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July 3, 2008 / Columns

What's in a name?

Meagre Musings

Dan Pelton

A list has been released that shows what the most popular names for babies among English-speaking North Americans in 2007. For girls, the top 10 list consists of Emily, Isabella, Emma, Ava, Madison, Sophia, Olivia, Abigail, Hannah and Elizabeth. More...

A more thankless task in politics?

National Affairs

Claire Hoy

There are arguably more thankless tasks in Canadian politics than leading the provincial NDP in Ontario. But not many more. More...

Coping with change

From the Global Classroom

Doug Skeates

Some changes come as a real shock and are really hard to accept! I had an opportunity to participate in a project evaluation in East Africa a few years ago. More...

We need only to trust him

Christian Perspectives

Rev. Mary Ranger

Don't know why there's no sun up in the sky. Stormy weather. Just can't get my poor self together. Keeps raining all the time! Some of you folks will recognize those words from a song of years gone by. More...

Good old summertime

Angles 'n' Attitudes

William Bothwell

As summer settles over the farms, towns and villages of Mono and Amaranth townships, one remembers that their respective names came from the Gaelic word 'monadh' meaning 'hilly' and from the "immortal amaranth" (John Milton's phrase), a wildflower More...

McGuinty's plane flight may help image

Queen's Park

Eric Dowd

Dalton McGuinty did not arrange for a plane he was on to get in trouble and plunge frighteningly 20,000 ft toward ground, but it could still do wonders for his image. More...

A horse is a horse, of course, of course

Basic Black

Arthur Black

Do you have an Inner Animal? Of course you do - we all do. Sometimes it's just a little tricky to figure out which animal it is. Pierre Trudeau was a slam dunk - a Siamese cat. Or perhaps a wolf. Paul Martin was more of a beagle. Don Cherry? More...