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Issue 124 / January-March 2026
Romania’s recycling revolution lifts off
A deposit return scheme for drink bottles and cans in Romania has proved a game-changer, with an astonishing 94% of containers now recycled
“You go to Romania now, you don’t see a bottle anywhere”, said RetuRo CEO Gemma Webb. “It was the impossible made possible. Everybody’s very proud”.
China’s emissions flatline amid solar boom
Crop yields soar thanks to solar panels
solar can boost harvests rather than hinder them.
inventive teens will always find ways to dodge the ban.
Waterloo Region Record
Monday, April 20, 2026
Researchers find traces of opioids in Ontario fish population
Drugs like fentanyl, methadone and antidepressants are showing up in freshwater fish
PM lands on Time’s most influential people list
his frequent nickname in the banking world, “George Clooney of finance”
Wednesday, April 8, 2026
‘Waddleloo’ map offers students safe passage from nesting geese
University of Waterloo student Anirudh Dabas created Waddleloo to help students navigate areas where geese have been spotted. He likens the birds to an “unofficial final boss.”
Opinion
What will it be like when Premier Ford’s regional chair doesn’t care what you think?
Luisa D’Amato
Ford has consolidated and expanded his influence to the point that Ontario has become a kind of flawed democracy, with no balance of power
51st-state talk gets put on ice — for now
Donald Trump’s views on Canadian sovereignty appear to be constantly in motion, weaving back and forth like his social media feed.
Thanks to a British author, we learned this week that all the 5lst-state talk is now on the back burner for two reasons: one lies in Trump’s respect for King Charles, and, maybe more significantly, the president doesn’t have enough time to annex this nation. In a book excerpt published in the U.K. by the Daily Mail, author and royalty expert Robert Hardman recounts a conversation he had with Trump late last year.
It’s worth pausing here to flag a couple of things. If this really was the first time Trump had reflected on the monarchy’s status in Canada, he missed some large signals sent last year. Most notably, King Charles read the throne speech last May and politely underlined that Canada was to remain “the true north, strong and free.” That was largely interpreted as the King telling Trump to cut it out on the annexation talk. Perhaps Trump wasn’t listening that day.
Similarly, perhaps the president’s attention was elsewhere when King Charles made a flurry of symbolic gestures in the months after the 5lst-state talk seemed to be on the rise - planting a Canadian maple tree at Buckingham Palace, for instance.
So maybe Canada can thank Hardman for reminding Trump that when he threatens Canada, he threatens the British monar-hy he so admires. But it should be also pointed out that the resident has not stopped taunting Carney as the “future gover-or of Canada,” which he did as recently as last month, a good few onths after he talked to Hardman.
Thursday, April 2, 2026
Mac to the future
Apple’s 50-year odyssey has redefined technology, pop culture and comeback stories
by Michael Liedtke
A scrawny hippie and a nerdy engineer who became prank-playing friends vowed to change the world when they founded a Silicon Valley startup on April Fools’ Day 50 years ago and then - no joke - pulled it off.
Eye on the area photos
Trumpeter Swan - It’s beautiful when you go on a trail walk and get a surprise seeing over 20 trumpeters swans at Mill Pond in Cambridge.
Holy Bible
Origin of the Bible
No book in the history of the world has wielded as much influence on civilization as the Holy Bible. The Bible is unique in that it had God as its Author, while all other books were composed by human beings. It is indeed, the Book of Books.
The End Of The Certain World
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“The loveliest feast” of the year was Christmas, complete with presents and a tree that the four hildren decorated with their own handiwork of gilded apples, long paper chains, and strings of raisins and almonds. For the children, at least, assimilation vas a fact.
Still, he wanted them to know the Bible because so much of western culture was infused with its images.