Winter’s beauty often leaves me in awe. God blankets the world in white and brings a stillness…
Opinion
Let’s celebrate!
Welcome to 2025! For many a new year means a time to start something new, make changes, make…
Chretien offers template for response to Trump
It seems silly to be writing a column on national affairs a week after all of Canada’s problems…
Blame it on Trudeau …
For at least the past couple of years, a space alien listening to all the talk about Justin Trudeau…
God can work with the broken bits
Paul writes in his letter to the churches in Rome: We are confident that God is able to orchestrate…
Let us look at 2025 with optimism
The dawn of a new year always brings a mix of dread and optimism.
Olivia trivia
Through various forms of networking, my email address has gotten out there, and somehow I have ended up on more mailing lists than I can count. It’s not always a bad thing, especially when an email can inspire a column.
History on tape: A turnip for Christmas
You know the line in “’Twas the Night Before Christmas” by Clement Moore … “The stockings were hung by the chimney with care.”
Naughty, nice or inexplicable
Santa Claus has had a pretty busy season so far.
Message to all who make Christmas merry and bright
This is the time of year that makes it or breaks it for many merchants. They count on holiday shoppers to edge them into the black for the year.
‘Tis the season to give
This is the time of year that makes it or breaks it for many merchants. They count on holiday shoppers to edge them into the black for the year.
Mind boggling baseball math
Like baseball fans across the country, I watched the Jaun Soto stakes with great interest and an eye for the potential impact on our Blue Jays.
Remembering the Montreal massacre
We know some of the victims’ stories, or at least the bits police and sometimes family members and witnesses share with the media.
Take a breath
How long, Lord, must I call for help, but you do not listen? Or cry out to you, “Violence!” but…
A look back at the 1924 Greenock Swamp forest fire
While what was considered the largest fire in Bruce County history blazed on, it somehow was not the hottest item in a variety of local newspapers of that time. The reports of public drunkenness, and drama between newspaper editors breaking the news across the province, were red hot.