A New York Times article, as noted by City News, celebrates the creation of the butter tart in Ontario. They attribute the first butter tart to Mrs. Malcom MacLeod. Well thank you Mrs. MacLeod. Other news? The UK government has appointed Tracey Crouch, MP for Chatham and Aylesford, to be the country’s first Minister of Loneliness. It is a serious undertaking directed at dealing with this human affliction, said to affect nine million Britons at any given time. Below that, there is frenzy in much of New England and elsewhere in the US as parents hasten to get their children a flu shot. This follows the death over a period of about two days of 10-year-old Nico Mallozi. Lower left, those Scarborough kids who formed the Barenaked Ladies will be inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. Their sophomoric name was both scandalous and, well, sophomoric when they burst onto the scene in 1988. Finally, a newly-born Okapi or zebra giraffe has been named after Meghan Markle. Although the Okapi bears striped markings reminiscent of zebras, it is most closely related to the giraffe.
