Newsletters: Recipes from a champion baker, a lion roaming a hotel suite and more

Thursday, March 31, 2022

Image description: Raufikat Oyawoye-Salami, Alan Shane Lewis and Ann Pornel stand in a kitchen. There is an assortment of pastries between them on a counter. (Geoff George)

LIFE

Recipes that prove you can be a champion baker too

So you think you can't bake? From lemon meringue cupcakes to matcha and ube macarons to boston cream doughnuts, every recipe from Raufikat's Better Bake Along will prove you wrong.

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Image description: Frank Kuiack (Wayne Simpson)

DOCS

84-year-old Frank Kuiack is Algonquin Park's very last fishing guide

When Frank Kuiack was eight years old, he was offered five dollars to show a group of American anglers where to catch fish in Algonquin Provincial Park. He's been a fishing guide ever since.

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Image description: A lion in a hotel room. (Clement Rossignol/Reuters)

UNDER THE INFLUENCE

One New York hotel manager discovered a 450-pound lion roaming a suite

Here's how this Hollywood PR stunt pioneered the motion picture publicity spectacle.

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Image description: Max Kilderov, a street artist in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Nova Kakhovka, makes a fireball with a spray-paint can and a lighter as he poses in front of the abandoned Russian tank he transformed into art. (Max Kilderov/Instagram)

AS IT HAPPENS

Ukrainian artist turns abandoned Russian tank into resistance art

"It's very hard to make art in an occupied city when you don't have canvasses," Max Kilderov told As It Happens guest host Gillian Findlay. "In [a] city where you can't get canvas, burned tanks [are the] best canvas."