September 20, 2007 RSS feed / Columns

Heart to Heart

Reunion

The Sun smiled warmly on the cluster of musicians, surrounded by a circle of excited spectators tapping their toes to a breakneck rendition of "Rollin' in My Sweet Baby's Arms". More...

Gordon Kirkland At Large

TV's Not Ready For All Of Me

As I told you last week, I spent the Labor Day weekend locked in a large bookstore with eleven other writers, under the watchful eyes of cameramen and television production people. More...

Senior Spotlight September

This month the Senior Spotlight is being aimed squarely at the debilitating disease that is Osteoporosis. In Canada, approximately one out of four women and one out of eight men over the age of 50 have osteoporosis. More...

Royal Canadian Legion News

Legion Week is well underway and all are reminded that they are welcome to drop by the Branch to learn more about our organization. We also have a display at the Orangeville mall until Friday. More...

National Affairs

Funding not fair then, not fair now

For those who take comfort in the Biblicallybased notion that all things happen in threes, they will be gratified to know that we are now witnessing the third time in modern history that the issue of funding faith-based schools has become a major e More...

Queen's Park

Platforms similar, but far from identical

Many voters are saying that there are so few differences in policies between the two main parties in Ontario's Oct. 10 election they are having difficulty choosing between them - but they should look a little closer. More...

Angles 'n' Attitudes

At the theatre

Iline up at the box office hoping to get a good last minute seat. It is a bright sunny day, the kind I always choose for a drive down through Dorking, Hesson, Millbank. Poole and Gadshill to Stratford. More...

Dipping Into the Past

Coroner's jury blamed crew members, CPR for Horseshoe wreck

100 YEARS AGO Thursday, September 19, 1907 • The coroner's jury into the death of Richard Bell of Shrigley, a victim of the Caledon railway disaster, has returned a verdict that the wreck "was caused by the criminal negligence" of enginee More...

Christian Perspectives

Legion Week

On the corner of William Street and First Avenue stands the Royal Canadian Legion with its new roof glistening in the sunshine. Gathered around the flag pole stands a dozen men and women in Legion jackets with medals jingling in the cool breeze. More...