February 4, 2010 RSS feed / Columns

Partners in Governance

From the Global Classroom

Jeffery Simpson, in a Globe and Mail article, noted that the liberal party appears to lack an independent vision for a Canadian government. I see government/public partnership as providing economic and social gain. More...

County council asked to make donation to proposed new hospital

Dipping Into the Past

125 YEARS AGO Thursday, February 5, 1885 More...

The captain plays the count

Christopher Plummer whom we once knew as the dashing Austrian Captain Georg von Trapp plays aged Russian Count Leo Tolstoy in the new film The Last Station. It is based on Jay Parini’s 1990 novel of the same name. More...

And who, pray tell, is being ‘hateful’ here?

National Affairs

Martin Luther King and his wife Coretta Scott King understood “hate.” They not only lived through it, they overcame it in spectacular fashion. So we should take notice when Coretta said, “hate is too great a burden to bear. More...

Tory winning praise from his former critics

Queen’s Park

If all those who have lavished praise on John Tory since he stopped running for public office had expressed similar admiration when he was running, the former Ontario Progressive Conservative leader and candidate for Toronto mayor would have had one More...