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The calendar for March has become so saturated with marches that residents have begun referring to this month as "the March of Marches."
Not infrequently, including on this very week, Citizen founder Keith Roulston finds inspiration in media of the past, be it an older book or movie.
Recently, looking for something to read, I pulled an old book off my office bookshelf, a lengthy (650 pages) biography of 1930s and 1940s Academy Award winner Frank Capra...
Serving those who serve, The time has come, Looking for a leader
Have you ever read something in a newspaper and wondered what the rest of the story could have been? A little research sometimes can clear up the story.
For several months now, one proposal has returned to these pages with dogged determination. The case has been made plainly, politely, persistently: Betty White deserves a statue in Wingham. Why?...
In the aftermath of Donald Trump's call with the American men's hockey team in which he mocked the gold medal-winning women, a lot of questions have been hurled at both the women and the men with reporters eager to know what they think of all this. The...
Looking for a movie to watch, last week we pulled The Book Thief off the shelf. The 2013 movie is a lesson in where extremism can lead us.
Masters of War, Idiot Wind, Shelter from the Storm
A gathering storm, Same old story, The dawn of a new day
Black screen. Silence thick enough to invoice. Then a single piano note, tender and resolute; the kind of note that implies both fiscal discipline and moral authority.
On Sunday, I joined my fellow Canadians in our collective sorrow as Jack Hughes potted the winning goal in the Olympic men's hockey final, delivering the first gold for the American men since 1980.
The death of former presidential candidate and civil rights leader Jesse Jackson last week at age 84 demonstrates the immense changes in history the world had seen in the last 70 years.
At one time, Wingham was known as the "Furniture Town of Canada". The area was a source of good timber and there was a workforce that excelled in furniture manufacturing.
Distancing from a distance, Put that manly hand in mine, Little by little
Late winter is when a community begins to look at itself in reflective surfaces. Not the dramatic kind of reflection that prompts reinvention. The quieter sort.
Lately, as the world of politics has kept dividing us further and further, people have found themselves fed up with it.
It's hard to believe, given the cold winter we've been suffering through, but the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service says that last year was the third-warmest in modern history and that the last 11 years have been the 11 hottest ever...
You know those blinding tension headaches you get sometimes? The ones that run from your shoulder up through your neck and straight to your temple?
Friday the 13th has arrived again, like a raccoon that has learned how the latch works. We pretend to be surprised every time, but deep down we knew. We always know.
Ontario Education Minister Paul Calandra has shut down several boards of education and threatened to rid the province of the remaining boards.
What conclusions might come to mind when the unexplainable occurs?
Not to age myself, but I remember as a youth, distinctly, the lengths to which I, usually with the help of my parents, had to go to conduct research for schoolwork. It usually involved dusting off our volumes of Encyclopedia Britannica