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September 9, 2010 / Columns

Queen’s Park

Ontario leaders seldom seen this summer H

Eric Dowd

Has anyone seen an Ontario political leader recently, or are people content with glimpses of Stephen Harper? More...

Dipping Into the Past

Proposed village bylaws would enlarge school section, rent fire engine

125 YEARS AGO Thursday, September 10, 1885 More...

Your We ekly Chuckl e . . .

By KEITH HUNTER

When the man rang the doorbell a little girl came to the door. “May I speak with your mother?” he asked. “She ain’t home yet,” she said. More...

National Affairs

T‘The whole thing is downright disgusting’

The usual suspects, it seems, are getting restless. Not to mention silly. Famed Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood is the latest - and in some ways, the saddest - person to go ballistic over Quebecor’s proposal to broadcast a new cable station. More...

In my Opinion

A terrible week in Dufferin

Wes Keller

Last week must have been one of the worst in the history of Dufferin County. It began with the abduction of Sonia Varaschin at some time overnight Sunday, a deed so horrific that it cast Orangeville in at least the national limelight. More...

8-day equine celebration starts this weekend

By CONSTANCE SCRAFIELD-DANBY Columnist

Ferrier, Sean Elliott, humorously defines blacksmiths who compete like this: “People pay us to shoe their horses all week long and then, on the competition weekends, we pay someone to let us shoe their horses and then we ask one of our peers i More...

Whispers – a restaurant with a mission

By CONSTANCE SCRAFIELD-DANBY Columnist

Kevin Kroetsch is a brave man, a person who is prepared to put his life where his heart is. After 30 years in the construction business, Mr. More...

From the Global Classroom

Hands on Education

Doug Skeates

Reading. Writing and ‘Rithmatic’. The old elements of education no longer provide adequate preparation for young people to face the complexities of this modern world. More...

Angles ’n’ Attitudes

Noise that annoys

Somebody called it ‘a stench in the ears’. The philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer said that the amount of noise anyone can tolerate is in inverse proportion to that person’s mental capacity and may, therefore, be taken as its measure. More...

Christian Perspectives

Choose to trust more in Him

Pastor Carol McLean

“Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord rises upon you. See, darkness covers the earth and thick darkness is over the peoples, but the Lord rises upon you and His glory appears over you.” Isaiah 60:1-2 More...