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In Numbers 13 God sends twelve spies into the promised land to check out its fruits. Numbers 13:20 says, “Be of good courage and bring some of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the season of the first grapes.” Joshua and Caleb had God’s heart and were looking for good fruit (the positive), the other ten spies were looking for bad fruit (the negative). More ... Molly was going to visit her grandfather at Ye Merry Olde Hills Start Ye Again Residence. Harry his name was, and he was 105 years old. The Residence was designed like a castle, turrets rising toward the sky, slits in the walls, stained glass in the windows. There was even a moat, for heaven’s sake, with a “draw bridge” and a pointy gate that was never lowered. More ... “Greeks brace as Europe threatened”. That newspaper headline (The Globe, 3 March) might have been dated anytime in the Fifth Century B.C. In 490 the Greeks led by Miltiades of Athens turned back the invading Persians on the plain of Marathon. The herald who carried the news 40 kilometres to Athens ran the first ‘marathon’. More ... And politicians wonder why people don’t trust them. Here was Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty - after flying constantly in the face of reason by telling us his new harmonized tax will be good for us - explaining that, well, gee folks, there’s nothing he could really do about an outrageous sweetheart deal those same taxpayers are giving to the tax collectors. More ... Maybe, just maybe, folk in Queen’s Park are awakening to the fact that Ontario extends beyond the bounds of the Golden Horseshoe, let alone Steeles Avenue in Greater Toronto. Mention was made in the Ontario Government’s speech from the throne about northern Ontario development in McGuinty’s next few months of government. More ... Dalton McGuinty and his government are a giant advertising machine, endlessly dreaming up grandiose names for their programs that make them sound more desirable than they are and hoping to boost their image, but not all succeed. More ... Columns RSS feed |
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