June 4, 2009 RSS feed / Columns

Some trees known and loved

The poet Joyce Kilmer, like Evelyn Waugh the novelist, was a man despite his given name. In each case they were ancestral family surnames. The best known of his 'bad' (i.e. sentimental) but popular (i.e. More...

Feeding nine billion people

Afeature in the National Geographic is aptly named "The End of Plenty". (The Global Food Crisis, June 2009). Much has been written about global warming which is in lock-step with a rapidly increasing population. More...

Plenty of precedents for Bryant's departure

Apolitical party has room for only one leader, and those in Ontario politics who refused to accept this fact usually have had their political careers cut brutally short. More...

Shopping at home still popular, for good reason

It is a leap of faith, on any terms, to go into business for yourself. Nowadays, of course, more and more people are doing so - from necessity. More...

Royal Canadian Legion News

Watch for our lineup of events - Don't miss out! Our Barrier Free Access Campaign is ongoing and the Barrier Free Access Committee wishes to thank the Scotia bank for their contribution to this worthwhile program. More...

Reflections on the battlefields tour

It was a whirlwind tour of World War I and II. More...

A double standard even by political practices

Reality check. The U.S. deficit represents 13.6 per cent of that country's gross domestic product (GDP); Japan's deficit, 9.9; Britain,9.8; France, 6.2; and Germany, 4.7 per cent. More...

Local mother, daughter were removed to insane asylum in Hamilton

Dipping Into the Past

125 YEARS AGO Thursday, June 5, 1909 • While a lad was spearing for fish in the pond at Orangeville, his spear brought up two empty cash bags. More...