Hunger doesn’t take a honeymoon
Christmas is a time of giving. People ordinarily give gifts, they give their time, they share their food and their space and their love....
Delightful inheritance
“The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; surely I have a delightful inheritance.”
So, what did you give thanks for last weekend?...
We can work it out
Readers will notice a rather excited exchange in the Letters section this week, as some correspondents dissect what they saw as a misleading, if...
What was it you wanted?
To quote Bob Dylan: “we live in a political world, where mercy walks the plank”.
There are times when it seems that no-one is willing...
Local news poverty
In the past week, CBC radio have had two programs dealing with what has come to be called Local News Poverty. The idea is...
Lean on me
Last week was Mental Health Week in Canada. It was also National Nurses Week, and perhaps that is more than a coincidence. Mental health...
The circle game
I don’t know about you, but I’ve been hearing from a lot of people who are really quite tired of the debates about the...
Here, there and everywhere
Have you been keeping up with the French’s Ketchup Saga? Briefly, Loblaws announced that they were taking the condiment off the shelves, and, suddenly,...
Floods, fires and the future
How exceptional is the recent warm weather, with its record high temperatures around the world? As places as far apart as Japan, London and...
When responsibility is in eclipse
An extremely rare event is on the horizon – or at least somewhere in the sky – for our area next month. You likely...