Montreal’s Chinese Gardens re-open after 3 years

For the past three years, the Chinese Gardens at the Botanical Garden have been getting a big face-lift.

On Thursday, the largest Chinese gardens outside of Asia were ready to show off their new shine for their official opening Friday.

Its seven pavilions were restored to their old splendor, just like they were when they opened back in 1991.

The intricate roof tiles were carefully refinished by specialized workers from Shanghai. Montreal craftsmen assisted in the job.

Their collaborative work showcases the friendship between the two sister cities, a constant theme throughout the garden.

“It was very emotional to have these two cultures -Chinese and Canadian Montrealers- come together and rebuild this magnificent garden cause it’s one of most popular gardens, the Botanical Gardens,” Charles-Mathieu Brunelle, Space For Life’s Director, told Global News.

Nick Faldo confirms for Bear Mountain golf tourney

To Sir with love, from Bear Mountain.
Sir Nick Faldo, England’s greatest golfer and knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 2009, is the latest competitor to confirm he will play in the Pacific Links Bear Mountain Championship from Sept. 11-17.
Faldo’s impressive list of accomplishments includes three Masters championships and three British Open titles for six majors in total. The unflappable six-foot-three native of Hertfordshire also won nine times on the PGA Tour and 30 times on the European Tour.
The 60-year-old is still receiving exposure as a commentator for the Golf Channel and CBS.

“Sir Nick is a true golf legend . . . he is an impactful addition to an already strong field,” said Pacific Links International president Rudy Anderson, in a statement. Announced last week for the Bear Mountain tournament was John Daly, among the most bombastic figures in golf history.
The $1.8 million US stop on the PGA Tour Champions, which is for players 50 and over, is in its second year. Colin Montgomerie from Scotland outlasted Scott McCarron in extra holes to win the inaugural Pacific Links Bear Mountain tournament last year.
Confirmed for this year’s tournament are Faldo, Daly, Montgomerie, Charles Schwab money leader Bernhard Langer of Germany, Canadian Golf Hall of Famer Stephen Ames, and former PGA Tour regulars such as McCarron, Mark Calcavecchia, Fred Funk, Jay Haas and Paul Goydos.

Who is denying global warming?

Recently, the "New York Times" published an article entitled "This is not what you imagine: the summer is getting hot" article. NASA retired climate scientist, Columbia University professor James Hansen (James Hansen) of a study shows that since the 1950s, the summer temperature gradually tend to be extremely hot.

Hansen and his two colleagues obtained a fixed baseline mean by comparing the actual summer temperatures for each decade since the 1980s. On the basis of this, from 1951 to 1980, one-third of the summer in the northern hemisphere was considered "normal", one third was "cold" and one third was "hot". After 1980, summer temperatures drastically changed, between 2005 and 2015, two-thirds of the year fell into "hot", and 15% went into a new district: "extremely hot".

Nevertheless, global warming is still a controversial topic. Last week, Project Syndicate released the article "Uncovering the Mask for Closer of Climate Change", author Benjamin Franta, a former researcher at the Harvard Institute of Science and International Affairs at Kennedy College, Harvard University, currently at Stanford University A Ph.D. degree in scientific history, dedicated to environmental policy and scientific manipulation of the study. He pointed out that 25 years after the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in 1992, the world still did not establish an agreement to deal effectively with global warming, and President Trump also allowed the United States to withdraw from the Paris Agreement, Causing the power of procrastination.

Art exhibition adds splash of colour Helmsley Walled Garden

ARTISTS Connie Fairweather and Margaret Rivers are contributing to the colour of the Orchid House at Helmsley Walled Garden with a staging of their paintings inspired by nature.

The exhibition runs until Sunday and can be viewed by visitors to the garden every day from 10am to 5pm.
Connie and Margaret, both from Ripon, take their inspiration from the natural world.
Connie, who trained at York School of Art in the 1960s, focuses on the wealth of beauty to be found in nature and works in several different mediums to explore and develop her ideas.
Margaret is a self-taught artist who started producing pen and ink drawings of botanical specimens to go towards a native flora when she was living in Sierra Leone.
On her return to the UK, she took a range of short courses, including a course on botanical illustration at the University of Sheffield. Both have exhibited in various locations around the region, but this is their first time exhibiting at Helmsley Walled Garden.
Tricia Harris, marketing manager, said: “We are so pleased to be able to exhibit the work of Connie Fairweather and Margaret Rivers in the wonderful setting of the Orchid House, a restored Victorian glasshouse.
“Their work, exploring themes in nature complements the Garden and the beauty to be found inside its walls. “We hope visitors will enjoy the exhibition and perhaps take a picture home as a souvenir of their visit.”