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April 15, 2010 / Columns

Easter’s all over - or is it?

Christian Perspectives

Rev. Mary Ranger

So, Easter is all over. Or is it? I guess that for those to whom Easter means only Easter eggs and chocolate bunnies, yes it’s all over. But for Christians, Easter is a season, fifty days that we sometimes call the Great Fifty Days. More...

Tiger put a spotlight on marital fidelity

National Affairs

Claire Hoy

When golfing great - and dedicated family man -Phil Mickelson won the legendary Masters golf tournament Sunday afternoon, his cancer-stricken wife Amy had managed to get out of her sick bed at the home they rented in Augusta and be on hand, along wit More...

More needs to be done for the mentally ill

Queen’s Park

Eric Dowd

The saddest stories heard by Ontario MPPs in many years have been told to a group of them who toured the province looking at mental health issues — and the saddest part of all is that there is no assurance they will be remedied soon. More...

Loyalty and benevolence

With Your Permission

Constance Scrafield- Danby

At the dinner party celebrating the 50th wedding anniversary of Anne and Doug Skeates, someone called out: “What’s the secret, Anne? How did you two do it?” More...

A hankering for hankerchiefs

Angles ’n’ Attitudes

William Bothwell

Ayoung physician, a recent and welcome accession to our health care unit, told me in connection with a minor complaint that the basic problem might be T.M.B. That’s too many birthdays. I reflected that he may have had the benefit of too few. More...

Reaching for the Top

From the Global Classroom

Doug Skeates

In the forestry business, Mother Nature presents many problems. One in particular occupied much of my thinking time during the many years of my career. To grow trees one starts with seed. More...

Reports received of massacre by Indians supporting rebellion

Dipping Into the Past

125 YEARS AGO Thursday, April 16 , 1885 More...