May 27, 2010 RSS feed / Columns

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From the Global Classroom

Weaving the web of life
Doug Skeates Amost revealing exercise for each of us is looking back (for some of us way back!) and identifying a significant early event, bearing on whatever occurred through the rest of one’s life’s journey. More...

Royal Canadian Legion News

BY TINA MORRELL Branch 233, Orangeville

Come out and join us every Wednesday for Euchre, starting at 7:30 pm. Cost $10.00. All money given back in prizes and everyone welcome to come out. Come out and join us for Karaoke on Saturday, May 29, 2010 with host Jill Phillips from 9pm-1am. More...

National Affairs

We aren’t exactly taken with the Great Grit Hope
Claire Hoy

It’s going on six years now since a trio of highpowered Liberal insiders flew off to Harvard University to convince Professor Michael Ignatieff, The Great Grit Hope, that he owed it to both his party and his country - the one he’d been wo More...

A tale of two trails

Doors Open Ontario 2010, a glossy publication from the Ontario Ministry of Tourism and Culture, recently landed on our doorstep. In it, 36 Ontario trails are highlighted including those of our neighbours in Caledon, Collingwood, Guelph and Brampton. More...

With Your Permission

But what do you mean by it?

How long is it now that there has been the debate about “shall we/shall we not all speak both French and English here in Canada?” For how many generations has the legislature in Quebec passed one strange law after another to “preser More...

Christian Perspectives

Weaving the Web of Life
Rev. Barbara Moulton

A most revealing exercise for each of us is looking back (for some of us way back!) and identifying a significant early event, bearing on whatever occurred through the rest of one’s life’s journey. More...

Dipping Into the Past

Soldiers killed, wounded in Northwest Rebellion headed home by train

125 YEARS AGO Thursday, May 28, 1885 More...

Queen’s Park

Premier thinks attack is his best defence

In trying to hold on to government in the 2011 Ontario election, Dalton McGuinty has decided the best form of defence is attack, but in doing so he is taking some risks. More...

Angles ’n’ Attitudes

Re-inventing Urbanopolis
William Bothwell

Fifty years ago the Revd Mother Ruth of the Community of the Holy Spirit in Manhattan visited Toronto, once her home. More...