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Looking Back at 1900 Day leads today's complete edition for Canada.
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Bengal is the heart of the nationalist movement. The British partition of Bengal in 1905 has inflamed Hindu-Muslim tensions. The jute mills of Calcutta employ thousands. The countryside is poor and getting poorer. The monsoon still decides who eats and who does not.
The sap is running and the sugar shacks are open. Every Canadian child has watched sap boil into syrup on a school trip and every Canadian child has been disappointed by how long it takes. The real ones know that maple syrup goes on snow, on pancakes, on sausages, and directly into the mouth when nobody is watching.
The sap runs in March. The sugar shacks open. Quebec hums with the smell of evaporating maple. It is one of Canada's most reliable seasonal rituals.
You observe white-tailed eagles, moose, and ringed seals in the archipelago's forests and waters. You find that local residents commonly keep cats, dogs, and rabbits as household companions. ACADA celebrates the world's pets, and helps assure better care.
