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THIS WEEK

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White-crowned

Each morning as I wander out to check and feed my birds, I am usually greeted by someone or other in their own particular way.

As I pass the bird feeder, a chickadee usually scolds me for not putting enough black-oil sunflower seed in the mix, and on occasion it will ...

A mug's game

Predicting the course of the stock market generally is a mug’s game.

Very few, in fact almost no one, has been able to do so with any degree of consistent accuracy. There simply are so many variables that it is extremely difficult to put all the elements all together. The old ...

Crown corporations

As the federal government takes action to balance the budget, Canada Post, a Crown corporation, is also facing its own unique financial challenges. 

Recently, the Conference Board of Canada estimated that, unless things change at Canada Post, declines in mail volumes will lead to losses of $1 billion annually by 2020.

Canada ...

Hugh Templin persisted in attacks on county councillors in 1924

Last week’s column outlined some of the events in the 1924 campaign of Fergus newspaper editor Hugh Templin to secure more complete information and accounting of the personal expenses charged by county councillors.

In the 1923 financial statements those expenses had topped $15,000 but were only noted as a single aggregate ...

Whatever the reason

The day my brother-in-law lost his battle with cancer, the weather turned cold, the gold fish died, the cat was officially declared missing and the news on television was full of fear for a father who had gone missing.

It was the eve of Mother’s Day, which, as a result of ...

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