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Proactive - Interviews for investors

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 21, 2025 9:40

The Cheltenham Badlands are an alien landscape in Caledon, Ontario, once home of the Mississaugas of the Credit. Chief Ajetance was forced to sign Treaty 19 which ceded much of their traditional territory to the Crown and opened it to settlement. Colonists accidentally created this unique wasteland through tree clearing and bad farming practices. There was only a thin layer of soil over the Queenston Shale formation, a soft sedimentary rock that runs through Peel and Halton Regions. As news of this alien landscape spread, the footsteps of thousands of visitors hastened the erosion. The Ontario Heritage Trust is now preserving this reminder of how human actions can profoundly change the planet.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Yandal Resources MD shares insights into drilling at Siona discovery

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 13, 2025 2:30

Yandal Resources Ltd (ASX:YRL) managing director Chris Oorschot talks with Proactive's Tylah Tully about the company's 2024 Siona RC drilling program results and plans for the 2025 campaign. Oorschot described the results as “relatively positive”, noting mineralisation continuity across the Siona trend and additional structures extending up to 100 metres into the footwall. He explained, “What we're seeing is quite a large-scale, complex mineralised system,” with evidence of broad-scale mineralisation, narrow high-grade deposits and multiple mineralisation events. These findings set the stage for further exploration and stepping out from Siona. Oorschot also discussed the company's plans for the 2025 RC program at the New England Granite Project. This includes testing structural targets north of Siona, with the goal of expanding the mineralisation footprint. He highlighted upcoming results from the Caledon and Irulan target areas, encouraging investors to stay tuned for updates. #ProactiveInvestors #YandalResources #ASX #Gold #RCDrilling #SionaDiscovery #Mineralization #ExplorationTargets #MiningNews #GraniteMining #ResourceSector #Investment

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7. Christmas in the Cairngorms: visiting reindeer and Glencharnoch Wood

Woodland Walks - The Woodland Trust Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 18, 2024 41:54

Grab your hot chocolate (or mulled wine!) and get into the festive spirit with our Christmas special as we meet some reindeer, talk Christmas trees and explore a small but mighty wood with huge value for nature in the snowy Cairngorms National Park. We discover fascinating reindeer facts with Tilly and friends at The Cairngorm Reindeer Centre, and step into a winter wonderland at nearby Glencharnoch Wood with site manager Ross. We learn what makes a good Christmas tree, how the wood is helping to recover the old Caledonian pine forest of Scotland, why the site is so important to the community and which wildlife thrive here. You can also find out which tree can effectively clone itself, and is so tasty to insects that it developed the ability to shake them off! Don't forget to rate us and subscribe! Learn more about the Woodland Trust at woodlandtrust.org.uk Transcript You are listening to Woodland Walks, a podcast for the Woodland Trust presented by Adam Shaw. We protect and plant trees for people to enjoy, to fight climate change and to help wildlife thrive. Adam: Well, today I'm in the Cairngorms in Scotland. In Scottish Gaelic, the area is called – I'm going to give this a go - Am Monadh Ruadh. Apologies for my pronunciation there, but we are in the midst of a mountain range in the Highlands, of Scotland obviously. Generally we're about 1,000 metres high here but the higher peaks I'm told get to about 1,300 metres odd, which is going on for, I don't know, 4,500 foot or so. So this is a very dramatic landscape. We have rocky outcrops, boulders, steep cliffs. It's home to bird species such as the dotterel, snow bunting, the curlew and red grouse, as well as mammals such as mountain hare. But the reason of course we are here this Christmas is because it is also home to Britain's only herd, I think, of reindeer. Now, the reindeer herder is Tilly. She is the expert here and I've been braving, I am braving the snow and icy winds to be introduced to her and the herd. And from there after that, we're going to take a drive to what I'm told is an amazing wooded landscape of Caledonian pine to talk all things pine, and of course, all things Christmas trees. But first of all, let's meet Tilly, who looks after the reindeer. Adam: OK, we are recording. Tilly: That's good. OK. I'd better not say anything naughty then. Adam: I'll cut out any naughtiness, that's fine. Tilly: This is a bit of a rustly bag. It's more rustly than normal but never mind. Adam: What do the reindeer actually eat? Tilly: Well, so. We're now up in their natural habitat and we're looking across a nice heathery hillside with sedges as well. You can just see them poking through the snow and they'll pick away at the old heather of the year and the sedges. Adam: Right. Tilly: But we manage the herd and we like to feed them. So what I've got in my bag is some food for them, which they love. Adam: Right. And what's in your Santa sack of food now? Tilly: Oh, that's a secret. Adam: Oh, you can't tell me. Oh, God. Tilly: No, no. I can tell you. So it's a cereal mix and there is something similar to what you would feed sheep. Bit of barley, bit of sheep mix. Adam: That's awesome. So not mince pies and carrots? That's only reserved for Christmas Eve. That's probably not very good for them, I would have thought. Tilly: Yeah, no, I hate to say this, but reindeer don't actually eat carrots. Adam: Oh right okay, well, that's good to know. Tilly: But if ever children bring carrots for them, I never turn them away because we're very good at making carrot soup and carrot cake. Adam: Santa's helpers get the carrots. Tilly: And I'm absolutely certain that Santa eats all the mince pies, so all good. So anyway, come on through here. We're going now into a 1000-acre enclosure. It just hooks on there, that's perfect, it goes right across. We could actually once we get close to these visitors are coming off from a hill visit this morning. So you'll be pleased to hear that I am the boss. I'm Mrs. boss man and I've been with the reindeer for 43 years. Now, their lifespan is sort of 12 to 15 years, so I've gone through many generations. I've known many lovely reindeer and there's always a favourite and you would have seen some real characters there today. And you couldn't see them in better conditions. Anyway, do get yourself down and warm yourselves up. Oh, you've done very well to bring a little one like that today. Walker: He did pretty well until now! Tilly: You've done extremely well. Of course they have. He's got very red, a bit like Rudolph. The thing is there's just that wind, and it's the wind that drops the temperature, that chill factor. Adam: Yeah. So where are we going, Tilly? Tilly: So we're heading out towards what we call Silver Mount. They're not in here all year. Different times of year, sometimes they're all free range, some of them are free ranging, some are in here. Adam: When you speak about free range, literally they can go anywhere? Tilly: Yes they can. Adam: And they come back because they know where the food is? Tilly: Yes they do. They know where the food is, they sort of know where the home is, but they do wander out onto the high ground as well, more in the summertime. Adam: Right. And is that, I mean Scotland has different rules. There's a right to roam sort of rule here. Does that apply to reindeer? Is that the issue? Tilly: That is a moot point. Adam: Oh, really? We've hardly started and I've got into trouble. Tilly: No. Well, we lease 6000 acres, right? So we lease everything out to the skyline. Adam: So that's an extraordinary range for them. Tilly: It is an extraordinary range, but they know no bounds. I have to say reindeer sometimes do just pop over the boundary. Adam: And that causes problems with the neighbours? Tilly: Well, some like it, some aren't so keen. And we herd them as well, so we can herd them home. And we herd them by calling them. Adam: I was going to say, do you have a skidoo, or? Tilly: No, no. Absolutely no vehicular access on the hill. It's all by Shanks's pony, everywhere. Adam: Really. So you walk, and then you just ring a bell to herd them, or what do you do? Tilly: And you ‘loooooow, come on now!' and they come to us. Adam: Right. And so what was the call again? Tilly: ‘Looow, come on now!' Adam: Come on now, is that it? OK, very good. OK, I now move. Tilly: Yes. But hopefully they won't all come rushing from over there. Adam: I was going to say, yes, we've now called out the reindeer. Tilly: We've just joined a cow and calf here, who have just come down to the gate, and you can see just for yourself, they're completely benign. They're so docile and quiet. There's no sort of kicking or pushing or anything. They're very, very gentle creatures. Adam: And is that because they've been acclimatised because tourists come, or would that be their natural behaviour? Tilly: It is their natural behaviour, bearing in mind that reindeer have been domesticated for thousands of years. We're not looking at a wild animal here that's got tame. We're looking at a domesticated animal. Adam: Right. Tilly: It's probably more used to people than some of the reindeer up in the Arctic. So we have domestication embedded in their genetics. Adam: So what we're saying is, genetically, they're actually more docile. It's not because this particular reindeer is used to us. But originally then, if one goes back far enough, they were wilder? Tilly: Yes so, it's a really interesting process of domestication of reindeer, which happened in the Old World, so Russia, Scandinavia, inner Mongolia, outer Mongolia. And that is reindeer and many, many reindeer in these Arctic areas, are domesticated. They're not wild. Adam: And that started happening, do we have an idea when? Tilly: Probably about 10,000 years ago. But if you go to the New World, to Alaska and North Canada, exactly the same animal is called a caribou. Caribou are never domesticated. The indigenous people of these areas never embraced the herding and enclosing of reindeer, which was caribou, whereas in the Old World it became very, very important to the men, the people's survival. Adam: And then the caribou, do they have a different character? Tilly: Yes, they're wilder. And it's a little bit difficult to show today – you see quite strong colour variation in reindeer, which you don't see in caribou, and colour variation is man's influence on selecting for colour. So you'd get very light coloured ones, you'd get white ones in reindeer, you'd get very dark ones, but in caribou they're all the same, brownie-grey colour. Yeah, they felt that the white reindeer were important in the herd for whatever reasons, Germanic reasons or whatever. Interestingly, the Sámi - and I'm not sure if there could be a white one up in the herd here at the moment - describe them as lazy reindeer, the white ones. Adam: Why? Tilly: Well, I didn't know why until I worked out why white reindeer are often deaf. So they sleep, they don't get up when everybody else gets up and moves, and this white reindeer doesn't realise that the herd has left them. So they're not all deaf, but certain white ones are. Adam: Very important question, obvious but I didn't ask it to begin with because I'm a fool. Why are reindeer connected to Christmas? Tilly: Well, that's a really good question, because actually they think it stems from a poet called Clement C Moore, who wrote a poem in America, he had Scandinavian Germanic connections, called The Night Before Christmas, where Donder, Blitzen, Cupid, Comet, fly through the air with Saint Nick in the sleigh, the little Santa. Adam: Yeah. Tilly: But, so that really set the scene of eight reindeer and the sleigh, and that was based on the Norwegian God Odin, who had eight legs and strode through the sky with these eight legs and eight reindeer. Then we have Rudolph, who turns up, but he doesn't turn up until the time of prohibition in America. Adam: So Rudolph isn't in the original poem? Tilly: Absolutely not. Rudolph is an impostor. Adam: I didn't know that! Tilly: He, so he, it was a marketing exercise for a department store during alcohol prohibition. And it was Rudolph with his red nose, and his red nose is because of alcohol. Adam: Because he drank too much? So was it in favour of alcohol or was it going ‘what terrible thing happens to you when you drink'? Tilly: I'm not terribly sure. But anyway, Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer was the song, so that adds to it. And then along comes Coca-Cola who used a red and white Santa to promote Coca-Cola at Christmas time. So the red and white Santa is Coca-Cola. Adam: Right. And the red-nose reindeer is from alcohol and reindeer comes from an actual American poem, of which Rudolph wasn't part of anyway. That's all simple to understand then! Tilly: Exactly. Perfect. Adam: Well, we're moving up to some of the more exposed slopes. Tilly has gone ahead. I'm just going to catch up back with her, and ask how she started as one of UK's first reindeer herders. Well, certainly, one of our few reindeer experts. Tilly: I came up to volunteer and I met the keeper who was looking after the reindeer for Dr Lindgren, who was the lady who brought them in with her husband, Mr Utsi, and he was quite good looking. Adam: Is this a revelation you wish to make to them? Tilly: And the reindeer were endearing, and the mountains were superb, and so I married the keeper. Adam: Right, you did marry him! I thought you were telling me about another man other than your husband. Tilly: So I married Alan. We married in 1983 and I've been here ever since. Adam: And so the purpose of having reindeer here originally was what? Tilly: Ah, good question. Mr Utsi came here and was very taken by the landscape and the environment, the habitat, because it was so similar to his own home country of north Sweden. And he begged the question where are the reindeer? Why are there not reindeer here? And it was on that notion that he and his wife, Dr Lindgren, devoted the latter half of their lives to bringing reindeer back to Scotland. Adam: So that's interesting. So, it raises the difference of ecological or sort of natural question, of whether these are indigenous animals. Tilly: Yes. So it's an interesting idea. Certainly, the habitat's available for them and they live in their natural environment. But when they became extinct, or not extinct, but when they weren't in Scotland, some people say as recently as 600 years ago and some people say as long as 2,000 years ago. If it's 2,000 years ago, they're described as a past native. Adam: So OK, I didn't realise that, but is there any debate around whether they were originally - whatever originally is – Tilly: They were definitely here. Adam: So they are native? They're not sort of imported, they have died out and been brought back here. Tilly: Absolutely. Yeah, yeah, they were reintroduced, but how, what that time span is, some people say sooner than later, and Mr Utsi certainly identified this as a very suitable spot for them. Adam: Any idea why they might have died out? Do we know? Tilly: Probably a bit of climate change and also probably hunting. Very easy animal to hunt. Are you OK with this chitter chatter going on? Adam: Yes, it's all good, and a bit of, do you call it mooing? Tilly: Oh no, the reindeer aren't making any noise, they're clicking. Adam: Someone was mooing! Tilly : I think it was the people. Adam: I thought it was the reindeer making that noise. Tilly: Not at all. They're very silent. Adam: They'd have left this podcast thinking reindeer moo. Tilly: They would have. Exactly. No, they are really, really silent animals. Adam: There's a very large reindeer there coming down the road. Tilly: Oh, that's OK, that's Akubra, he'll do nothing to you at all. He's an absolute genuine reindeer. He's lovely. But he listened to the clicking as they walk. You can't hear it because of your headphones. Adam: OK, so I guess later on I'll put a microphone on a reindeer. That will be a first. One other thing I always imagined when you saw a set of antlers on a sort of grand Scottish mansion, I thought, oh well, they've killed that the reindeer. And actually, that's not true, is it? They fall off. Tilly: They do. You're absolutely right. Having it depends how you see the antlers. If the antlers are still on a skull, that animal has been killed and there's nothing wrong with that. There is a, you know, the animals need to be controlled. But you're also right. Antlers are lost every year and regrown again, so they cast their antlers and they regrow their antlers. So in a reindeer's life, if a reindeer is 10 years old, he will have just grown his 11th set of antlers. Adam: And the purpose of antlers is fighting? I'm a big girl, I'm a big boy, whatever. Tilly: Yeah, mainly for fighting, a weapon. So for the big breeding males, it's for claiming harem for females, so in the breeding season. And those big breeding bulls will actually lose their antlers around about now, their antlers will fall off and then they won't regrow their antlers until next spring, right? The females, little females like this, keep those boney antlers all winter and they use them for competing for food, so they can jab another reindeer and push it off and they can get into the food as a result. Adam: The other thing I can notice about some of them, but not the reindeer in front of us, but I think the one walking away, although this looks very bony, the other one has sort of felt on it, and what looks like blood. So what's going on there? Tilly: Yes. So they are the velvet antlers on the Christmas reindeer that have finished growing, but they don't lose the velvet properly and there is still potentially blood in the bone, as it were. Adam: So there's this sort of capillary underneath the felt. Tilly: Yes, exactly, because the antler's a really interesting appendage because it grows from the tip. It doesn't grow from the base, so the blood supply has to go all the way to the tip to grow. And the velvet skin carries that blood supply. Adam: Right. I see. So now the reindeer in front of us has no velvet so that can't grow. Tilly: And no blood supply. Exactly. And the only way she can grow, get more antlers or bigger antlers, is to lose the whole thing and grow it again next year. Yes. Adam: So any other serious facts we should note, to inform ourselves about reindeer? Tilly: Oh, lots of serious facts. So they're the only deer species where the males and the females grow antlers. Every other deer species, it's only the males that grow the antlers. They are the only deer species that's been domesticated by man. All the other species of deer, we're talking about 40 different species, are all truly wild animals. They can survive in the coldest parts of the world, so in the middle of Siberia, the temperature can go down to -72 and reindeer are still living there quite happily. Adam: It's cold today, but it's probably -2 or something. Tilly: Exactly. Yeah, yeah. Man cannot live in the Arctic without an animal to live by, and it's reindeer that he lives by. Man would never have gone into these areas. Obviously now they're all digging up, you know, getting the oil and the gas and everything. But indigenous man can only survive in these areas if he has reindeer as his farm animal of the north, so they're really important to the indigenous people of the north. Adam: And in that sort of role, then, you can clearly eat reindeer. Then what else does it provide us? Tilly: Absolutely. So it provides with meat. There are indigenous people that milk them in season. They have these tremendous coats that are used for covering tents and for people's, you know, clothing. And the antlers? Not now, but the antlers would have been used as tools in the past. Adam: And have you ever had reindeer milk? Tilly: I have tried, yes, we have milked the odd reindeer for one reason or another. It's very rich, very rich. Adam: You have! Rich, is that good or quite fatty? Is it drinkable? Tilly: That's good. Yeah, it's totally drinkable. Totally nice. Adam: Yeah, I think yaks or a drink made from yaks, which was disgusting, I found in Mongolia, but I really found it difficult. It wasn't my thing. Tilly: But it wasn't the fermented one, was it? Because in Mongolia they're into fermented mare's milk. Adam: That might be what I had. Tilly: And that is revolting. Adam: Yes, OK, that's maybe what I had. How unusual is reindeer milk then? Tilly: Yeah. It's got a very high fat content. They produce very little milk, because if you had a great big swinging under in in freezing conditions, you'd have ice cream, you wouldn't have milk. Adam: The other thing I noticed that we haven't talked about is their hooves which look quite large and they look, I mean just from a distance, quite mobile. Tilly: Yes. They are very, very, very flexible animals and their feet, their hooves are very big. Of course, for snow. Walking on the snow, spreading the weight, but also great shovels for digging. So they dig. You know, if you're in two feet, three feet of snow in north Sweden, you've got to get to the food underneath and to get to it, they need to dig. So they're great diggers. Adam: And your life now here. It's quite a change from where you grew up, I appreciate. Tilly: Certain years, a very rural life I had then. I have an equally country-wise life now. I will go to my grave with reindeer. They are my complete nutter passion. They are the most wonderful animals to be amongst, they put a smile on your face. They live in a beautiful area. They're just, they're just lovely animals and they give me a lot of pleasure. Yeah, yeah. Adam: Fantastic. And if people are in the Cairngorms and want to have their own trip to see the reindeer, they call the what? Tilly: They call the Cairngorm Reindeer Centre. You could do it on the website, you can ring us up and they need to dress up. I'm sure you appreciate you, are your feet cold yet? Adam: No, look, I stopped off and bought extra thermals on my way. Tilly: Very good. Adam: Well, thank you very much. It's been a real treat, thank you very much. Tilly: Brilliant. Oh, well, thank you for coming. Adam: Well, I'm afraid I'm having to leave the reindeer behind because we're now heading to a little lower ground to see what I'm told is an amazing forest of Caledonian pine. And to learn a bit more about the trees and their relative, the other pine, which we all know as the Christmas tree. And we're off to meet a guy who looks after the Glencharnoch Wood in Carrbridge, near the River Spey and Dulnain. And now, despite it, it's a quite a small forest, I think. But despite that, it's quite well known for being really important, really big on biodiversity. And it's home to a number of species including, but not just them, but including the red squirrel and the crested tit. Ross: My name's Ross Watson. I'm the site manager for North Scotland for the Woodland Trust. Adam: Brilliant. Ross, we have come on an extraordinary day. It has snowed. It looks picturesque, chocolate box, shortbread box maybe, type stuff, so fantastic. So just tell me where we are. Ross: Well, we're in Glencharnoch wood. It's a wood that the Woodland Trust owns and it's part of a series of little woodlands on the back of Carrbridge between Carrbridge and the railway. And the Woodland Trust has had it for a number of years. It's a little site, only 36 acres, but it's a pine wood site and a really important pine wood site at that, in that it's a small part of much bigger Caledonian forests. Adam: OK. Well, I want to talk to you about pine wood, because I think it just sort of gets dismissed – ‘oh this pine wood, not important, not interesting'. Apart from Christmas, perhaps, when suddenly it becomes really important, but I want to unpack all of that with you, but just explain to you we're going to go on a little walk. Hopefully you know where you're going. Good. All right, so just explain a bit about where we're going, give me a sense of the pattern of where we're going. Ross: Absolutely. We're going to take a circular walk around the woodlands. The woodlands here, it's all about community. Everything we do here is around that tree. We're going to walk through a piece of land that's owned by the local authority and then go through our own land and onto privately owned land and then come back to our own land. And it really shows the connectivity of all these different habitats, all the different landowners. But really the path network is there for the community that's here and they are involved in practice as well. Adam: So. Pine wood. Yeah, it sort of gets bunched all together, and especially the Scots pine I hear a lot about. But there are there are big, big differences and varieties are there? Tell me a bit about them. Ross: The Scots pine we are walking through are really special species. That's the only native conifer in the UK, right? And that's why they're so special here. Really these Scots pine provide their own habitat all of their own. They're incredibly threatened. As a habitat in Scotland, we've got just a number of Caledonian pine inventory sites. We've got ancient woodlands, designated sites. Adam: Sorry, just to stop you - Caledonian pine, Scots pine, interchangeable words? Ross: Yeah, good point. The Great Wood of Caledon was the reference of the name of the forest that was here, the old, the original boreal forest that gradually reduced in size. Partly through climate change as the country became cooler and wetter, but also through human intervention through felling, fires, grazing, all that kind of thing. So now we tend to talk about Scots pine and Cally pine which can be fairly interchangeable, but the Cally pine tends to be the bigger, grander kind of granny pines, these really lovely old things you see in some of the landscapes. Adam: But that's sort of just the way people use the word. Technically, they're the same thing, but we refer to the Caledonian pine as the big grand ones, and it comes from… so I just want to make sure I understood what you said. The word Caledonian pine then comes from a Caledonian, a forest called Caledonia? Ross: Yeah, the Great Wood of Caledon. Adam: Isn't that a brilliant name? So mystical and it sort of talks of Tolkien and other worlds. Wow, wow. OK. So we have the great Scots pine, the Caledonian pine. If people have a general thing in their mind about pine trees, what is special about Caledonian pine? How that distinguishes from pines in other parts of the world. Ross: Well, Scots pine, as we're walking through this woodland, just now as you look up the trunks of the trees, as you look up the bark tends to go from a kind of grey-brown to a real kind of russety red, like a red squirrel colour. And that's a lot of the red squirrel camouflage comes from that, that rusty colour. So they're skittering around these treetops and they can be jumping around and they're nice and camouflaged because of that colour. So is that redness that you really see? But what we can see in here, a lot of these trees are very even age, it has been quite heavily thinned in the past, but then you come across a tree like this that's got a very deep crown. So you see there's live branches more than halfway down that tree, whereas there's a lot of these other trees - Adam: Yes, I was going to say it's weird that they've got no foliage until very high. Ross: Yeah, so this tree here, and foresters may call this a wolf tree, a tree that has occupied a space and it's just sat there and doesn't allow anything around it. Adam: It's called a wolf tree? Ross: Some people would refer to it as a wolf tree. What we would refer to that is it's a deep crown tree, not very imaginatively named, but a deep crown tree is really important here because of capercaillie. Now, capercaillie, you imagine a capercaillie's a big bird, a turkey-sized bird, almost waist height, a male capercaillie. And in the winter it will walk out across these branches and it will nibble away at some of the needles, and it will sit there and it will rely on that during deep snow for shelter, security, food. So without these deep crown trees, there isn't anywhere for them to go. So if you imagine a plantation, a very dense pine that are much denser than this and they don't have the chance for any deep crown trees. Then the opportunity for capercaillie here is much reduced. Adam: Right. So there's sort of, I mean, look the elephant in the room. Well, it's Christmas around the corner. People have Christmas trees. Sort of most people know anything about pine, it's because they have it in their house at Christmas. That's not a Scots pine. Ross: No, your traditional Christmas tree is a Nordmann fir. A fir tree tends to hold onto needles a little longer than a pine tree. And if you look after the pine, it will retain its needles, but quite often the pine trees will grow slightly too quickly, so it'll be a bit bare as a Christmas tree, whereas a fir tree is kind of hairy enough to be a good Christmas tree. Adam: Right. And do we have, do we have them planted in the UK as well? I mean just for commercial cropping? Ross: Yes, as a Christmas tree. Adam: Right. So the other thing, look, we're in a really lovely forest at the moment. We're the only ones here. But Scotland, the iconic pictures of Scotland, are bare, bare mountains, aren't they? They're not wooded, and yet I've always read that that's not how it used to be. It used to be a wooded part of the country. Why did it lose so much of its woodland? Ross: Well, it's looking back to, what, centuries ago as the climate became cooler and wetter, the tree line reduced in height. But more recently in the 1800s the Cultural Revolution created huge periods of felling where they needed this timber for industrialization. Trees from the woodlands near here were cut down, they were floated down to the river Spey and then out to Spey Bay and the Moray coast. They were used for underground water piping for ship's masts. Because these trees are, as you can feel today it's a cold place to be, they've grown very slowly. So because they're nice and straight as we can see, they are, the rings are very close together, so they're very sturdy. They're an ideal timber source. But then we start to look at deer numbers increasing and sheep numbers increasing. The more mouths on the hill meant that once you cut these trees down, it was much harder for the trees to come away again. And really, that's the landscape we're in now really. And when we're talking about those very large, deep crowned trees on open hillsides, these kind of granny pines are so picturesque, and really a lot of these trees, there was no timber value in them because they were already so crooked and they were left, and this is almost a remnant that's showcasing the old forest that once was standing there. Adam: A lot of times, site managers, they're trying to keep things steady in a way, I suppose. Just trying to maintain what's going, keep that going, that's hard enough. Is that the job here or do you have bigger plans? Are there, you know, times are changing? Ross: Well, this is one of eight woodlands I look after across the north of Scotland. Whenever we're doing anything, no matter what the scale of it, it's not just how do we keep the site going and kind of steady. It's about when we are doing work, how do we add value to that to make it better for the people that are living here? And how do we use that to continue to showcase these sites as the shop window for the Woodland Trust? Adam: And is the idea here to try and remove the non-Scots pine, so you'd have a pure Scots pine forest? Ross: Well, the Woodland Trust works on a on a threat basis really. So any tree is better than no tree, right? But if you have got a lot of spruce regeneration that's threatening this ancient wood then we need to begin to remove that. And that's been the case here. Adam: Sorry I'm pausing because there's a lovely spaniel who I can see wants me to throw a stick, but I won't throw the stick. Very cool dog. There we are. Sorry, we were saying yes, so any tree is better than no tree. But are the other trees a threat then or not? Ross: Well, the Norway spruce here has been seeding regeneration into the woodland areas and over the last few years we've cleared a lot of that and in some of these nice young spruce, we've been able to provide to the community for Christmas trees, which has been really handy. But all of that is gone now and we're left with this core of, of mature Norway spruce, that a number of them have started to snap so are becoming a safety issue for members of the public using footpaths next to it. But also there's an opportunity there where before that timber dies, we can extract it and it can be useful for the community. Adam: And you'd replace it with Scots pines. Ross: No, we're going to replace it predominantly with hazel and aspen. Because one of the slight concerns in having a single species stand, like we have here, where it's all Scots pine, is that there's only one species for the likes of red squirrels or the crossbills. And on a day like today we might hear crossbows coming over. There's only one species here for them, whereas if we're planting hazel, which is under-represented species here, that provides a different food for red squirrels in a different part of the woodland. And aspen is one of the most biodiverse species that we would have in this part of the world. And there are very, very few aspen. Adam: When you say it's the most biodiverse species, you mean it attracts biodiversity? Ross: Absolutely yes. In terms of the lower plant assemblage that's on there specifically and insects. And aspen, their Latin name is Populus tremula and the tremula comes from the oval shape on the leaf. Just in the slightest breeze, it's adapted that to try and shake off the insect burden because the leaves are so palatable for insects. Adam: So the shape of the leaf in wind - Ross: The shape of this stock of the leaf is oval. Adam: And that helps shift any insects. Ross: Yeah, yeah. Adam: It's interesting because aspen, in my ignorance, I associate with aspen in America, but it's a native UK tree. Ross: It is, yeah. And it will be one of the first colonisers after the Ice Age. That's, an aspen will have, the seed will have blown down as the ice is receding. But some of the aspen that are here now will be some of the oldest trees that exist in the UK and aspen generally now grows rhizomatously, so you'll see the roots through the forest and all of the suckers will pop out. And the aspen that we can see in the woodland today, they could have been here for hundreds, maybe thousands of years, and they've just, as the clone has marched through the landscape, it's just it's moved and colonised these different areas. They're fascinating trees. So when you look at some of the images in North America, you might see entire hillsides of aspen and that could all be the same tree essentially, they're amazing organisms. Adam: That's amazing. So it's sort of cloning really. Ross: Yeah, absolutely. Adam: That's amazing. And also I can see right on the Scots pine behind you, beautiful lichen, which is just a real sign of the air quality here, isn't it? I mean, it doesn't grow and it's just often further south. We do see lichen, obviously, but often I see a bit. This is everywhere. It's a real sign this is good land. Ross: Absolutely, yeah. Adam: Good land, good air. Wonderful. Well, I'm going to take another shot of our colleague down below. Hello. Wearing a lovely red hat, almost looks like Santa. And then we'll move on. So we're going uphill a bit, you might just hear the snow crunching under my boots. So this is amazing. A wolf peeking out from the woods, which adds to the fairy tale quality of all of this forest walk. This is not a real wolf. This is carved in wood. It looks really beautiful and it's covered in snow at the moment, which maybe is why I didn't spot it at first. So what's the story here? Ross: Well, the story here is that Carrbridge hosts the Scottish chainsaw carving competition every year at the end of August, and there are chainsaw artists coming from all over the world to compete here to do some incredibly elaborate carvings. They do benches and three-to-four-metre statues and it's absolutely incredible. Adam: This is very delicate that I'm surprised this would be done with a chainsaw. Ross: Yeah, it's a very specialist skill as you can see, and people have to be very artistic. You have to be very good with the saw, but also the bar of the saw is a specialist carving tool. But then they also can use all sorts of other implements to try and refine the artwork itself. And this is just one part of that much larger chainsaw carving trail that's in Carrbridge that really commemorates this annual event. Adam: Amazing. Well, we'll leave the wolf. It's got even a little dark nose. Amazing. A little dog, a real dog this time. Well, yes, just to prove it. We've just seen some reindeer. Obviously they're a type of deer. Are they as much of a problem as the normal red deer that we know about? So what's your view on them? Ross: Well, red deer, the numbers are extremely high in some places and in the Cairngorms, they're generally much better managed. But in other places where there just isn't that, that integration or the objectives are yet to be aligned with protected areas, the numbers in those places need to come down, but recognising that there are different objectives, there are different landowners who want to do different things with land. So in recognising and respecting those objectives, but generally, ideal numbers need to come down and they need to come down a lot in order for trees and woodland to recover. Adam: But that's deer in general, just because it's Christmas, I just have reindeer on the mind. You don't see many reindeer here. Or any reindeer here? Ross: No, you see them up in the Cairngorms, right? Adam: Right. Another pitstop. I see some lichen with some snow on it. I should turn them into Christmas cards. I won't, but that's what I should do. So if there was a sort of a final thought you wanted people to take away about this forest or about Caledonian pines you're trying to protect and grow here, what might that be? Ross: Well, for this woodland, and as I say, it's only 36 acres in size, it's a fairly small wood. But it's not to discount that, and we talk about the hundreds of ants nests, the crossbills, the crested tits, it's woodlands like this can punch way above their weight. But also woodlands like this connected together provide a much larger, integrated robust habitat. And it's just thinking along these lines that this, this woodland, although it has the A9 on one side, it's got roads on two other sides, it's got a forest adventure park there and to the other side, it feels like a woodland that could be squeezed, but it can also feel like a woodland that is a part of this much larger landscape and contributing to that. And I suppose in part it depends on how you view that, yeah. But the woodland is connected to its woodlands round about, so it's definitely playing its part and part of that recovery of the old Caledonian pine forest of Scotland, as small as it is. Adam: It's been a real treat for you to guide us through it on such a special snowy Christmas-y day. So thank you very much indeed. Ross: No problem. Adam: Well, it's been a fantastic day. Which leaves me just say from the land of reindeer and Caledonian pine, can I wish you a very happy, peaceful and joyous Christmas and New Year? And I do hope that wherever you are, you are able to share the joy of this season and that you'll join us in the New Year for lots more podcasts and tree adventures. Until then, from all of us in the Woodland Trust podcast team, to all of you, can we wish you a happy Christmas and a great New Year and of course, happy wanderings. Thank you for listening to the Woodland Trust Woodland Walks. Join us next month when Adam will be taking another walk in the company of Woodland Trust staff, partners and volunteers. And don't forget to subscribe to the series on iTunes or wherever you are listening. And do give us a review and a rating. If you want to find out more about our woods and those that are close to you, check out the Woodland Trust website. Just head to the visiting woods pages. Thank you.

CTV News Toronto at Six for Dec. 6, 2024

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Play Episode Listen Later Dec 7, 2024 46:25

The anniversary of the Polytechnique massacre serves as a reminder of the reality of violence against women, 35 years later; police say a separate shooting in Caledon is linked to the shooting outside a Brampton home that killed one man and injured a second person; and, from doorbell cameras to parcel tracking, both Canadians and delivery companies are changing tactics to make porch piracy unattractive.

Episode #184: Sunshine In A Can with Phil and Gail Winters of GoodLot Farmstead Brewing Co. | Adjunct Series

BAOS: Beer & Other Shhh Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 27, 2024 175:06

Farm-to-glass breweries are a truly phenomenal experience as a drinker, so it was such a pleasure to chat with some folks who are doing one of the finest in the province. Phil and Gail of GoodLot Farmstead joined Cee and Nate to talk about their journey from leaving the city to buy a farm, starting to grow hops and learn about beer to becoming a full-fledged brewery, why sustainability is important to them, their approach to beer and why they focus on all-Ontario ingredients, the difference between organic farming and regenerative farming, how they've crafted their impeccable beer garden experience, their phenomenal food program via chef Phil DeWar of Soulyve, and the collaboration between the Caledon breweries. They got into some of GoodLot's amazing brews - Farmstead Ale Pale Ale, Philsner Pilsner, Highfalutin English Special Bitter, Yonder West Coast IPA, Stones Throw East Coast IPA, and Pippa Porter. This was a gem - cheers! BAOS Podcast Subscribe to the podcast on YouTube | Website | Theme tune: Cee - BrewHeads

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Onderhoud by Lesotho se hooglandwaterprojek op skedule

Nuus

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2024 0:19

Die Departement van Water en Sanitasie sê die Lesotho-hooglandwaterprojektonnel se onderhoud-operasies wat volgens beplanning in Maart 2025 voltooi sal wees, verloop goed sedert die sluiting van die tonnel vroeër die maand. Die woordvoerder van die departement, Wisane Mavasa, sê die tonnels se water is gedreineer en die proses van drooglegging het 'n volle week geduur. Sy sê water uit die tonnels is in die Caledon- en Klein-Caledon-riviere in die Vrystaat gestort:

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Nora Loreto's news headlines for Friday, October 18, 2024

The Real News Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2024 9:57

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Friday, October 18, 2024.TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate and share her daily news digest with our audience. Tune in every morning to the TRNN podcast feed to hear the latest important news stories from Canada and worldwide.Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed.Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer.Sign up for our newsletterLike us on FacebookFollow us on TwitterDonate to support this podcastReferenced articles:

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Caledon kry wêreld se langste glykabel

Nuus

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 2024 0:20

Caledon in die Wes-Kaapse Overberg-streek is nou die tuiste van die wêreld se langste glykabel. SA Forest Adventures se K3-glykabel van 3,2 kilometer is net minder as 400 meter langer as die vorige rekordhouer, Jais Flight, in Ras al Khaimah in die Verenigde Arabiese Emirate. Die LUR vir Toerisme, Ivan Meyer, sê hierdie nuwe glykabel sal die plaaslike ekonomie deur toerisme ondersteun.

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Spektrum 25 September 2024

Spektrum

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 25, 2024 48:48

Die minister van basiese onderwys, Siviwe Gwarube, bring die land op hoogte van nasionale onderwys-begrotingsbesnoeiings. Alle aanduidings is dat die mosie van wantroue teen die burgemeester van die Tshwane-metro, Cilliers Brink, môre voortgaan. Kommer dat moedertale in Suid-Afrika afgewater word, en moontlik heeltemal kan verdwyn. 'n Span sterrekundiges van die Catania-sterrewag in Italië ontdek 'n geheimsinnige ring van lig met behulp van Suid-Afrika se MeerKAT-radioteleskoop. 'n Nuwe foefieslaaid in die Caledon-omgewing in die Wes-Kaap is amptelik die langste ritslyn ter wêrled!

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Teen arrested for murder of Caledon learner

Breakfast with Refilwe Moloto

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 19, 2024 5:35

Lester Kiewit speaks to Maygene De Wee, a specialist crime reporter for Netwerk24, about the arrest of a 17-year-old suspect for the murder of 16-year-old Deveney Nel at school her Caledon school.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Chapter 39 - A Death in the Family

Breakfast with Refilwe Moloto

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 16, 2024 71:57

The Book of War - An Avatar Legends Real Play The Story of four runaways seeking the Book of War in a world without the Avatar Chapter 39 - A Death in the FamilyThe runaways deal with a giant foe guarding the next piece of the book. Minh learns about some bending, Tomo get scared, Nuro squares up, and Banji make a choice without telling anyone. Starring Lucas Li as "The Razor" TOMO Georgie Hazel as "The Destined" NURO Ted Darling as "The Guardian" BANJI Jesse Thomas as "The Foundling" MINH FANG and Ash Cooper as the GRAND MASTER OF THE WHITE LOTUSTheme song and outro "The Book of War Remains", "Caledon", "Banji and the Dragon" and "Nuro's Theme" are all by Matt Harrison.Additional music and Sound effects from Zapsplat.com Website // Facebook // Instagram // Twitter // Tik Tok//PatreonUse our affiliate code 'thebookofwar' at Arkenforge to receive $5 off!

Caledon in shock after murder of teen learner

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 15, 2024 5:40

Lester Kiewit speaks to Melvin Davids, the chairperson of the Caledon Community Policing Forum about how the residents are dealing with the murder of 16-year-old school girl Deveney Nel.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Alysha Newman: Raise the Bar [Replay]

Women In Media

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 13, 2024 47:56

Host Sarah Burke revisits a conversation with Olympian Alysha Newman from August 2021, shortly after the Tokyo 2020 olympics didn't go as planned… Alysha Newman went to Tokyo only three months after suffering a concussion. She had some recalibrating to do dealing with both the physical and mental effects of her brain injury. The now 30 year old from London Ontario is smiling ear to ear three years later…after not only winning the bronze medal in women's pole vault, but also becoming the first Canadian woman to medal in the pole vault! She's actually the first Canadian athlete to grab a medal since the 1912 Stockholm games. And as most would say, you should be focused on competing with yourself….well she did that too. She beat her own record by two centimeters. So if you want to twerk in celebration after numerous setbacks…go right ahead. At the time this episode was published, Alysha was the Commonwealth Games champion in the women's pole vault (she set a Games record at the 2018 competition with a 4.75m jump). She represented Canada at both the 2016 and 2020 Olympic Games, also placing fifth at the 2019 World Championships. Alysha shares her experience with injuries, mental struggles, and the importance of self-care in high-level competition. She discussed the importance of self-care, mental health, and balancing education with personal aspirations. The conversation also touched on the importance of balancing personal brand and business partnerships, and the need for longevity, consistency, and authenticity. Alysha was born and raised in London, Ontario, plying her trade as a competitive gymnast before a back injury forced her off the balance beam and into track & field. Alysha is a graduate from the University of Miami where she became a six-time NCAA Division I All-American and currently lives and trains north of Toronto in Caledon, Ontario. We talk about her passion for working with brands that align with her values, being kind to your body and mind, and being transparent about difficult times as an influencer. I reference this Instagram post from August 3rd, 2021: "Directly from me to you all, here is my truth of 2021. It was a absolutely sh*t year for me on the track. Completely opposite to my dreams and goals I put out for myself. Everything that could have gone wrong, went wrong. You could look at my 2021 year and say I hit rock bottom in my pole vaulting career or you could say damn Alysha, look at the mountains, obstacles and sh*t you put up with. It wasn't easy, it was really hard on my family, my coaches and especially me and my mental health." Follow @AlyshaNewman https://olympic.ca/team-canada/alysha-newman/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Chapter 38 - Family vs. Family - Part 2

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2024 93:10

The Book of War - An Avatar Legends Real Play The Story of four runaways seeking the Book of War in a world without the Avatar Chapter 38 - Family vs. Family - Part 2The runaways take the fight to Banji's old family: The Cinder Squad. Banji tries to recruit his grandfather, Minh has some sand troubles, Tomo takes one for the team and Nuro tries to do things they have never learned. Starring Lucas Li as "The Razor" TOMO Georgie Hazel as "The Destined" NURO Ted Darling as "The Guardian" BANJI Jesse Thomas as "The Foundling" MINH FANG and Ash Cooper as the GRAND MASTER OF THE WHITE LOTUSTheme song and outro "The Book of War Remains", "Caledon", "Banji and the Dragon" and "Nuro's Theme" are all by Matt Harrison.Additional music and Sound effects from Zapsplat.com Website // Facebook // Instagram // Twitter // Tik Tok//PatreonUse our affiliate code 'thebookofwar' at Arkenforge to receive $5 off!

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Chapter 38 - Family vs. Family - Part 1

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 26, 2024 77:37

The Book of War - An Avatar Legends Real Play The Story of four runaways seeking the Book of War in a world without the Avatar Chapter 37 - Family vs. Family - Part 1The runaways take the fight to Banji's old family: The Cinder Squad, while they try and talk to him about his grandfather, Nuro learns about the moon, Tomo makes some soup, Minh goads the enemies and Banji finally has to come to terms with his choices. Starring Lucas Li as "The Razor" TOMO Georgie Hazel as "The Destined" NURO Ted Darling as "The Guardian" BANJI Jesse Thomas as "The Foundling" MINH FANG and Ash Cooper as the GRAND MASTER OF THE WHITE LOTUSTheme song and outro "The Book of War Remains", "Caledon", "Banji and the Dragon" and "Nuro's Theme" are all by Matt Harrison.Additional music and Sound effects from Zapsplat.com Website // Facebook // Instagram // Twitter // Tik Tok//PatreonUse our affiliate code 'thebookofwar' at Arkenforge to receive $5 off!

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Chapter 37 - Family Business

Aging Well: Finding Beauty in the Gray

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2024 88:41

The Book of War - An Avatar Legends Real Play The Story of four runaways seeking the Book of War in a world without the Avatar Chapter 37 - Family BusinessThe runaways make their way to Dysela's family onsen, on the Caledon volcano for some R&R. Minh and Nuro have mud baths, Tomo has tea wiith a familiar face and Banji helps out around the onsen. Starring Lucas Li as "The Razor" TOMO Georgie Hazel as "The Destined" NURO Ted Darling as "The Guardian" BANJI Jesse Thomas as "The Foundling" MINH FANG and Ash Cooper as the GRAND MASTER OF THE WHITE LOTUSTheme song and outro "The Book of War Remains" and "Caledon" are by Matt Harrison.Additional music and Sound effects from Zapsplat.com Website // Facebook // Instagram // Twitter // Tik Tok//PatreonUse our affiliate code 'thebookofwar' at Arkenforge to receive $5 off!

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Hiking For You, Me, and the Whole Average Gang: Nicola Ross shows us the way.

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 8, 2024 32:45

Send us a Text Message.Never imagine yourself hiking the Appalachian Trail, The Pacific Coast Trail, or The Salt Path? Great! Nicola Ross is an environmentalist, National Magazine Award–winning journalist, and the bestselling author of six Loops & Lattes hiking guides, with over 50,000 copies in print. She lives with her partner in Caledon, Ontario. Her latest book, 40 Days and 40 Hikes: Loving the Bruce Trail One Loop at a time is now available. Nicola reminds us that there are many beautiful options in nature that don't require excessive time and resources. Support the Show.Have comments or questions for us? Interested in sharing your story on Aging Well? Please send your information and questions to Hugh via email at willowwaycreations@gmail.com or through any of our social media links on our website, findingbeautyinthegray.com. We'd love to hear from you and appreciate your feedback. Leaving feedback on your podcast host site (Apple, Spotify, etc.) is the single most important and effective way for us to stay viable and to continue to bring you great stories and helpful resources. And if you are enjoying the show and getting value from our topics and guests, we would most welcome your financial support. Producing a quality resource does require appreciable financial investment. Thank you!

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THINK TANK with Davelle Morrison & Eric Lombardi

The Morning Show

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2024 27:07

Guest Host, Ben Mulroney (@BenMulroney) and the panel of: Davelle Morrison, Broker with Bosley Real Estate and 640 Toronto contributor (@DavelleMorrison) & Eric Lombardi (@EricDLombardi), Founder of More Neighbours Toronto discussed: 1 - Ford's dry summer begins': All LCBO stores closed as workers go on strike 2 - Conservatives spent 20 times as much on ads as Liberals 3 - Waterfront cyclists can soon take advantage of free bike valet service 4 - Caledon quickly approved 11 zoning changes despite opposition from Peel and the province. Critics say it's the new 'wild west' of planning in Ontario 5 - President Joe Biden to sit down with ABC News on Friday for first TV interview since debate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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THINK TANK with Davelle Morrison & Eric Lombardi

Toronto Today with Greg Brady

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2024 27:07

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Chapter 36 - Family Dinner

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 28, 2024 70:53

The Book of War - An Avatar Legends Real Play The Story of four runaways seeking the Book of War in a world without the Avatar Chapter 36 - Family DinnerAfter arriving at Caledon, the runaways get caught up on the island. Banji see's his family, Tomo and Nuro watch from afar and Minh gets stuck talking to a local. Starring Lucas Li as "The Razor" TOMO Georgie Hazel as "The Destined" NURO Ted Darling as "The Guardian" BANJI Jesse Thomas as "The Foundling" MINH FANG and Ash Cooper as the GRAND MASTER OF THE WHITE LOTUSTheme song and outro "The Book of War Remains" and "Caledon" are by Matt Harrison.Additional music and Sound effects from Zapsplat.com Website // Facebook // Instagram // Twitter // Tik Tok//PatreonUse our affiliate code 'thebookofwar' at Arkenforge to receive $5 off!

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Farm to Pint with Phil Winters

Guide To Awesomeness

Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2024 26:30

In this episode of the Guide to Awesomeness we are joined by Phil Winters one of the owners from GoodLot Farm & Farmstead Brewing Co. in Caledon, Ontario! Phil shares the story behind how their brewery got started and what inspired them to enter the world of brewing. He discusses the different varieties of hops they grow at Good Lot and how each contributes to the unique aromas and flavor profiles of their beers. Phil also talks about their most popular beers, including Farmstead Ale and Tree Hug Wilder Sap Ale which is made using maple sap instead of water. He highlights the eco-renovated barn where they brew their beer and how it aligns with their sustainability goals. Phil also mentions the three unique venues on their property, including the The Oast Barn, The Hop Bin and The Good Spot, and the special events they host, such as comedy nights and community party nights. You can check them out on their website at https://www.goodlot.beer/ and on social media channels @‌GoodLot.BeerMentioned in this episode:17th Annual Ronan Realty Charity Golf TournamentSave The Date! We're excited to announce the date for our 17th Annual Ronan Realty Charity Golf Tournament! Join us on Thursday, August 15, 2024, at the stunning Hockley Valley Resort for a day of golf in support of our local charities. Stay tuned for more details and get ready to hit the greens with us! https://ronanrealty.com/golf/

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Living History: The Ontario Train Crash That Saved Lives

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Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2024 10:19

The Horseshoe Hill train crash in Caledon, Ont., killed seven people on September 3, 1907. It affected countless families across Ontario but it also brought some good. A group of women used the tragedy to bring Orangeville its first hospital. In this episode of Living History, we'll visit the site of the wreck, see the old railway roadbed, explore the health-care legacy as it stands today in Orangeville, and hear how this deadly railway would claim more lives until the day it was ripped up.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

CTV News Toronto at Six for Mar. 21, 2024

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2024 45:52

Police say a series of shootings in Mississauga, Caledon and Brampton are all linked, and the three people killed were innocent and mistakenly targeted; the defence questioned the credibility of Sgt. Lisa Forbes during cross-examination at the murder trial of Const. Jeffrey Northrup; and, an Ontario couple says they've been fighting RBC for nearly four months after a bank employee lost an $8,600 bank transfer to a credit card.

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CTV News Toronto at Six for Dec. 19, 2023

Fight Back with Libby Znaimer

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2023 46:23

Two of five passengers in an SUV are dead following a serious collision in Caledon, Ont. involving a school bus with one student on board; Detroit is negotiating an agreement with the TTC to purchase the since-decommissioned Scarborough RT trains for $1 million; and, in an interview, Celine Dion's sister Claudette says the singer is working hard, but she doesn't have control over her muscles.

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AG Report Highlights Lack of Ontario Hospital Staffing

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 6, 2023 52:34

THE MEDICAL RECORD: THE EXTENT OF HOSPITAL CLOSURES IN ONTARIO + ROSTERING IN PRIMARY CARE Libby Znaimer is joined by Dr. Alisa Naiman, Family Physician and Founder and Medical Director of The Medical Station in Toronto, Dr. Malcolm Moore, Medical Oncologist at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and Dr. Jamie Spiegelman, an Internal medicine and critical care physician at Humber River Hospital. According to a new report from the Ontario Health Coalition, a healthcare advocacy group, found that there were 1,199 closures at Ontario Hospitals between Jan 1st and Nov 24 of this year and that it was primarily urgent care centres that were affected. To be specific: "868 temporary or permanent emergency department closures (one is permanent)". Meanwhile, we take a deep dive into the patient roster system in the context of primary care. Dr. Naiman explains how rostering typically works and what you need to know. BRAMPTON MAYOR PATRICK BROWN CALLS INTO FIGHT BACK Libby is joined by Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown. Is Premier Doug Ford on the verge of cancelling the breakup of Peel Region? It was a promise he made to former Miss mayor Hazel McCallion on her deathbed but there are mounting fears that it will lead to big tax hikes and service cuts in Brampton and Caledon. THE AG REPORT ON THE ONTARIO SCIENCE CENTRE + URGENT CARE IN HOSPITALS Libby is joined by NDP MPP France Gelinas (Nickel-Belt) and health critic and Floyd Ruskin of Save Ontario's Science Centre. The AG's report was tabled just over an hour ago and it is focussed on healthcare and the plan to build a new Science centre at Ontario Place. There are no surprises in the healthcare findings: that one in five patients who went to ER were only there because they did not have a family doctor, that there was no province wide strategy to prevent ER closures and that there has been too much reliance on expensive staffing agencies because of doctor and nurse shortages. The acting AG also found that the province's case for moving the Science Center was missing key information.

Ep 114 Steve Does Japan

Forge Side Chat

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 25, 2023 146:03

Episode 114 Steve Does Japan with Steve Cornelsen of Bad Llama Forge cohoated by special guest Rick Marchand of Wilder Tools Steve resides in a suburb of Toronto known as Caledon. He has been there almost his entire life, but has always had a fascination with the Eastern world. This has recently taken him on a world travel with his partner to Japan where they both visited many different knife makers and even took a course on traditional techniques. This episode is a special one folks. Its taken us months to finally get it out as we had recorded over 3hrs but lost steves audio track to the Zencaster cloud. This recording took us a few nights to finally get the full story in, but we got Rick Marchard to sit in which makes it extra special! We talk about all this and more in this episode of Forge Side Chat. Sit back and grab strange brew yah hoser. Oh, and good day, eh! Don't hesitate to reach out and let us know what you think of the show! ABANA 50TH ANNIVERSARY!! Mark the calendar!!! June 6-9th 2024!! The Artist Blacksmith Association of North America is celebrating their 50th!!! You can head over to www.abana.org/50thanniversary to get all the details on this amazing event. Also, if you wanna be super duper fantastically awesome... Check out our sponsors @detwillerlinseed https://detwillerlinseed.com/ These guys are hooking you up with 10% off orders over $50!! Use the code forgechat10 and save!! Try the flax wax. You will love it! KNIFE MAKING SUPPLIES!! @maritimeknifesupply www.maritimeknifesupply.com Maritime Knife supply is the place to go for all your knife making needs. Literally everything for knife making supplies! www.maritimeknifesupply.ca Save on kilns !!!! with the code FSCKILN Save 10% when you order 10 packs of belts from Norton , VSM , Klingspor , Combat Abrasives , and 3M! Maritime Knife Supply also carries a full line-up of 2x72 @brodbeck_ironworks grinders and accessories #handtools #machinist #vice #sculpture #columbian --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/forgesidechat/message

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CTV News Toronto at Six for Nov. 21, 2023

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Play Episode Listen Later Nov 22, 2023 46:27

A Mississauga, Ontario store owner says he will not be scared off after a swarming robbery; police continue the search for the suspect in the Caledon, Ontario shooting that left one dead and two injured; and, one person is seriously injured after a Parliament Street high rise fire.

Ep #102: Serve Don't Sell: Finding Fulfillment in Your Business with Bill Parnaby

The Richard Robbins Show

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 21, 2023 64:23

On the 102nd episode of The Richard Robbins Show I sat down with a man who not only has 30+ years of real estate experience and is in the Top 1% in Canada for Royal LePage, but he is also a highly respected coach and member of the RRI team. Bill Parnaby has been a licensed real estate agent since 1992. Working in the Caledon area, he has maintained his #1 ranking for the past 15 consecutive years. When I asked Bill about his success, he simply told me, “I do everything I can to keep people away from me.” He explains that, “I mean that in a good way, I keep people serviced well enough that they never have to ask me a question.” Bill's philosophy of Serve Don't Sell has helped him maintain a loyal clientele and has seen his business flourish. However, it wasn't always like this. As Bill puts it, “I used to be a goal chaser.” He did more and more, never hopping off the real estate treadmill, to the point that he was burnt out and wanted to quit the industry altogether. That was until he switched his thinking and started operating his business differently; not chasing the money but instead, serving his database and his community. In this episode of The Richard Robbins Show, Bill and I talk about the importance of mindset and how changing his perspective changed his entire life. Bill shares his strategies for effective marketing, offers insight on what the top 3 things agents get wrong and how to fix it and lets us know why committing to a schedule is the best thing you could ever do.

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Episode 142 - Moshoeshoe the beard-shearer and the complex theological soup of the BaSotho

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2023 23:05

This is episode 142. It would be remiss of me not to say Congratulations Bokke on a gritty win over the All Blacks to become world champions for a record fourth time. With that said, picture the scene. We are standing on the western slopes of the Drakensberg, looking out across the Caledon Valley. The rivers we see here flow westward, into the Atlantic Ocean. Far to the south east lie the villages of the amaThembu on the slopes of the mountains that are now part of the Transkei. This is a follow up episode of a sort from episode 141, because last week we spoke about the Orange River, and the Caledon River is a tributary of the Orange. It rises in the Drakensberg, on the Lesotho–South Africa border, and flows generally southwest, forming most of the boundary between Lesotho and Free State province. The Caledon flows through southeastern Free State to join the Orange River near Bethulie after a course of 480 km. Its valley has one of the greatest temperature ranges in South Africa and is an excellent place to grow maize or other grains. But in April 1835 Moshoeshoe was eyeing the equally verdant land to his south, amaThembu land and led a powerful and large expedition of more than 700 men along with a hundred pack-oxen loaded with food south easterly over the Maloti mountains towards these people. At first his raid went according to plan, he seized a rich booty of cattle. The amaThembu were also facing raids from the other direction, the British who were conducting their Sixth Frontier War so they were in a rather invidious position. Moshoeshoe was blooding his sons Letsie and Molapo in battle. They had become restless back at his Morija headquarters and their frustration grew when Moshoeshoe denied them permission to attack the Kora who'd setup camp nearby. As the Basotho withdrew after the raid, they were ambushed by the amaThembu and lost most of their livestock. Worse, Moshoeshoe's brother Makhabane was killed and he suffered heavy casualties. Moshoeshoe would never again send another full-scale expedition into amaXhosa or amaThembu territory. This change of strategy was fully supported by the missionaries who had begun living with Moshoeshoe's people. What followed would be a remarkable partnership which is still hotly debated today and the interests of the missionaries would be further expanded or extended by the interests of the Basotho leader. Another interesting change was taking place for the people of this mountain territory, driven by missionaries both the French and the English. This is because the religion of the 19th-century Sotho speakers was defined chiefly by its outward manifestation, the signs on the land, the animals, things going on that you can hear, smell, touch, see. Religion, as the Sotho term ‘borapeli' illustrates, was what people did and not what they believed. This is a fundamental foundational difference that stymied the first missionaries at first. The translation of molimo as God inaugurated a new era where there was a fixation on linear progression in an age of evolutionary thinking, where Protestantism was the theology. How did Molimo interlink with Tlatla-Mochilo? For the missionaries, this was an immense philosophical wrestling match. This is where Tsapi, a man described as Moshoeshoe's advisor and diviner re-enters our story for a moment. Thanks to one of my listeners who is a descendent of Tsapi by the name of Seanaphoka for providing some more background. Tsapi was actually the first son of the Bafokeng Tribal Chief Seephephe. Tsapi had a sister called Mabela, who was Moshoeshoe's first wife and as Queen Consort she took the name MmaMohato. Tsapi became Advisor and Senior Council member of Moshoeshoe.

CTV News Toronto at Six for Oct. 23, 2023

EquiConnect Equine Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2023 46:41

MPP Sarah Jama has been censured by Queen's Park before she was removed from the NDP caucus for her comments on the Israel-Hamas war; An OPP officer is in serious, but non-life-threatening condition after they were struck by a Jeep attempting to evade police in Caledon, Ont; and, Mary Austin says she hired Ontario Certified Contractors and Builders Inc. and paid $107,000 for a kitchen they never built.

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Maintaining Optimal Gut Health for Equine Wellness

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 18, 2023 37:40

Join hosts Karen Foell and Dr. Mike Pownall on this episode of the Equiconnect podcast as they delve into the topic of gut health in horses. They are joined by Dr. Claudia Cruz and Dr. Kate Robinson from our Caledon practice, as they highlight the vital role that gut health plays in a horse's overall well-being. When gut health is compromised a wide range of issues can develop like infertility, eye problems, allergies, performance issues, and body condition score. Do not miss out on the opportunity to learn more about this crucial topic.Learn more at www.mckeepownall.ca

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Episode 134 - Lightning kills 12 Boer horses then the wizards die

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 3, 2023 31:54

This is episode 134 - and its going to be a massacre. It is also crucial as you've heard that we dig deep into the events because today there's a huge debate about what I'm going to explain next, what documents still exist about what happened, and who owns what when it comes to land in South Africa. Specifically, land in KwaZulu Natal. What exactly did Dingane agree to sell to Piet Retief? Why did he agree to do this when he had told the missionaries and his own people that he wouldn't part with land at all? It's incredible to think that this one year, 1838, has sparked so much discussion — and that people today quote one fact after another to back up their political position on this matter. So to the story at hand. Piet Retief had struggled to hold the Voortrekkers together when he'd arrived back at the main trekker encampment at Doornkop. Piet Uys had arrived from the Highveld on the 15th December 1837, having heard that Retief's visit to the AmaZulu king had gone well and he brought news of just how decisively amaNdebele chief Mzilikazi had been dealt with. Uys was also reclaiming his leadership role over the Voortrekkers of Natal which didn't go down well with Retief. Gerrit Maritz was his usual refereeing self interjecting between the two, and Uys agreed on the 19th December and after four days of argument to take the oath of the constitution to support Retief's vision, but only after he consulted with his Volk, his followers. These followers were on their way down the Drakensberg. It one of the life's ironies that by the time he arrived back in Natal on the 24th January 1838, Uys had completely changed his tune. IT was on that date that he dictated a letter to Governor D'Urban back in Cape Town to the effect that he was now totally against Retief's “sinister designs…” — and I'm quoting directly. Sinister designs? Over what? Retief it appeared and as we know was true, was planning to launch an independent state in Natal and Uys in what could be called a giant stab in the back, wrote to the British governor that he and his Volk were actually reaffirming their loyalty to the Crown. The English crown. Retief of course was heading to the upper reaches of the Caledon valley on a quest ordered by Dingana to retrieve cattle stolen by the baTlokwa from the amaHlubi. By inference, Dingana wanted Sekhonyela to pay for his transgressions and the Boers believed he was testing their somewhat flimsy relationship. Retief believed that the goodwill that would be generated by returning the cattle would lead to Dingana handing over some of that precious land controlled by the AmaZulu king. He wrote a letter to Dingana informing the Zulu king of the successful raid on his enemy, the baTlokwa. By now, Dingana had almost gone into shock about something else. On the 2nd January he'd been informed by Owen the missionary about Mzilikazi's fate and the utter thrashing he'd received at eGaneni, how his people had fractured and the erstwhile leader of the Khumalo clan had fled across the Limpopo River. Another enemy, dispatched by the Boers, the Zulu had failed to defeat this man, but not the boers. IT was the 25th January when the Trekkers gathered and prayed for protection, then a few days later, the party of 100 rode out with the cattle, and the 15 Zulu attendants including two indunas. Piet Retief wrote his last letter to his wife on the trail to emGungungdlovu. “I was deeply affected at the time of my departure … It was in no way that I feared for my undertaking to go to the king but I was full of grief that I must again live through the unbearable dissension in our Society, and that made me feel that God's kindness would turn to wrath…”

One of Tasmania's newest vineyards

Tasmanian Country Hour

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2023 6:05

A desire for a tree change, prompted lawyer and teacher James and Karen Stewart to set up a vineyard in the Coal Valley near Richmond.

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Should Cities Ban Fireworks?

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2023 22:24

While Canada Day celebrations usually involve big fireworks displays, there are some who want fireworks banned or restricted. Cities like Brampton and Caledon have banned personal fireworks following a surge of complaints over their use. Others argue they're an important part of cultural festivities such as Diwali. We hear from both sides of the debate.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Enjoy the Ride With Austin Pope from the Whiskey Road Hat Co.

Guide To Awesomeness

Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2023 17:50

Step into the extraordinary world of Whiskey Road Hat Co., a passionate brand that sprouted from the picturesque town of Caledon, Ontario. Initially, it was a humble idea to create stylish hats for loved ones that has blossomed into something truly remarkable.In this episode of Cultivating Community, Austin Pope the Owner/Founder, shares his incredible journey behind the brand and brings you closer to the heart and soul of Whiskey Road Hat Co.Follow Whiskey Road Hat Co. on Instagram Facebook , and TikTok as well as on their website: https://whiskeyroadhatco.com/

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Episode 120 - Ploughs in the Platberg, the BaSotho, the MaBuru, MaNyesemane and the BaKhothu

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Play Episode Listen Later May 28, 2023 22:09

We join Moshoeshoe just before the arrival of the trekkers, as he sought to build his political power once the Ngwane and other roving bands had been defeated. Mzilikazi was attacking the area which would become known as Lesotho, from his headquarters on the Apies River north of modern Pretoria. His regiments were praying on the Shona people across the Limpopo and all the way down to the southern Basotho throughout the mid 1820s into the 1830s. Moshoeshoe was at great pains to avoid fighting the Ndebele impis, and in 1828, he had delivered oxen to Mzilikazi with the message that “Moshesh salutes you, supposing that hunger has brought you into this country, he sends you these cattle, that you may eat them on your way home…” Later Moshoeshoe would send cattle to the British governor Sir George Cathcart in a similar attempt at placating a threatening power. That would not work out - but it did work with Mzilikazi, who did not send another attack on Moshoeshoe, although he continued predating on neighbour Sekhonyela. Mzilikazi had also found it easier to plunder the Shona across the Limpopo anyway. From 1831 the Ndebele chief was also defending himself from attacks by the Zulu because Dingane ordered his impis into the highveld at times. Of course, the Griqua to the south were also of some concern to Moshoeshoe, but the Kora were a much bigger problem. Nothing was quiet in this part of southern Africa in the third decade of the 19th Century. In June 1833, what we know as LeSotho came into being for the first time and their creation was observed by French missionaries who wrote down everything they saw. French Protestants reached Thaba Bosiu from Cape Town via Philippolis, and of these, Thomas Arbousset was probably the most eloquent. On the 29th June 1833 he wrote that Moshoeshoe, “… has a Roman head, an oval face, an aquiline nose .. a long chin, and a prominent forehead, his eye is lively, his speech animated, and his voice harsh….” Later Arbousset's fellow missionary Eugene Casalis would jot down a few thoughts in his memoirs, and his notes were more exaggerated and flowery “…I felt at once that I had to do with a superior man, trained to think, to command others, and above all himself. ..” And thus, in1833 the two French missionaries arrived, Eugene Casalis and Thomas Arbousset, along with a third Frenchman called Constant Grosselin, Remarkably, because they were tough back in 1834, Arbousset was a Huegenot of only 23, and Casalis was just 20. Grosselin was 33, a Catholic who converted to Protestantism, a mason, a tough subordinate. Krotz the freed slave guided them to Thaba Bosiu and this is where the first proper descriptions were noted about the bones scattered on the veld — and they saw the signs of the devastation that had been visited up these people, it was clear that many battles had been fought along the Caledon valley.

How will Ontario peel Mississauga, Brampton and Caledon apart?

This Matters

Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2023 25:28

Guests: Robert Benzie, Queen's Park bureau chief, and Noor Javed, staff reporter covering the 905 The Ontario government is breaking up Peel Region to make Mississauga, Brampton and Caledon stand-alone municipalities in 2025. The move has had mixed responses but two things are clear: there will be plenty of haggling over resources like shared infrastructure and the “divorce” will change the political landscape in the province. This episode was produced by Brian Bradley, Paulo Marques and Raju Mudhar. Audio Sources: CPAC

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Peel Region is splitting up, what happens now?

#onpoli, a TVO podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2023 33:11

Brampton, Caledon, and Mississauga will one day be separate cities, ending a decade's long fight between the municipalities. But what does this mean to the people of Peel Region? Steve Paikin and John Michael McGrath discuss the future of the region and how this might shake out.NDP MP Bhutila Karpoche - critic for GTA issues - joins the podcast to discuss what has gone wrong with the Eglinton Crosstown transit project. Crosslinx Transit Solutions, the conglomerate of private companies building the line, have said they are intending to stop work and sue the province of Ontario. Steve's column: https://www.tvo.org/article/its-time-for-queens-park-to-decide-the-fate-of-john-a-macdonalds-statue John Michael's column: https://www.tvo.org/article/toronto-did-more-for-housing-this-week-than-the-ford-government-has-done-all-year Clip credits: Nathaniel Erskine-Smith/Liberal Party of Canada/youtube.com Stay connected to #onpoli and the latest politics across Ontario and at Queen's Park: https://www.tvo.org/ For questions or to suggest topics, email us at onpolitics@tvo.org Listen to more TVO Podcasts: https://www.tvo.org/podcasts Subscribe to TVO Media Education Group newsletters: https://www.tvo.org/newsletters Subscribe to The Agenda with Steve Paikin on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/theagenda Follow Steve Paikin on Twitter - https://twitter.com/spaikin Follow John Michael McGrath on Twitter - https://twitter.com/jm_mcgrath Get the TVO Today app: App Store: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/tvo-today/id1616182112 Google Play https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.tvo.tvomediaapp&pli=1 See more ways to access The Agenda with Steve Paikin and TVO Today: https://www.tvo.org/tvo-anytime-anywhere TVO Today is a trusted source of insight and information about life in Ontario and beyond. Our award-winning current affairs journalism, documentaries and podcasts explore relevant issues and inspiring solutions. Visit https://www.tvo.org for more.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Episode 119 - The saga of Moshoeshoe, how his grandfather was eaten, and mystical advisor Tsapi

Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2023 20:09

The story of south Africa is incomplete without scrutinising the kingdom of Lesotho, not only because geographic location means the mountains are part of our tale, but also because the entire region is intertwined like lovers, or wrestlers, or snakes that are hell bent on eating each other. Sorry about the graphic description there, but by the time you've finished listening to this episode, I'm sure you'll agree with the somewhat over the top analogy. We must step back in time, from where we left off last episode, 1835, beginning of 1836 just to understand who King Moshoeshoe was, and what he means today. During his dramatic youth, events among the northern Nguni people who lived below the mountain escarpment, were going to impact the people who we now called the Basotho. Before these sudden surges of people and the destruction caused by the Ndebele and the Ngwane, the people of the Caledon valley and into the hills above lived in small segmentary chiefdoms - where the chiefs made political decisions after consulting councillors and headmen. The wars of Zwide, Dingiswayo, Senzangakhona and Shaka, then Dingane after him, had profound repercussions throughout the entire region as you've heard. For some on the high veld, the effects were catastrophic, Matiwane of the Ngwane had fled north as Shaka expanded his control, leaving his home along the Umfolozi River and attacking the Hlubi, who lived at the source of the Tugela River on the highlands. Some of these defeated Hlubi made it to Hintsa as you've heard, and by 1835 had marched into the Albany District seeking refuge, and being used as labourers. Small world they say. It was into this fractured society that Moshoeshoe had been born. Isolated and conservative, their culture had been utterly disrupted. Fields were not being cultivated and entire ruling family lines had been destroyed, vanished into the African air. Virtually every MoSotho had been driven from their homes, subjected to suffering and deprivation, human remains littered the landscape - and would be found for another decade. Crunch Crunch went the oxwagons in 1836.

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The Plan to Dissolve Peel Region

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Play Episode Listen Later May 17, 2023 33:32

Almost 50 years ago, Premier Bill Davis's government created the Region of Peel to facilitate the delivery of municipal services in the increasingly urban areas of Mississauga, Brampton, and Caledon. Now, with all three thriving in their own right, and amid nearly two decades of pressure from Mississauga to become a stand-alone municipality, the region could be on the cusp of divorce. For insights, we welcome: Patrick Brown, mayor of Brampton; Annette Groves, mayor of Caledon; and Alvin Tedjo, a city councillor in Mississauga.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Emily Ignagni

College Hockey Talk

Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2023 32:55

Today's Guest: Western University Women's Hockey Player Emily Ignagni We Discuss: -College Hockey experience at Western -Playing for the Etobicoke Dolphins -Growing up in Caledon, Ontario Follow us on Social Media Instagram: @collegehockeytalk Twitter: @collegehockeyta

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#381 - Hunting The Home Hermit - Caledon, Ontario, Canada

Small Town Murder

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 27, 2023 169:47

This week, in Caledon, Ontario, Canada, an odd man, who is described as a loner, with a foul odor, closes his antique shop, to spend his time living in an attic, when he's not living in the woods. He also finds time to go on a crime spree that earns him several nicknames. A nice couple ends up dead, and the police race against time to try to find him, after he's kidnaped several women, and may be holding them, alive!! It's a nail biter, and just a really strange tale, about a really strange man!!Along the way, we find out that Canadians are patriotic about anything Canadian, that when a man's odor can give away his location at 50 yards, it might be time to bathe, and that you can't root any harder than when police are actually racing to save several lives!!Hosted by James Pietragallo and Jimmie WhismanNew episodes every Thursday!Donate at: patreon.com/crimeinsports or go to paypal.com and use our email: crimeinsports@gmail.comGo to shutupandgivememurder.com for all things Small Town Murder & Crime In Sports!Follow us on...twitter.com/@murdersmallfacebook.com/smalltownpodinstagram.com/smalltownmurderAlso, check out James & Jimmie's other show, Crime In Sports! On Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Wondery, Wondery+, Stitcher, or wherever you listen to podcasts!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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The City of Peel vs. a Mississauga ‘Mexit'

This Matters

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2023 23:22

Guest: Noor Javed, staff reporter Peel Region is being studied for potential governance changes and Mississauga wants out. The city is the economic powerhouse of the region and feels it pays for services in Brampton and Caledon that could be repurposed to its own causes. Brampton and Caledon worry dividing shared infrastructure and services like utilities could be costly and cumbersome. Amalgamating all three municipalities is also potentially on the table. This episode was produced by Alexis Green, Paulo Marques and Raju Mudhar. Audio sources: CP24, CBC, City of Mississauga and Twitter (@BonnieCrombie)

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SportsLit (Season 6, Episode 9) - Barrie Shepley (Olympic coach and commentator) - Chasing Greatness

SportsLit

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2022 70:45

Barrie Shepley had his eureka moment while working a summer job in an auto plant. Captivated by Canadian swimmer Alex Baumann racing to gold at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, Shepley realized that he wanted to be in elite sport. His skillset was best suited to being a coach. Chasing greatness began with hustling. Starting from his residence room at McMaster University, he bootstrapped and helped triathlon move from a loose structure into something with a foundation, a fanbase and young athletes who would become its long-term future. One of them, first spotted in Sharbot Lake, Ont., was Simon Whitfield. Eventually Shepley became Canada's national triathlon coach for several years beginning in 1991. In 2000, all his groundwork was validated when Whitfield became the first Olympic men's triathlon champion at the Sydney Olympics. In Chasing Greatness, Shepley shares his experiences working with elite athletes and hobbyists who were bent on proving something to themselves. In addition to his commentary work, Shepley is cofounder of Personal Best, a Caledon, Ont.-based health and wellness firm that works with corporate and individual clients.

Episode 64 – The amaXhosa “strolling” days are numbered as Lieutenant-General Sir John Cradock arrives

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Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2022 20:39

This is episode 64 and we've rejoined Lieutenant colonel Richard Collins and Governor Caledon in Cape Town. If you remember last episode we heard about Collins' military intelligence gathering trip to the eastern Frontier.He'd returned with two main ideas about what to do about the amaXhosa still living in the Zuurveld. His report of 6th August 1809 is another one of those key moments in South African history. In response, Caledons first initiative was to setup a mechanism to regulate the employment of the Khoekhoe labour force called the Hottentot Proclamation of November 1809. The Caledon Code as it became known decreed that work-contracts had to be drawn up before a magistrate, thus according the Khoekhoe some form of legal protection from exploitation. But this was negated almost immediately by the fine print – that the Khoekhoe had to register a fixed place of abode which forbid their movement without a certificate issued by a landdrost. The pass system's first proper installation was at hand. This meant the Khoekhoe had to live and work on farms which meant they could no longer live the life they'd been used to roaming about on the landscape which they'd done for thousands of years. However, Caledon was loathe to enforce Collin's second proposal. In the interest of preserving peace in the eastern districts, all future contact between colonists and amaXhosa would be prevented by expelling all amaXhosa beyond the Fish River. And he went further. As some former VOC and British officials had suggested, he wanted a rigid boundary backed up by powerful fortifications along the river. Lord Caledon's response was negative -but he had also resigned. And now, at this crucial juncture, a new Governor arrived. Lieutenant-General Sir John Cradock with one D disembarked in Cape Town on 5th September 1811. It took him only three weeks to declare war on the amaXhosa. He was a man of action, a military man, and he was being advised by fellow soldiers.

Episode 64 – The amaXhosa “strolling” days are numbered as Lieutenant-General Sir John Cradock arrives