Our home and Native Land
In the middle of all the dramatic media coverage of the Indigenous Residential Schools issue over the last year, it became very clear that...
Truckin’
Let’s see now, what’s happening these days? Well, there’s a problem with the supply chain because there aren’t enough truck drivers available to get...
Slow train coming
Can it be true: are we to be free again to meet and eat and drink and laugh and tell stories and sing songs?...
The battle of evermore
Careful readers will have noticed that this issue of the Times contains quite a lot concerning history and heritage. It can often seem that...
Days of future past
It is always a strange thing to face up to a new year and write something to welcome the new in and usher the...
And so this is Christmas…
Everyone has a favourite Christmas carol or two. Some are older religious ones like “Away in a Manger” or “Joy to the World”. Others...
Yesterday once more
And so we head into the last couple of weeks of 2021. Rather like 2020, we may be glad to see the back of...
Get Back
“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.” These wise words were written by L.P. Hartley in his novel, The Go-Between,...
This magic moment
Council was working overtime last week, meeting on two consecutive nights to hear presentations from twenty organisations, individuals and groups seeking a Community Grant...
Both sides now
Have you noticed that the world is becoming a little grumpy these days? A little tetchy, prone to irritation and hitting out? The whole...