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Birds perch on snow covered trees in a city park after heavy snowfall in Beijing on March 20, 2013. Beijing and the northern China have been experiencing its coldest winter in more than 30 years and have seen tens of thousands of the country’s livestock dying and transport chaos as flights and highways are shut down. (MARK RALSTON/AFP/Getty Images)
Up to 3,000 flights already cancelled as ‘dangerous’ storm bears down on U.S. northeast
Schools across New England have closed and thousands of flights have been scratched as the Northeast hunkers down for a storm poised to dump up to 2 feet of snow. S
Toronto weather live: Ontario school closures, road conditions and TTC updates
A snowstorm that forecasters warn could be the worst in more than four years has moved into Ontario and police are warning of treacherous driving conditions
(Photos: AP Photo; The Canadian Press; John Richardson/National Post)
The Month Ahead: February
Depending on which groundhog you ask, we’re either in for an early spring or a late one. No matter: There are plenty of ways to keep busy this month, whether you’re keeping warm or welcoming the thaw: natpo.st/Xb3YCX
Canada continues to shiver through record cold snap — and there’s little relief in sight
Canadians continue to battle a wicked spate of winter weather that has brought torrents of snow to parts of the country and sent temperatures plunging to their lowest levels in years. Just winter weather or “extreme weather” media hype?
Photo: Ice fog from the St. Lawrence river blankets Montreal as windchill temperatures hit -38C, Jan. 23, 2013. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz)
Graphic: Banff gets four elephants worth of snow
Banff’s Sunshine Village set a new record for snowfall this winter. The National Post’s Jonathon Rivait takes a look.
Cold weather could have saved Swedish man trapped in snow-covered car for two months
A Swede pulled from a snowed-in car claiming he had not eaten for two months had lived in the vehicle since mid-2011, media reported, as experts said the “miraculous survival” was theoretically possible.
The emaciated 44-year-old man, whose name has not been disclosed, was pulled from a totally snow-covered car parked deep in the woods near the northern Swedish town of Umeaa last Friday.
He claimed he had not had access to food since December 19 and had survived on snow, according to local police. (Photos: Rolf Hojer/Scanpix/Reuters)
Today’s Dose of Cute
A lion cub plays with a snowball at the Belgrade Zoo on Feb. 5, 2012. (Alexa Stankovic//AFP/Getty Images)
The future of music is written by fortysomething artists
Imagine grabbing a CD by Lady Gaga or Katy Perry or any other young hitmaker from our Age of Derivative. You hop into your Delorean and zip back to 1991. Would our 2011 sounds truly dazzle and challenge the ears of yesteryear? Would a single feather be ruffled, or a mind blown?
As you may notice in the above picture, snapped today in High Park by Aaron Lynett, that it is snowing here in Toronto, no doubt about it. About time, it beats the cold November rain.
Gary Clement’s Week in Review for Nov. 20 to 26, 2011
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How to: Ride Your Bike on Ice
To ride a bike on ice, you need to stud your tires with screws. Building my tires took 40 hours. Jim “The Ice Bear” Kuz is four-time champion of Toronto’s Icycle bike-on-ice race. Here, he reveals the secret of his “Kuz Bilt” ice tires. Read more.
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The Week in Review (before we get too far into this week)
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The Week That Wasn’t: Toronto recorded its uncoolest week of all time (By Sarah Lazarovic)
Chris Selley: Snow day a once in 12 years occurrence
Toronto’s reputation as being less than heroic in the face of winter is well earned, and you don’t have to live in a hardier city to be a bit chagrined by it — but spending a few years in Montreal certainly compounds the embarrassment. That’s a city that knows how to deal with snow: swiftly, brutally and unapologetically. In Toronto’s defence, however, we just don’t get as much snow as Montreal does. And I’m not sure we have anything to be ashamed about when it comes to Snowmageddon 2011, which turned out to be snowverrated. (The media outlets that actually used these terms unironically might, though.)
Meet the Bieber
As tweenage girls might exclaim: Ahhhhh! Justin Bieber was at Toronto’s Fairmont Royal York Hotel on Tuesday to promote his new 3-D film Never Say Never, which opens on Feb. 11. Arts reporter Melissa Leong and graphics columnist Steve Murray attended and got to breathe the same air as the Stratford-born superstar.
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The science of shovelling snow
Would it kill you to shovel the front walk?” A monster snowstorm raging from New Mexico to Maine raises this question afresh. Typically, it’s posed by a woman standing with hands on hips and assuming a Thurberesque mien as she gazes down on a man exercising his thumb on the remote but otherwise in repose. The correct answer: “It might.” (Illustration by Andrew Barr)
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