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The still morning spring air is interrupted  abruptly by an obnoxious, deafening roar.

If you’re a football team looking for a kicker, perhaps you should try looking at the Avon Maitland District School Board’s board of trustees.

June is National Indigenous History Month. This is a chance to celebrate and perhaps honour the Original People of Turtle Island. Not sure how to do that?

Seventy years ago, in the same year as the famous jailbreak from Toronto’s Don Jail, the Goderich Gaol had two inmates escape.

If you search “on this day” for a certain amount of years ago, some interesting things will pop up.

As I write this on Monday evening (actually, it’s closer to Tuesday morning, but who’s keeping track?), writer’s block has gotten the best of this writer’s brain.

A lot can be said about human courage and ambition, especially in the early days of aviation. You really couldn’t have one without the other in this realm.

Inflation. If you are like me, you’re probably sick of hearing this word. However, inflation is a reality we must face.

The last few weeks have been rough on me. My cancer – melanoma – is now resident in my lungs as three distinct spots. I have been assured that a new drug is available and is specifically produced to eliminate this melanoma. It has taken a few weeks to get this drug but I now have it.

Ontario’s provincial election campaign is now in full swing, and across the province, candidates are engaging with voters in hopes of capturing their support at the ballot box. In turn, voters want to know where candidates stand on the issues that matter most to them.

In the early hours of Sunday morning, I laid in bed watching the Edmonton Oilers defeat the Los Angeles Kings in Game 7 of their first round Stanley Cup Playoffs series.

In 1979, when I was 13, already having experienced much trauma in my short life, I was lured away…

Now that the writ has dropped for the provincial election, we in the media have our inboxes flooded…

It’s Stanley Cup Playoffs time once again. And while my Flyers are absent from the top 16 for the second straight year – really they were absent from any sort of contention by November – the eight first-round matchups are going to make for some highly entertaining television.