July 10, 2008 RSS feed / Columns

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Would Earth make a good tourist spot?

With Your Permission
Constance Scrafield- Danby
With the summer's happy arrival, inevitably we will all be tourists whether we travel near or far. When I lived in London, UK, I enjoyed touring friends and family coming to the old town for the first time. More...

Should we be honouring Morgentaler?

National Affairs
Claire Hoy

The Order of Canada, we're told, is to celebrate all that is good about Canadians. That is why, of course, when former hockey czar Alan Eagleson was convicted of abusing his privileges as head of the NHL players association, his medal was revoked. More...

Going back to the beginning

From the Global Classroom
Doug Skeates

When playing games as youngsters, one play we always tried to avoid was 'go back to the beginning'. The 'chance card' in Monopoly, 'Go to Jail, do not pass go; do not collect $100', was one card we dreaded. More...

Anniversary Celebrations

Christian Perspectives
Bob McLellan

This summer is filled with anniversaries, many of them very special this year. My parents will be celebrating their 60th wedding anniversary in the middle of July. My own wedding anniversary is in August. It certainly cannot be 37 years already. More...

'Flying machines are bound to come,' said local columnist

Dipping Into the Past

100 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 9, 1908 • Says The Economist, in its CHAT column: "The flying machines are bound to come." The article quotes the Buffalo Express as advising readers that Glenn H. Curtiss of Hammondsport, N.Y. More...

Gleanings

Angles 'n' Attitudes
William Bothwell

The verb 'to glean' means to gather or to pick up in small quantities. It has an agricultural use in the compassionate biblical law, "Do not reap the edges of a grain field. Leave them to be gleaned by the poor and the wayfarer". More...

Why best candidate's not in the NDP race

Queen's Park
Eric Dowd

Why isn't the most articulate, fearless, colourful, and sometimes most effective, member of the legislature running for the vacant leadership of the New Democratic Party? More...

The sounds of silence

Basic Black
Arthur Black

It is very hard to find silence on this planet. I came close twice - once when I was several thousand feet under the earth in a hardrock mine in northwestern Ontario. More...