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July 24, 2008 / Columns

'Shantytown' opened eyes

Christian Perspectives

Ann McCallum

Monday night I did something I've never done before - I slept in a cardboard box. As part of a Project Serve initiative to help our drop-in centre (unchurched) youth better understand issues of poverty and homelessness, More...

Expert began drilling for oil and natural gas on Melancthon farm

Dipping Into the Past

00 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 23, 1908 • Eugene Coste, one of the foremost Canadian oil and gas experts, has started a drilling outfit on a farm in Melancthon township owned by Samuel McCutcheon of Shelburne. More...

Apparently, there's more work to do

National Affairs

Claire Hoy

The wonderful thing about statistics is that they can prove anything. And everything. Pick your poison. Chose your statistics. And presto, you've got an ironclad case to support whatever it is you want to support. More...

Time and the Perception of Time

From the Global Classroom

Doug Skeates

Time bites on T.V. annoy me. Who calculates the time needed for reading the written subscripts in programs? More...

A great day trip: Chinatown and Kensington Market

By CONSTANCE SCRAFIELD-DANBY Columnist

It may be said of Kensington Market and Chinatown, in and around the Spadina Avenue area of Toronto, that the region is the soul of Toronto. Spadina Avenue was always the road with the fewest traffic rules, or so it seemed. More...

Love the roots you grow from

With Your Permission

Constance Scrafield- Danby

We all have ancestors. No matter for how many generations our families have lived in this country, it could be said that we were all immigrants at some (distant or near) past. More...

Those old songs

Angles 'n' Attitudes

William Bothwell

Visits to friends on Lakes Simcoe and Huron and in Muskoka bring memories of people who built cottages there in the 1920s when gasoline sold for 18 cents a gallon. An imperial gallon was 4.55 litres. More...

Bragging could come back to haunt him

Queen's Park

Eric Dowd

Premier Dalton McGuinty suddenly is sounding cocky and it will hurt him. More...

How much is that in water?

Basic Black

Arthur Black

I was watching Craig Ferguson, the ex-pat Scots comic-turned-unabashed-American-flagwaver as he gently dissed Canada on the tube the other night. "To me," said Ferguson, "Canada is not the party. Canada is the apartment above the party. More...