April 2, 2009 RSS feed / Columns

Queen's Park

PC leadership-race rules exclude outsiders

Ontario's Progressive Conservatives are starting a leadership race that they will keep so exclusive it could cost them a potential winner. More...

Dipping Into the Past

High constables called for the creation of a provincial police force

100 YEARS AGO Thursday, April 1, 1909 • A meeting of high constables was held in Toronto's city hall last week for the purpose of discussing the matter of improving the rural constabulary system in Ontario. More...

Royal Canadian Legion News

Watch for our lineup of events - Don't miss out! Friday, April 3rd will be Meat Loaf Dinner from 5pm - 7pm. Entertainment by "J&D" Country Band. Members and Guests Welcome! More...

Angles 'n' Attitudes

'Spring will be a little late this year'

Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan and Carly Simon each sang that. Celine Dion has probably recorded it. Bubl_ will surely get around to it. Living up here at somewhere close to 500 metres above sea level we expect it to be the case annually. More...

National Affairs

Does wind power generation really make sense?

For decades now, one of the most common depictions in cartoons has been the hapless lost soul lugging around a placard declaring that "The End Is Near. More...

From the Global Classroom

Momentous Personal Change

Most people are able to pinpoint a special time/event having a major impact on their lives. For us it was 1963. More...

Christian Perspectives

What is a Christian to do?

In February, I had the privilege of leading a team of youth on a Project Serve trip to Haiti. It was a construction trip, laying tile and painting in a new seminary dorm. More...

Serena Ryder is coming to party

On her first bus tour, as such, Serena Ryder is looking forward to coming to Orangeville. She has been on tour before, of course, but this is the first time she is travelling with her band by bus. More...