A brand new decade

January 7, 2021 · 0 Comments

by BRIAN LOCKHART Yes, it’s a brand new year. I guess all those 1950’s late night science fiction movies and the Twilight Zone TV show ...

Love Jihad

Written by GWYNNE DYER The ‘Prohibition of Unlawful Religious Conversion Ordinance’ was passed into law in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh on Nov. ...

Make a memory

Written by BRIAN LOCKHART There’s a small town I used to visit when returning from my travels in the northern part of Central Ontario. In ...

The EU: Germany is the Reason…

by GWYNNE DYER In Brussels this week, the English-speaking journalists are all speculating about which way British prime minister Boris Johnson will jump. However, the ...

More taxes?

by BRIAN LOCKHART Tax them to death, then tax them some more. That seems to be the strategy of western governments. Of course the plan ...

Why so serious?

Written by Jasen Obermeyer It’s safe to say that 2020 is unlike any year we’ve experienced. It will go down as a historic year with ...

Alternatives to democracy

Written by BRIAN LOCKHART It was in the middle of the night on July 17, 1918, when Tsar Nicholas of Russia, along with his wife, ...

The joys of renovating

by ANTHONY CARNOVALE I remember watching Bob Villa’s This Old House way back in the early 90s and thinking: why would anybody watch a show ...

Winds of change

by SAM ODROWSKI In life, the only constant is change, and my life has been changing constantly since graduating from the journalism program at Durham ...