April 10, 2008 RSS feed / Columns

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Christian Perspectives

This moment
Rev. Barbara Moulton
As I write this column, it would appear that spring has finally arrived. The snow is gradually disappearing from our lawn, robins have been sighted and in some garden spots, bulbs have sprouted. Spring, according to E.E. More...

National Affairs

Youthful transgressions be forgiven?
Claire Hoy

Alright, hands up to any reader who has never said or done anything stupid and inappropriate in his or her life. Unless you're on a direct track to sainthood - or you're a bald-faced liar - obviously you didn't raise your hands. None of us could. More...

Basic Black

Good news is no news
Arthur Black

This is an embarrassing admission to make in the pages of a newspaper, but...I don't much follow the news anymore. Well, correction: I don't much follow the electronic news - i.e. radio, TV. I still dip my beak into the newspaper every day. More...

From the Global Classroom

Forestry role in Community Fun[d]raising
Doug Skeates

My history as a fundraiser goes back a long, long way. I don't think it was a curriculum item in public school, but a form of torture that teachers felt necessary to inflict upon students. More...

Royal Canadian Legion News

BY EDWARD KELLY Branch 233, Orangeville

On Friday April 11th, The Friday Night Dinner selection will be Meat Pies prepared by Tom Deans and will be served from 5 till 7 p.m. The entertainment for the evening will be supplied by Jean Legendre from 6 till 10 p.m. More...

In my Opinion

Media innovators and predators
Wes Keller

I seldom listen to radio, and just about as often watch "the boob tube," although I do watch sports during playoffs or the critical games preceding them - with the exception of soccer, which seems to me a game of brain-scrambling. More...

Queen's Park

McGuinty getting an unusually easy ride
Eric Dowd

Unusual circumstances are combining to give Premier Dalton McGuinty the most comfortable ride of any Ontario premier in three decades. Sometimes he must feel that he is running the province from the back seat of a Rolls Royce. More...

Angles 'n' Attitudes

Old magazines

William Bothwell This reader, writer and keeper of many files has a problem. Call it magazine retention. Back copies of periodicals are piled (neatly) on shelves, held in upright containers and scattered about in drawers and under end tables. More...

Dipping Into the Past

Shelburne dealer admits to breach of federal seed law

100 YEARS AGO Thursday, April 8, 1933 • The first prosecution under the Seed Control Act in this area took place Wednesday of last week. T. G. More...