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Make Plastic Reduction Part of Your 2018 New Year's Resolutions
Guest blog written by 2017 Environmental Visual Communication student Cristina Bergman Every year, 10,000 tonnes of plastic enters the Great Lakes. Imagine 55 jumbo jets of plastic crash landing in the lakes each year. In this province alone, 3 billion plastic bottles are sold annually, but only
Eva Holtby Lecture on Contemporary Culture
“The Eva Holtby Lecture wants speakers on contemporary culture asking the questions why and why not. Our goal is for this to encourage conversation, empathy and understanding which leads to stronger civility in a community.”- Christopher Holtby The Annual Eva Holtby Lecture on Contemporary
Jonathon Borland
Meet YPC Member Jonathon Borland What is your occupation? I’m relatively new to TD Securities where I support the head of Corporate & Investment Banking, but have been with TD for more than 10 years. What was the last book you read? I’m currently re-reading one of my favourite Haruki
Wu Dacheng: ROM Chinese Jades at the Suzhou Museum
As part of a special exhibition entitled Collections of the Wu Family From Suzhou in the Qing Dynasty (December 16, 2017, to March 11, 2018), the Royal Ontario Museum lent 28 Chinese jades to the Suzhou Museum. This exhibition, curated by the Suzhou Museum, constitutes the second in the series of
ROM Entomologist Leaves An Intellectual Legacy
Glenn and Carol Wiggins’ estate furthers research in perpetuity From a young age, Glenn Wiggins (1927–2013) was fascinated by “the little things that run the world.”* His love of insects led to a distinguished career as ROM curator of entomology and decades of global fieldwork on
Supporting Shows That Matter
Newly-founded Royal Exhibitions Circle supports special exhibitions What’s on at the ROM? Ask friends and they’ll inevitably tell you about the newest special exhibition. For many of us, it’s a catalyst to visit and leads to a memory that lingers long after we leave the Museum. The ROM has an
Trees for Life in Lakefield
Guest blog written by Environmental Visual Communication student Fenella Hood When Rebecca Rose left her home in Leslieville and moved her three young children to the quaint village of Lakefield, she felt secure in the belief that she was improving their lot in life. A small community in South
What is it? Unexpected Life in Downtown Toronto
by Antonia Guidotti, Maureen Zubowski and Dave Rudkin ROM Natural History staff often receive specimens for identification. In entomology, they frequently receive and identify common household pests, however, they recently received something a little bit more unusual. A community centre in the
Celebrating Chinese New Year: Dogs in Ancient China
Ridge tile with a dog Moulded earthenware, glaze Ming-Qing Dynasty (17th-19th century) 921.1.232 The George Crofts Collection By Kara Ma February 16 th, 2018 marks the beginning of the Year of the Dog, the eleventh animal in the Chinese zodiac. In the traditional Chinese calendar, each year
When Whaling is Your Tradition
Guest blog written by Environmental Visual Communication student Ursula McClintock. In some Indigenous communities around the world, whaling is as much a part of their tradition as my family’s turkey dinner at Thanksgiving and Christmas. Whale hunting has played an integral role in feeding Inuit