April 3, 2008 RSS feed / Columns

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National Affairs

Dion 'constantly troubled by doubt'
Claire Hoy
In his best-selling book, Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden wrote that, "A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory." Obviously, Golden wouldn't have any idea who Liberal Leader Stephane Dion is, but the thought is eerily desc More...

Basic Black

No dumping
Arthur Black

So I'm sitting in this meeting one afternoon last week and it's not too bad, as meetings go. More...

From the Global Classroom

Why has it taken us so long?
Doug Skeates

On a trip to Australia to attend a niece's wedding, Anne and our oldest son were surprised to note the high proportion of homes with roof-top solar panels. More...

Mesa reflects other journeys

By CONSTANCE SCRAFIELD-DANBY Columnist

If you read the small print on a $20 bill you will find a quote from Gabriel Roy, saying, "Could we ever know each other in the slightest without the arts? More...

Royal Canadian Legion News

BY EDWARD KELLY Branch 233, Orangeville

The Cenotaph was removed for restoration On Wednesday April 2nd by Smith Monuments of Toronto. Branches 233 in Co-Operation with the Town of Orangeville and Mayor Rob Adams have been working diligently on this project. More...

With Your Permission

Potpourri to save the world
Constance Scrafield- Danby

Stephen Harper has the answer to the environmental crisis - potpourri. It was his wife's idea, really. She came into Stephen's favourite living room on Sussex Drive one day to discover that the dog had "made a mistake". More...

Queen's Park

Racism is still raising its ugly head
Eric Dowd

Racism in Ontario, which many believe is declining, is hanging in tenaciously, even finding new targets, and Ontario's Liberal government is not doing all it can to counter it. More...

Angles 'n' Attitudes

Now April's here
William Bothwell

"April is the cruellest month", said T.S. Eliot in The Waste Land (1922). In that poem he depicted, says Karen Armstrong in A Short History of Myth (2005) the spiritual disintegration of Western culture. More...

Dipping Into the Past

Temperance people chose R. J. Woods as their candidate

100 YEARS AGO Thursday, April 2, 1908 • The roads were bad - very bad - and notice of the meeting was rather insufficient. More...

Christian Perspectives

God's grace is so amazing
Rev. Edward Bellsmith

Last week I had an opportunity to have coffee with a men's study group. The speaker was Wendy Gritter. She is the director of a Canadian organization called New Direction. More...