From the middle of August until mid-September has been called 'the silly season'. Nobody quite knows why. The word 'silly' did not originally mean "foolish'; it meant 'carefree', something like the Scottish 'sauncy' (French 'sans souci'). More...
Communications executive Paul Sweeney once quipped that "self-delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales." Which brings us, of course, to NDP Leader Jack Layton's absurd bravado at his wrap-up speech at the party's weekend conv More...
People tend to remember the old days as good, but praising Ontario's longest-serving premier of recent decades, William Davis, on his 80th birthday as if he was a Mother Theresa is a little too forgiving. More...
By CONSTANCE SCRAFIELD-DANBY Columnist
Robert J. (Bob) Burnside was raised on a farm in northwestern Amaranth and went to school in a one-room school house. More...
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