Political Gas and elections
by Colin Creasey
Well, so much for shutting down the provincial legislature until after the Federal election in the forlorn hope that Doug Ford’s policies...
New research finds nine out of ten Canadians are reading newspapers
The most recent Newspapers 24/7 research confirms that Canadians are still turning to news media in printed and digital formats. Research from November/December 2021...
Where’s the Revolution?
In a series of articles before Christmas, I discussed the Revolution that took place with the birth and life of Jesus. The effect on...
Telescopes and Binoculars
by Gary Boyle - The Backyard Astronomer
Telescopes have come a long way since its invention in 1608. The simple refracting telescope consisted of two...
Gaps in Canada’s agri-food workforce due to COVID-19
by Teresa Van Raay,
Director, Ontario Federation of Agriculture
A truth that is deemed to be universal, is the fact that the most valuable resource...
Pretzel truth
by Victor Lachance
In the last column, I covered some of the odd ways that the Province has a problem with logic when it comes...
Unjust, Unfair, and Exploitive on the grand scale – Part 2
by Stephen Hammond
There is more complexity to municipal affairs than is evident at first glance. North Grenville is the lower part of a two...
Fire the Canons! It’s Daylight Savings Time!
In a letter to the editor of the Journal of Paris in 1784, Benjamin Franklin wrote, "Early to bed, and early to rise, makes...
Thinking ahead is the best investment
It typically doesn’t take more than hour or two of highway driving before the average motorist will come across a broken down vehicle. Sometimes...
A change is gonna come
It has become common among sociologists and social commentators to describe the current period in history as “post-Christian”. This is a bit of a...