About Kelly Greig
Kelly is a fourth-year journalism student at Concordia University in Montreal. She was born and raised on a dairy farm in Ormstown, a small hamlet in southwestern Quebec.
In 2009 she spent a semester abroad in the Netherlands and had the opportunity to backpack across Europe all the way from Norway and Ireland down to Bosnia and Croatia.
Last summer she spent working at the Saguenay St-Lawrence Marine Park in Tadoussac, Quebec.
Kelly loves snowboarding and hiking as well as the Montreal Canadiens. Go Habs Go!
Visit her website: http://kellygreig.wordpress.com/
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Posted by Kelly Greig
on Tuesday, May 10, 2011
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Paying with plastic will take on new meaning this year. The Bank of Canada has plans to change the material bills are made of from the traditional paper and cotton blend to a new polymer-based plastic.
The plastic bills have more security features and are resistant to water, oil, sweat and dust (so yes, you can launder your money - washing machines won’t destroy your bills like they used to). They also give new meaning to that old chestnut about "throwing your money away". The new notes are ...
Posted by Kelly Greig
on Wednesday, April 13, 2011
photo: Danielle Scott/flickr
An iconic product, maple syrup is touted as "all natural" and "purely Canadian." The technology used to produce it has advanced, but the product still tastes the way it did hundreds of years ago. Nevertheless, there's a new trend on the rise - organic maple syrup.
"It's my opinion that there’s not much of a difference between organic and regular maple syrup," says Simon Trepanier, director of the Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers.
"Most of the maple syrup producers are organic, but ...
Posted by Kelly Greig
on Monday, March 28, 2011
Photo: The 5th Ape/flickr
Forget green, going blue is the new trend. Early last week Burnaby B.C. was dubbed Canada’s first 'blue community' for promoting public water and waste water services, recognizing water as a human right and banning or phasing out bottled water at municipal events.
While this award is a pat on the back from the Council of Canadians, it fails to mention a major concern - water consumption.
"While we encourage water conservation and reduced consumption, really our minds the major threat to water ...
Posted by Kelly Greig
on Monday, March 14, 2011
National Parks Project - Trailer from Ryan J. Noth on Vimeo.
From the peaks of Banff to the historically saturated Fort of Louisbourg, Canadian parks and historical sites easily stoke inspiration.
In them, Canadian art heavyweights Emily Carr and the Group of Seven sought to capture the Canadian wilderness in the early 1900s. Now, the National Parks Project is aiming to put a modern-day twist on creativity in the wild by inviting musicians and filmmakers to capture the spirit of parks across the country.
Starting this Saturday on Discovery World HD, ...
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Posted by Kelly Greig
on Wednesday, March 09, 2011
Photo: brian.gratwicke/flickr
Seventy-three years ago, in the woods of northern Maine, the last confirmed eastern cougar was killed. Early last week, the United States Fish and Wildlife Services formally announced that this subspecies of puma is being added to the growing fold of officially extinct species.
Although the Canadian Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife disputes the claim, the fact remains that the demise of this cat which once prowled over 21 states is part of a growing trend in the animal kingdom. ...
Posted by Kelly Greig
on Friday, February 25, 2011
Photo: Swamibu/flickr
"Diamonds are a girl’s best friend," Marilyn Monroe famously sang in the 1953 classic Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. But are they friends to Canadians too?
Last week a Canadian diamond named the Ekati Spirit sold at auction for a record $6 million. The cherry-sized, 78-carat rock’s exceptional clarity, carats and colour surpassed that of the previous record holder which sold for $1.2 million just a few years ago. It wasn't disclosed whether the Spirit's buyer was male or female, but somewhere in ...
Posted by Kelly Greig
on Monday, February 14, 2011
Photo: iheartcities/flickr
I’ve been living green without even knowing it. As a student, I'm used to cramped, tiny apartments. But it turns out that living in small is actually significantly reducing my carbon footprint.
"Small living" is a new trend rebelling against the excesses of wasteful space. Since the 1950’s, the average size of homes has ballooned from 983 square feet to 2,349 square feet in 2004. Yet at the same time, the average size of a North American family has shrunk.
The bottom line is that we’re taking ...
Posted by Kelly Greig
on Thursday, February 03, 2011
Photo: USFWS Endangered Species/flickr
I have a confession: I’ve always disliked ferrets. A childhood friend had one and I always felt like playing with it was like trying to hold a wriggling furry slinky. Which, needless to say, turned me off of the species pretty quickly.
Despite my aversion, I watched Return of the Prairie Bandit - a documentary that will be airing on The Nature of Things next week. It follows the efforts to re-introduce the black-footed ferret into Grasslands National Park in Saskatchewan.
Until late 2009, ...
Posted by Kelly Greig
on Friday, January 28, 2011
Canadian earthquakes 2006 - 2011.
It was like a scene from a 1950’s educational film. Earlier this week about 450,000 British Columbians dropped and huddled under their desks and coffee tables as an alarm was broadcast over the radio. This wasn’t one of those infamous nuclear drills of the 50’s, but for a much more incalculable threat: earthquake.
The drill was dubbed the Great British Columbia Shake Out and was modeled on a similar dry run Californians took part in late last year. It's purpose was prepare the province for when ...
Posted by Kelly Greig
on Monday, January 17, 2011
Photo: Joel Barker.
It all started with a log. Joel Barker, an earth scientist from Ohio State University, was researching carbon dioxide emissions on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, when he was told about an odd log sticking out of the snow. Since trees only grow sparsely and to a few feet high on the tundra, it was definitely out of place.
"I knew that was a rare thing and I was interested in seeing it," Barker tells CG, "I knew there was a possibility of forests up there in the past. When they told me they found ...
