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As sure as the appearance of the garter snakes announces spring, the gathering of monarch butterflies announces autumn. Each year in autumn, the monarch butterflies migrate thousands of kilometres from Toronto (and many other places in Southern Ontario) to their hibernation sites in Mexico.
The life cycle of the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) is remarkable. The [...]

I have a dear friend who believes in alternology. No matter how devastating the evidence to the contrary, she remains convinced and prefers to believe the baseless claims of the sharks swimming around her, eager to free her from her money. I should have expected nothing else, since it is exactly what the saying teaches [...]

Besides paying a fine, the company will also have to publish a correction in major Canadian newspapers and on its website, and must reimburse duped customers.
The wheels of the Competition Bureau may seem to turn very very slowly indeed, but let’s remember that -in spite of what many people seem to think- even civil servants [...]

I am a skeptic, let there be no doubt about that. Skeptics are not, as some people claim, eternal negative naysayers. Instead, skeptics are simply people who refuse to accept any claim at face value, i.e. they refuse to be gullible. In our culture, skepticism often isn’t received very well.
The best-known example of that -and [...]