Letters

The ‘second wave’

November 26, 2020   ·   0 Comments

Written by TOM CLARIDGE AS EXPERTS PREDICTED last spring, North America is experiencing a “second wave” of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the death toll in ...

Goodbye Shelburne

by MIKE BAKER I always hate doing these things. There’s just something about saying goodbye that really rankles with me. I mean, it sucks, right? ...

Development

by BRIAN LOCKHART In the quest to turn southern Ontario into one giant parking lot complete with paved urban sprawl over farm land, field, and ...

New war in Ethiopia

by GWYNNE DYER Americans should congratulate themselves. Their election system is definitely better than Ethiopia’s. In fact, it works so well that there’s unlikely to ...

Breaking with tradition

By BRIAN LOCKHART Imagine your spouse gets a new job. A good one, working at the helm of a big company. You of course are ...

Myanmar: The Saint who lost her way

by GWYNNE DYER Almost completely obscured by the blanket global coverage of the US election, they are having one in Myanmar (Burma) too. The outcome ...

Plastics

by BRIAN LOCKHART The Federal Government is working on a plan to eliminate some single use plastic items as early as next year. The list ...

The unfrozen Arctic

by GWYNNE DYER It’s the last week of October, and the main nursery of new Arctic Ocean sea ice has not yet started to refreeze. ...

Guilty pleasures

by BRIAN LOCKHART “We’ve only just begun, to live, White lace and promises, A kiss for luck and we’re on our way,” Those are the ...

Herd immunity

Written by GWYNNE DYER After eight full months of the global pandemic, the pressure to keep the economies open and let the chips (or rather, ...

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