February 16, 2012 RSS feed / Columns

DIPPING INTO THE PAST

125 YEARS AGO Thursday, February 17, 1887 More...

‘The Poisoned Politics of Keystone’

Two things that aren’t often found in the haughty, uberliberal New York Times are a)- stories about Canada; and b)- conservative viewpoints. More...

Lessons to be learned

You can say one thing about the captain of the cruise ship Costa Concordia: He’s no stickler for traditions. Women and children first? The captain goes down with his ship? They’re not for him. More...

Royal Canadian Legion News

By JOHN CUNNINGHAM Branch 220 Tickets for the Newfie Dinner & Dance to be held on March. 10 are available at the Branch. This event sold out last year, get your tickets now Monday afternoon euchre. Play starts 2 p.m. More...

Throwing out the boxes!

Far too many people are playing every day with fire! It’s as if they think God is for “emergency use only,” or perhaps for Sundays but has no power for helping them with their day-to-day lives. More...

A corroding, violent culture – II

I ’ve been spending time with “Ice-T” (the American, Tracy Marrow) recently. Or his reminiscences anyway, as they’re compiled in a new, co-written, autobiographical book. More...

Syrian opposition’s great mistake

A s the Syrian opposition abandons nonviolent protest for armed resistance, many think this means President Bashar al-Assad and his Baathist regime are in even deeper trouble than before. On the contrary, it means Assad and the Baathists are winning. More...

Optimism: a contagious ‘disease’

There is a story of a farmer standing at his gate when a car obviously with the driver’s family aboard stopped to get directions to town ‘x’. More...