by Diana Filer
- Dennis Lee is a founder of the House of Anansi publishers, as well as the author of the well-known children’s book, Alligator Pie.
- In English, ‘le jour J’ means D-Day.
- An aglet is a metal tag at the end of a shoelace, the term progressing to mean any such attachment to various types of clothing.
- Calgary International Airport has Canada’s longest runway, at about 4.3km.
- UNDRIP is the acronym for the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People.