The mother of invention

March 24, 2022 · 0 Comments

by BRIAN LOCKHART If ‘necessity is the mother of invention,’ then maybe innovation is the child of invention. Or something like that. It has long ...

Ukraine’s Nuclear Mistake

by GWYNNE DYER Would Vladimir Putin’s Russia have invaded Ukraine three weeks ago if it had 1,900 nuclear warheads on 176 ICBMs and 2,600 tactical ...

Planning a new development

by BRIAN LOCKHART Progress and development is going to happen. There is always going to be something new that is built or a new highway ...

Ukraine: after the pause

by GWYNNE DYER Two weeks since Russia invaded Ukraine, and still no ‘decapitation’ of the Ukrainian government, no city captured except Kherson (which no non-Ukrainian ...

The three r’s

by BRIAN LOCKHART Reading, ‘riting, and rithmetic, – the ‘three r’s of a good education. Yes, most likely all three skills will come handy at ...

Direct democracy needed

by MARK MILKE A vast gulf exists between Canada’s chattering classes – many politicians, some journalists and a plethora of academics – and citizens on ...

Another Cold War?

by BRIAN LOCKHART This week’s news has all been about the invasion of Ukraine, and rightly so. The Russian military build-up has been going on ...

Taking away Canadian pride

OUR READERS WRITE I have been thinking a lot about something I noticed driving along Main Street. Last year, there was a walk through town ...

A picture doesn’t always have 1000 words

by BRIAN LOCKHART There is a rather famous painting by American artist, Andrew Wyeth, titled Christina’s World, that now hangs in the Museum of Modern ...