Columns

As I “made my rounds” on Friday morning, which is what I call checking my newsfeeds, I stumbled upon a story in which a father from North Bay was proving himself to be the antithesis of myself: he was arguing that his child should not have failed their drivers test for using features on his Tesla wh

Some on both right and left in the United States are condemning the murder of Charlie Kirk as an act of senseless violence, a tragedy. Ominously, others are referring to it as an act of war.

The chair of  the Avon Maitland District School Board (AMDSB) suggested local trustees focus on themselves in the first board meeting after the Ontario Education Minister’s comments about eliminating the school trustee position altogether.

Dear Editor: The recent musings coming from the provincial government and their spreadsheet bean counters should be a wake-up call here in rural Ontario. But have you ever noticed how the “cult of efficiency” always looks really efficient on paper?

I was recently invited to participate in an op-ed campaign, which took my writing to a different editor who had never read any of my columns. She was impressed (for lack of a better word, in context) with what she called the suppressed fury in my writing.

Life is filled with challenges, uncertainties, and moments when fear seems overwhelming. Yet, in…

There is new data to prove teachers are not imagining it – they really are seeing more rude behaviour in the classroom than was the case prior to the pandemic.

I was recently invited to participate in an op-ed campaign, which took my writing to a different…

It was a weird week last week for those of us who watch politics a little dispassionately – that being without a strong attachment to either side. Why? Well because it almost seemed like the provincial and federal Conservatives woke up in Bizzaro world where up is down, and right is left, especially

The young adults now embarking on new careers and starting to raise families have survived a challenging few years.

A few weeks ago, I was scrolling on Instagram and found a post that caught my attention. The post stated that, in China, researchers have developed a stem-cell based treatment that “cured” a type one and type two diabetic a year after treatment.

This has been quite a past month. My health issues  – dementia, autoimmune, cancer, arthritis, a bad right knee and melanoma to list just a few – continue as in the last six months, but non-health issues keep cropping up.