July 13, 2006 RSS feed / Columns

GDA Chamber of Commerce wants limits set on out-of-town businesses

The Greater Dufferin Area Chamber of Commerce is upset with Orangeville's Short Term Sales bylaw, which it thinks makes it easy for out-of-town businesses to come in town and take business away from local establishments. More...

National Affairs

Focusing on questionable claims

The week before he was killed by a Taliban sniper in Afghanistan, Cpl. Anthony More...

Heart to Heart

Repeated Question

Y esterday I was sitting alone in a Chinese restaurant staring at a bottle of soy sauce, More...

Gordon Kirkland At Large

Turtle Takes Taste Of Teutonic Teen

I get some odd stories crossing my desk, and from time to time they bring back More...

Royal Canadian Legion News

Last Saturday we had a great group of people out for the Branch Fun Golf Day. Lots of golfers, lots of fun and a few extra folks back at the branch for a delicious (cook-your-own) steak dinner. More...

Ottawa Journal

For the week of July 10-14, 2006

Mr. Harper Goes to Washington The Prime Minister recently visited President Bush, in Washington, in an effort to improve bilateral relations and to discuss various issues of concern for both sides of the border. More...

In my Opinion

More fields of yellow for Dufferin?

If a group that toured Beslea Farms at Shelburne last Friday is right, there's a More...

Queen's Park

Battle of giants likely shaping up

Abattle of giants is likely shaping up in a riding in the 2007 Ontario election that More...

Angles 'n' Attitudes

Memory hold-the-door

That's what John Buchan, Lord Tweedsmuir, called his 1941 book of reminiscences. An 'M h-t-d' is a repository of memories in which one can revisit past times, places, people and events. This column will identify its scribe as having a long memory. More...

Dipping Into the Past

Giant sturgeon caught in Georgian Bay weighed 323 pounds

100 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 12, 1906  The largest sturgeon ever caught in fresh water was received by the Doyle Fish Co., of Toronto, last week, and the remarkable catch reported to Mr. S. T. More...