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The Reverend Susan D. Wilson I was listening to CBC radio recently as I drove to a parish visit and I heard the interviewer say to his guest, "Silence is obsolete." I suppose the fact that I was driving alone in my car listening to the radio proves his point. More ... Once there was a big, ugly giant, named Giant. He was so big and so ugly that he ate everybody's share of everything. In return for taking almost everything they had, he gave them his ugly little paintings. More ... 125 YEARS AGO Thursday, October 21, 1883 • A public meeting was held in the town hall at Horning's Mills last Wednesday to devise some scheme by which a railway (the Cascadilla Railway) might be built through the area. Mr. More ... The planet Mars has fascinated earthlings since our remote ancestors thought they saw blood on it. The three most important things they saw in the sky were the sun, the moon and the red planet. They called the first three days of the week Sunday, Moonday and Marsday (still 'mardi' in French). More ... Tough business, politics. You win in glorious splendor; you lose in brutal ignomy; and either way, it's right out there for the entire world to see. But then again, nobody holds a gun to their heads. More ... Dalton McGuinty is being suggested as next leader of the federal Liberal party particularly on the ground has no baggage, but he would need Joe the Mover to help him switch jobs. More ... Idon't ask much from life. I don't expect the stretch limos, flotillas of groupies, or a wallet full of thousand dollar bills to light my Cohiba panatelas. I have no interest in becoming Lord Black of the Millpond, a guest on the Tonight Show or of winning that Lottery for Life - a red velvet bunk in the Canadian Senate. More ... The 2008 election campaign is over. Post chaos analyses continue with journalists quick to point out who lost (and occasionally feeble attempts to identify who won.) They all missed the boat!! The Canadian people lost!. The first obvious loss was $300 million spent in an election to achieve so little. More ... |
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