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My Star Trek 20th posters

September 8, 2026

Much of the world is celebrating Star Trek’s Sixtieth Anniversary today, September 8, 2026. In Canada, Star Trek actually launched two days earlier on September 6, 1966. In the days before cable and Canadian network substitutions many US shows were broadcast in Canada before they were broadcast in the United States. I obtained the posters […]

Marmite

Marmite kept my father alive.

January 24, 2014

Updates with CFIA statement saying Marmite not banned When I was a little kid my father insisted—yes insisted—that I eat my Marmite. This morning I woke up to the news that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency has apparently banned Marmite, a yeast extract spread, in this country, along with some other British “comfort foods.” (After […]