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Last week's column was "No one asked for this". Well, guess what - no one asked for this either. But I did promise to return with an expensive box set of b-sides, rarities and live tracks, though you could get it cheaper if you wait for that...
Yowling winds rattled the stained-glass windows of Parliament as the federal government unveiled its boldest infrastructure plan in the nation's long and occasionally coherent history: the The Chaff pipeline, a gleaming cross-country conduit...
As I stared out the window of my more-than-100-year-old farmhouse last week on the day the weather was forecast to turn from pleasant in the morning to windy and snowy later in the day, I thought about how much more we know today about weather...
Raging to the bottom, Kill 'em with kindness, Missing the point
For sports teams of all sorts, coming up with a suitable name can take an interesting path. It must be a name that inspires the players and also helps fans to identify the team.
Amanda Dobbins and Sean Fennessey, on their podcast The Big Picture, are working through the top 25 movies of the last 25 years. An ambitious project with a lot of rules and expert knowledge; they also restricted themselves to one film by one director...
Remember: November does not knock politely. It barges in damp, dreary and unapologetic, leaving wet footprints and existential confusion in its wake. Now, as if that were not enough, it has its own awards: the Vembies.
For me, each day starts off with plain oatmeal porridge, sweetened with raisins, dried apples and walnuts, plus a dash of cinnamon.
Fighting the Good Fight, Match Point, National Pride at the Plate
Ostensibly, Reb Mevon was never anywhere at all. He was the kind of man who might be glimpsed from a distance and then vanish behind the mist of a morning that seemed unusually early for its hour.
In my years as a young reporter, I learned a lot about the editorial balance of running a community newspaper such as The Citizen from then-Publisher Keith Roulston.
The current provincial government in Ontario has become caught up in its own belief that it knows how to run the province better than anybody else.
Early settlers looked to the Maitland River as a source of transportation and for power to drive the many mills needed to sustain life as they knew it. Researchers John Hazlitt and Ted Turner discovered evidence of at least 78 dams and mills along the...
A second to think, I was saying 'Boo-urns', PontiffXIV on Letterboxd
Finally, after decades of neglect, November has a mascot. A real one. Not a turkey from across the border, not a prematurely installed inflatable Santa, not even those half-hearted "Movember moustaches" that hang like damp pieces of rope above so many...
As The Citizen celebrated its 40th anniversary of the first publication of the paper back on Oct. 23, a letter was received from a first-time reader in Mitchell that showed what a unique newspaper it is.
On Sunday, when the first snowfall of the year blanketed southern Ontario in a healthy coating of the white stuff, there were nearly 350 snow-related incident reports on highways in the Greater Toronto Area just in that one day.
Let Down, No Surprises, Everything in its Right Place
Last week, local headlines were abuzz as acclaimed Canadian children's author Robert Munsch officially donated his archives to the Guelph Public Library - just a hop, skip and a jump from Huron County.
Deep within the etymological soil of our calendar lies a secret long ignored, quietly humming beneath the familiar cadence of months and moons.
In the midst of the fuss over the Toronto Blue Jays' appearance in the World Series last week, another important bit of news was mostly overlooked.
A few years ago, my grandsons and I were shopping when they encouraged me to buy a type of candy called War Heads. "You will really like them," encouraged the guys, "Try one."
A true win/win situation, See you at the crossroads, ... And so it begins!
This time we will take a look at the dances held in the 1950s and 1960s. There are probably similarities to be found in any and all of the Huron County dance halls of that era, but the focus will be on those in Dungannon.