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June 26, 2008 / Columns

Music matters!

With Your Permission

Constance Scrafield- Danby

Let's see now: there has been the Dufferin Youth Festival of the Arts, in which 17 schools from across the Dufferin County and beyond participated - not at all as a competition, but just for art's sake. More...

Dion has 'guaranteed' his own demise

National Affairs

Claire Hoy

Has Liberal Leader Stephane Dion been missing the news lately? Did he miss the story last week about Magna International permanently laying off about 400 workers, or 25 per cent of its workforce at Formet Industries in St. More...

New Democrats can't shed 'loser' image

Queen's Park

Eric Dowd

Ontario's New Democratic Party has set some sort of world record for losing elections and the road is not getting any easier. More...

Listen to your broccoli

Basic Black

Arthur Black

All big cities have their seamy underside and Toronto the Good is no different. The selfdesignated Centre of the Universe has its share of shysters, grifters, hooligans, hoodlums, gunsels and run of the mill, garden variety thieves. More...

Unemployed horse thief from New York State sentenced to three years

Dipping Into the Past

100 YEARS AGO Thursday, June 25, 1908 • A horse and buggy worth nearly $300, belonging to Allen Macdougall, of Hillsburgh, was stolen from the shed of the Alexandra Hotel in Orangeville Saturday. More...

Red & white

Angles 'n' Attitudes

William Bothwell

The Red & White stores were independently owned food stores in the days before the supermarket chains. As a youngster I got my first job in one of them at the corner of Bloor and Hallam Streets in T.O. More...

And the debate goes on

From the Global Classroom

Doug Skeates

Iget a great deal of satisfaction out of watching "The Debate". Steve Paiken's "Agenda" on TVO is always thought-provoking and informative. More...

The message of forgiveness

Christian Perspectives

Jim Rintoul

An important message in scripture is one of forgiveness. Many know and can recite the Lords prayer. There is one line that says "forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us". More...