June 18, 2009 RSS feed / Columns

From Greenland's icy mountains

On the night between 14 and 15 April, 1912 the youngest passenger in 'Titanic', nine week old Elizabeth Gladys (later called Millvina) Dean, was lowered in a bag to a lifeboat. Her mother and older brother waited there. Her father was lost at sea. More...

Canadian language, an adaptation

We are not American. That doesn't make us anti-American, just different from our neighbours to the south. Canada is caught in the middle as we are not British either. More...

Bear trapped near Dundalk weighed nearly 300 pounds

Dipping Into the Past

125 YEARS AGO Thursday, June 19, 1884 • Mr. Charles McConnell trapped another bear near Dundalk on Sunday last, measuring 23 inches around the fore-leg and weighing 295 pounds. More...

Royal Canadian Legion News

Watch for our lineup of events - Don't miss out! Our Barrier Free Access Campaign is ongoing and we are still accepting donations. The Barrier Free Access Committee wishes to inform you that construction is coming along. More...

If I were a rich . . . person

Did you get your million dollar cheque yet? No? Neither did I. You may remember that I pressed for this some months ago, when it was clear that the economy was going to be pushed down the tube. More...

Talk about a double standard

Think about this for a moment: Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin's daughter Willow was born in 1995. President Barrack Obama's daughter Malia Anne was born in 1998. That's just three years between these two young girls. More...

Information may lead to new-style ghettoes

Premier Dalton McGuinty won an election two years ago by insisting children should not be educated in religious schools because they would become ghettoes — so why is he now pushing them into new types of ghettoes? More...