February 28, 2008 RSS feed / Mailbox

Ethical and moral principals are changing

For a long time, ethical and moral principles have not played a significant role in politics which has become the difficult art of combining economic efficiency and social justice. This seems to be changing. "Management" democracy is not enough . More...

Blood test concerns

Re: Blood tests for Seniors at Dufferin Oaks My mother, who is 89 and a resident of the Dufferin Oaks nursing facility, needed a blood test today (February 20) and I was told that I would have to take her to a lab outside of the building for the t More...

Editorial correct

Your editorial attacking Mono's attempt to seize private land in order to "attenuate" leachate is correct. Eventually that leachate will seep through the escarpment's permeable rock and enter the groundwater serving Mono's wells. More...

Compromise instead of cutthroat politics

Amid the unpalatable jockeying being performed by federal politicians these days, in particular by the Grits and the Tories,one thing is obvious: What the ruckus, the mudslinging, the promises, the threats and all the rest of what passes for ration More...

Solutions needed for preventing unlicenced drivers

We see so many stories about drivers without a licence or drivers with a suspended licence getting into crashes, often fatal. More...

Dipping Into the Past

More snow, more blockades for CPR passenger trains

100 YEARS AGO Thursday, February 27, 1908 • On Wednesday of last week another blockade commenced on the Owen Sound branch of the CPR. The morning train south did not reach Shelburne until 2 p.m. and there was no train north on that day. More...