Afghanistan: After the Fall

July 8, 2021 · 0 Comments

by GWYNNE DYER Five times in the past two weeks, government soldiers in Badakhshan and Takhar provinces in northern Afghanistan have fled across the border ...

A new Governor General

by BRIAN LOCKHART The Prime Minister has announced that Mary Simon will be the new Governor General of Canada. I certainly hope he has done ...

Vaccinations

OUR READERS WRITE Sir: Being 85, I received my first Pfizer shot March 10, with a second Pfizer shot booked for March 30. Then the ...

The strange fonetics of language

by BRIAN LOCKHART I have never been able to master another language. In fact, I’m pretty much uni-lingual although I did learn enough Italian words ...

Council refers development proposal to heritage committee

Written By Paula Brown Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Shelburne Town Council is referring an application for a proposed mixed-use commercial and residential development to the ...

Canada’s housing crisis

by KYLE SEEBACK Canadians know that our country’s housing market continues to reach new and unprecedented highs. For example, in Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo and Windsor, home prices ...

Tear it down?

by BRIAN LOCKHART I read an interesting article a while back about a US college professor who provided details of two world leaders to his ...

Letter re: Indigenous grave site

OUR READERS WRITE Sir: It is said that politics is a dirty word, but I suggest that the definition be applied to its adherents instead, ...

Iran: Giving Up On JCPOA

by GWYNNE DYER “Lifting Trump’s sanctions, @SecBlinken, is a legal and moral obligation, NOT negotiating leverage. Didn’t work for Trump – won’t work for you,” ...