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October 16, 2008 / Columns

100 years later, it seemingly can't be done

Random Reflections

Tom Claridge

There's been a lot of progress in the last 100 years, and with all the technological advances you might think the job of a journalist today has been made a lot easier by things like the computer and the Internet. More...

Everybody lost this time around

National Affairs

Claire Hoy

Everybody lost. Prime Minister Stephen Harper gained nearly 20 seats, but not his majority. Liberal Leader Stephane Dion lost about 20 seats and likely lost his leadership to boot. More...

Eggs in one basket

From the Global Classroom

Doug Skeates

This is written while we're in the heat of an election campaign. The process appears to have new parameters. Five parties competing is more like European politics than the 'normal' British or American formats of two party systems. More...

What makes joy complete?

Christian Perspectives

Rev. Barbara Moulton

The other day I was driving along County Road 3, listening to a CD that I had made for my husband. The CD held fifteen different pieces of classical music. More...

Conservative MP wanted government to own public utilities

Dipping Into the Past

100 YEARS AGO Thursday, October 15, 1908 • In an open letter published by Shelburne's two newspapers, Conservative MP John Barr advised electors that he was "again making my appeal to you for your support" in the federal election to be he More...

Poetry in Canada

Angles 'n' Attitudes

William Bothwell

Ashy young man aged 22 taught at Orangeville High School in 1883. He is now in the pantheon of Canadian poets. His name was Archibald Lampman. Until recently Canadian writers, poets in particular, have not commanded world-wide attention. More...

Too many university students are hooligans

Queen's Park

Eric Dowd

When will an Ontario politician pluck up the courage to stand in the legislature and say many of today's university students are a bunch of hooligans? The evidence is clear. More...

The Dexter: Too cute to kill

Basic Black

Arthur Black

Anybody remember the shmoo? It was a critter dreamed up by Al Capp, the cartoonist who created the L'il Abner strip half a century ago, give or take. More...