By Stewart Skinner People seem to bristle when they are reminded that they are an animal no…
Opinion
Columnist opens up regarding last opinion piece
To the editor, I write for therapy and it isn’t often that things written from painful places are…
THE IVORY SILO: What can I do?
By Stewart Skinner Last summer our family was given the opportunity to operate a farm in Bruce…
A perspective on COVID-19 statistics: Part 4
By Dr. John Pronk, ND When issues become confusing, I believe it’s important to step back to get…
A perspective on COVID-19 statistics: Part 3
By Dr. John Pronk, ND In the past two segments (Part 1 and Part 2), I shared some of the recent…
THE IVORY SILO: Do as I say, not as I do
By Stewart Skinner Last fall, Jess and I took the plunge and finally bought a house – a house…
A perspective on COVID-19 statistics: Part 2
By Dr. John Pronk, ND Last week I wrote about the conflicting data surrounding COVID-19 statistics;…
A perspective on COVID-19 statistics: Part 1
By Dr. John Pronk, ND If you haven’t been living under a rock for the past six months you have…
THE IVORY SILO: There is no easy path
By Stewart Skinner An oft-used political phrase, ‘it’s the economy, stupid’, was coined by…
THE IVORY SILO: Cut off in more ways than one
By Stewart Skinner Twelve days. That is how many days it took for this extrovert to have my first…
THE IVORY SILO: The house of cards is on fire
COVID-19 is playing the same role as the collapse of 1929, writes Stewart Skinner Sept. 3, 1929 to…
THE IVORY SILO: A complicated past clouds path to brighter future
By Stewart Skinner This piece needs to be prefaced with an acknowledgment that I am ill equipped to…
THE IVORY SILO | Bill 156: Timely protection for the people that feed you
By Stewart Skinner Today’s consumer asks a lot of a modern farmer. Along with enjoying an…
THE IVORY SILO: Teachers dispute not about the money
Take away the government’s only negotiation weapon and progress will be made on the education…
It’s time for province, teachers to play ‘Let’s Make a Deal’
For months now, a big topic in Ontario news is the contract negotiations, or lack thereof, between…
