August 7, 2008 RSS feed / Columns

A harmful and ridiculous concept

National Affairs

Here's a concept: Your closest friend is a raging alcoholic. He/she can't hold a job, can't look after his family, can't really look after himself, and has only one real - and constant - interest; i.e. where does the next drink come from. More...

Ten Percent Solutions

From the Global Classroom

The key to successful energy alternatives was published a decade ago. Schumaker, 1999, introduced a philosophy almost unheard of before his day, 'Small is Beautiful'. More...

The very real power of prayer

Christian Perspectives

Part of my summer reading has been a book by Lynne McTaggart, called, The Intention Experiment. Ms McTaggart makes no claim of being a religious person. She is, in fact, an investigative reporter by profession. Nor is her book a book of faith. More...

CPR offered $10 fare to Prairie provinces for farm labourers

Dipping Into the Past

100 YEARS AGO Thursday, August 6, 1908 • To meet as far as possible the unusual demand for farm labourers in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, the Canadian Pacific Railway will run special secondclass excursions from all Ontario station More...

Guiding lights

Angles 'n' Attitudes

Astronaut Edgar Mitchell took the second longest walk on the moon, after Alan Shepard. He has two Bachelor of Science degrees and a doctorate in aeronautics from MIT. He said recently in an interview in the U.K. More...

Debate needed on funding religious schools

Queen's Park

A candidate to succeed Howard Hampton as Ontario New Democratic Party leader says he is willing to re-visit the issue of funding religious schools that enabled the Liberals to crush the opposition parties in the October 2007 election, and he is doi More...

Warning: Illegal furniture

Basic Black

The bench appeared right in the middle of town, overnight and seemingly out of nowhere. You knew right away that it wasn't a governmentapproved project because...well, for one thing it DID appear overnight. More...