February 21, 2008 RSS feed / Columns

About time

"Could you tell me the right time?" asked the woman at the next table in the coffee shop. Her question posed others. The right time? Did she think that I might deliberately give her the wrong time? Did my watch, in fact, tell the right time? More...

Segal a poor choice for Tories' retreat

Progressive Conservative MPPs in Ontario who have been given a refresher course on how to be true Conservatives clearly are short of role models. Leader John Tory, whose position is in question after he lost the Oct. More...

What is a Canadian?

Iwas surprised to receive an email chain letter which reported that someone in Pakistan had advertised in a newspaper a reward to anyone who killed a Canadian - any Canadian. More...

All the world's a stage

My love of theatre was probably cemented when my mother took me to the then O'Keefe Centre in Toronto to see Richard Burton play Hamlet. The experience was unforgettable. More...

Dipping Into the Past

Snowstorm stranded passenger train near Melancthon Station

100 YEARS AGO Thursday, February 20, 1908 • Weather got at its tricks again last weekend. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday it was snow. Saturday the inevitable freeze and snow storm came along. Trees suffered. More...

'Precious few concrete examples' given

It was former Canadian prime minister William Lyon MacKenzie who said: "The promises of yesterday are the taxes of today." Which brings us, of course, to the current spat between the federal Conservatives and Liberals about just how much Liberal Le More...

Taking it Seriously

The greatest frustration in the ongoing dialogue about environmental deterioration is convincing society (especially government) that this is for real! A'normal' disaster, be it hurricane, earthquake, assassination or plane crash, is news. More...