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May 25, 2006 RSS feed / Columns

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Holiday - Holy Day

Rev. Johanna VanderSpek
Based on the words holy and day, holiday originally represented a special day of the Christian Church calendar. A holiday or holy More...

A grave insult to all Canadian heroes

Claire Hoy

Q uestion: a year ago, when then Liberal prime minister Paul Martin decided to dispatch Canadian armed forces to join the ongoing war against the brutal Taliban in Afghanistan, what was it we heard from either Liberal cabinet ministers or the opposit More...

Peculiar people

William Bothwell

"I guess we are content to be a peculiar people" said a man in a flat black hat who sat beside me in a rural Ontario market square. More...

Dipping Into the Past

Prisoners bound for Central jail escaped at Orangeville station

100 YEARS AGO Thursday, May 24, 1906 Two convicts of a gang of 12 en route to the Central Prison escaped from the custody of Provincial Bailiff Phillip Simser at Orangeville on Thursday evening last. More...

Royal Canadian Legion News

BY JILL BROYDEN Branch 233, Orangeville

Branch 233 has a full roster coming up. This weekend, members and their guests have a choice of participating in either a quintessential, fundamental or regimental event. More...

The secret to avoiding long-weekend traffic

Mandi Hargrave

I've done it. I've finally figured out how to avoid sitting on a highway for an extra hour or two during a long weekend commute. More...

Ontario premiers white, male, Anglo

Eric Dowd

Anybody can be premier of Ontario - as long as he is white, male and Anglo. More...

More On Glucosamine

Eric Nagler eric@ericnagler.com

I've received a fair number of responses to my last article on comfortable false beliefs. More...

I Have My Own Air Terror

Gordon Kirkland At Large

I've mentioned before that I do not find flying to be one of my favorite activities. I wouldn't go so far as to say that I am a white-knuckle flyer, but I do tend to lose some of the color from my finger joints during take-offs and landings. More...