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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 ... 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. For boys, the big names were Jacob, Michael, Ethan, Joshua, Daniel, Christopher, Anthony, William, Matthew and Andrew. More ... 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 that legend claimed never dies. More ... There are arguably more thankless tasks in Canadian politics than leading the provincial NDP in Ontario. But not many more. How about NDP leader in Alberta or a provincial Tory leader in Quebec (if only they had such a thing), or for that matter, NDP chief in Prince Edward Island? More ... 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 ... 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. This took me back to Muguga, a community where Anne and I had lived for 4 years in the '60s. The community was 15 miles out of Nairobi along the Nakuru / Uganda highway. More ... 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? Junkyard dog. More ... |
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