January 7, 2010 RSS feed / Columns

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An ‘ah-ha’ moment

Christian Perspectives
Rev. Susan Wilson
A news poll on a local radio station this week reported that some 45% of us will resolve to lose weight or become more active this year; 5% will resolve to quit smoking; 10% of us will try to spend less and 30% of us will refuse to make a resolution More...

Real politics doesn’t work that way

National Affairs
Claire Hoy

The more things change . . . More...

Deputy premiers’ title more lustrous than job

Queen’s Park
Eric Dowd

Premier Dalton McGuinty has been without a deputy premier for more than six weeks, but somehow the world keeps on turning. In fact, Ontario continues operating so normally it raises the question of what a deputy premier actually does. More...

Some really cool kids

Meagre Musings
Dan Pelton

Many of us older types, in the back of our cantankerous conscience, harbour an image of the typical kid as a soulless automaton listening to death metal dirges on his iPod while his nimble fingers massacre hundreds in a game of Grand Theft Auto. More...

1967 + 50 = 2017

Angles ’n’ Attitudes
William Bothwell

Iremember getting into my car in Montréal on New Year’s morning, 1968. More...

Forestry roles in global warming

From the Global Classroom
Doug Skeates

We are constantly being made aware of climate change as probably the most crucial element in the future of mankind. It has become almost a daily item in the media. More...

Mono Mills hotelier jailed four months for selling liquor

Dipping Into the Past

125 YEARS AGO Thursday, January 8, 1885 • On complaint of William Jelly, the proprietor of Jennings’ hotel in Shelburne, Thomas Jennings, lessee, was fined $5.00 and costs for selling liquor to a prohibited party. More...