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10/09/2026

October is made for lingering, and every corner of Niagara-on-the-Lake reveals a different side of fall.

A trip to Niagara-on-the-Lake, the most haunted town in Canada, isn’t complete without a visit to the town’s spookiest spots. Whether you choose to take a guided tour or visit the sites on your own, you’ll discover the history that lies beneath the legendary tales. The town is surrounded by battlefields tucked away on the escarpment and along the waterfront where history lives on. Some say the soldiers never fully left.

Fort George National Site is one of the spookiest destinations in town where history is felt in the air, heavy and patriotic. On an evening tour everything changes. The site empties, the lights grow dim, and many leave with stories that can’t be explained.

Queenston Heights National Historic Site was once the site of the bloodiest battle during the War of 1812. The battle resulted in the loss of almost 1,000 American soldiers and 13 indigenous warriors who aided the British. Entry to the scenic Queenston Heights is free, making it the perfect place to picnic or explore by day or night. Just know that something much darker lies beneath.

Niagara-on-the-Lake holds close to 13 cemeteries where some grave markers date back to the late 1700s. A visit to any of these locations brings you closer to the history and stories of the settlers, soldiers, and families who built the town. Do you dare to visit one at dusk?

Located in the heart of Old Town, St. Mark’s Anglican Church is the oldest operating cemetery in Ontario. It’s believed the area was a burial ground for the First Nations People. All are welcome to explore it at their own pace.

The Friends of the Forgotten honours and restores 11 inactive burial sites of the Niagara Baptist Church Parishioners. Cemeteries including the Virgil Baptist Cemetery and Clement Cemetery claim 17 burials in total. Their history remains a question.

Many more eerie spots are hidden in small corners around town. If you prefer to explore after dark, join a Ghost Walk through Old Town to learn about the town’s best-known haunted locations and the hidden legends behind its reputation as Canada’s most haunted town.

Beyond the haunted sites, you’ll find an incredible farm-to-table dining scene, award-winning vineyards, charming boutiques and art galleries, spas, cafés and bakeries, and local markets filled with the season’s fresh homegrown produce.

09/18/2026

Happening This Weekend
September 18-20

Cultural Crawl:
Starting on September 19, Ontario Culture Days returns to Niagara-on-the-Lake for a season of free programming for children, families and anyone looking to be inspired. Events run until October 4 at participating museums, galleries and cultural sites.
- Shaw Festival Backstage Tours: This hour-long guided tour reveals the secrets that bring each performance to the stage.
- Shaw Artists’ Village Tour: Tour the newest addition to the Shaw Festival Campus, including the Burton Centre for Lifelong Creativity where the spectacular wardrobes are constructed.
- Open Mic Storytelling: Join the NOTL Writers Circle in sharing personal short stories and poetry in a supportive setting. Registration is required.
- Drop in Art Activity: Screen Printing: Drop by the Niagara Pumphouse Arts Centre and learn the magic behind this hands-on printmaking process. Bring your creativity and leave with a unique handmade print.

09/01/2026

Great article on power:

In a game defined by power, can you hold your own?

08/30/2026

Night-time tips for the sleep-deprived:

Hey friends!

08/30/2026

Diets varied. Genes explained only about 25%. What they shared was how they handled stress.

08/22/2026

We all lose our cool. Here are 10 easy moves to help you get through that moment when you feel yourself slipping.

They cure nothing and untangle nothing. They just put a stone under your foot in the moment you start to slide.

08/19/2026

If you're even just a little interested in economics and how we got here, listen to Anand's interview with Nick Hanauer. It is truly eye-opening. At the very least, you can download Nick's e-book called Markets Built for Humans at marketsbuildforhumans.org. I realize he is referring to the American marketplace, but that affects everyone. And we, in Canada, can probably learn a lesson or two from him as well.

Nick Hanauer, Amazon’s first outside investor, on Jeff Bezos’s great blind spot, the myths that made the rich richer, what socialism gets right and wrong, and building an economy of human flourishing

08/12/2026

I'm sharing this on behalf of Rob Herring at Earth Conscious Life. It's important to stop this nonsense. No one owns the sky or space!

When They Try To Sell The Sun
This is one of those stories that really should have been left to science fiction…

A company just got the green light to bounce sunlight down from space. Not metaphorically. A startup called Reflect Orbital received federal approval to launch a satellite that unfurls a giant thin-film mirror in orbit and aims a beam of reflected sunlight at a chosen spot on the ground, for a few minutes at a time. Their pitch is that they can sell sunlight on demand, lighting up solar farms after dusk, stretching the growing season on shaded fields, even replacing streetlights.

What's Being Built
This is well past the ‘crazy idea’, or sketch-on-a-napkin phase. Regulators cleared the first satellite for launch THIS year, and the company wants tens of thousands more in orbit within a decade. Each mirror can light an area a few miles wide, then swivel to the next customer’s request. An early concept video pulled in hundreds of thousands of requests from people who wanted sunlight delivered to their exact spot on the map. Theoretically, it might at first sound like a good idea, somehow helpful to humanity: Light with no wires, beamed wherever it's wanted. Who could argue with more sun for crops that need it?

The trouble starts when you start asking the harder questions about how this tech could be abused, and what role the dark was naturally playing in the first place…and how that would be disrupted…

The Night Was Never Just Emptiness
A few weeks back we got into a Deep Dive on how darkness works like a nutrient, the cue your body waits for to make melatonin and run its overnight repairs. And those instructions from nature, and our circadian rhythm aren’t just limited to what happens within your home.

Four international societies of sleep and rhythm scientists have gone on record with regulators, calling a sky washed in reflected daylight a planetary-scale change to the night, one that could scramble the internal clocks that plants, animals, and all of us humans who depend on these cycles. Even short stretches of light disruption are already showing up in us as worse sleep, shakier mood, and measurable impact on metabolism.

So multiply those impacts by something exponentially more unnatural…

Ironically, the same seasonal light signals that tell a crop when to flower and grow fruit are the ones that a sky full of bright mirrors would likely confuse. This “tool” they are pitching as a way to help agriculture might destroy the very rhythms that productive farming leans on.

Nocturnal insects, migrating birds, and even the plankton that underpin entire ocean food webs all run on that same light-dark clock.

Once again, human ego and hubris seems to be running the show here, instead of humility and natural wisdom.

Who Gets To Decide?
This is where technology becomes about ethics. Who controls the power? The night sky is about as close to a universally shared aspect of Earth as we've got. No one owns it, which sadly somehow has come to mean that anyone with a rocket can start changing it, even when it affects it for everybody else. Reflect Orbital is just one company. SpaceX has talked about putting up to a million satellites in low orbit, some as floating data centers to run AI.

Some astronomers warn we could end up with a sky where satellites outnumber the visible stars, and that the mirrors may scatter light far wider than the tidy beam in the promo videos. Once tens of thousands are up there, there's no undo button.

So What Do We Do?
If you've ever felt torn about whether your own choices even matter against forces this size…that’s not uncommon. It's a fair thing to feel. In this case, the thing that some people think is the loudest, most expensive “fix” is actually the new problem that might end up doing the most harm. It is up to us to do our part to protect any small patch of dark sky. Continue growing (or supporting the growth of) food which is in line with the seasons.
Keeping your own nights dark enough to actually sleep and mentioning the importance of this to neighbors. That's the direction we want the future to head, and every choice pointed that way leads a world more informed and a sky more likely to be protected.

You can't personally ground a satellite. You can pay attention, tell the people who regulate this what you think, and keep advocating for natural solutions. This is important. For the kids who'll inherit whatever sky we leave them, it might be the different between a livable future or not.

08/02/2026

Do you know when you're burnt out? Here are four signs worth checking:

1. Your patience is running on empty. Small things set you off and you snap faster than you used to.

2. You read the same line twice. Your brain is too full to take in more.

3. You find yourself regularly saying, "I'll rest when things calm down."

4. You've stopped looking forward to things you used to enjoy.

If you can identify with two or more of these, that's worth paying attention to. You're due for a break. Your body is a temple that needs to be maintained.

Like winter, summer is a time to pause and reflect on what you've accomplished so far this year as well as indulge in nature, what brings you joy and socializing with friends and family. It is not a time for planning—that comes later in the fall. For now, enjoy your summer. Your body, mind and spirit will reward you in spades come fall.

07/31/2026

As a parent or grandparent, you may find this interesting:

Screen use at certain stages of childhood was linked to subtle differences in later academic and cognitive performance.