O Canada, my eye

March 2, 2023 · 0 Comments

by BRIAN LOCKHART They got little hands and little eyes. And they walk around Tellin’ great big lies. They got little noses. And tiny little ...

Deadline to apply to Dufferin County 2023 Community Grant Program coming up

Dufferin County continues to accept applications for its 2023 Community Grant Program, but the deadline is coming up soon! “Dufferin County staff are committed to ...

Ukraine and international law

by GWYNNE DYER Just before the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine (Friday, 24 February), France’s President Emmanuel Macron declared that he wanted ...

Banning books

by BRIAN LOCKHART I was never a big reader when I was a kid, but I did manage to get through a few books over ...

Weather balloons

by BRIAN LOCKHART In 1947, something strange happened near Roswell, New Mexico. An object of debatable origin fell out of the sky and crashed in ...

Milk dumping in Canada

by Sylvain Charlebois A video of an exasperated Canadian dairy farmer, Jerry Huigen, went viral last week. For probably the first time in Canadian history, ...

A bad case of cultural lag

by GWYNNE DYER “I wish you a world without Babiš. Forget about Babiš. Try to live without Babiš,” said former Czech prime minister Andrej Babiš ...

You can’t ban everything

by BRIAN LOCKHART The Liberal government has now backtracked and stopped its efforts to ban hundreds of hunting rifles and shotguns, effectively making them illegal ...