January 8, 2009 RSS feed / Columns

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ALZHEIMERS MONTH: January has been proclaimed Alzheimers Awareness month in Orangeville. On hand for the proclamation were Mayor Rob Adams, Dufferin Alzheimers Society education co-ordinator Ann Bogue and family support worker Susan Stewart. More...

Random Reflections

Time to close a yawning gap
Tom Claridge

An article in the business section of Monday's Toronto Star got me to thinking about Bombardier Inc. as offering the solution to a long-standing problem in rail passenger service beyond the so-called Windsor-Quebec corridor. More...

Queen's Park

Senate appointments a snub to Ontario PCs
Eric Dowd

How much humiliation can a political party take? More...

Angles 'n' Attitudes

The '09 years
William Bothwell

This space looks back each January at similarly dated years in other centuries. A century ago some people called that year '19-oh-9'. Others called it '19-and-9' or '19-9'. Few now say either '20- oh-9'or '20-9'. More...

Dipping Into the Past

Man's frozen body found lying in snow south of Shelburne

125 YEARS AGO Thursday, January 10, 1884 • On Sunday morning last, as Thomas Torrance Jr. More...

Royal Canadian Legion News

BY MARILYN MURRAY Branch 233, Orangeville

January 9, 2009 we will be having our Friday Night Dinner, "Meat Loaf Surprise", from 5 p.m. - 7 p.m. with entertainment from 6 p.m. - 10 p.m. by Jim Mullikow. Come and enjoy a fine meal and a great time. More...

Youths arrested in break-ins

Orangeville police have charged three area youths in connection with several vehicle break-ins last Saturday. Police who received a complaint from a victim on Jackson Court at 11:15 p.m. located three males in the Amelia St. - Elizabeth St. More...

National Affairs

'A complete - and deliberate - lie'
Claire Hoy

The worm, we hope, may be turning slightly. For years, fuelled by a combination of wellfinanced feminists, friendly media, and cowardly politicians, the one major Canadian issue which dare not speak its' name has been abortion. More...

Basic Black

How to stirrup the art world
Arthur Black

Emerging artist alert: have you seen the paintings of Cholla? Abstracts, primarily. Watercolours for the most part. Stunning. I'm no expert on the visual arts, but it seems to me Cholla's canvases positively resonate with glimmers of A.Y. More...

From the Global Classroom

Everything's different, everything's the same
Doug Skeates

One of the joys of age is looking back. What we see around us is a reminder of what's gone on before. What we see is an evolution from past years. More...