The Bishoppes some name Alphins, some fooles, and some name them Princes; other some call them Archers.

He ate a third of the pie. Divided by two-thirds.

As elsewhere in Canada, winter is the festive season, given up to sledging, skating, tobogganning, and other outdoor exhilarating amusements.

Ever since X-Men: First Class set the series' clock back a few decades and installed Michael Fassbender's moody Magneto and James McAvoy's louche Charles Xavier as replacements for Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart's chess-playing pappies, the big-screen X-Men's central conflict—Xavier's Booker T. Washington-esque School For Gifted Youngsters vs. a rogue's gallery of evil mutants, crew cuts, and politicos—has gotten a lot murkier.