When my 2018 leather-bound agenda arrived in the mail, I felt like a child getting a brand-new…
Columns
Pike Lake a summer sanctuary for over a century
The following is a re-print of a past column by former Advertiser columnist Stephen Thorning, who…
Lower the voting age to 16
‘Worth considering’ Voting is an essential rite of passage for any 18-year-old, but…
The short answer
I’m not proud of this. It doesn’t happen very often. I try very hard to be consciously…
Teamwork
Raising children is the most joyous and terrifying thing I have ever done. And that is why…
Organic waste pick up in Wellington
Take the initiative Before the election, the Liberal government announced it would try to curb…
Councillors voting themselves raises
Enough is enough Summer may be a slow time for the media, but regardless of the season, I think…
Witching hour
It happens most nights around 3am. The witching hour. Random and uninvited, it is the moment my…
Old time Halloween nights sometimes rowdy
Hooliganism and property damage at Halloween seem to rise and fall in cycles that are neither…
At long last
After eons of being treated as second class citizens (or worse), women at long last are being…
A grandpa remembers New Year’s Eve
When I was 10 on New Year’s Eve, I couldn’t leave the house. I sat in the padded chair…
Battle over Harriston school raged into summer of 1954
Last week’s column described the efforts of the 1954 Harriston Board of Education…
Bigger is not better
Until recently in Canada and the United States, the bigger retailers had a dominant share of the…
Media problems
There is a common lament in the media sector: circulation is either flat or declining slightly,…
Social divergence
A dramatic departure from the strictly positive course of the late 1990s and 2000s has been the key…