July 28, 2011 RSS feed / Columns

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Ontario matters

Don’t talk (I)
Working with, teaching, and coaching Muslims in the Greater Toronto Area for the past couple of years now, I have come to discern a type. More...

From the Global Classroom

Power of people

We are led to believe that governments are elected ‘by the people, for the people’. What nonsense! The present federal government is in place courtesy of less than onequarter of Canadians when one calculates voting patterns. More...

Dipping Into the Past

CPR cut passenger fares to the West Coast; return tourist fare was just $110

125 YEARS AGO Thursday, July 29, 1886  Canadian Pacific Railway, now that their train service to the Pacific Coast is fully established, in order to encourage travel to British Columbia and give their many well-wishers an opportunity of seeing the c More...

Royal Canadian Legion News

BY JILL BROYDEN Branch 233, Orangeville On Saturday(July 30) Johnny G. is hosting Karaoke from 9 pm until 1 am. More...

Our World Today

The terrorist threat

You could almost hear the enormous sigh of relief as journalists around the world welcomed the news that there had been a big explosion in Oslo and many shooting deaths on a nearby island. More...

In my Opinion

Strange things are happening . . .

Strange things are happening all around us. We now have the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) and the Canadian Automobile Association (CAA) agreeing that distracted driving has become as dangerous on our roads as impaired driving. More...

Christian Perspectives

Imagine there’s no heaven. What if there’s no Hell?
Rev. John Lockyer

In August, 1966, Beatle John Lennon created a media controversy when he said about his famous mophaired rock band, “We’re more popular than Jesus now.” More...

National Affairs

Our public libraries aren’t really ‘free’

The late great English actor, composer and playwright Noel Coward once quipped, “It’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.” More...