A Kingston motion is paving the way towards a more equal Canada

Apr 11, 2016 | Justice

Canada’s minister of families, children and social development, Jean-Yves Duclos, with provincial counterparts discussing policy. A Laval University economics professor, Duclos has studied basic income — and is responsible for a Canada Poverty Reduction...

Seedy Saturday 2016 was record-breaking

Apr 11, 2016 | Heirloom Seed Sanctuary stories

Photo: Andreas Frantzeskos Every year Seedy Saturday gets bigger but this March, it got huge. More than 600 took part in the one-day seedfest that is sponsored in part by the Sisters of Providence — and held at the perfect time, as winter is still hanging on and the...

April 2016 news and volunteer opportunity

Apr 5, 2016 | Heirloom Seed Sanctuary stories

The Heirloom Seed Sanctuary is busy on Facebook and occasionally sends email updates too. Here is the latest.  You can read this one here. You can sign up, here, if you want to be on the mailing...

St. Patrick’s Day celebrations through the years​

Apr 4, 2016 | Providence Flashbacks

St. Patrick’s Day, 1997 . Left to Right: Sr. Mary Fitzpatrick, Sr. Mary Gertrude, Sr. May Joseph O’Brien, Sr. Anna Marie Willer, Sr. Rita Hanson, Sr. Mary Laboure, Sr. Rita Dimberline, Sr. Bernice Boyle, Sr. Rita Killeen and Sr. Margaret Mary.  BY VERONICA STIENBURG,...

Are the seeds contemplating their future, as I am?

Apr 1, 2016 | Heirloom Seed Sanctuary stories

BY CATE HENDERSON We are coming to realize that plants do have an organ similar to our mammal brain. This organ is connected to a nervous system of sorts and capable of sending out signals that cause action in other parts of the plant. In plants, this central organ is...