Botswana & America: Different elections

November 7, 2024 · 0 Comments

by GWYNNE DYER Botswana’s elections have always been seen as a model for Africa, but the one last week has a somewhat wider relevance. The ...

Killers among us

by BRIAN LOCKHART In April of 1973, a teen taking a shortcut to school came across the bodies of Wendy Tedford and Donna Stearne. They ...

Chagos Islands: No happy ending

by GWYNNE DYER If you believe the British government (which you should never do), a new agreement will bring justice for the people of the ...

What then must we do?

by BRIAN LOCKHART “What then must we do?” It is a line said, then put to paper, by journalist Billy Kwan in the 1982 movie, ...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: The fervor over Fiddle Park

Many times in the past weeks I have heard people say two things: “There are plans to renovate Fiddle Park next year?” and “Well, what ...

Mission to Europa

by GWYNNE DYER Elon Musk’s ‘Starship’ project did something spectacular last week. The 160-tonne booster landed safely in the arms (or rather, the ‘chopsticks’) of ...

Intensification

by BRIAN LOCKHART I’m starting to understand why so many Ontarians have decided to sell their home and move to Nova Scotia or New Brunswick. ...

Remigration

by GWYNNE DYER ‘Remigration’: the word had a harmless origin, as a term academics used to describe the phenomenon of migrants who failed to thrive ...

Death to who?

by BRIAN LOCKHART “Death to America!” The first time I heard this catchy slogan was probably during the days before and after the Iranian Revolution. ...