September 17, 2009 RSS feed / Columns

Angles 'n' Attitudes

Remembering some bygones

Some of us got talking the other day about bygones, things that either happened in or belonged to times past. It began with my mention of an old envelope that turned up in a file where I was looking for something else. More...

Queen's Park

Few choices as McGuinty's successor

The trials of Michael Bryant are forcing Ontario's ruling Liberals to take another look at who they will choose to succeed Premier Dalton McGuinty, and they can't feel encouraged by what they see. More...

Dipping Into the Past

'Unbearable' cesspool odour cited as need for sewage system in 1909

125 YEARS AGO Thursday, September 18, 1884 • St. Paul's Church, Shelburne, held its annual Harvest Home services in the church Sunday last. More...

Royal Canadian Legion News

On Saturday,September 19th join us for karaoke from 9pm to 1am with host Jill Phillips. More...

Random Reflections

Marking a 35th anniversary

AFEW WEEKS AGO, Keith Hunter somewhat apologetically asked whether I could be the speaker at the September 17 meeting of the Orangeville Rotary Club, at one point reminding me that my grandfather, T. K. More...

National Affairs

Ignatieff making a terrible blunder forcing the issue

It was Michael Ignatieff himself, writing in the New York Times Magazine in 2007 in an attempt to weasel out of his previous support for both the Iraq war and the use of torture, who said this about politics: "(a politician) must pretend to have em More...

From the Global Classroom

Hinterland Development

An interesting 'T.V.O' re-run on 'The Agenda' was a program on Sault Ste Marie which concentrated on so called 'resource' development in northern Ontario. The first comment is one of appreciation. More...