year of 2020: we wrote more good news and solutions-focused stories than ever before You don’t need me to tell you what the seven years of 2020 have been like.  But if the pandemic has revealed anything to us, it’s that when the world breaks down, it breaks down ...

  MONTREAL -- The Montreal literary community has lost a talent, as Joel Yanofsky has died after a long battle with cancer. He was 65 years old. His wife Cynthia Davis spoke of Yanofsky being a kind and pleasant person to be around.  "I am very grateful for the 23 years I was lucky enough to share with Joel," she said. "He was completely devoted and always kind to those of us blessed to be loved by him. I cannot imagine a better husband or father to our son. Joel made everything fun for us and we miss him so." Writers, academics, friends and fans of the written word began posting thei...

December 20, 2020 Dr Ajaz Anwar fondly remembers his school friends, chiefly Manzar Amin, for whom it was “more important to accept the challenge and give the opponent a tough time than to win” The sketch appeared in The Pakistan Times, on October 7, 1955. — Image: Supplied Normally, our activities at the Joan McDonald Junior Cambridge School were peaceful because of it being a co-educational institute. Children in such schools often behave better, say psychologists. Our sports instructor was a WWII veteran, an Englishman who had opted to stay back in the post-Independence Pakistan. It ...