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MIT professor Sara Seager has been chasing aliens for most of her adult life. In 2020, Seager was an adviser on the UK team of astronomers that discovered phosphine—a gas produced by living things—on Venus, which became a scientific flashpoint. Now, she’s leading the first privately funded mission to Venus, hoping the planet’s dense, acidic clouds harbour life. We spoke to Seager about her early days stargazing in Toronto, her upcoming Rocket Lab mission in 2026 and why Venus—long ignored in the red shadow of Mars—may be the key to finding alien life. |
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Liz Craig, a 33-year-old piano teacher and wedding musician, spends her sizable annual income rather wisely: she maxes out her RRSP contribution every month, socks away money in a TFSA and is even saving on groceries after going vegan in the fall—you can get a whole lot of legumes for the price of a rib-eye. But she does splurge every now and then. |
It may be an awkward time for Americana in Canada, but two-time Grammy-winner Rhiannon Giddens is one of the best in the genre (plus, while she was born in North Carolina, she lives in Ireland now). Giddens is known as a master banjoist and vocalist, and she won a Pulitzer Prize for Omar, the 2023 opera she co-wrote with composer Michael Abels. Her latest album, You’re the One, is her first to consist entirely of original songs. Koerner Hall, May 15 and 16 |
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