Handyman Hints: Heaven can wait for you to study your walls
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Opinion No need to sugar-coat COVID realities
Ontario’s response to COVID-19 has, at times, seemed restrictive, other times appropriate, still other times too lenient. -
Column Songs provide comfort in time of COVID crisis
“I don’t know if you can see,“The changes that have come over me.“In these last few days I’ve been afraid ,“That I might drift away. -
Opinion Looking forward a fine way to shoulder lockdown/COVID challenges
Some people say keep your eyes to the ground. That way we won’t trip up.But these days I think we might be better off setting our sights elsewhere. -
Comments Mahon: Three Million for a Hundred
Farming has never been about normal economics anyway.In April of 2010 I gushed on in this space about how decent farmland was closing in on a million dollars for a ... -
Column RHODES: Cornerstone for ancient Eberts Block still exists
Recently and unexpectedly, I found out that a missing artifact that I had been wondering about for over 30 years still exists, and I am delighted to have that information. -
Comments Algie: Canadians may get mixed results from incoming U.S. ag secretary
For Canadian agriculture, there are good and bad implications to U.S. president-elect Joe Biden's agriculture secretary nominee, Tom Vilsack. -
Column Retirement strategies for volatile markets
Readers continually ask me to suggest ways to help them deal with stock market swings. So, I thought I would start 2021 with five steps that you can keep in ...
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Opinion Transparency from the top is a true ‘virtue’
We have had our first death in Algoma from coronavirus. Even though we have managed to avoid this very tragic event until now, and our active cases seem to be ... -
Comments Bill 216: The Food Literacy for Students Act
Can we make it more than a cooking class -
Comments Bullard: Ten trends that tell the weird story of oil and energy in 2020
2020 has given us many things to ponder - perhaps too many. -
Letters Why the wait in Lambton for the vaccine?
Lambton County COVID rates are the second highest in the province. Today, I discovered the Grey/Bruce health unit received the first of two small COVID-19 vaccine shipments on Jan. -
Opinion Closing of skating rinks, tobogganing hills opposed
The following is addressed to Dr. Jim Chirico, the medical officer of health with the North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit:We are writing to express our opposition to the ... -
Column Limiting screen time for students is a must
Students in schools are spending far too much time looking at screens. It’s not just because of virtual learning either. -
Letters Sudbury letter: City councillors using 'twisted' logic when it comes to pay
Re: ‘Sudbury councillor: Why I voted against cutting city staff pay,’ Jan. 7.It appears as if Coun. -
Letters Sudbury letter: Without paid sick days, the Ford government fails Ontarians
In advance of last Tuesday’s big announcement, Premier Doug Ford claimed that everything was “on the table. -
Column The Norwood Pentecostal Church
Setting off into the unknown, which is essentially what most of the earliest settlers to this area did, required a great deal of courage; for many pioneers of the era ... -
Local News Slavery: Canada’s “best-kept secret”
Olivier Le Jeune, a boy of only six at the time, would not have understood the historical weight of the moment.
