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Christian Perspectives
What is your commitment to truth?
     When forced to deal with an issue of truth, the Roman Governor, Pontius Pilate, asked the question, "What is truth?"
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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.
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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. Prime Minister Harper's trip was a huge success and a great deal was accomplished.
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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.
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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
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National Affairs
Focusing on questionable claims
     The week before he was killed by a Taliban sniper in Afghanistan, Cpl. Anthony
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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
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Heart to Heart
Repeated Question
     Y esterday I was sitting alone in a Chinese restaurant staring at a bottle of soy sauce,
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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. . . .
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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
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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. Bastedo, deputy commissioner of Provincial fisheries. The mammoth fish was caught in Georgian Bay, nea
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