June 10, 2010 RSS feed / Columns

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National Affairs

Harper’s G20 lobbying has been paying off
Ah, how the worms turn. More...

Dipping Into the Past

Visitor from the city found Horning’s Mills a ‘picturesque place’

125 YEARS AGO Thursday, June 11, 1885 • Following are excerpts from “A Sabbath in Horning’s Mills” published by the Shelburne ECONOMIST: More...

From the Global Classroom

Too soon we grow old, too late wise

Predicting the Future is a fool’s game. I’m a living example (literally). As I was an ill child with rheumatic fever, the family doctor wanted my parents to take me to a specialist for advice for my dayto day routine. More...

Meagre Musings

Aiden, my undoing

I, for one, have come to be more comfortable with my many shortcomings. I realize I could never be a successful tradesman because I possess the mechanical aptitude of an inebriated slug. More...

Royal Canadian Legion News

Don’t hide your pain
BY JILL BROYDEN Branch 233, Orangeville

In the church we have just completed the part of the year known as the “Festival Time” of the church, divided into the Time of Christmas and the Time of Easter. More...

Christian Perspectives

Rev. Adrian Toms

Both widows were devastated. Our Lord had compassion for them and returned their sons to them. Today we cannot expect miraculous healings like we read in Scripture. God does not does not work in that way now, through His prophets or apost More...

Queen’s Park

A timely show of sympathy for Palestinians T
Eric Dowd

The fact an Ontario premier visiting Israel has had sympathetic words for Palestinians shows that miracles still happen in the Holy Land, and the words have even been timely. More...

Angles ’n’ Attitudes

Found on a lower shelf

Ross MacDonald, the pseudonym of a detective story writer whose ‘private eye’ was Lew Archer, wrote of one character, “The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world”. More...