May 3, 2007 RSS feed / Columns

Dipping Into the Past

Five Orangeville hotels won liquor licences, but not Rosemont inn

100 YEARS AGO Thursday, May 2, 1907 + The Licence Commissioners of Dufferin County met in Orangeville last week, Messrs. Samuel Graydon, of Grand Valley, and Dr. A. J.Hunter, of Orangeville, being the two commissioners present, Dr. R. W. More...

Gordon Kirkland At Large

Prison Reform Starts At The Bottom

It must be a horrible life for prisoners these days. We've all heard the horror stories from detention centers in Iraq and Afghanistan, but what about poor misguided robbers, murderers, and jaywalkers here in North America? More...

National Affairs

Tories may have lost their nerve

If there is one thing which has consistently angered Liberals over the years - and sparked their just-below-the-surface disregard of Americans - it is when leading U.S. political figures make public comments about Canadian domestic policy. More...

Queen's Park

Plenty of fireworks in this 'phoney' war

Skirmishes among Ontario's political parties less than six months before an election are being called a phoney war, but don't tell that to Premier Dalton McGuinty. More...

Ports of entry

One enjoys talking to friends who are planning to visit for the first time places that are on one's own "been there, done that" list. Two such folk told me this week that they were soon heading, but not together, for Halifax, N.S. and New York, N.Y. More...

Heart to Heart

Listening

This guy comes up to the counter to rent a DVD called "Squirrels Go Wild." It's a 60 minute loop of squirrels jumping through trees, dashing along fences, chomping on acorns in open fields. More...

Christian Perspectives

Symbols make statements

Over the past years there has been a disturbing amount in the media about religious symbols, disturbing for its negativity. It's good to see religion in the news, but... More...