Canada’s Ammonia Energy Option

 Opinion by Dr. Steve Wittrig and Greg Vezina. Canada possesses vast energy resources (oil, gas, hydropower and wind) that are disadvantaged from full development by a combination of distance from markets, cost of transportation infrastructure and CO2 intensity. One promising option to address these barriers is to develop ammonia (NH3)

Oh Wild October Wind

 Oh wild October wind With your breath of fury Take the autumn leaves And make them all scurry Carry them with you Along pastures and fields By brooks and streams Where the Birch trees kneel Bend the Maples Make their branches sway But leave the wildflowers For another day Spare

A Windy Day In Spring

 You should have heard the wind Roaring in my orchard One fine spring day in May He was so full of himself He almost blew the trees away Why he was in such a foul mood Even the robins couldn’t say All I know for sure Is that once he

A Single Birch Leaf

 When country trees Howled and creaked Like a wooden floor A single birch leaf Stood its ground And would not bend Against the wind Or yield to its roar Beckoned to follow By oak and maple It refused to go And chose instead To greet the snow Why does a

huff at the NAC: It will blow you away

 Photo Credit -  Cliff Cardinal It is poignant, powerful, funny, touching and deeply disturbing.  huff, currently at the NAC , written by and starring Cliff Cardinal, movingly tells the heartbreaking story of Wind and his brothers , (Huff who is younger and Charles is their older brother who is a