July 14, 2011 RSS feed / Columns

From the Global Classroom

Who’s able to ‘walk the talk’?

We’re all too familiar with basic principles and eager to take action – until someone asks if we’re prepared to pay for it. That’s a different matter altogether! More...

National Affairs

On this reality, you can’t have it both ways

A recent front cover of Maclean’s Magazine screamed for all to see about “THE WOMAN SHORTAGE.” The story inside was an interview with Mara Hvistendahl, author of the recent much-publicized book called “Unnatural Selection,&rdq More...

Christian Perspectives

God’s Wonderful Garden

You may remember a song from a number of years back that spoke of “those lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer, those days of soda and pretzels and beer.” Well the author of those words could have easily added “Weeds” to his list o More...

Dipping Into the Past

Whitfield was scene of a ‘Glorious Twelfth’ celebration in 1886

125 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 15, 1886 More...

Our World Today

Murdoch’s troika

The troika hurtles across the frozen plain. The wolves are close behind, and from time to time a peasant is hurled from the sleigh in the hope of letting the more important people escape. More...

Ontario matters

Will ye no come back again?

Bagpipes always seem to accompany the evening ceremony to evacuate the Canadian fallen from Kandahar airfield in Afghanistan. So far, of the 157 to fall, 53 (or about onethird) were from Ontario. More...

Your Weekly Chuckle

SMITH:”You seem to have been busy working in your garden, Mr. Brown. What are you growing?” BROWN: “Tired.” More...