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More than a few Orangeville residents must have done a double take last Saturday, at the sight of a passenger train making its way through town to and from the north end of the Orangeville Brampton Railway (OBRY) line. More ... 125 YEARS AGO Thursday, November 8, 1883 • A meeting concerning the proposed Cascadilla Railway was held in the Horning's Mills Town Hall on Monday last. Notwithstanding the very unfavourable weather a very large number were present, James Huxtable in the chair. More ... "Stuff happens". It also gets written and published. Occasionally readers express appreciation of what appears on this OpEd page. We all enjoy the page 10 letters to the editor (unless they make the same dogmatic points repeatedly). Those who write them are the paper's occasional visitors. We page 11 regulars are more like resident houseguests. More ... Education is a very broad term covering a myriad of lessons and experiences. After formal courses in the Faculty of Forestry, U of T, and working and living in my profession in Canada and third world countries of Asia, Africa, Central and South America, I was given a basic course in Forestry which helped pull it all together. More ... Besides the certainty of both death and taxes, there is always carping about the weather. And the inevitable post-election debate over changing our electoral system. With the federal election just over, the papers are full of hand-wringing articles arguing that our firstpast the-post system is broken. More ... Premier Dalton McGuinty will go a long way for his province, but he may have gone a bit too far. The Liberal premier has been to more countries than any previous premier, visiting China (three times), Japan, India, Pakistan, Britain, Italy, Switzerland, the United States and Mexico, some of them places premiers have not trodden before. More ... There are more strange things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamed of in your philosophy. Indeed there are, Hamlet my son. New Brunswick's Reversing Falls and the existence of Sarah Palin as an elected politician spring to mind. But worldly weirdness is not limited to Moncton and Wasilla, Alaska. We also have John From and Cargo Cults. More ... What makes a good "bathroom book"? When a person is commissioned to write such a book, what are his/her thoughts about suitable subject matter? Well, one would hope for humour, even whimsy, and perhaps, bits and pieces designed for satisfying reading within (usually) short time slots. More ... |
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