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Have Guelph s delightful ‘fairy doors’ become a forest plague?
While many love the miniature doors affixed to trees, the city was receiving an increase in complaints about how the doors are ruining the landscape in parks and natural areas
July 8, 2021 A young Guelphite stops to investigate a fairy door in Marksam Park’s ‘Friendly Folk Forest’ (Photograph by Brendan George Ko)
It was treated as a stealth operation. Adrian Ferrazzutti would put a small cordless drill in his backpack, along with a box of screws. Then he and his kids would hike around Guelph, Ont., looking to install “fairy doors.” When they reached the perfect tree one with arches at the roots he’d pull out a miniature door they’d made in their family woodshop and, when no one was watching, mount it over one of the cavities at the base of the tree to create a “fairy house,” running screws through the door’s tiny hinges.
If anything will save us from the plight of 2020, it’s empathy
Michael Coren: We ve seen evidence of it already. The very act of wearing a mask, for example, is a leap of empathy by thinking in the communal and behaving in the fraternal.
December 17, 2020 A group of protesters protect an injured man, taking him to safety during a U.K. protest (Luke Dray/Getty Images)
Rev. Michael Coren is ordained in the Anglican Church of Canada.
My father’s family were Russian Jews. Most left for Britain at the beginning of the 20th century, but some remained. We kept in contact with part of the clan, and as a child I met my very Russian, very funny, very loud great-uncle. In between laughs and vodka he told us stories about his life, but said little about the Second World War, what he called the Great Patriotic War. I knew that he’d served for three years, became a major, got to Berlin, and must have seen the most extraordinary things. I asked him in my confident naïveté what it fe