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Spring is here! I love springtime. I usually make the time for walks with my family in the countryside to enjoy the signs of spring. I find it so easy to praise God when I am surrounded by the majesty of His creation, and love to hike or drive through the hills in Hockley Valley, taking in that breathtaking view. More ... 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 ... It was a whirlwind tour of World War I and II. MFrom the time we boarded the tour bus at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris early on November 14, and headed northeast toward Belgium, we were regaled with the sights and stories of this much-embattled landscape. Within hours, we were crossing the Marne and the Canal du Nord. More ... 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. sentimental) poems began, "I think that I shall never see / A poem lovely as a tree". More ... 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 ... 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. So just how bad is Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's unwelcome news that Canada's deficit has flared to $50 billion? More ... 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. This has happened to Michael Bryant, who held several cabinet posts competently in a decade as an MPP and made no secret that he wanted to succeed Dalton McGuinty as premier, and the sooner the better. More ... 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. They were identified as the bags containing some $350 that had been stolen from the railway baggage car last fall while on their way to the C.P.R. treasury department in Toronto. More ... 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. Independence brings its own demands, such as considerable self discipline, focus and a determination to succeed. More ... |
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