Earlier this summer, Israel Crooks brought a chess set to a basketball game in a Hamilton park, and after noticing kids weren’t playing ball strategically, he introduced them to the board game. A few free ad hoc lessons became a full summer series for teens eager to learn from a man who grew up playing chess in Jamaica.
Day: September 4, 2021
This summer, Canada may have very well earned the nickname The Great White-hot North, as people around the world were stunned to see record-breaking temperatures that plagued the west. Meteorological summer ended on Aug. 30 and, looking back, it seems that it wasn’t just the west that experienced warmer than normal temperatures.