by Diana Filer
1. COP 26 is the 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference, to be held starting at the end of October in Glasgow, Scotland.
2. Canada is the Guest of Honour at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair.
3. ”Clear the Track, here comes Shack”, was a comic song referring to Eddie Shack the popular Toronto Maple Leafs hockey player of the 1970s.
4. Steve Martin, the American actor-comedian, has been a great champion of the works of Lawren Harris, for over 25 years. One of Harris’s paintings, Mountain Forms, sold for a record $11.21 million at auction in 2016, the highest price so far of a Canadian painting
5. The F-scale measure the strength of tornadoes,
