May 24, 2007 RSS feed / Columns

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In my Opinion

Price spikes: is there a gas culprit?
Wes Keller
When an Orangeville cab driver saw pump prices at the local 7-Eleven jump five cents a litre late last Thursday night, his first thought might have been that he should have glanced at the calendar as he drove past the pumps earlier that evening. More...

Queen's Park

PCs now getting some interesting ideas
Eric Dowd

People have written Pulitzer Prize-winning novels in less time than it is taking Ontario's Progressive Conservatives to jot down a synopsis of policies on which they will fight the October 10 election, but they are finally getting some interesting More...

Gordon Kirkland At Large

Does A Columnist Poop In The Woods? … Almost

When I was a child there was a radio program that came on during the lunch hour featuring stories and songs for young children. The theme music for the show was The Teddy Bears' Picnic. More...

Christian Perspectives

The Cross
Rev. Gord Horsley

Recently there have been a couple of articles in the paper about a cross in a park. Some people were having a great deal of trouble with the fact they think it is a sign of death and destruction. More...

National Affairs

Senior judges are not beyond politics
Claire Hoy

Some 25 years ago, when Ontario's soon-to-beretired Chief Justice Roy McMurtry was Ontario's attorney-general, his first public reaction to then prime minister Pierre Trudeau's Charter of Rights and Freedoms suggestion was harsh. More...

Angles 'n' Attitudes

Books and pictures
William Bothwell

The ways in which service clubs raise money for their community projects is a topic for research. It would be interesting to know what the ten most successful approaches to the public have been. More...

Heart to Heart

The Secret
Eric Nagler eric@ericnagler.com

I have a friend who immersed himself in the power of thought and belief. Over the years I've witnessed his drift from creed to creed, gospel to gospel. More...

Dipping Into the Past

Report on building sewer system sought by Shelburne Council

100 YEARS AGO Thursday, May 23, 1907 + Shelburne Council has instructed a Toronto firm of civil and electrical engineers "to look over the village and get up maps and plans and report to this council for a system of sewage for as much of the wh More...