Columns

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.

The figures shared at the Nov. 13 North Perth council meeting regarding school bus blow-bys were jarring, to say the least.

I have spent most of my business career owning and managing large corporations, including Magna International Inc., one of the world’s largest auto parts suppliers.

This coming weekend will see a few folks all across Ontario trek from home to a polling station to cast a ballot in the Ontario Liberal Party’s leadership contest. The party is using ranked ballots for the first time, allowing participants to rank their candidates one through four and has moved away

The police tape strung up around the Sault Ste. Marie home the week before Halloween did not look out of place.

If you have been reading my columns regularly in the Wingham Advance Times or my blog, you must be impressed by the attention that I get.

As the old saying goes, ‘You’ve gotta love the sound of metal in the morning.’ Never heard that one? Well, it’s probably because I made it up just this instant.

Her demeanor sank when she told me she had started anxiety meds. She looked at the floor and her shoulders slouched down as if she had somehow failed; like success would have been to avoid them, or not need them, and failure was to have to take them.

There are more small businesses in Canada closing up shop than there are people starting a new business.

When I was a youngster in elementary school, there was no worse feeling than opening your lunch pail and finding something you didn’t want to eat.