January 15, 2009 RSS feed / Columns

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With Your Permission

Happy New Year - now pull on those boot straps!
Constance Scrafield- Danby
Every year a dozen or so students attending Robert F. Hall Catholic Secondary School are escorted for 10 days to Nicaragua. More...

Queen's Park

Brotherly love missing in leadership race
Eric Dowd

There is another debate on leadership going on in Ontario and it is nowhere as dull as some make out. More...

Basic Black

Addicted to dictionaries

Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. Samuel Johnson I've got at least seven dictionaries scattered around my house. More...

Angles 'n' Attitudes

The 'Other Place'
William Bothwell

Back in the last century this scribe completed a degree in Political Science and Economics. One of the professors was R. MacGregor Dawson, author of The Unreformed Senate of Canada. More...

Facing the challenges

In November 2000 I was excited to be on a life changing trip "half way 'round the world" observing a culture unlike anything I had previously seen during my very limited travel experience. More...

Royal Canadian Legion News

BY MARILYN MURRAY Branch 233, Orangeville

Join us for our Weekly Saturday Darts on Saturday, January 17, 2009; cost will be $4 per person. Call the branch for more details. Come and join us on Saturday, January 17, 09 for our Karaoke night by Shawn Lundy from 9 p.m. - 1 a.m. More...

National Affairs

An acceptance of reality needed
Claire Hoy

Hypocrisy, wrote the late American writer Ambrose Bierce, is "prejudice with a halo." Which pretty well sums up most of the more outspoken attacks against Israel these days for the apparently heinous crime of defending itself against an unending se More...

From the Global Classroom

The need for checks and balances
Doug Skeates

I'm an addict!! Each morning I turn to the editorial page of the Globe and Mail to see what Canadians are thinking relative to the current state of affairs. (I must admit that the headlines, the bridge problem and the crossword take precedence). More...

Dipping Into the Past

Edison predicted his lights would be cheaper than gas

125 YEARS AGO Thursday, January 17, 1884 • Edison, at least, has no doubts as to the future of the electric light. More...