Columns

I’ve heard a lot of different ideas about what the Bible really says. Some say it’s irrelevant to life now that we are modern people. Some say it’s about how we go to heaven after we die. Some say it’s just a story of an ancient people and what they thought. 

First, I need to explain why we are moving home. The doctors have discovered melanoma in my left chest area. It was almost under my armpit, next to my lymphs and quite large. There were many discussions amongst the doctors whether to treat the melanoma with drugs or remove by surgery in their daily

This week marks Ontario Agriculture Week. Strategically selected to be just before Thanksgiving, it’s a perfect time to celebrate the abundance of locally produced food, fuel, fibre and flowers that we are lucky enough to have easy access to here in Ontario.

After an incredibly difficult Friday, I made a point of getting some fresh air and physical exercise. Saturday was consumed with chores around the farm, not generally a day of leisure nor what one might suspect an executive (of sorts) to do in off-hours.

The weather is typically still warm, the kids are back in school, and in the sporting world the stretch run to the baseball postseason is getting very interesting if your team happens to be in the mix. Not to mention the leaves changing, autumn golf and the NHL season is right around the corner. Lot

Most headlines over the past weeks have dealt with some aspect of the cost of housing – the mess with the Ford government and the Greenbelt, how various cities are dealing with homeless encampments, and the changing definition of “affordable.”

$16.55. That’s how much those being paid minimum wage will earn, per hour, by the time you read this.

Engineers are like lawyers – if you can navigate the issue without involving them, I believe you can save yourself a pretty penny.

As the vibrant hues of summer gradually fade, and the crisp, cool breeze of autumn sweeps through the land, Christians around the world find themselves immersed in a season of profound spiritual significance. Autumn, with its kaleidoscope of colours and its symbolic imagery, offers a unique opportun

Friends, As we head into a holiday season, I’m almost a little embarrassed to share that last night, before I fell asleep, I found myself Googling “How to navigate family conflict during the holidays.”

What do an intelligent spider, a humble pig, and a feisty rat have in common? They were all part of E.B. White’s novel, Charlotte’s Web (1952).  Charlotte, Wilbur, and Templeton all came to life for a little, curly headed girl in a grade one classroom in a rural town in Western Tennessee.

I wrote this out of sheer frustration as I sit helplessly and watch the government continuously refuse to search the Prairie Green Landfill in Manitoba to recover the bodies of three murder victims of a predator of Indigenous women.

One thing I’m not sure I have ever confessed in a column is my love of sports. 

It seems the American government has decided to rename UFOs; now they are called UAPs. Instead of Unidentified Flying Objects, we have Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.