February 15, 2007 RSS feed / Columns

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Random Reflections

Water: a growth-limiting factor?
Tom Claridge
HISTORICALLY, ONE THING no one in Dufferin County worried about was water. Like the air, it was usually free and pure. More...

Heart to Heart

My First Love
Eric Nagler eric@ericnagler.com

At a social event last Saturday we did an exercise to help people get to know one another. We'd each been given half a torn piece of paper and asked to find the mate. More...

Gordon Kirkland At Large

It's My Aluminum Anniversary In American Media

I've been writing this column for over twelve years, and this is the tenth anniversary of it first appearing in the United States. More...

Christian Perspectives

'Earthly treasures are nothing'
Rev. Mary Ranger

Jesus didn't pull his punches! He said what he meant, and meant what he said. It must be admitted that sometimes what Jesus said takes a bit of unraveling, and sometimes it's downright startling! More...

National Affairs

Reality has no place in political perceptions
Claire Hoy

To hear Liberal Leader Stephane Dion tell it, women are not capable of seeking political office on their own merit without the imposition of "extraordinary measures," including barring men from pursuing Liberal nominations in some ridings. More...

Queen's Park

TV poker boosts government's gambling habit
Eric Dowd

You know that gambling is an increasing problem when you can switch on TV almost any time and watch someone playing poker. More...

Angles 'n' Attitudes

The weaker sex
William Bothwell

T he following reflections appear 13 years late. Like many scribblers I keep a disorderly file of half-written columns, notes of things needing more thought and ideas whose time does not yet seem to have come. More...

Dipping Into the Past

Two businesses join, plan to erect new two-storey building

100 YEARS AGO Thursday, February 14, 1907 + The latest development in Shelburne business circles is the formation of a limited company, capitalized at $40,000, to be known as the Shelburne Implement and Monument Company, Limited. More...

Royal Canadian Legion News

BY JILL BROYDEN Branch 233, Orangeville

Branch 233 is pleased to announce that we are getting it on for our boys overseas. We are now officially enrolled in the Chosen Soldier Program. More...