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Winter has rather suddenly blanketed southwestern Ontario in its icy embrace. We now find ourselves confronted with a season that demands resilience and strength. In the chill of the winter winds, there is a profound parallel to the challenges we face in our spiritual journeys.

Over the past month, small business owners have shared with me some of their personal stories and frustrations.

I’ve seen many times on various social media outlets, videos of moms spewing their controversial opinions about parenting. The topics range from co-sleeping to breastfeeding; honestly, there’s no limit. As you can say about every social media trend. Remember the ice bucket challenge and how out of h

He lurks in the shadows, hiding his smirking green face behind lamp posts and hedges, parked cars and garbage cans, his mean, beady eyes fixed on the delivery truck.

If you have been following the recent media coverage of the trial of the young man who killed Salman Afzaal, Madiha Salman, Yumna Afzaal, Talat Afzaal and wounded the youngest of this Muslim family, who were all intentionally run down while out for a stroll, in their London, Ont. community, you will

Shortly after graduating from college, in what seems like a lifetime ago now, I worked for three years in Baker Lake, Nunavut as a grocery manager for the Northwest Company.

My late grandfather worked on a prominent Wingham well-drilling outfit for the majority of his adult life. He and his crew were drilling a well on an area farm on Friday afternoon, Nov. 22, 1963, when the farmer’s wife came out from the house and told them that U.S. President John F. Kennedy had bee

Several years after I opened my small tool and die shop, I came up with what turned out to be a sure-fire formula for growing my business: I made my top managers partners in profits, and I gave them a share of the ownership.

Right now, heading into winter, is a good time for me to do a life recap.

Where do I start? Monday, Nov. 20 was one of the more intense North Huron council meetings I have taken in during my time here at the Advance Times.

There is something about current food bank use that hints at the proverbial canary in a coal mine. In this case, the poor creature is feet-up at the bottom of the cage.

When it comes to affordable housing, there seems to be two things everyone can agree on: developers aren’t building it, and the homes that are affordable are merely shells of their former selves.

1 John 2:7-8 says, “Dear friends, I am not writing a new commandment for you; rather it is an old one you have had from the very beginning. This old commandment – to love one another – is the same message you heard before. Yet it is also new. Jesus lived the truth of this commandment, and you also a

Last Tuesday, as I was awaiting the start of a local council meeting that I was covering, I received a phone call from an unidentified caller.