January 21, 2010 RSS feed / Columns

Real, genuine feelings for the human tragedy

National Affairs

Richard Bach, the American author of “Jonathan Livingston Seagull,” once wrote that “There is no disaster that can’t become a blessing, and no blessing that can’t become a disaster.” More...

Illusion of Democracy

From the Global Classroom

I read an article in the Globe and Mail, and then re-read it. The article sounded so familiar that More...

New petition approved opposing any division of Melancthon Twp.

Dipping Into the Past

125 YEARS AGO Thursday, January 22, 1885 More...

‘Where is God in all of this?’

Christian Perspectives

What a week of horrors! I can think of no other way to describe it. The images we’ve seen on TV of the devastation in Haiti are indescribably terrible. More...

Cheques and balances

Angles ’n’ Attitudes

Abox of new cheque books arrived via Canada Post the other day. Maybe I shall save one of them in pristine condition. My grandchildren may show it as my parents displayed surviving wartime ration coupons. More...

Ministerial exodus isn’t necessarily fatal

Queen’s Park

Premier Dalton McGuinty’s cabinet is seeing an exodus of ministers, but it is not simply a case of rats leaving a sinking ship. More...