June 19, 2008 RSS feed / Columns

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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?

Christian Perspectives
Rev. Susan Wilson
When was the last time you were at a great feast? Was it a wedding? We seem to do wedding meals very well. They are always grand events with food aplenty, drinks overflowing, sweets and treats to dazzle our taste buds (and challenge our workouts). More...

What's in a name?

Angles 'n' Attitudes
William Bothwell

Juliet Capulet's classic window to-orchard discussion with Romeo Montague about the relevance of a name is familiar. "'Tis but thy name that is my enemy; thou art thyself …. . . .What's in a name? . . . More...

McGuinty facing some clouds on horizon

Queen's Park
Eric Dowd

Premier Dalton McGuinty was breezing along without a care in the world, but now has a few that could keep him awake nights. More...

No moss on these stones

Basic Black
Arthur Black

No disrespect intended to a Canadian idol and with all due deference to the musical tastes of my home and native land, but... ...was there ever a musician so incongruously misnomered as Feist? More...

Our sports fans are being short-changed

Random Reflections
Tom Claridge

Far too often do we hear hockey oldtimers berating the National Hockey League's addiction to expansion and suggesting the league's glory days were those of the "original six" (Toronto, Montreal, Boston, New York, Detroit and Chicago). More...

Parachute jump from balloon among features of July 1 celebration

Dipping Into the Past

100 YEARS AGO Thursday, June 18, 1908 • A big Dominion Day celebration at Orangeville on July 1 will see Captain Callaghan make his thrilling balloon ascension and parachute drop, and Prince Stanley, King of the HighWire in his startling More...

Campbell backing the wrong horse

National Affairs
Claire Hoy

Larry Campbell has always been good at publicizing himself. More...

Wind-power

From the Global Classroom
Doug Skeates

"The pen is mightier than the sword." How many times have I been warned that words have power? When I first contemplated the above subject, the immediate wind power that came to mind was the title of Jeffery Simpson's book "Hot Air". More...