Why so serious?

December 10, 2020 · 0 Comments

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 ...

Smoke and mirrors

Written by BRIAN LOCKHART When I was a kid, maybe ten years old, I went to a magic show at a local auditorium. This wasn’t ...

The ‘second wave’

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 ...