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It was shocking enough to hear that Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare, was assassinated on a New York street last week.

You've got mail, Reign in blood, A long time coming

In the devious and sinister world of rising cost-of-living prices, with much of the focus being on the price of groceries, the even more devious and even more sinister bit of the whole debate has been shrinkflation.

Certainly, no one could have foreseen the tidal wave of tariffs now sweeping across Huron County. But here we are, living in a world in which Warden Jamie Heffer has enacted a series of harsh and unrelenting tariffs...

In the post-pandemic world, voters are angry. In country after country among the democracies, governments have been turned out, including by our neighbours in the U.S. where people seem to forget how scary Donald Trump...

We're all the same, The Good Fight, It's happening here

His name was Herodotus (484 - c. 420 BCE) and he went down in history as the first historian. He lived in the Greek city of Halicarnassus and wrote The Histories, a methodical record of the Greco-Persian Wars.

There was surprising news recently that, in 2023, some Canadian cities had among the worst air quality in the world, as smoke from the worst forest fires in memory filled the air of southern cities.

There is an old saying that, in springtime, a young man's fancy turns to love. In the Huron County of a few generations ago, that saying could have been that a young man's fancy turns to harvesting...

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