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December 23, 2009 / Columns

With Your Permission

A little truth and sincerity

Constance Scrafield- Danby

If all the world’s a stage and we must find our places upon it, how do we leave off play acting and find the moments of truth and of sincerity? More...

From the Global Classroom

Whatever became of the ‘Commons’?

Doug Skeates

Once upon a time, long after the world was created, a strange creature emerged. Mankind arrived on earth at a time when there was plenty of fertile land providing sustenance and habitation. The land could produce the food needed. More...

Dipping Into the Past

Mulmur’s John Best became Dufferin’s MP in 1909 acclamation

125 YEARS AGO Thursday, December25, 1884 More...

Angles ’n’ Attitudes

The Christmas sun rises again

William Bothwell

Not everyone remembers the fictional Mrs Miniver, the creation of Jan Struther. She was the busy, common sense, omni-observant wife of Clem, an architect, and the mother of Vin, Judy and Toby. More...

National Affairs

It will always be ‘Merry Christmas’ to me

Claire Hoy

There I was, as happens every year, checking out the latest batch of “Christmas” greeting cards that came in the mail to see how many actually dared use the word “Christmas.” Precious few, as usual. More...

Queen’s Park

’Tis the season for MPPs to wax poetic

Eric Dowd

Ontario MPPs at this time of year traditionally inflict some of the world’s worst poetry on the legislature, but they now have added a way to help rescue this neglected literary form. More...

Christian Perspectives

Christmas reflects universal longings

Rev. Edward Bellsmith

The message of Christmas is a universal one, regardless of which religion a person belongs to, or even of if they have no religion at all. More...