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Columns September 2, 2010  RSS feed

With Your Permission
Why food matters
     I lived overseas for many years, the whole of the 1970’s and 80’s. Sometime during those years, the philosophy at the Canadian National Exhibition, (the CNE or the Ex, as we like to call it) changed. Especially the Food Building.
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Angles ’n’ Attitudes
Things to come
     “Coming events cast their shadows before”, wrote Thomas Campbell, Scottish poet and chancellor of Glasgow University. H.G. Wells’s 1933 novel Things to Come and the frightening and prescient 1936 film based upon it also emphasised the monitory importance of looking ahead.
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National Affairs
Who exactly is the gun registry good for?
     Some deceits are readily apparent. None moreso than the species arguments being used in a desperate attempt to save the disastrous two-billiondollar boondoggle known as Canada’s long gun registry.
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Queen’s Park
Not all former premiers get memorialized
     Ontario now has a university library named after former premier Mike Harris, but when will it get around to remembering Bob Rae and David Peterson? Both Rae and Peterson preceded Harris as premiers, so it might be thought their time to have something concrete, or at least bricks and mortar, named in their honor has come .
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Your We ekly Chuckl e . . .
      TOMMY: “I learned to count in school today. Listen – one, two, three.” MOTHER: “Go on.” TOMMY: “You mean there’s more?”
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Dipping Into the Past
Erin’s lacrosse team ‘threw up the sponge’ in rain-soaked match
      125 YEARS AGO Thursday, September 3, 1885
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From the Global Classroom
LViewing Canada from Abroad
     Looking back over 50 years, it was a very brave move, emigrating from Britain to Canada. Anne crossed the Atlantic to join me here, feeling that she was leaving ‘home’ forever. As air travel has expanded we have been back to Britain many times since. The world has become much smaller. It is now much easier to travel to distant parts of the globe.
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Christian Perspectives
Our Labour – Serving God and Each Other
      As we enter the last long weekend of the summer, our thoughts focus on a return to fall activities, children back to school, and unless we are retired, a return to a regular work week, with the memories of summer holidays behind us.
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